The Paducah evening sun., 1910-03-08

can be found to erase from their. gold
the taint of respectable thievery
made possible under the law-not so
as long as no Christian heart will de-
clare that the possessor's eud justi-
fies the means of attainment.
| so we find that the head-hunters
the red men, the Alexanders, the
Napoleons, the kings and conquerors
of earth and the Croesuses of our day
had each his standard, but did not
have the true one.
From lips kissed by truth and
born to loving kindness, we learn
that of the great triumvirate of vir-
tues, faith. hope and charity. that the
greatest OF these IL charity
at is not authority, power. riches
or intellectually chat alone makes
for better things. Each has built or
governed an empire, and each has
played a potent part in the progress
of the world. 1t is the use of these
things that makes for veal or woe.
"Tbe great agnostic. Ingerson. said
that man advances just in the pro
portion that he mingles his thoughts
with his labor but declare unto you
that a country advances just in the
proportion that man engages his
heart with his thoughts.
"If we can find where this has
been done. then IL Will be am easy
matter to determine, with what
beayen II hath been leavened.
The metropolitan papers tell of a
fever plague In the south, of an erup-
ton of Mt. vesuvius. of a famine In
India. of a Galveston storm, a Balti-
more holocaust. or a San Francisco
earthquake. No sooner learned than
men and governments bestir them
selves to relieve suffering and give
aid and sympathy. What is this mgs-
terious and invisible, but no less POI
tent force that thus makes for the
kinship OF nations, and the brother
hood of man?
what strange alchemy, in these
latter years has set the governments
of earth to the task or peace confer
ences, where the true doctrine Is
promulgated. that man should be
valued above money, and love and
Righteousness above revenue and en-
pire. and where the burden of their
song Is peace, and their hearts desire
that the cannon's mouth be made
dumb, the drum tap silenced, and the
battle flag furled forever?
IL. hn n.
and murder mad Cain, in evasion and
fear exclaimed. Am I my brothers
keeper Millions OF Christian mer
and women, by their daily lives, are
answering back across the chasm ot
departed years. that every man Is his
brothers keeper.
"But this IL not an that we behold
There are those We know, who are
prompted by some strange and un-
seen power that makes a man have
no greater love than this, that he lay
down his life for another II Is this
that is peopling every land with
Frances Willards. who are pleading
for the priority of home over rum
shops and the happiness of mothers
and wives over the debauchery OF
sons and husbands.
at Is this that is sending soldiers
of the cross TO distant and heather
lands, to evangelize and christianize
their people.
"But from whence comes that
strange infatuation for going about
a hnf 4In .fIo1,
lishment of a Rockefeller founda.
tion.' the erection and maintenance
of the great hospitals for the sick and
injured, and the many sanatariums
and asyluns for the weak and de-
ranged in mind, TO be found in al
christian lands, and to be had gratu-
itously.
what is d would say that the
Clara Bartons of the world would
follow fire, food and famine and the
horrible carnage of war. beneath the
Red Cross of love and helpful sym
pathy, for anything short of the glory
of God and love for their fellow men ?
Back OF this, will inquire, what
was IL that took woman-woman foI
multiplied years the subordinate and
slave of man in his coarsest condi-
tion, aud lifted both together until
man. formed in his makers image,
has become the rghtful lord of crea-
ton, and woman. his superior in
many things and his equal in all, has
attained the loftiest pinnacle of
mans regard and affection, where she
shall ever remain a fit emblem of
divinity's highest earthly conception,
and the most finished and blessed
product of his plastic hand?
These wonders and thousands
more. have been wrought under the
benign influence of christian citizen
ship. You may search for the basis
of il an, in the schools and colleges
that furnish enlightenment and m
sure liberty to mankind, and your
iabors will not be wholly In vain, for
the school house is the tap-root of a
nations Intelligence.
but II the real basis. you would
find. / point you to the Sabbath Day
Bible school, by whom and whereso-
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