The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1902-05-09

g gain Une moral element mas been los
Y sight of.
Some months ago he had to prepare
an address in which he could not dis
: cuss politics, and in searching for a
subject he came across the word,
Y Civilization. . He then began to
look for a definition of the word, and
he realized how little the people knew
/ of its true meaning. To my mind,
he said, civilization means 1.-The har-
monious development of the human
, race, physically. mentally and NOR
ally" A perfect civilization would
be one in which we've combined
} perfect mind, body and heart. Every
citizen has a part in the civilization
IN which he lives, and every citizen
helps raise o. lower it, according to
the manner in which he lives.
Moral Element Paramount
The moral element in our civiliza
ton is not only important, but shonld
be paramount. You cannot find on e
instance of a nation having gone down
to decay but you find that moral decay
| has preceded its downfall He had
heard men say that every nation must
die at last. bu t there is no reason why
this nation should ever be weaker
than it is now. If the time ever
comes when ii goes down, it will be |
because of its moral decay.
How do you measure the greatness
of nation? There is no other way
except to apply to it the same rules
that we apply to the individual-t the
same rules that apply to the seventy
five millions of human beings acting
together as a nation. Take the COM
mandment, Thou shalt not steal. -
That is the way it used to read but
now it is changed to read, Thou shalt
not steal on small scale.'' In this
day the man who steals a hundred dol
lars is counted common, everyday
thief and is sent to the penitentiary
while the man who steals million
dollars is looked upon as a financial
genius, and is not so certain of pun {
ishment. There is a tendency to
lessen the crime as ii increases in {
Take another command I
ment: Thou shalt not KILL The
Interpretation u.s. Thou 6
shalt not kill man unless he has I
you want, or unless you kill 8
a good many men" 1t is no more d
right for seventy five millions of people t
to band together and go to war to kill {
eight millions, than it is for one man L
to take the blood of another. APP g
plause) I
The speaker said he had to go back t
10 the Bible to get true measure of a
greatness. "In fact he said, II 9
I'm going back to the Bible more and g
more. For years l quoted Democrats c
/ great deal, and was continually get
ing in trouble; but now when l il
luote from the Bible and the Repub- 81
leans attack my statements, tell
hem to fight it out with the Bible. n
have found that the Bible contains E
more truths and truths more beauti c.
ully expressed than any other book. b
)ne of its great truths is this g,
whatsoever of you will be the chiefest, tc
hall be servant of all. Service, it
hen, is the true measure Of greatness st
nd the man who does the greatest SER BY
ice is the greatest man. And not only ia
s service the measure of greatness, OF
,ut it is also the measure of happi "
ess. Our happiness depends not upon is
hat is given us, but upon what we III
i've to others. Look back over your IN
fe and see if your happiest day was tn
OF when you did the greatest service
wards someone, or did sonnet hing
lat woul1 make the world better.
Go into politics and you will find he
lat when man does something for bi
ou, he never forgets it; but when no
)u do something for him, he some tn
mes does forget it. If you want to no
We all the world, try to serve all the an
orld. TO
The speaker said that in studying tn,
q question he had been surprised to VIC
I'd only two methods of service. One bill
them was force, and the other-the
bile method-was, "Be not overcome wa
it'll evil, but overcome evil with dol
3D. The greatest service that we or
n render is to help substitute higher me
Gals for lower ideals. Since that bee
rrible act that took from us our chief If
ecutive, the country has been trying ing
solve the question of how to sup the
ess anarchy. But we should 20 lon
You'd suppression and endeavor to sys
Ike this government so good and the
RECT that all men will not only love int
but will die for it. Education fins
education in the right direction PEG
", will stop anarchy. The efforts of
ropean governments have shown
It force will not even suppress it, G
ch less uproot it. Too little time que
beng devoted to the education of to |
heart and better natures of the you
ing. ma
he speaker said he wanted to see this ly I