Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1911-06-07

| Were atar OIL are brought nigh. Once
10 love ones neighbor, meant 10 love
nun w"o lived next door, hut now
everybody lives next door-and by that
law we must love the race of man
communications such rs this, making
possible contact, So sympathetic, so
universal never entered into the Wi, =
est dreams of the ancients, and TO our
grandfathers would have seemed incred-
ible. The genius of nature, with all his
"lShty forces waits to do our bidding
helping us to carry out the last com.
mand of our Lord. ("Go We into all the
world" etc
Next, we notice, "World- Wide Civil.
ization." This comprehensive term in
cludes all that builds mankind into n
compact state of civil society-lntelli-
gence and industry enterprise and edu-
cation, manners and morals. Barbar-
ism is the burglar of history its deeds
of wrong, robbery, violence, are of the
night, and cannot abide the day which
dawns when civilization sheds its light
In the flush of the morning, blushing
for shame ,SIt seeks the cover of dark
ness. Such crimes against God and
man as infanticide and canniballsm :
such orgies of lust and blood rs the rites
OF Juggernaut and the Meriah groves ::
such cruelties as those of the torture
rack and suttee pyre, are things of the
past. Education is revolutionist. over
turning intellectual errors and super-
sutlous faith. Knowledge is power .
Ii destroys even where it does not CON
struct The HIndoo cannot study
astronomy and geology without seeing
his absurd cosmogony fall i'll ruins yet
that cosmogony is so built into his re-
hglous system that the two fall to-
gather, and he loses faith in the vedas
The Chinese study geography and his.
tory, and learn that the middle king
dom must reconstruct its map of the
world and its notion of the race of men
for the Celestial Empire is but one
among many great natious, and Con-
fucius but one among many great
teachers. The Siamese cannot look
into medical scie nee without
the uprooting OF hoary super.
stitions; nor the degraded Hottentot
learn common facts about earth, air and
water without finding that the witches
he fears are not human beings nor
demons, but miasma and malaria to
be exercised by scientific drainage and
sanitary conditions. Civilization is
then in our day the forerunner of mis-
sions; preparing the way for the religion
of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
The next thought that we notice is
World Wide Assimilation" Com
munication promotes actual contact and
communion. The intercourse of travel
and the interchange OF trade, there has
come to be new trade in ideas, a COM
merce of sentiments. Hermit nations
emerge from their cell and shell. From
the sunrise kingdom young japanese
pour into western channels to absorb
the secrets OF occidental progress, and
In their refiow, bear back the new ideas
they have acquired. China sends her
young statesmen to study at the centers
OF Christendom, the problems of human
progress, and bring back their solution
The barriers between peoples are down.
Barriers of language once more i'm
passable than mountains or oceans are
silently crumbling. Barriers of mu-
tual misunderstanding and suspicion
are falling Acquaintance dissipates
false impressions. Trust takes the place
of distrust and love the place OF hate.
The era of universal peace seems to be
at hand Men are learning the divine
lesson that war is based not only on a
bad principle, but bad policy, and that
| O'COnnell was not far wrong in stoutly
maintaining that mo social revolution
IS worth one drop Of human blood b"
| Generous forbearance mutual cOnces-
sions, fraternal conferences and impair
tial arbitration may settle any contro-
versy without striking blow. War is
a serpent with crush in its coils, a
fang in its jaw, and a sting in its tail.
It's venom heats the blood for genera
tions. France has never forgotten nor
| forgiven Waterloo, and the memory of
conflicts more remote than the Crimean
war, the battle Of Plassey or even the
fall Of Constantinople, rankles still for
though men die, nations survive Waste
Of treasures and of life are bad, but
waste of good feelings and kindly rela-
tions is worse The universal dissimi-
nation of the religion of Jesus Christ is
the only safe and sure road to universal
peace. We take the fact of "World-
Wide Emancipation" This is another
marvel of this age. From the fall of
man until now, human slavery has been
the fatal foe of the best good Of the
race ennallY bad for master and slave