The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-01-19

| dirge or build their sepuicher.
Emerson says OF Plato that the whole
world nestles into the brain 81 Plato
| and things out Plato was a clas.icist
At the Worlds congress OF religions
voices united on two things: Newman's
nesuutul hymn "LeaS Kindly LiI:ht."
ter. our Father which art In heaven "
{ Those two things are classics supreme
N literature. peers OF the fountain head
I thoughts OF Plato.
/ Such was the Carpenter OF Mazareth
I HIS heart was melting rot for the hui
man variants OF all lands. He was
OF every Cline. He took an inventory OF
the passions and affections OF the race.
And all the enchantment lent by dis
lance I'm miles and years can never rob
him OF this opaline beauty.
Rsvoiutionist-
J The Carpenter of Nazareth was n
revolutionist. Indeed "a would be a task
equal to the labors Of Hercules TO create
character Of slch tone and tempera-
deed peasantry or Palestine without
putting into his hand n rebel flag and
ihto ms mouth a militant Marseilles-
bugaboo- sons and Daughters Of the
{ Revolution Is "A term OF respectfully \
conservative is n worshipper OF "A dead
radical 4 reactionary Is revolutionirt
who has stood still n long time. As the
CARPENTER said TO the seeing respectful
ity OF his age: Your fathers killed the
prophets and ye garnish their sepul-
cheers We like rebel who markes
good and who lives in far-oft land
In the annals OF Galilee about IN .
time or our famous citizen We have all
Z the essential promises of a peasant in
, surrection.
7 ~ period OF four hundred years when
Z the fatherland was under the lash OF
/ foreign taskmasters and her sons hliing
+, ihe hunks OF Roman galley boats. the
sSo,,id rom hS Sassar tnat al tue world
Z zane. pure and simple. by the plumber
, bund on tho Tiber: the leadership OF n
I man born IN n mancer and trained in
carpenter shop. the promise OF national
autonomy. dangled before their eager
eyes like an enticing wiii-o'-the-w isp
Z through successive centuries. by a line
, OF prophets who We're 20 them as the
, oracles OF Jehovah: the supplement OF
Z other labor leader who led the strike in
the brick kilns OF Egypt and traded the
I Nile for the Jordan: the tunting inso-
lence Of the Roman legions. bivouack ed
: on the Syrian hills and sending their
I Shylock tax collectors 10 attach the
/ scanty chattels 81 tho INDECENT sh ep-
herds. and the whole peorated by a soap
box campaign OF three years on a plat
form every plank OF which was a life
saver TO the poverty-swamped masses.
Given these premises and no sleuth-
hound j. necessary 20 draw a conclusion
/ OF rebellion.
The Carputer Of Nazareth was a
! spiritual nuptic. Like Chesterton. he
believed In the truth OF fsiryland. He
was more conquered by the argument
the metallic diaIectics Of the sanIie-
/ drim. To him everything from the
/ blood deeds OF that old fox Herod to the
! iuttering sparrow caught I'm the snare
( OF the fowler was significant. To him
every finite thing was a pool in which
I were reflected the face and image OF the
infinite. We should call him the poet
Of the Milleriums; the man OF all men
who could set the music 20 the shepod-
les OF nature and turn the enchanting
beauty the dead drabs of the world.
/ II chagrins the Knighlet Of the mid
sHHN - a
! which hc cannot sound with the line OF
] his curriculum. lie refuses cognizance
20 an entity which cannot be coaNed in
10 MS laboratory ana VIII not submit
TO his analysis or demonstration.
[ Firm Always.
! But for the Carputer Of Nazareth
: through the prison and Eet the spect-
run Of his elemental beauties and you
: will find the pure chrvstaline tint OF the
+ spiritual a. the overwhelming. all-impre-
seating dominant Cross question him
Do you viii air the Blackstone never
lived who could break his testimony TO
that ne-plus-ultec Ofruysticism. life
hidden In the chamhered nautilus Of
piIituality and leaving now and again.
beside LIES restless sea, the low vault
ed roofs OF pass cOmmuniOns and yes
I tcrday ecstacies.
The CARPENTER 81 Nazareth was a
, spiritual mystic. His biography tells W
| that he used 20 rise very early In the
morning and brushing with hasty step
b the dews aside. he would greet the risire
sun on the heights Of Olivet And there
/ he would carry away from the shores Of
| Gods infinite sea great argosies or
truth. beauty and goodness and store
them NJ In the hold Of his breast And
submit that there Is nothing I'm evil
deuce to-day in all the jumbled philoa
phics. ethical ststsfns and conflicting
creeds. 50 eminently practical. so inevi-
tahly salvatory as this bit Of Galileau.
spiritual republication. a day or an hour
or a week az the shrine or ones ow %
self and that selfs objective diety.
The Carpenter Of Nazareth was -
spiritual man. and happy indeed - the
man or woman who has found the rap
ture on the lonely shore and aCn sing
with Edwin Markham
AT the heart ~ the cyclone tearing the
And ninging the clouds and the towers
Is a peace Of central calm.
50 here in the roar of mortal things.
have q place where ms spirit sings.
on the water wagon.
Af the meeting iu The afternoon. Ir.
cairns spoke on ~ mole sam on he
Water Wagon" 80 the y. ". a.. a. be-
fore large crowd. Boo part be- laid:
one hundred years aEo Ir. Ececher
started the camraiEn AGAINST the rn-
Che drinking evil and with a Niagara
imretus pc started the vigorous. Write
etaurel Tor o. ealuouless America.
For century the propaganda was
subjective rather than objective. mora
eua-ion rather than legal suaslon. abe
augIuE che man to Eceu ont of the pa
loon rather than shutting up thc saloon
] NN INH' mo- fnNINu set Iu.
FINALLY. twenty years ago. BOO Oterliu.
ohio. whore charles "a. Fluuer used To-
thunder against the slave power the
auti-sHluou league wHs born and ffs
D. fret proposition was. TO regulation LEI
ua add democracy We rest our rs.f
with the ballot huN for which that
. ras'df from Humber liu to Yorktov u
b Was fought out
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been wrlt,rE ar 'riloeue o. the acts 90
the apostle. NJ Poo. been a. frllIfrrr
ercleeia. church which has come forth
. from fHr UnIa"HrNa. 90 has huIwarElI
iN" deD1lDgue and The gospel She has
aE.Iu
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Unf nI H0i uu ODE morning of Sew.
.fre NtF 1919. ro stepped a. hIa rrf
I"ln window. pushed ~ tle eIaIe. ruh.
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..re And Uc found that ten whole
states NtU raUIaI.ed Che saloon ruuafI..
. tutiuuIIff fUnr Orc.luff of tho looms
re iu flur states New YORK New Ter.
srr. IeurHflftr.H HrI Illinois. that one.
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rHgu. Cleveland and ST. Louis. that Us
whole states were practically dry. mat