The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-10
CAPITOL QUESTION REACHES PULPIT Dr. Rice Talks About Duty to
 Beauty MUCH WORK FOR S0LONS Many Questions Are Being Discussed Which Will Probably Come Be-
 fore Next Legislature
 for Action.
MUCH WORK FOR S0LONS

Montgomery July 9.--(Specal. )-The new capitol question will not be quiet. It got into at least one pulpit today, when the Rev Dr. John A. Rice. pastor of the Court Street Methodist church, said that a great state had no right to put up a building that did not conform to the rules , of beauty of architecture and appeal to 1 the love of beauty in the people. The theme of the discourse was beauty, and 1 the duty of the people of the world to make everything in the world as beauti- full as possible. The streets should be laid out in view of this idea, trees should be planted and parks and such things fostered and encouraged. The speaker said he would like to be able to stop every man who went out to cut a tree of beauty.
 Having lead up 10 the question of ,the capitol and it's improvement and enlarge ment by the state, the speaker said in effect: No commission has a right to put up an unattractive building which will be for the use of our people. There is no reason why a great state with great resources should have put Up anything not beautiful. It should project and spend money for an ideal of beauty. It is hoped that public sentiment will force them to build for the spiritual man: to i give a typical public building for big state like this.''
 Beauty of Churches. The doctor then branched off into the further elaboration of his subject, em- phasizng the duty to erect churches of the best and most costly and beautiful character He said that the tabernacle in the wilderness at which the Children of Israel and their great leader, Moses, worshippcd. cost anywhere up to five mil lion dollars. No one knew the value save that it was great. He urged his own people, now about to enter upon the spending of $35,000 for a new church, to build for the beautiful, saying that the kind of churches represented the class of worship that the congregation give quite often.
 Dr. Rice is not preacher to tread all the time the beaten paths of discussion. or to accept any of the old time edas without having them well proven to him self. For instance, today he read the
 
 said that our forefathers could tell just how and what time the world was built; that one of them set the very day, but that recent discoveries indicated that there had been period of man five thous- and years ahead of the time they had spotted. He said we were growing much wiser as we grew older and that there are many fallacies that we are begin ming to forget. He said. however, that there was much read into the Bible that was not in 1t, which was not the fault of the Bible.
 New Laws Needed. Though the next meeting of the legisla- ture is q long way off there is much talk of some ot the law that 1t will be asked to enact. 1t is well conceded that num- ber of changes will come in for attention and that some of the ideas now in vogue will bc annuled or amended. The legis- la.urc will, of course, be asked to take up railroad laws and it is now thought that the matter of lowering the rates of freight will be made so much of an issue in the counties that most all the solons wlli he selected with view of how they think on the question.
 Some better insurance regulations will be sought, and any number of better meats uill be taken up with the laws of the schools. Quite likely the matter of state Repositories will be looked into with view of having considerable bal ances earn interest, and 1t may be that the question of Lowering the tax rate will come ub. Some believe that by that time there will be a sentiment strong enough | to force an appropriation of large extent to extend the capitol and make it in ev- cry way modern structure. All these and more, among them bureau of inn migration will be of the importance Of