Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-13
MILLS LOOKING FORWARD
TO TO MORE HUMANE FUTURE
Los Angeles Fellowship Pastor Speaks
at Blanchard Hall on "The World
Playing a New Kind of
Game"

A large audience crowded Blanchard
hall to the doors Sunday morning to
listen to Benjamin Fay Mills deliver
his address on THE World Playing a
New Kind of Came" Mr.. Mills an
nounced that the Fellowship meetings
would be continued through the sum
mer. Next Sunday morning Thornton
A. Mills, the eldest son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Mills, who was phenomenally sue
eessful last year in his work as pastor
of the Christian Union church of Rock
ford, Ill, and is now on his way to Los
Angeles on his wedding trip, will speak
on Creating Your Own World.
Mr.. Mills said in part: THE oldest
human game had one rule, Might
makes right. All human history and
progress gives us only a modification
of this rule. Is it not time for the
world to play new game?
I'm some respects we have modified
the rules of the old one and are adapt
| ing it almost beyond recognition.
1.-THE old game caused man to be in
expressibly cruel to the lesser animals.
1t caused man to live on the plan OF
Every man for himself and the devil
take the hindmost.' Men and women
married one another for what they
could get and not for what they could
contribute. Education consisted in IN
oculating the new generation with the
more or less decadent ideas of the past
one, Social distinctions existed caused
by private wealth. The administration
Of Justice meant the execution of So
cial vengeance by the strong upon the
weak. In economics there. was, hrst'
unorganized strife, and then organ
lied warfare. In politics the rule. OF
the strongest prevailed, the people be-
ing the spoil of the king, even in So
called republics. There has been a
great scramble for office from personal
ambition. internationally the law has
been the law of the pack, that he VINO
could get by force should hold.
Some of these rules have meen mod
fled. In the economic world we nave
abolished slavery. In the political
world we have passed from absolute
to limited monarchy, from monarchy
to republic, and are even in slght OF
the establishment of pure democracy
internationally, where we used to fight
from bloodthirstiness, for revenge and
for selfish ACKNOWLEDGMENT, the nations
now are forced to give causes for goine
to war; and the spirit of arbitrator
has SO grown that at the last session
of the senate there were thirty-seVen
treaties of arbitration neglected
Cali these tend to the apolltlon OF
the old game of human Selfishness.
1.-THE question 1 ask you this morn
ing is this: Why shall we not play a
new game, the game of UNIVERSAL Iel'
lowship? In its laws we will recognise
our duty toward the less, deveiopeo
brothers and Asisters OF the ANNA
world and, instead of our unspeakable
crueities, will try to understand ano
heIp them who are behind US in the
great procession.
1--WE will give oIr~~<,xes to the recog-
milton Of the brotherhood of all races
in ali lands. 1t is a deadly blindness
keeps us from seeing sehngt that 1 tne T th.
racosnition of a fellowship with all
We will bind all nations together a. a.
our forty-six states, great empires II
themselves, are bound by the ties % o
peace. The first question our states
,oen will ask will be: Will this plar
make max for the unity and development o
mankind? We win study the place -, Q
each nation in the federation OF "a "a
world. and allow each portion OF IN
. world to produce what 1t best can, an an,
IN furnish 1t to the other people with
, out any artificial restrictions.
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