Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1916-06-30

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class with the mother when it comes to
loving the child--the mother invests
her life in the child-she endows it
with the wealth Of her love and dreams
of what it will be when it grows up.
If these dreams would only come true,
what wonderful world this would be-.
If we give the ballot to the man who
conspires against the home, to break
it up, we have not the right to tie the
mothers hand, to prevent her from
leading her children on the path of
righteousness.
Mans position to society should be
that he draws from it only in proper
ton to what he contributes. The ques-
ton is asked as to how much a man
can rightfully collect from society. To
this Mr.. Bryan gave as his answer that
one can draw no more than he honest
ly earns. If he collects more than he
earns he is collecting that which some
one else has earned. This does not
mean that men should be limited to
small incomes, he said. Men can and
have earned as high as five million
dollars during their life, and two men
who have earned this much, the speak
er said, were Thomas Jefferson and
Abraham Lincoln. The first named
was the greatest constructive states
man the world has ever known and
both have contributed a service so
great that it cannot really be fully
measured in dollars, Also the man
who gave us the use Of steam, cleo
tricity, the great educational, relig-
ious, political and economic move
ments, etc., have given a great SER
vice. However, not in a single case
in which man has earned five hun
dred million dollars has he collected
the full amount. He has been busy
that he has not had time to collect it..
! while, on the other hand, the man who
| has collected five hundred million dol
! lars, has been SO busy collecting it
that he has not had time to earn it.
It is we'll for the world that the men
who have earned but not collected this
money, have not been hindered by the
cares of this world. Nouning is Of
more importance to the young men
than that they see to it that they do
not collect from society except for the
service that they may give. Instead
OF young man being idle and proud
because Of the money left him by his
parents, he should be made to feel
ashamed to accept living from mon
ey which he has not earned himself
Morality, Mr.. Bryan said, is the out.
ward manifestation of the inward re.
lationship of man to God and it is
called religion. It is the most practi.
cal thing in life-a moral character is
the most important thing in man. In
this connection the speaker stated that
we have given the atheist too much
room. He said that if he were to
discuss questions of religion with an
atheist, he would first demand that
the two submit questions alternately
and that ones question be answered
before the other could ask another
one. He said that the first thing which
the atheist would ask him probably
would be where he was to begin. He
would answer him that he would be-
gin where the bible begins, in the be
ginning, thereby having creative
cause. His first question to the athe
ist would be where he was to begir
and Mr.. Bryan said that right there
the atheists trouble begins. He can
not explain creation as he has driver
lGod out of the universe. He starts by
assuming that the world was created
by the existence of two things, force
and matter, but he separates the par
ticles further and further and his 10
gic is entirely unreasonable. Mr. Bry
an said that he believed that there i:
no explanation of creation that is more
rational than that given in the bible
1t is not necessary for us to fully I'M
derstand thing to believe it, he said
and as an example he mentioned the
sun, electricity, etc. It is not neces
sary for us to understand electricity
to ride on trolley car or to send q
telegram. The most learned atheist
after having gathered all the fact:
available, when ready to die, knows ne
more about the mystery Of life than 9
little child. AS another example tt
prove that we believe things that We
cannot understand the speaker men
toned love. He said that love is {
mystery and that no scientific defni
ton Of it has ever been given. NJ
one can understand it nor the mystery
Of it and yet it exists and is part
of US.
Mr.. Bryan paid a glowing tribute tt
the American people for their patrio
tism and he said that nowhere is found
more patriotism than in this country
and it will always be equal to its de-
mands. In case of trouble the coun
try will have to state only how many
men it needs and the men will be there
to supply the demand. The atheist
cannot explain life, love or patriotism
and yet he lives, loves and is patrio
tic.
In closing Mr.. Bryan said that il
we live up to the things in the bible
that we can understand, we will be
kept so busy that we will not have
time to look up the things which we
don It understand. The most important
influence that enters into human life
is that of our relationship to God anc
when we come into contact with Coo
we must fill the first and second com
mandments which command that we
must love our God above everything
and our neighbors as ourselves. We
must draw from society only in that
proportion which we give to it. As