Evening journal., 1913-02-19
Mr.. Candee Says Lawmakers
lave Opportunity to Break
Some Bands

In Westminster Church pulpit on
Sunday morning, the Rev. Charles L.
Candee preaching from the text Il
drew them with cords Of a man, with
bands of love" drew a lesson bear
ing on modern working conditions,
referring indirectly TO the present
fight here for a shorter working day
for women and children.
In part Mr.. Candee said:
Truly this means bondage. And
yet bondage is a thing that is so much
avoided. The very word itself is not
that which we love TO speak. We
avoid it. We shun it and feel that
bondage is that from which we would
give most anything to be freed. Bon
dage you say. has no place in the
Christian religion. IL is not a thing
to be thought OF in a land where
there is liberty at the very founda
tiOn. Oh, yes, it is liberty that we
delight in. IL is liberty that stirs us
10 our souls depths IL is liberty Of
which we are most proud and for
which we would give our all. Men
have suffered for liberty. They have
suffered more than can be told. They
have made sacrifices for liberty and
they have died for liberty. This land
of ours where liberty has been cra-
died is proud of nothing more than
of its liberty given to all men. II IS
precious, priceless. Yet there in those
days long ago when the prophet Of
God speaks as God would have him
speak, he seems to say something Of
bondage. Can IL be true? Can II be,
you ask, that there is such a thing as
cords wrapped around a man so that
he is not as free as you might sup
pose or as you might wish? Is there
then this bondage and has it any
place in the system OF religion that
we hold or in the philosophy of our
government?
Yes. the fact is man is held down
There is nothing incorrect or exag-
gerated in the figure that is given
here-"The cords OF a man." There
is something that is. as it we're, In a
very real sense wrapped round him
so that his arms are not quite as free
TO swing just as he pleases or az
widely or as wildly as his whim
might demand. The trouble is that
when many speak of liberty there is
confusion OF that term with the word
license. and that OF which they so
often talk is not liberty but license.
License means no restraint. License
knows no bounds. 1t recognizes no
obligations. Liberty on the other
hand. means a well-regulated course.
II recognizes that there is restraint.
II declares that there is no real lib
erty except within proper bounds.
There is no possibility of liberty un-
less there is the recognition of GER
tain laws and the observance Of
them Thus the country where there
is real liberty is that where there is
law and the very careful observance
Of law This is the only guarantee
of liberty. 1t is just what the Apos-
tie meant when he spoke as you re-
member Of the perfect law of lib
erty.
There is then a very deep mean
ing to those words of our text which
tell us that man is held down and
that there are those things which
seem to restrain him and limit him,
Just because he is man. He has not the
same kind of liberty as the animals.
George Matheson, that writer with
such a grasp of the Christian phil
osophy OF life, says in this connection
that man is distinguished from the
beast of the field not by the things
he has but by the things he has not
The lower creature can roam around
at will. There is no restriction or
Limitation upon his acts as there is
on those of man. But it is as soon
as we come to the consciousness OF
our manhood that we find ourselves
drawn as by cords that are irresisti-