The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-07-11

earth, or in heaven, over the minds,
manners and motives of men.
i IL goes without saying eaat the big
business of democracy or Christianity.
which Is the same thing, is not force
! but service, and the road is vast.
permanent, public, physical expression
LOT that idea. That is what a road IL.
| service. IL does not preach nor drive,
chide nor punish. 1t simply suggests
and waits and serves. It Is the pa
/ tient, irresistible meekness that is to
! inherit the earth. 1t is the master
key TO good government. They say
that the enactment of public senti-
ment into Law ought TO be slowed
down, to wait on the temper for en-
! forcement That is true. Bat the
! unit of enforcing ability is the road
and not the remote corners OF the
community. where, rightly and neces-
sarily the parent, pastor, physician.
! teacher, are the body servants of prog
I ress.
They say that prohibition does not
prohibit and neither does il, in the
secluded places. where piety, philan-
thropy, morality and affection are de-
!, ployed In the long siege for hun1a n
4 REDEEM ption. But on the road the
sovereign is weakling IL he does
not have ais way.
i The school is for instruction anc
discipline. The church is for mora
suasion and for prayer The home is
for love and admonition. The hos
ptal is for mercy, patience. skill The
! shop is for bargaining and fair ex-
change The farm is for laborous
! faith in God. But the road is for poll
tics and tslin-lipped law and power.
"A frxtxx
| The CRY of the world is for help.
| Everybody needs ii. Everybody can
give it. The call is loudest from The
Ineediest. The obligation of the strong
est is the greatest II you could lay
/ your ear upon the bosom of humanity
| tonight, you would hsa1 at every
| thrust of the great. sad heart the
syllable: Help, Help' Help, And
| it is tsle highest duty and the deepest
| joy of life to respond. in sane, sure
ways. without imposition on the one
/ hand. or impertinence on the other,
And speaking broadly. the only
scheme of help that is certain not be
n hlunder. or a tyranny is the road.
which does nothing but suggest and
help. and helps only those VINO try to
/ help themselves. How can / help
That Is the great question Of man
illness. of love. OF patriotism, of re-
ligion. Not, how can ! rebnke? That
4 is the petty prayer OF the prig and the
! Pharisee How can l help? That is
the riddle of social existence: and the
road In the answer Being rich, how
can ] help with money! Beng poor.
! how can help without money? Re
| ing strong and interrupted. how can
4 transfuse strength into the stricken
soui9 Being a husband, how can
1 help my wife? Being a parent, how
can I help my child? The needy one
| is perhaps your son. You begot him
| without his will You owe him every
thing. You love MIN perfectly. What
can you do? Nothing much. except
/ to keep the home life high going.
and early set his feet in plain road
that leads somewhere. Nagging will
do no good. Beating will not avail.
4 Money will proba bly, ruin him. The
i road is the answer. 1t Is your coun-
TRY. There. too. the road Is the an
swer. Great men answer In great
/ ways and lesser men in lesser ways,
! each after his kind. Stevenson an
!, swered with the railroad and revolu-
tionized the business OF the world
| Morse answered with the telegraph
I a wire road for correspondence, that
| obiiterated time and distance. Bell
answered wit.l the telephone, n road
OF semi-precious metal that would
carry the very tones Of anger, truth
and sympathy. Field answered with
the submarine cable--an insulated
/ road on the bottom of the sea, that
| dragged the continents from their far
like a fleet Mareoni answered with
the wireless daring road in the
| magic of the ether, that brought the
4 desolate Wild wastes OF the sea with-