The Newtown bee., 1904-11-11
SOCIAL TOPICS.
RIGHT AND M1eHT.-BY o. o. WRIGHT

It is proverbial, everywhere, that mighty to overcome the many of the world who are wrong. It is d great truth in all religion, that the faithful shall surely win the victory of life at last. No matter, now, how long it may take, but the truth will prevail in the end. The universe was built on that plan. God is supreme; the Devil is no match for the Almighty; good is better than evil; and the truth is more powerful than falsehoOd.
 It is well known that in the history of the nations there have been turning points, and decisive battles, in which by the help of Him who rules over the your powder dry," is homely expres- sion of the faith that the cause of lib erty and right is not alone in the that in the deadly conflict between Russia, nominally Christian nation, and Japan,a a nominally heathen nation, the sympathy of the civilized world is with the heather whose cause is held to be righteous, and her warfare merci- full.
 It is fact that, other things being equal, man will fight harder in good cause than in bad one; and that men who fight for home and country are more invincible than those who are hired for wars of conquest. ''Thrice armed is he whose cause is just" is an. other saying which embodies the same thought. And the poet makes the noble knight say:
 My strength is as the strength of ten,
 Because my heart is pure."
 There are many ways in which we might show that the righteous man is superior in power, in the nature of the case. The man who believes that he is right, even when he is wrong, may fight hard, but the man who is right, and knows it, being in touch with the prevail; while the man who knows that his cause is bad is in sense already crippled, for his own better nature his heart and conscience-are against him. Sin and doubt tend to make one weak and uncertain; while righteous ness and trust reinforce one and make him strong and courageous.
 Other things being equal, the man who lives right will have the best health and greatest strength of body and mind. The temperate man will do the best work and therefore will hold the best positions. The man who abuses his powers puts discount upon himself which will rise up against him in every situation. Positions of re. sponsibility and trust seek only fol men who are known to be sober, capa ble and reliable. The man who ShirkS deceives and .defrauds another stabs himself and kills his own moral power besides begetting distrust among his fellows. Who does not believe that one good man whose word is un doubted and whose faithfulnesS is known to all has more power to hold society together; and build it up, than g hundred liars?
 We have seen that there are differ ent kinds of power: physical power, mental power and moral power, and the higher the kind of power the more powerful it is. It is the spirit of z mans life which makes him most DO tent for good. It is said that mar may cover a lion by looking him brave ly in the eyes, It is the higher power overcoming the lower. And on thi' principle the highest power of all | which is the righteousness of God, pre- vais at last, over all His enemies And so it is that the real progress O the world has always been wrought out through the power of the. few l who in righteousness and love hav' l won the day with the many.