Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-02

say? Are we nearing the end OF
stage in the worlds career? Is there
the dawning of a new era? Or are we
self complacently reaping where our
| fathers strewed sowing, tilllng anu
| harvesting no crop of our own! oucn
questions only posterity can htly an
swer. for we lack the perspective TOT
discernment. Still, we may feel Win
Bishop Arthur Cleveland COKE thal'
We are living, we are dwelling
! In a grand and awful time'
In an age, on ages telling
To be living is sublime
There are signs which even we may
read, and here are some OF them:
First-There is spirit OF unrest III
oil classes feeling of dissatisfaction
with existing adjustment. Trade Is uh-
settled. money is not freely moving.
old institutions are waning, ana ne"
remedies are being tried or auVocdleu'
Second-There is the quicken1ng OF
the public pulse, renewed Watcnl ulness
| of public interests, extension OF pupllc
Eseryice. increase of benevolent enter
prise and a tendency to higher stano-
ards of business morality.
Third-The nations are struggling as
hard to preserve peace as Formerly
| thew strove in war. Diplomacy, arbl-
| tration and craftsmanship are Winning
| the battles of today.
h-Transportation and tele-
graphic communication have shortened
| distance and brought the nations or the
| world in close touch. The latest results
! of invention and the methods soon 10
be in use will give far greater effect 10
| these influences.
Fifth-Hackneyed creeds and narrow
bigotry are gradually giving way 10
broader and loftier conceptions or
| MI. ~
which has long been musty heap OF
precedents and technicalities, is at last
becoming animated by considerations
of equity and justice.
! Sixth-Education is becoming more
free and higher in it's aims and results.
Discovery, invention and engineering
arts are working in unison. and the
lightning and the wind and the waves
obey the will of man.
Seventh-Tte minerals of the earth.
from mines, and the oils and gases and
their fix from borings, are yielding
wealth and heat and light and power
and material for every need of man.
In my short life 1 have known what
it was to live in log cabin as the best
at command; to be restricted to the
tallow dip for common light, with the
camphene lamp as an article of lux
ury; to help at the spinning wheel ana
wear hOmeSpun garments; TO ply the
handle of the churn and to be the
proud author of such butter and but
termilk as makes my mouth wtaer to
this very day; to hear the whistle of
the locomotive as a novelty in the
land. and to be familiar with the wa
ter wheel as the source of power to
grist and paper mills and forge; to
attend the threshing by the fail, the
winnowing of grain by the wind, the
Smelling of corn by hand, to try out
the lard and boil the kettle of soap, to
keep time by the hour glass and to use
the Quill pen and to sand the wet ink
after writing-and to get along some-
how without the thousand and one con-
veniences and comforts which all now
regard as necessities. These have all
come into use so recently and by such
a ratio of increase that we may con-
fidently expect that the next twenty
years will be far more prolific in in
vention than the last fifty years. Who
can predict what is to follow?
We can hardly compass the success
full airship in imagination, yet there
are many other marvellous machines
and appliances we'll on their way to
fruition. Wireless biography, even in
its present efficient forms, is becom-
ing rapidly superseded by more per-
feet methods. The telegraphone has
been brought to a stage of develop
ment which will soon give US wonder
full advance in telephoning. Delanay's
inventions are already revolutionizing