The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-04

being is an inheritor. for every man is
 created with physical, intellectual and spiritual possibilities.
 One of the eternal verities is justice.
 It is an attribute of the Divine Mind, a
 principle to which the soul of man, in
 the image of its Creator, responds most profoundly and demands that an inf
 nite and loving Father shall be just to-
 ward all His creation. In our concep- | tion of God we must grant Him to be | just. Then as We look about over the
 world of His creation, and see the man. fold inequalities and injustices which
 abound, how can we account for them? Can we believe that this Is the order of
 things erected by wise and just Faith CT? Is 1t not rather the result of mans | own fragrant injustice and failure to re-
 fleet the Deity and use alright His free
 gifts? Every good and perfect gift is from above and cometh down from the Father of lights in whom is no varia- bleness, neither shadow of turning" E The gift as it comes to us is good and capable of perfect development, but we
 warp it in the moulding and stunt it in
 it's growth. The difference between the
 original gift and mans cultivation of it
 is expressed in Pope's line, God made
 the country, man made the town" and
 psychological students are more and more coming to see that men are the product of training and environment
 rather than what they are inherently. Nature has been kind to most and where the natural gifts have been al- lowed free play. and careful culture the result is strong, full-toned develop ment, but where they have been re- pressed or misdirected we see a dwarfed personality. cranky indiyidu- al or one whose crooked and under handed dealings are menace to his fel- lewmen. These conditions are usually traceable to some circumstance or per- sonal influence which has sometime touched the individual at crucial peri cd of his life history, and it is a start ling fact. that the larger proportion of the worlds misery is caused by the in- justice of men toward each other.
 In this day of general education and the constant intermingling of all class es, there is much good sense and intelli- gence even among the laborers, So that they are, on the average, we'll qualified to use wisely their wages provided they can only get sufficient amount to use, and the lack of good wages coupled with a proper amount of leisure more often drives men to vice and crime than the superficial thinker has any idea of No one, unless he has actually tried it, o0f to, of following dull routine for ten hours every day with absolutely nothing to look forward to in the way of a vaca tion, unless sickness or some mishap forces him to spend in bed the time which would recuperate the mental and physical forces.
 recent writer Professor Frank l.. McYeyl in the American Journal of So- ciology. says: The eight hour day will promote contentment and cheerful ness among the working people of the world The economic value of this change Is. yet to be appreciated, but there can be no doubt of its great pro- ductive power when applied to indus try. Under it's influence the old rate of daily production will be maintained, l with little or no effect in the long run upon wages, profits, the unemployed and foreign commerce." 48 All men are created free and equal, but all men are not equal because we have made them unequal. However, In I the fact that they are fundamentally so, andscapable of equal development in the long run, lies the hope of humanity.
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