The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-09-12

winds by the rising generation while
it went out TO serve humanity, 70
work in settlements, to learn the con-
ditions of the suffering under-haii' 70
share education, amuSementS, pure
air. books and knowledge. Girls grow
up. and as soon as they are out OF
school they shoulder some part OF
the worlds work, some portion Oh
the worlds suffering. and lay down
some portion Of their own health anu
care-free happiness. The girl with no
interest outside or -
the exception.
When youth refuses to live by ages
accepted standards is it not because
with the clear, unprejudiced eyes Oh
youth, they see that these
have not worked out. We DO not
know, and Mrs. Conner k pans
not to tell US, just what form OF SPIT
tual training n advocates. Dut
there is a distinct revolt in the rising
generation against churchiness I'M
matched by service. AS Luther re-
belled against the abuses OF Roman
Catholicism of his day. and boldly de-
clared that it was impossible TO ouy
remission of sins by paving money
and. in saying so, voiced the senti-
ment OF all the better part of his gen
Grafton, so the rising generation re-
fuses to believe that a verbal accept
ance of creeds and conformity TO
church customs makes a man a
Christian. How can he love God
whom he hath not seem they per-
sistently cry. IF he love not ms
brother whom he hath SEEM" What
does he do to show that he is his
brothers keeper" is the question
now, and a man may be a protested
~agnostic. and if he is self-forgetful
and self-sacrificing. if he has at heart
the welfare Of his kind, the rising
generation will know him for a true
believes in the real brotherhood OF
man. Perhaps the religion of the ris-
ing generation might be summed up
in three articles of faith: First, by
their fruits We shall know them; sec
ond. that no man loves God who does
not do something toward serving
mankind; and third. that nothing is
so valuable as intellectual integrity or
so sensible as personal modestv
The two young people who replica
to Mrs. Conner had no fine phrases to
fling about, no highfalutin adpec-
tives for their own merits. They were
much more inclined to say, us it not
perhaps so?" than to indulge in her
eloquent certitudes. Indeed, 1t is
easy to see the flaws in anything new;
an unaccustomed manner is apt to
make us uneasy, and we prefer the
young to ape the old and to refrain
from surprises. But Is it lot some
thing of a lesson to the passing gen.
Grafton to realize that if the young
discard it's doctrines and it's customs
it is because they have seen them as
failures-as doctrines and customs
that did not work. that failed to win
OUT? The young generation is bold;
it faces facts openly, without preju-
dice and with an inQuir1ng mind. The
most it demands Of Itself after facing
the fact is as homes and fair a reac-
ton as it can muster, but it will not
dress up its reaction in n fine
phrases Or fancy coverings.
The rising generation says Anne
Hard, lis ashamed to be ashamed. It
has more knowledge, more frankness.
and more purity of mind and purpose
than the one behind it," Is it not
becoming for us Of the past to accept
the rebuke to our old time DISCUSSES
and hypocrises n rejoice that youth
is still ascending to higher virtue?