The Washington bee., 1907-09-21

oSLICC u TIE ne OI IHe world, which
cut short and denied the human race
for thousands of years of that progress,
discovery and development intended for
all.
This thread of misconception and in
humanity continued on down through
ages. leaving generations after genera
tons unaware of what nature had in
store for the world and man. accompa-
MED with wild confusion and bedlams
until all of a sudden the winds of the
chosen people changed and the gloom OF
four thousand years was swallowed up
in the short span of the cross, s,crucifxion'
crimson stain, torture and martyrdom,
and now those limited and lurid condi-
tons are wiped out and have gone down
behind the dark horizon of the mem
orabla past How delighted are all
now, that We are the happy embodi-
ments and immediate participants of
this golden and triumphant age of per-
feet reconciliation to peace and Chris
tianity.
The New Era-Now the way is clear,
the whole world, especially America, is
upon permanent, wide awake, and
broadening basis, Look at the great
array of interests beaming up before
US! Look at their streams, how they
are expanding and bursting over the
banks, and with what prosperity they
send flowing through the land The
whole being of man seems to be per-
meated with that tenacious and un-
yielding spirit of going onward and up
ward, of building, and of enlarging, of
facilitating, and of conveniencing. and
of beautifying and of expanding the
think of what proportions our great
whole realm of human activity. Just
government has extended its borders
If she continues at this rate, she will
soon take in all the islands of both the
Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The in
creased facilities, inhabitants, and reve-
nues from the Cuban, Porto Rican Ha-
waiian, and the Philippines
their immense wealth and
have powerfully strengthened
ernment No wonder the Am ~-
ton is both revered and fear
the powers of earth. Her I
trenchments are 50 powerful, her or
ganic and basic principles so pure, her
credit and integrity abroad so absolute
and unquestioned, her judicial ermine
and craftsmanship executive heads in
State and Nation are so admired and
dreaded, her financial and tariff discov-
cries and enactments have awakened
such keen surprise and yet such COM
plete acquiescence by all the countries
of the globe, on account of which her
incomes from her commercial inter
course with other nationalities amounts
to enough annually to run our own
government
Her army and navy stand out pre-
eminently above all others and can cas-
lily PERSUADE any of the powers of the
earth, England not excepted, that it is
better to arbitrate than fight America
the gravity of the issues to the contrary
notwithstanding. In other words. she
has extended her broad arms to such
positive proportions that she can easily
protect her rights and uphold the colors
of her flag In every cline, on land or
on sea.
This marvellous disposition of expan-
sion is gradually riveting and finding
its way into the bosoms of the trends
of education especially in the heart of the
philanthropist, for these agencies every
where are at work, anxious and deter
mined to ameliorate and mitigate the
condition of our age. The colleges of
the land which formerly refused to open
their doors and admit to their high
curriculum only the chosen few, are
now anxiously urging all to come. There
are more necessities for education than
ever, on account of the increase of pop
ulation and binding responsibilities, and
the growing activities of the world, also
more colleges than ever before; the
doors thereof stand ajar as college doors
never stood before; with larger doors,
wider doors, and better doors, whose
sacred and outstretched arms remain
extended night and day to all the people,
even in Africa, and in Burma and in
the Isles of the seas
The hills and mountains of the land
are dotted with these educational bea-
con lights, there seems to be a loud
call, of great meaning from the heavens
above, and a drum corps awakening
from the ground beneath US. In word,
the dispensation of this age demands
that the dark and narrow cells which
have so long fettered and benighted and
prevented the expansion of the human