The Republican journal., 1917-01-25

perce.it of eastern and northern men,
and only 5 percent on the Pacific coast.
Many people feel down hearted be-
cause of these changing reli1i ous AID
social ideals. the world viii move for
ward in spite of Us. but it would move
mucn more rapidly if all would move for
ward joyfully.
Is there not encouragement for all IN
the experience of men like jacob Rms,
who tainted on the steps from sheer eX-
haustion as he was leaving the building
where he secured his first position as re-
porter. But later he was the peer of
Roosevelt in elevating humanity. Book
er I. Washington also experienced the
heights and depths OF human life Whi.e
sleeping under an elevated 81 lew ak, hat
he died The head of one of the great edit
catlonal Institutions Of the country.
Germany is today hemmed in by the CIV
ilzed world, but she will doubtless find
place among the nations. America is
wasting much in many ways. Not the
least of these ways is the year or more
wasted by every child in learning our
hierogIyphic system of spelling, which
has come down to US from the Dark
Ages, and the millions upon millions of
dollars paid to teachers during this year
or more which the children waste.
There is system of slavery being
forced upon US by fanatical would-be
reformers. Parents labor joyfully to
provide for the comfort Of their off
spring. But when children are taught
by fanatics that not being responsible
for their own existence they have a
right to make certain demands npon
their parents, the situation assumes the
aspect of slaves and masters; and the
slave parents of the laboring class are
liable to find themselves destitute at the
! brink of old age.
II society is to use it's influence and
laws to deprive parents of the right of
reimbursement from the earnings of
children, it should provide for their sup
port. This child movement is a just re-
action against a former practice of
working children beyond their strength.
ment to go to extremes.
The excessive religious tendency Of
our early Puritan ancestors is followed
by the other extreme of crowding the
best Of literature out of the public
school in some parts of the country.
The devotional or Pharsaical form of
religion is liable to gain the ascendency.
The church is often thought to be an in
stitution for promoting emotional rela-
tions between man and the author Of
nature rather than to elevate human
nature in all its phases. They forget
that their founder fed the hungry, gave
sigh. to the blind, and even raised the
dead, and that they should use modern
methods to bring about these results on
more gigantic scale, corresponding to
the larger population of the earth.
1t is useless to denounce the iron horse
and the aeroplane as devices of the devil.
1t would be wiser plan to quit frizzling
hair and clothing in emulation of the
peacock and devote the time TO master
ing the sciences which have brought
forth modern industries. The church
may discover in these fields an elder
brother. Look upon the oak, and the
acorn from which it originated. Com
pare the little Jewish nation with its
modern successor. Compare the multi
tude fed by Christ with the multitudes
being fed today. Compare the dead
raised by him with the multitudes of
lives saved today by medical and surgi-
cal skill. Compare the Mosaic account
of creation with the evolutionary story.
Dry facts are as dead as an Egyptian
mummy unless they receive a practical
il depreciation. The Bible as a book is
not so much book of prayer as of ac-
ton. Whittier and other great souls of
the past have but family pictured the
eternal spirit. If those of the present
and future do not strive to excel them
they are not worthy the soil on which
they tread.
II know not wnere Gods islands lift
Their fronded palms in air,
only know l cannot drift
Beyond His love and care."
The writing of this was suggested by
accidentally hearing several persons tell
how blue they felt just because they
were away from home.
Most people allow multitude of bles-
sings to be obscured by one little cloud.
GEO. M. COLE,
Bellingham, Wash.
Chill Jry
FOR FLETcHER'S
CA STORIA