The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-02
Need Serious Politicians.

I'm politics the demand for serious
service must grow. AS we have to do
with wise men and clean men, states
men, instead of vote manipulators, we
shall feel more and more the need for
them. We shall demand not only men
who can lead in action. but men who
can prevent unWise action. Often the
policy which seems most attractive to
the majority is full of danger for the
future. We need men who can face
popular opinion, and, if need be- to
face it down. The best citizen is not
afraid to cast his vote away by voting
with the minority.
''The need of the teacher will not
grow less as the century goes on. The
history of the future is written in the
schools of today, and the reform which
gives US better schools is the greatest
of reforms 1t is said that the teachers
nobleSt work is to lead the child to his
inheritance. This is the inheritance he
would win; the truth that men have
tested in the past and the means by
which they were led to know that it
was truth. Free should the scholar
be-free and brave" and to such as
| these the twentieth century will bring
the reward of the Scholar.
The twentieth century will mark an
epoch in the history of religion Some
say, idly, thatreligion is losing her hold
in these strenuous days. But she is
not. She is simply changing her grip.
| The religion of this century will be
more practical, more real 1t will deal
with the days of the week as well as
with the Sabbath. 1t will be as patent
in the marts of trade as in the walls of
a cathedral, for mans religion is his
working hypothesis of life, not of life
in some future world, but of life right
here today, the only day we have in
which to build life.
The man of the twentieth century
will be hopeful man. He will love the
world and the world will love him.
| There is no hope for you,' Thoreau
| once said, unless this bit of sod under
your feet is the sweetest for you in
| this WOrld-in any world The effect
! i've man takes his reward as he goes
i along. Nowhere is the sky so blue, the
| grass SO green, the opportunities so
| choice, as now, here, today, the time,
| the place where his work must be
| done.
''The man we can trust is a man of
| character. 1t was said of Lincoln that
| he was a man too simply great to
| scheme for his proper self This man
| who schemes for his own advance
ment, who can lay pipes and pull wires
! may seem to succeed. God consents,
| but only for a time. Sooner or later, if
! he lives long enough, the selfish man
| finds his end in utter failure.
THE men who control the twentieth
century will be religious men. They
| will not be religious in the fashion of
monks, ascetics, mystic dreamers or
| emotional enthusiasts. Their religion
will be their working hypothesis OF
| life. And in the wise and helpful life
it will find ample justification. 1t will
| deal with the world as it is in the serv-
ice of the God of things as they are
1t will find Gods world not vale OF
tears, a sink of iniquity, but world in
which the rewards of right living are
! instant and constant. 1t will find that
! indeed his service is perfect freedom
for the great things of the world are
! done in His way and His way only"