The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-09-11

that lent it's aid and support to the accomplishment of peace.
 God is working even until now, ana such things are the most convincing proof of it.
 But there are discordant notes In Japan the mobs are angry because or the peace conditions, and are venturing their blind spite upon the Christian missions and ehurches-semehow in- stinctively feeling that while none or the Japanese have been more patriotic than the Christians, that the Christian spirit is one of peace rather than or bloodshed, and also, that the innuence of Christian America has been too over shadowing.
 "A splendid tribute to the spirit of Christ!
 But that is the untamed beast in the Japanese blood-the tiger unframed and n-Christianized-that destroys the Christian missions and churches. ana drags Prince Ito's statue into the mud' in it's blind rage, because the war can not 20 on. There's the same tiger spirit in the blood of all nations, and It's east ing out can come only by the incoming of more and more of the love or God and of the spirit of the gospel Of hu- man brotherhood.
 "AI of Japan cannot yet see the mag niflcent proportions of the moral vie tory which she has won-tine will do that. t.. .
 "T speak of this now as striking illustration of what conceive our Lord meant when he said that his Father was working in the world even. until now, and he made that the all-suttieient reason why he himself could not refrain from doing good.
 "If Christianity has been g. beneicert force in the world, as you and l be- lieve, it has been so because It has come to men just where they were and are-has not raised them into false and unnatural positions, but has blessed and even transformed them in their daily tasks.
 "And here we have. first of all, the example of our Lord himself. It was chosen by the wisdom of God that Jesus should not be born in a palace 1 or among the nobles of the land, lest some artificial distinction might exist between, him and his brethren. He was not only. the son of a carpenter as the neighborhood thought, but he was a I carpenter himself, and undoubtedly wrought at the bench of Joseph with his own hands. His words breathe the fragrance of the fields, the odor of the soil, the comradeship of common men. It is not without it's significance that he chose his disciples and apostles from among the sons of toil--nen of the common people-used to perform daily tasks for their daily bread-who knew | how to labor with their hands, and whose garments smelt of the soil and of the sea. The apostles never got far away from their fishing nets. Pau clung to his trade of tent-naking while he founded churches and preached the gospel in remote parts. It was in such ways that the new religion was kept close to the earth, and made it's great est triumphs among those who bore the burdens of their daily tasks in field | and shop. (
 "Al1 great movements for the worlds betterment have begun there-all great reforms have begun and have beer carried on there-@and the best hope of I the world lies there still.
 'It has become quite the thing in cer. tain quarters for men, and some who call themselves workingmen to throw stones at the Pilgrims. They don" know what they are doing, They want | larger liberties than the Pilgrims seen willing to allow. They chafe under the | blue laws and hate the Puritan re- straint and rail at the Sabbath and ig- 1 nore the church.
 l "Perlaps the tongue that owns the hand that picks up the stone cannot speak very good English; but how many such come here because America | is the paradise for the laboring mar as compared with most countries, and made such by those who came here I first of all to establish two things--lib erty to worship God and the right oi | labor.
 No, Jesus is the best friend of the man who works.
 'The history of Labor day is sug. gestive at this point. In 1894 the pres ident of the United States and congress did what they could to give to the day organized labor had chosen at its spe cial anniversary equal honor witt Washington's birthday, Independence day, Christmas and the other holiday! commonly observed in America. Moth ing could make plainer Americas inter est in the workingman. ..
 No matter how high your building may go up in the air it must have it! secure foundation on earth, and thu higher. you build the deeper, broade
 and firmer must be its contact, witt l the soil, j. .. T 3stss5s- s5t.ts55as