The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-06-23
THE TERRIBLE SUNRISE.

THE TERRIBLE SUNRISE.
New York SUM-
The Sunrise club mad its last meeting
If the season last night and attempted
20 settle the question of right and
wrong, good and evil. 1t was a sym
postum OF minds that dwell on the
heights. ard Interchange Of views from
yves which look toward the dawn.
While what constitutes right and what
wrong was not settled 40 definitely
that the CLUB will have nothing to do
,ext year, still the assembled lists, olo
lists and osophists feel that the meet
ing was one step forward in human
progress.
Quite the most remarkable views Of
The evening were those expressed by
the Rev. Hugh o. Pentecost He said:
81 tried in my youth to read and
understand the philosophers and meta
physicians ! gave it up 1t was too
lard for me. Then ! settled it all for
myself. Right and wrong, good and
lad. raoral and immoral, ought and
'ught not, have no meaning for me.
The happicst moment of my life was
Wien ! found that I'd eliminated my
Conscience, root and branch, and had
~ moral sense whatever.
- got there by tins process: | went
,ack to nature. | found that one sin
lie ~II.nciple exists in the universe
nekinm thn line of least resistance. w"
.*r iIv 20 always the thing which it il
~inns.aSl 10 10 under given circumstan,
.es.
"Good and evil arc an CANNON an6
spiDach to me- From the martyr at the
take to the most abject criminal or
he gallows, we are all doing thu
hings we do because it is impossible
or us to do anything else.
"If you'd get rid of conscience an"
I'll that tommyrot, you'd have the 30
ution to every problem of life. I've
20 tear Of God or Of the devil. l have
10 desire to 90 to heaven and no fear
# going to hell. Every temptation ]
ave in the world ] yield to-every
me. And I'm not a bit different from
IL OF you. ] haven't any higher ma
;ure at all-nor any lower nature. J
propose TO yield to every temptation
T only have to be sure it ia a tempta'
Ion. If it is~-good-bye, I'm gone.
.'If wanted. to get drunk, I'd get
trunk. If I wanted to beat my wife,
I'd beat her. If I don t, it's because
I'd rather not, It's more comfortable
Shall l blame another man who drinks
md beats his wife because it gives
him joy9
"Character9 There's no such thing
- character. Those persons have good
character to me who have those de
Tres which / consider beautiful dc
,ires and act on them"
James F. Morton, Jr., free love adj
yocate and philosophical anarchist,
sal that the world is troubled by
wrong, mt that to say there is no
light and wrong ut all Is to throw
nut the bahy with the bath
What is right7 That which is in
accordance with the process Of evolu-
ton. We say a good egg and q bad
gg. We mean exactly the same thing
when we say a good man and a bad
nan. A good eggs 1t is an egg which
rulflis the mission of egginess, an egg
when is every inch an egg. A bad
,gg7 We men by that ar egg not
expressing itself on the plane that be-
'ongs to an egg. That 3 the definition
If right and wrong as it belongs to
human beings. If an act is in ne
eordance with the broader movcnent
II the universe from i~neoherent to co
herent, from indefinite to definite, it
is right.
"Now Ome people are afraid of the
sex question. They u and hide in
the dark every time it is mentioned.
They We been taught that it is virtu-
Gus to play the fool about it.. From
the new ethical standpoint it is the
highest morals to seek ones own evo-
luton, NO matter what the world has
to say
George l.. Eusby took abe. : tho
same point of view az Mr.. Z I~teeost,
in which they are both ant lpated by
a merry old heather named Epicurus
and, in > remOter sense. by a sad old
christian named Calvin.
"Our acts are not chance,' he said.
tThe least of them is the result OF
cause and effect. That which is good
and right is that which will promote
our own happiness. Yet the highest
happiness, perhaps, lies in oontempla-
ton of the happiness Of others
Edwin c. Walker rebuksd Mr.. Pen
tecost for declaring before the Liberal
club that he Is giving his life to right
ing the world 8 wrongs and then get.
ting up and unloading such views.
every one, if he. saw a child tor.
tured, would cali that act a bad act,
because we believe that the child has
a right to the best that the world has
to give. And is a good egg to be COM
pared to a good mani Has evolution
done nothing to make man higher than
an eggs Has he no outlook In life
beyond the egg'sf'
NEW ICE CREAM PARIOR
J. r. Froberg has opened a new ice
cream parlor and confectionery on