The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-06-23

worth ten tomorrow, there was no
wisdom in working poor soils, in pre-
serving fertility, in gathering coal
from waste heaps, in securing by
products, or in working for the per-
manence of salvation of machinery
that could be scrapped, Of workmen
that could be replaced, or of properties
that could be duplicated
ReckIessness of Human Life.
"The same recklessness of human
life and health and labor was dis
played. Men felt that life was full
of hazards, which had to be taken
for granted. Social disease, unpro-
tected crossings and machinery, fire
trap factories, and child labor were
counted among these hazards.
THE effect on religion was the idea
of every man for himself. Salvation
became an individual and then a
world matter. The church, like the
government, existed chiefly to give
men a chance at potential resources,
content if few were saved. 1t took
b. as a matter of faith the eternal, IL not
predestined, loss of the majority; ex-
pected if not acquired, in the hopeless
loss of the most.
1.-The saving of the lost gospel has
come with new power; we feel its
naturalness and universally. 1t is a
new sense Of life's healing power. Ma
ture is more reluctant than we
thought to cast people as rubbish in
the void"
Nature" he said, "is always ready
with remedies for physical wounds.
Repair of Physical Loss.
Seeing such provisions for repair
of physical loss, saving of bodily life
and health, we are not surprised to
find the Son of God ready to save the
spiritually lost; the Great Physician
graphing with sin to save the out
casts.
1--WE feel Gods healing power more
confidently as experience enlarges;
cherished projects fail and life's pur-
poses fall with Them sorrows pierce
the heartstrings rudely torn out; the
plowshare of fate goes through the
work of a lifetime; the truest pur-
poses are misunderstood; trusted
friends fall away. We are surprised
to find that We go on living, the
wounds heal and the scars grow in
visible.
Power of Penitence.
Most of all we learn the power -
,penitence and forgivness.
Christ came to set up in society a
kingdom and a brotherhood, to perme-
ate and transform all humanity. We
share the blessings of Gods salvation
only as we come into the kingdom.
Means of Salvation.
"But were it otherwise, salvation
must be through the instruments OF
society. No man Especially in mod
ern life) lives to himself enough to
be saved by himself.
''If we throw any class overheard
1t drags us down. If we deny it's hui
mainly, it proves it by including us
in it's misery. disease and sin.
Social waste is only saved by pre-
vention through social agencies. We
are still shockingly careless where the
victims are not in sight, as the gam
bier and the wheat pit, unsanitary
buildings. bargain coGss hrs and sweat
ed labor.
Safety Devices and Schools.
'"What we need is not an ambu
1ances, but safety devices; not reform
atories, but schools. The Sunday
schools are innocent recreations.
I'VE should help those lost on the
road to the human goal, not merely
restore those who have fallen from
their own ideals, but help in the per
fecting of the incomplete and i'm.
perfect.
Social Betterment.
Social betterment must grow out
of men. Assailments of body go back
to moral sources, so we can not have
purified society till We get better men
The Son of Man must first establish
His kingdom within man before hi
can transform the world without
1--WE stand before a world as never
before, conscious of men of heather
ism dwarfed by caste and custom
chained by religion to law, hampereG
by superstition, making a religion Of
despair or worshipping ancestors long
dead by clinging to the fossilized ways
We must answer their groupings after
life by revealing the Son of Man
seeking and able to save the lost