The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-08-09

found himself stretched the bed of and
off stretched out fit that rigid framework How
tyrannical baseess cruel destructive in
stitution custom, law nigh prove, and
meekly submitted believing it ordered by All
which the the Arabian shek who
displeased with certain door in palace and
the architect with the order that he be
In door. discovered that he tall
hang decreasing the helix Numbered out
Then find some who is short enough and hang
HIM" This the world procedure for centuries and
rigid. unyielding harsh law
the of the Other World and suffer
ing, bleeding humanity crushed into it and made to
fit.
This always has been and is the Of all
tyrannes whatever that there is erected above
perior end that end though
may destroy his humanity to do So Like those heart
less wretches the proprietors Of the "TrAnge Shirt
Waist Factory who exalted their profits above the worth
of human life and penned hundreds OF helpless in
retrap and rsked their lives constantly for money,
those institutions rights" in society
merely end and crush and cut, and shape
them to that end.
may be thankful that everywhere profound
change is coming US revolution in of think
ing which above suggested throws all previous revou
tons into insgntfcance We beginning to understand
that the world made for and not for the
world that all things exist to and not man
they and that human life is its justification and ade
quate for being There is end to be served
above human life itself Therefore longer ask
what the ambassador from the Other World commands,
what Moses Isaiah Paul, what Mohammed, or Con
fucius Buddah have said do about this serve
our needs and make powerful, joyful, and
healthy individuals a race? This is the
sovereign question put everything asking
be recognized having right to exist 1t is the ques-
ton be of the church the saloon of the
and the industries of the schools and the pen-
tenaries the mines and the factories of laws and
nriva is of uSet TO
for life be but what
makes tyranny for slavery for disease for want
and sorrow that be tolerated though all the
ages should have declared it divine
Nothing in this world is sacred apart from human
life Unless it have worth and meaning and value for
us and women it has worth nor value at all
How does it that is the sole criterion To say
it is according the plans of remote heaven has
weight with more that has been the plea of all
the saveries and tyrannes and njustces and vested
wrongs the world began and hereafter
fusing be tyrannized What justify itself
life is fit only be thrown into the
limbo of times forgotten things though it claim the
of Heaven, and bear its front the hall
mark Of the emissares of the Other World.
There is "Oher World" Beyond the wondrous, d-
vney beautiful unspeakably mysterious reaches of hui
life it is impossible in thoughts
This and all others human worlds
everywhere the human is the sole standard udg
ment
world in parable, the sits upon the
Judgment before him passes
Iof the earth which he divides the sheep
herd of goats.
Those sheltered and diletante lives are
shocked today at hearing the rumble and ferment
change which is making the foundations of
civilizations and regimes rock; they
stand the athom the which make the
earth shake II they will, let them remember and note
this, that today sternly passing Judgment
all that find established in human society and
condemning according this fixed standard. For man
fly be rubbish the void profits
to private property the church. privilege and class
caste, all these and all else, remorselessly
putting this questionDo make for the furtherance
the desructiveness human life? setting the
human being in the midst Of the world and determin
go what bring him greater life, greater
power greater wisdom, and soul will be welcome
This is the final standard and touchstone of all
reform by it nations will raise fall dynases will
all inclusive principle held before guide
pillar of cloud by day and of fire by night safe
~ find all the bewidering and perplexing
changes which today moving about Does it make
for human life, does it make for human death? That
is the question. This is mans world.
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