The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-11-27


citation of reckless, if not fraudulent in
dustrial promoting. and then said that
extremes meet again, and similar meth
DDS and passions which have been ex-
posed among the industrial promoters
are met in the labor world. Who" he
asked, "a-e the worst enemies of the
icaDitalists?'' And he answered, Some
of the capitalists. And who are the
worst enemies of organized labor? Some
tmanipulators of labor. Among the fac
tors which help industrial Cancellation
and peace. he emphasized the exper-
fence which has been gained of the cost
o. war. The costliness OF war among
the nations has done much to preserve
the peace of the world during the past
year. The most effective society of
peacemakers among the nations are the
bankers 1t is the same with industrial
warfare. We have had new lesson of
its cost, one brought home to us all in
! the coal strike. 1t has cost much. not
only to those engaged in it, but to the
neutrals-the large number of the neu-
trails whose rights are to be considered
and maintained. Il KNOW and emf
nent labor leader said to me, his eyes
grew moist when he said it. what
strike means to the me, to their homes,
to their wives and children" Such war
fare is too costly. We give thanks that
the lesson Of it's cost is teaching. all
classes to keep the peace.
| DR.. Smyth turned next to the discrim-
nation to be made in the world of
ideals. Every age has its own partial
ideal denoted often by a single word, as
the ideal in one age of the saint, in
others Of the knight temDlar. the SOL
dier, and in more industrial civiliza-
ton Of the honorable man of affairs.
One word in frequent use now designates
a partial truth in our popular ideal.
It is not new word. Ben Johnson in
the Poetaster represents one of the
characters in, a play as coughing up
number of new words, wild, outlandish
terms"
Here be words, Horace, able to basti-
nado a mans ears"
Here's a deal! oblatant, furibund,
fatuate, strenuous
Our popular word-strenuous-is one
Of which the characters in rare Ben
Johnson's play said: r.
| 20 terrible windy words,
/ A sign of windy brain.
It denotes a yirile virtue which has its
truth as against a society devoted to its
own luxurious effeminacy or scholar
whose only world may be his books. But
it does not represent even the chivalric
ideal of the knight. In our English text
books of chivalry we read,
A gentle knight was pricking on the
PLANE. Spencer did not sing in the Fairy
ling DER the plain.
We do not think of Sir Philip Sidney
as a strenuous soldier. In the Idylls of
the King, the rough strong Edyrn con-
fesses to Enid: &
"Dubric, the holy saint,
with the mild heart of holy oratory,
Subdued me somewhat to that gentle
ness,
Which, when it weds with manhood,
Makes man"
And the ideal of a nation which ex-
listed before even our Christian concep-
ton of manhood was born-the ideal of
the king who had slain his ten thou
sands-is not reached by this, our word
strenuous. David sings: "He teacheth
my hands to, war 50 that mine arms do
bend bow of brass. Thou hast given
me the shield of salvation, and thy gem
tleness hath made me great. The word
strenuous marks an imperfect and a
false ideal if it characterizes only the
power of achievement: if it be praise
for the man who gets things done, who
succeeds, without regard for the meth
lods of his achievement. We do not give
thanks to-day for Hercules. Our large
ideal is not merely an athlete crowned.
We may commend to leaders who may
he over strenuous the Elizabethean
poets caution Of abstinence from this
word strenuous:
This fair abstinence
In time will render you more sound
and clear"
But we give thanks with apure con-
lscience for the ideal of manhood which
is becoming regnant in our Christianity,
and more and more commanding in all
the business of men. 1t has it's word,
which often W. on the lips of the Son
Iof Man-it is the word, servant. He that
lis greatest among you shall be your
tS6TFdlil. IL 10 lllS luCdAJ Soiupl SiiCIluitiGs
the ideals of the ages, of the Divine
Servant. In conclusion this ideal was
lifted up, as 1t is drawing all men unto
lit, as it was exemplified in c list, who
needed not the club Of Hercules, but only
; a slight whip of cords and his own
lpresence, to drive the I ives from the
temple. All our review of the world, al
our judgments Of events, should be hello
in the largeness of the Christian expec.
tation. The spirit of joy can sing
through history, and in our homes, be.
cause it is accompanied on either han6
by the spirit of faith and the spirit Of
,, hope. The light Of the heavenly spaces
is greater than all the clouds, ant
above all, exalting all in the end into
his own pure glory, is God over al
blessed forever.
A PITIFUL CASE.