The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-15

NlSllS lHe NOME OF an Olu CldSSHltlS
who is now the prosperous pastor of
fashionable church.
1t is the old story of the world and
its worldliness invading the church,
and robb4ng II OF saintiiness.
Titus Fletcher finds his brother min
| lister LIVING in luxury, the husband OF
| a fashionable wife and the father OF
daughters who reflect credit on the
social pos ton OF their ambitious
mother.
Just at present Esoeree Buddhism
| is the fad of the hour in the set in
which these ladies move.
Fine OF manner, in a ge.sle old
| fashioned way, sanity i'll spirit with
| his self-torgetfulne and Self-abnega-
| tion there is no place for him IN TINS
great, greedy America CT to-day. Titus
| Fletcher goes back to India Il broken
| hearted man.
There is a man whose religion is his
! life. his life is a religion. He is abso-
lutely untaintel by ambition. His
| a, tn is undmmed, Ize loves humani-
| ty. He loves his race and has Il noble
pride in Il. His life is to be given to
| his people that so they may learn of
Christ and His teachings He is
| gentleman without any veneer The
| Crue heart shines through q sincere
| ana SillDlc Iilallei.
| His ann in life, his guiding-star is
| The bet>crment of his felloWmen The
| spirit of A+artyn, the soul of Carey, OF
| Moff;lt, embOdieS Itself again in such
mcn.
And who is he In S Christian? An
| American brought up under the heav-
anly Influences Of the worlds best re-
| igiOn" breathing along with this at
| mosphere, an air of unparalleled free
4 ,sCl, trrl1f To
| develop every particle Of manhood in
him?
| No, he is q little japanese preacher,
| converted by a missionary in his native
country, and partly educated In
America
Thus far We have not given him
! false standards. He was not trained
in some of our schools foT boys and
girls.
| Once upon q time, in a certain
Oriental country. two brothers fell
! into squabble over their inherit
| 1nce. The younger one. or the one
| weaker in dispute, happened to come
Iup with a great crowd, an innumer-
Z bic multitude of people, so many that
| they trod upon each other in their
| effort TO hear young man who was
| saying the most unheard-of things as
J he plead with the crowd.
| There seemed to be spring of Won
| drOus power in the spirit of the young
preacher They all felt it, and the
| cheated brother, communing with
himself, thought that here could be
found relief for his distress.
| CroWding through the multitude, he
| finally reached the speaker and forced
his attention, asking him to settle this
vexed question of property rights.
Then the one with the deep-seeing
| eyes and the tongue that charmed and
convinced made answer: "a mans
| life consistent not in the abundance
of the things which he possesseth.
The ground of a certain rich
man brought forth plentifully: And
he thought within himself, saying.
| What shall / do, because / have no
room where to bestow my fruits?'
and he said, This will do: I will
pull down my barns, and build great
| er; and there will l bestow all my
fruits and my goods.
"And l will say to my soul, SOUL
thou hast much goods laid up for
many years; take thine ease, eat. drink
| and be merry.
but God said unto him, Thou fool,
| this night thy soul shall be required
Of thee; then whose shall those things
| be, which thou hast provided?'
$50 is he that layeth up treasure
for himself. and is not rich toward
God"
In the year of our Lord 1900 and
more, public school in a Southern
town had opened with a large attend
ance Several hundred children had
gathered to be taught a wisdom that
presumably would make better men
and women than these boys and girls
would otherwise be.
The superintendent looked down in
the faces of these young people and
addressed them. He urged them to
industry and rSeverance-qualltleS
necessary to right manhood or wo-
manhood. Then, by way of emula-
ton, he held up to them man whose
early life had been a struggle against
adversely, but who, in spite Of this.
had reached a lofty plane of success.
The old plea that any American boy
might become President would have
been a worthy thing to say compared
with this new gospel he was preach
ing The subject of his sermon is
man who is at the head of one of the
greatest American trusts--a man, he
s. whose life has in noWise been nOta-
BILE \r the finer qualities of an ideal
manhood.
Shall the spirits of our children be
vitiated at the very fountain!
Shall false standards be given them
at the first step out of the home even
if we try to teach them there, some
thing other than the Grass material
ism of the day?
In another Southern town Il am
glad it was not in North Carolina).
there was held notable meeting in
honor of the opening Of a school with
it's handsome new building.
An immense crowd had gathered.
The Governor of the State was pres
ent. Among other worthless was
banker who was booked for a speech.
After a talk in which he used hne
practical sense, appealing to the boys
to develop themselves by application
to make themselves Indispensable TO
their employers by industry ana trust
worthiness he cheapened ana prost-
tuted his speech by taking out silver
dollar and apostrophizing IT. telling OF
it's power and at last kissing the pc
loved object. There you are! YOU
see what lessons in materlaI.sm the
youth of today is likely to get. what
is the difference between poWlng doWn
to little green image of krishna and
| worshipping in such wise, round bit