The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-04-11

[ 1 tiplication of colleges. the eheapening |, ofprirnary education, the growth of cul- 1 ture and refinement; it is the result of the eYer-increasing authority of the law of love. It is not question of names, call it what you will-spirit if the age, higher political ideals, the re- viyal of civic righteousness, the applica- tion of intelligence and scientific meth ods to philanthropic Work--back of all is the law of love moving steadily on to its promised supremacy. Mir. Walter Be-
 sant was recently asked if the condi- I ton of the poor of London had inproV- ed. He replied, immensely improved Everything is better. Wages are better. hours of work much shorter, food and clothes are cheaper and better" Then he went on to speak of the great im- provement in homes and schools and hospitals, and added, '"The church is doing an enormous amount Of good. It has taken new lease of life" He de- scribed in words of warm approval the
 unceasing activity in east side parishes and declared that the activity of the
 churches in these practical directions
 had been steadily increasing for the past twenty years; but, he confesed, T cannot give the reason for this great change for the better. I can only testi- fly to it's existence" The reason is not hard to find, it is the development of the kingdom of God, the ever-increas- ing authority among men of Jesus law of love. It is not claimed that this law has finally subdued the mind and heart of man--one may not thus fly in the face of actual conditiOus-but it is claimed that it is fast coming to univer- sal recognition. Strikes and lynchings and outbreaks of savagery need not
 discourage us-selfshness dies hard. but it is death-st ruck; this much has been gained, after these disturbances have subsided and society calls the par ticipants to account, the party to therl
 which has shown the least respect for the law of love receives the outspOken
 condemnation os the world.
 | We are living in tremendous, thrilling
 times It is literally an age of gold. By the invention of new mining and re- ducing machinery. the cheapening of supplies, the improvement of transpOr- l tation facilities, and especially by the discovery of the cyanide process ores containing only half ounce of gold to the ton can be handled with enormous profit, and the output for the last ten
 years has been greater, in this country alone than all the mines of the world produced for twenty years previous to the discoveries in California. By their investigations and inventions, by their better understanding and control of the laws and forces of nature, men are working miracles on every side, noth- l ing seems incredible to us.Do you know what happened i'll the Yale laboratory a l few years ago? Taking up the experi- ments of Professor Roentgen in the use l of the cathode rays and the Crooke' s
 tube for photographing interior struc- l lures, Professors Wright and Bum
 stead, with characteristic American au- l dacity pushed on the line of discovery.
 Coins were photographed in leather
 pocketbook, the bones of the human 1 hand and the entire skeletons of small
 living animals were disclosed through | the flesh, and now the metallurgists tell
 us that defects In arnlor plates and castings can be detected by the aid of 1 this ray and the surgeons declare that
 the whole interior of the human body
 is open to their inspection. The age of
 miracles has returned. But these
 things are no more wonderful than the
 story of the permeation of business, so-
 ciety, and home life by the principles
 of Jesus, the increasing application of
 the law of love to all relations ques- 1 tions and functions of life; the spiritu-
 nj world is keeping step with the sci
 entific world, and in both the kingdom
 of God has come. Our whole literature from fiction to theology Is thrilling with
 the great problems suggested by the ] practical teachings of Jesus. All our i institutions of learning are founding
 professorships and encouraging the dis
 cussion of sociological questions. The
 churches are considering the needs and 1 demands of the unfortunate more de- voutly than creeds and classifications. | Hundreds of noble men and women
 fired by true missionary spirit are de voting themselves to the practical so- lution of the problems of poverty and
 crime and heredity and environment
 And the explanation of it all, the in- ! spiration of 1t all is found in the redis' eovery of the man Jesus which the age (Continued on Twelfth Page)