The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-03

rest. One mhHper or IdHl4ly serves another, the family the com munity, the community the state, the state the nation, the nation the world and vice versa. It is a eoncatenated system of service. And he who serves not is neither respected nor esteemed. No one is exempted and the higher he is the greater servant he becomes. One morning great crowd gathered about the depot in a village where we were situated. What for? To see the hero of Santiago, who led the fam ous charge up San Juan Hill, backed and supported by the noble Seventy first and others, who did it all in the service of their country and to be- hold his face then set toward the gubernatorial chair of the Empire State, which by an overwhelming ma jority he secured, as he has since be- come the chief executive of our na- tion. But as such he is the greatest servant. The same was true of Da- vid in Israel. It is therefore a sig
 nificant statement first of all that he served, and that he served.
 2. "His own generation By this of course is meant the time or age in which he lived. In other words he served his contemporaries He was neither a fossil, living in the past and talking about the past, and gloating over past experiences, methods, habits and cus
 toms, wriggling worm of history and reminiscence who could tell what he and others did in years agone, but doing nothing then, nor was he a wild fanatic, living as they say a thousand years beyond his time, thinking and planning for future gen. erations, but intensely practical, he threw all his thought and energy into the living, breathing, moving, pulsat- ing age in which he lived.
 The generations as they advance be- come much harder to serve, as the in diyidual finds, as he advances to high CT posts of honor his duties and obli- gations correspondingly increase. In David's time the habits of the people were simpler than in Solomon's. They were just moving out of tents into houses of cedar out of tabernacle into temple. Their nomadic life was giving place to a settled style of living; their pastoral life to agricultural and me- chanic, and their great encampment to municipal and national form of 1 government. He was in fact the chaperon to all this change, and the one by whom it was largely effected, and wherever you find him. he is en- gagged in working out that great and stupendous problem. His was also a reign of war It was his to recover the borders from sea to sea, from the Mediterranean to the Euphrates, and from Egypt or the Red Sea, to Syria. He was to prepare the way for a peaceful reign of his son, who because l he was a man of peace, could build | the home of the Lord out of the ma terial of his honored faithful and warlike father had gathered for him. Our fathers lived in an age which was simpler and more easily served than this. Think of its simplicity! A few logs were put together for a house and filled in or chinked with clay. | have recently come into possession of a picture taken by my son of the old log cabin in which my father was born. A few years ago it was my privilege to visit similar structure in which Bishop Scott first saw the light of day. The surroundings were as simple as the structures; the pigsty wood yard, poultry yard, wagon and horse or COW shed were all in close proximity to the dwellings, sanitation being little thought of Then there were the springs at the foot of the hill surrounded by barrels and sup piled with gourds, supplanted ulti- Imately by the deeply settled well curl on the top of the hill with the old fashioned we'll sweep, creaking pull leys. pumps, etc. Then there was the flint for starting the fire, or fire bor- rowed from the neighbors, the light o1 the pine knots flashing light to the eager student who leaned up against the chimney jam in his attempt in 6 few weeks Or winters to master the three important R's: Readtn, ritin and 'rithmetic. Then came the ole candle dips supplanted by candles | T0AuB ITOIu JllOulho WHlSl SNphS AtNiAAAAd kept for regular use and subsequently by fluid and kerosene lamps. Every home was a factory, a weaving estab- lishment, and all else combined.
 The conveyances were of the sim
 plest kind. The old-fashioned gig ant chaise have not passed entirely iron the memory of some now living, nol have the long and tedious stage routes
 with the numbering teams and heavy roads. A gentleman recently told m'
 that he once rode from ninety m!le'
 beyond Cincinnati to New York ol
 horseback to find a home on Long Is land, and during his stay sold hi
 horse to save the expense of feeding | it and then when he had selected hi
 home bought two other horses ant
 started back to move his family eas l. in this slow and tedious way the onl, way known then. Those were simpl