The morning journal-courier., 1908-03-30

not see 1t must be blind The present order is changing, giving place to the new. The progress of events Is rapid quite rapid enough in all probability.
 Who would have dreamed ten years ago of the changes that have taken place? Furthermore, who could have predicted the order in which those changes would come? Here we have something immensely suggestive. Who can predict to-day just where ana
 when and how the road Is to wind? What the social order of tomorrow will be no man can forecast. History would teach us that nations have all ways cleared their own road as they went along. 1t is never true that some man sits down and works out a the- ory, and prints it in a book, and then great people take up his theory and follow it through stage by stage. This is what leads me to conclude that the social progress of the next decade, of the next century, will not be according to the scheme of any man, or of any school, as at present outlined. Too many forces are at work in our world:
 the interests of modern civilization are altogether too complex for such sim pie solution of the problem. Socialism
 will make its contribution, every other
 ism on earth will make it's contribution;
 and out of all these something infinite ly better than any of them will come. And 1t will come, I am inclined to thnk-at least l hope so-just IS fast as the nation is ready for it. But be sure of this, that social idea that the great Master lifted up in his phrase,
 the kingdom of heaven" Is an ideal that can be realized only as men, one by one, learn to do justly, learn to love mercy, learn to walk humbly be- fore their God. What economic form
 that social ideal will take | do not know and I do not believe any man l knows. But I do know what the next ! simple step in the business the next ! step for me, and the next step for yon, 1 It is in Jesus call to repentance. Let l every man straighten out his own life, 1 And here I leave the subject for the l cialism is concerned I sincerely hope ! that we all may share it. It is a glori- ous dream, but it is nothing new. I l turn back to this book. and find that men were dreaming this dream thous- ands of years ago. And the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid and the calf and the young lion and the fat ting together; and little child shall lead them. And the COW and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie i down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the OK. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp
 and the weaaed child shall put his hand on the basilsks den. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my. holy mountain; for the earth shall he full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the wa ters cover the sea" A beautiful dream was it not? I think so. A dieam that some day will be realized. Meanwhile we are to heed the call to repentance. We are to prepare our selves that we may be worthy to enter into the kingdom. We are to go out of ourselves under the impelling of this splendid dream-we are to go to other
 men. We are to call upon them to re- ptnt, not simply that they may save their own lives, but that they may have the character and the will, and the power, and the deep sense of jus tice. and the fervor of love-that they may have all those qualities of sturdy manhood that shall enable them to render large service to the state. and thus bring about that better state in which all men shall have a wide op- portunity. It is not the form of soci- ety so much as the spirit that should concern us. Get the heart of the na- tion right and the economic theory
 may shape itself as it Nill-we shall be
 safe. Our task is to place the em- phasis upon personality; to continue to proclaim, at (. time when men seem to be forgetting it, that the hope of the
 world is in the individual who stands repentant in the presence of his God