Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-31
HALL CANE ON VEAL I'll
A Menace to Individuals and Nations, Says the Novelist.
LAMENTs PACE THAT KILLS SOULS

Tells John D. Rockefeller, Jr.'s, Bi-
 bIe Class That Great Nations Are
 Going "the Pace That Kills. That
 They May Grow Rich = Denounces
 Evil of Liquor Traffic and Looks to
 Women to Correct It.
 The pace that kills,' not the body, but the soul, the menace of great pri- vate and national wealth, with it's con eomitants of luxury and self in- diligence and the great necessity for the application of the principles of Christianity to the practical side of life formed the subjects of forcible address by Hall Caine, the novelist, before the young men of John D. Rockefeller, Jr.'s, Bible class the other afternoon in the Fifth Avenue Baptist church of New York, says the New York Herald.
 T understand that this is Baptist church." said MT. Caine after being introduced to the class by the Rev. Mir. Richardson. My father and moth CT were Baptists, and I was myself brought up in the Baptist .denomina- ton. I am afraid, however, that that does not exactly mean that I am Baptist at this moment I trust you will forgive me for saying that I be- long perhaps to much larger church hn ct hn Ernio fl,r Catholic church-the real church, I mean, the big church, the church that stands perhaps above all churches. That is my position and my excuse for standing here today.
 "As understand the object of MT. Rockefeller's Bible class. it is to help to apply the teaching of the Bible and the principles of Christianity to the practical life of our own time. No ob- ject could be better than this and none more timely. : 'I doubt if there has been a time when it was more desirable to apply the principles of Christianity to the life of the world. It is even more true now than it was when the poet said it that the world is too much with us. Late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers A few days ago MT. Choate lamented in the life of your country the pace that kills could wish to associate myself with what he said so eloquently and to em- brace my own country in the range of his criticism.
 But want to go a step farther than Mfr. Choate. He lamented the pace that kills the body. I lament the pace that kills the soul.
 When think of the application of the priciples of Christianity to the prac- tical life of the time I am instantly made to reflect on the hard saying, It is easier for camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to inherit the kingdom of heaven No one with any knowledge of the sym bolism of the east will understand that to mean that according, to the. teafh- ing of Christ. it is impossible for man to be rich and yet live the Christ life. But any one may see that it was the intention of Christ to say that it is harder for q rich man to be good than for poor man to be good. The world Illness of wealth, the temptations of wealth, the heavy load and responsibil- ity of wealth. the dangers of the wrongful exercise of the power which wealth gives are forces which make wealth a very doubtful blessing, and it is as true now as it ever was that to be at once a rich man and a good man Is to have virtue and sincerity and generosity and brotherliness and all other Christian qualities taxed to the uttermost
 But If it is hard for the rich man to inherit the kingdom of heaven, what about the position of the rich nation? Does not the same principle apply?
 President Roosevelt is one of the very few men in the sphere of public affairs since Mir. Gladstone who bring public questions first of all to the touch stone of principle. telling you in Amer ica that your great republic. your great can only live on the founda- ton of justice: that i'll gotten power or i'll gotten property, whether in the indi- vidual or the nation, can only lead to ruin and bankruptcy and shame. We want such a man in England at. this There never was a time when in the struggle for national welfare such men with such principles were more wanted in all the nations.
 "But it is not merely in our interna- tional relations of trade that the temp tation to ignore and violate the Chris tian principles is apparent. There is a trade which all civilized countries frankly recognize as dangerous. wom- en and children are the chief sufferers by the trade of drink and by the false and un-Christian attitude of the nation with regard to it. and I look to the coming enfranchisement of women as the most powerful help toward refnov- ing the wrongs that attach to 1t
 ''It is a shortsighted policy. as well 1 as an un-Christian one. to fan the pop ular fever which leads to war. but 1t l ls one of many temptations which come to the rich nation. and other tempta- tons are the desire for increased terri tory and power Your President Roose- velt has lately done noble service for humanity in helping to put an end to the bloody conflict In the east. All the world honors him for it. and It Is a proud thing for America that one of its a man of the people. although |