Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-13

supreme consideration in matters OF finance
and government will be decided during the
half century in which you are actlVeiy
engaged in life. Your career Is sure I,
the decision goes to the side of materialism,
inevitable wreck will follow hard upon. II
cost, success and stability will be insured,
though its coming may be long and tedi-
Gus process.
g. Shall the great giants, capital and
trades union come to conflict or co-opera-
tion1
Two Giant Combinations.
There are two very conspicuous features
in our Industrial life today. First there
is the great combination OF capital, in
which the wealth OF the many has learned
to act as a unit, In which the word or a
single man determines the Industrial move
ment not of a few thousand or hundreds
of thousands of dollars, but of hundreds
of millions, even billions OF dollars: ~ Us
conservatively estimated that nine billions
OF capital is directed in the United states
by one little group of financiers whose
center is in New York. This concentration
Of wealth represents a power power more more uSst ysst
its influence will be depends inot upon
wealth as an abstraction nor upon veal
as a concretion of value, but upon & the
character OF the men who control it. The
presence of this kingly power of money ", IN
society would present problem sutilclentIE
serious If It stood alone but TINS power
does not stand alone. over against thIs
Goliath of capital stands the Goliath oil
labor, the trades union. These are the Two
heavyweights of industry. Shali they Pte.
sent to us Cooperation or COMBAT Ihat
is the question. II these two giants JOIN
in mortal combat anything from man ,, 20
each exercise toward each the cardinal
virtues with God justice, mercy ana truth,
or cast aside all restraint and ny at ehch li
others throat, is not yet positively settled.
1t will be, however, In the next htty years
of time You will be a factor I'm that set
tlement What you say and do will tend
fp or haa
side or the other of this question
The doctrine of the Trinity has its place
in theology and any unsoundress on that
subject is looked upon with alarm. II is
not at all a difficult matter 20 hnd men
whose belief in the Trinity II AZ right
but their practice OF fraternity Is All wrong
How long shall we believe that God is
more concerned with creed than with con-
duct? 1t is entirely possible that the sig
nificant and special message of GOD 10 our
day is. al will have mercy and not creeds.
Let II be the purpose of your lives OF power
to make merciful and fraternal the eco
nomic relations Of men,
3. The sanctity of the home;
The home is quite generally consldereu
the unit OF society by sociologists. II
nation be looked upon as an organic whole,
then a home may be regarded as NE
cell. Upon the purity and healthtulness
! of these life cells depend the Vgor and @
alarming fact that the American home Is
menaced by the evil OF divorce. Divorces
are more numerous in the United states
than in any other country where records
are kept, and the number OF divorces is
on the increase. In 1870 5-l0 per cent OF
the the ended ended IN IN dyoSe dyoTSe In
the percentage of divorces TO maria ges
was one-hah Of per cent, In 1870 II was
wife and children by the husband, and Of
the husband and children by the wlfe Is
becoming common crime with which the
charity officials OF our cities have 10 deal.
This too, Is the most frequent and tho
most easily abused legal ground for divorce.
Beyond any doubt the sanetity OF me
in marriage which fosters and makes possi-
bile divorce. The union, the home and its
sanctity. becomes OF greater value than
either party in the marriage relation Many,
however, regard the relation as convent
ence TO the individual 70 be thrown aside
like a garment when the taste changes.
This spirit must be met and defeated or
everything that is good and pure in earth
win be struck with blight: In the followers
OF Jesus Christ this divorce evil must flnd
its strongest opponents.
FIXTURE of ChristIanity.
T. Shall the next epoch in the AFFAIRS OF
Christianity be ascendant or decadent?
There are conditions existing in the
realm of Christianity which none OF us
mind toward the Bible and the church Is
not just what II used TO be half century
ago. scriptural utterances which were re-
Gently unchalenged are quite seriously
challenged now. There are those who feel
that the authority of the Bible Is gone.
There are others VINO beneNe Nnat ~ re-
mains Just what IL always was. There are
still others who believe that II the Bible
is to retain its due and valuable authority
over the minds and consciences of mon
there will be need OF change I'm some diTec-
tions. The Bible Is not the only reality
with which men have TO deal. They have
TO deal with the material world and the
facts concerning II which science is bring
ing more and more into the strong light
OF the foreground. They have 20 deal with
the facts Of experience as they are pre-
sented TO US in the accredited history OF
the past and as they appear before us In
the palpable events Of today. Whether the
Bible shall be repudiated by the best edu-
Gated and best trained minds OF our land
for non-conformity to fact and well-testi-
hed experience, or whether its deathless
truths shall be regnant In the advancing
order Of things, will depend largely on the
way IN which those who love this Bible
present II and represent Il In the next nfty
years. There are theories about the Bible
which men have established and circulated
There are interpretations which have been
humanity and failibly made. some OF which
theories and interpretations stand IN gro
tesque contradiction 10 established facts
Of science and history. The EFFORT 10 main.
tain that contradiction IA a hopeless EFFORT
! The truths OF the Bible cen easily maintain
themselves against the enmity OF men, hut
theories and Interpretations cannot main
tain themselves against the undenied and
/ undeniable facts either Of science or his
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