The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-03-20

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empire surely as Il created q dem
a~eraey ID a monarchs - II had made
Il republic 80 ,ulauS. LII r It'll
1850. when ou, ~ The vold There
came the blish, or panic {" prosper
ms. taer, started that other great
.,Nal which outllved the ciNii war AMI
emerged from that cauI,yon into tn
movement started by MOODY AMI
-a4key. the las movement ce.secftf-
III ~ life. the brother OF that later
Development IF the salvation Ar-
my.
Today jhe ~,gns are pointing % an
other and a acH revival The aSlta-
tion must spring from the same
sourte but ii mus; 10 leyc.ei At ncw
evils. In the old days the contest was
with the grosser forms Of vice. The
great i-mmigratlons were settling
themselves and sinking into the care
less habits Of people cut of from the
world by the wilderness or brutalizcd
by the passions and tho hardships Of
war. The sin was more hasrant and
the laundering preacher. or the hero
ic type Of the plain circuit rider, Of
the man willing TO face death and Cis-
ease in the forest, of the man so near
10 nature himself that he could ap-
peal to The children of nature. To-
day the evils. more rclined. are subtler
in appeal. more dangerous because
they are less easily recognized. Re-
IiHon, IS we'll as business, as we'll as
State-craft, is coming to wear a gloss
deceptive ana ~perilous. The Dcvil.
more than ever, refuses 10 come out
and fight. The world, from being too
given to extremes, has become too
tolerant. 1T is careful Of appearances
at the expense of its moral sense. It
Iigion. We are dilIetantes in thics. !
All the While the world is building its
problems high with fatuous disregard
of he foundations. The cry is to do
things-no matter how. The individ- |
ual is considered. if at all, as a men
tai and physical Incident to great and
slow moving ends. It is the age when
beliefs are immaterial and convfc- |
tons are dreams of women and chill
dren. Spiritual feeling is limited to
the Art which Industry pats on the
head; Immortality is ccmpassed in
a psychological essay; Faith is the
crochet of prophets; Charity is writ
the stub of a cheque.
Yet under all his the same old hui
tide is rolling for ali the feck
and foam upon the surface. Deep
down the waters are gathering force
as they have SO often gathered for q
flood before. Soon the old channe!
Will be cut away, the stream will
again. Slowly the people
rousing to the need Of effort.
clearer and clearer comes the vision
Of the sham, surer and surer the Ill
timat shock to conscience which
precedeS the remedy. Already there
murmurings. Wales has had an
great revival. Even dollars can
not stand before primal faith. AS the /.
revival of 1856 started in a banking
nouse in Il time of panic, so the com
ng reform may start in Wall street
an hour of u~nprincipled imitation.
It will be q new notwithstanding not to
If it will come Il de]livcrancc from the
slavery Of the twentieth cen-
-ury, as there came relief from the
brutal oppression of the fifteenth.
Through it's agency will humanity be
of its dust of gold as in old
lines. singing hallciuiahs. il has so Of
en- before shone white through the
Of beastial sin. The circuit rid
rs are passing. The appeal Will be
to reason. more 10 the hnlp of
others. broader in ambition. But the
responsibility will be personal. and :
he brotherhood that Of touch instead
If abstraction.
How it will come, or when. no man
1ncWeth- But the new revival Will be
he dawn Of another ana more po-
cnt Great Awakening
AGAINST REAL REFORM. S