Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-03-31
AN AGE OF UNREST

lions is needed to convince most
that this is an age of unrest. One
subscriber believes this was foretold
in Isaiah. $3.50: For the bed is
shorter than that a man can stretch
himself on it, and the covering mar
rover than that he can wrap himself
in it."
Surely this describes a predica-
ment. and in the minds of many
and not all pessimists-the human
kind Is in predicament. How
ever. some of those may conclude it
is due rather to an attempt to
stretch too far instead Of to being re-
stricted in the stretching process.
But there is striking similarity in the
fact that neither the unfortunate
described by Isaiah nor the unrestful
ones Of today find enough of cover
ing to conceal themselves. Neverthe-
less they appear differently to differ
ent observers.
TO a scholarly Presbyterian clergy
man the 'shamelessness" of the age
- the dominant feature. He says:
1.-The ugliness of sin is unmasked and
obvious. The horror Of evil is writ
ten large in present conditions There
10 less endeavor to disguise things"
r. In No CT h4t
Beethoven symphony and the jazz"
Of today how "a heavenly chorus can
be changed into an idiotic bedlam."
He would compare Raphael and
Michael Angelo with the comic
artists of the daily press, Phillips
Brooks with some of present day
Jazzed evangelists and concludes
that Charlie Chaplin is the most ad-
mired man of today.
He certainly makes out strong
case against the frivolity of this gen
GRAFTON, but he does not stop there.
He turns to conditions that seem
paradox, and although concluding
that the spirit of worship in the
churches is atrophied he hears from
all quarters arise expressions of ad-
miration for the Man Of Nazareth
Evidently the present generation is
trying to wrap itself about with the
flesh and the devil and finds 1.-THE
covering narrower than that he can
wrap himself in it." Perceiving this
may have much to do with the I'M
rest
There ought to be, in this day and
generation. enough with which the
human kind might we'll occupy their
minds in normal rather than an
abnormal way. This hectic condi-
tons needs the sedative of steady
and inspiring employment and
doubtless many cures would speedily
be effected could arrangements be
made so that the afflicted would
have to exercise their muscles as
we'll Is their wits to keep fed and
warned. A news dispatch tells of a
tvelve-year old boy in Lynn who
sohs In the school room and his only
explanation is: THE presence of so
much sin in the world" 1t is no.
ticed Of this lad that he doesn't
mingie with his fellows. No further
evidence than all this should be re-
Quired to demonstrate that what is
troubling that boy is not the con-
seriousness Of sin in the world so
much as the Inconsistencies, both of
himself and his guardians, of what
really-whether teeth. eye-strain or
something else-is the cause of his
unrest The chances are that if that
Lad had to undergo the experience of
a street arab he would make a
speedy recovery. By this we would
not be understood as arguing that
hard work and practical experience
would cure all the mental unrest in
the world, but we do think they
would prove beneficial to many.
Anyhow there is plenty Of this
medicine available for all who &C.
sire It.