Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-11-30
IN MODERN LIFE.
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His opportunities are things OF home, or
social opportunities; things of school. or
educational opportunities, things of state.
Or political , oRp1iT5anitiss ,hlnss Of
have pointed out, how our present indns
trial life reacts upon these opportunities,
having q tendency to limit them. This is
our danger Mr., ram d has pointed out.
Acertain social and intellectual Conditions.
and Spencer teaches that Freedom, NOR
ality, and happiness come to the individ-
ual through the social organism. is it not
clear then, that you must give to all So
cial educational, political, and religious
opportunities, if freedom, morality and
happiness are to be realities, and the fine
1t was Jesus who said Man cannot live
by bread alone, he must share in the
wealth of the time. Culture and refine
ment with education and religion must
Vaguely, dimly men are coming to see
that in the teachings of Jesus lie The cure
for the social ills OF the time, Slowly,
bnt surely we are are f tba eg,d to feel and
the sermon on the mount are not for the
future, but for the present, that We must
make this law of the text, the rule OF
the office, the home, the factory, and the
Church, the only alternative is failure,
and death.
The present order is not final. we are on
the way to something better, an order in
which there shall be more wealth and less
poverty, more learning, and less ignor-
ance, more religion. therefore less weak
ness, and intolerance. An order in which
it will be impossible for man to build q
Church, endow a college, or a hospital
and let his business go untouched by the
Christ spirit.
AS the Church goes forward in this
to see that the most marvellous mission
airy period in her history is opening 1t
is given to US to stand in the dawn of
new epoch. Conditions confront US which
ina gination of the leaders of the past
century. Four conditions make the con-
quest OF the world for God a possibility
today. l. We face world with open
doors. II. Ali nations are interdependent
intelligence and invention have created
rapid transit, and so united all nations.
III. We are the inheritors of unmeasured
wealth. ~. The workers are gathered
into the cities, these four conditions fur
nish the church with her opportunities:
these four conditions constitute Gods new
call to the church. She is missionary in
organization and purpose, she has the
money she has the men and women, she
has the young life, she has the culture
and the education to answer this call.
work, her hand with it's wealth; her mind
with it's learning; her heart with its sym
pathy must be on the alter.
The Church is equipped in men and
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among the workers and help them to find
God, to find manhood, to find love- She
is not to do this by Offering men free soup
which Riis declares was never food for
free men. The antitoxine for hopeless
poverty is rot charity only, but justice.
The solution of our question of capital
and labor is not only organization of force
only, but a growing sense of righteous
ness, Il realiZa ton that men must walk
with God
In the call that comes from the masses
outside the church formore brotherly ways
of living and doing our work. and the
well nigh universal turning of the masses
inside the church from religion as stated
in the abstract formula OF theology to
the living human Christ, who does not see
providental coming together of circum-
stances constituting prophecy of better
things to come.
The seed of the woman shall bruise the
sorpant's head. and thou shalt bite his
heel. Sin shall poison the race, so said
the old Hebrew poet, then looking from
the vista of coming centuries he saw the
Son of Man conquering sin, and he de-
clared the ideal kingdom would come,
THAT man would grind all sin under foot.
There is a force which makes for right
eo,isuess.'I This force is costant, persis-
tent. unconquerable.. It is the, Spirit OF
humanity for the purpose Of bringing all
men unto himself. Governments. lnsti
buttons and Societies must become the
embodiment Of this God-force. or they,
are doomed. Every expression of human,
energy whether in politics. education. or
commerce must become the medium Of
al!i'ion With the rubbish Of centuries.
Wherever you ind in just.ce.-w neither in
the Jerusalem Of Isaiah, the Greece OF
Demosthenes. the Rome of Cesar, the
WELL or the American of Lincoln YOU will
find a force gathering for its overthrow.
Through all the centuries the way Of
humanity has been onward and upward.
Nnyyr1 hI1t Ii D6n &c crnU
ing into reality. The sons of God must
see to it that this work is accomplished.
They must take the monstrous things, dis
torted and soul quenched,. and touch each
again into immortality; give back the up
ward looking and the light. and add to
life the music and the dream
[ claim your devotion and the enthus-
iasm OF your humanity for the Christ,
who leads the race towards social. in
tellectual commercial and spiritual
emancipation. divine influence is gath
requiems or a dead narch;-it. is a time
for George Frederick Handal's Halle.
lujah Chorus" The Kingdom of God is
among us; the children OF men are on the
eve of a realization of the great brother
hood in which all shall share in the in
dustrial. intellectual, political and spirit
ual achievements of the age.
Up among the Berkshire hills there is
modest shaft which marks the grave of
Colonel ChaCncey BasSett, the leader of a
colored regiment. Just before q certain
battle, the COlOnel handed the nag TO
negro lad with this charge, My boy.
bring back the coiors, or tell to God the
reason why" Once the colors fell, for
the lads arm had been shot away; but
g-aspng the staff with his left hand the
Tag moved forward again. waving before
the dusky troops. Once more it swayed
and fell. After the battle they found the
little fellow PROSTATE upon the flag red
with his blood. he could never bring back
the cclors, but he had told to God the rea-
son why. This same spirit must possess
the sons of God. must dominate the
church as they go forth to take the
st,ongholds of sin, and to win humanity
for God
The experiments which have been in
progress for the past two weeks, in the
Silver lake district, with view of as
.ertaining the capacity of Gould pond
as a water supply, and for other OBJ
jects, are reported thus far to have
been satisfactory. The pump has been
1T work steadily since it was installed
forcing water from Gould pond into
Fairbanks pond, and while the water
in the former pond has been
lowered several inches, the level
IF the latter, although it was raised a
little at first. has since remained I'M