Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-12-28

One who turned back but marched breast
forward,
Never doubted clouds would break
Never dreamed, though right worsted. wrong
would triumph
Held we fall to rise are banled to fight better,
Sleep to wake
The poet speaks truth. Providence has so Gre
ated manor evolution has so shaped him. If you
prefer to put it that way-that there is greater
spur to his soul than the incentive of the I'M
achieved. Always the unaccomplished that seems
worth while challenges his ambition, his courage,
his determination
Man has already accomplished much on this
earth-so much that he has now vision of what
his goal should be-so much that he is able
to see how far he has fallen short of reaching that
goal. And no age has been so well equipped to
move to that goal this present age. Never
has the incentive to the achievement of that goal
been so strong For man cannot stand still. He
must press onward to the goal fall back and
lose much that he has gained. Failure to reach
the goal emphasizes the incompleteness of all
that has been accomplished And this shining
goal is nothing less than the message of the sea-
son
peace on earth, good will to men,"
Practically this means the reformation of human
nature And the reformation of human nature
means nothing less than the worldwide appica-
ton of precepts Of Christianity to the affairs of
mankind
great war. It has since been blamed for not pre-
venting the industrial strife and the economic ills
and other evils that have afflicted the world Per-
haps the best in brief to this charge is the
utterance credited to George Bernard Shaw:
christianity has not yet been tried"
1t is noteworthy fact thai during the last year
men of affairs, speaking from the viewpoint of
business and not that of religion, have publicly
declared that in the application of the teachings
of the Gospel lies the one cure for the Industrial
Ills growing out Of worldwide economic warfare
Some of them have gone far as to declare that
nothing but a sincere acceptance OF Christianity
can save society from utter ruin and civilization
from q complete collapse.
1t is not contended by them that Christianity
contains panacea that will at once cure all In
dustrial and economic ills. They know that no
such panacea exists. They admit that Christian
ity does not teach economics; does not instruct as
to production and distribution; does not in short,
set forth a system of industry in any form or
shape. They start from different basis and
their reasoning is about like this:
Christianity, however, does set forth moral
formula that can be applied at all times to all
systems This moral formula is an active solvent
of wrongs under any system. It's application can
cure the defects Of any system, not so much by
changing the system by changing the attitude
of men toward one another.
Practical Christianity would not tolerate injus-
tice of any kind With injustice of all kinds BAN
ished from the affairs of men and nations existing
economic and industrial systems would either
model themselves or would be cast aside In short,
economic regeneration would come about as by
product in connection with the larger moral re-
generation of mankind through the acceptance Of
Christianity. For in the last analysis the faults
of systems have their sourcesin the hearts Of
A stupendous undertaking? An impossible
vision? WE'LL they ask, what other course is there?
The converse of the proposition has been tried to
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emily civilization in this Twentieth century is fac
ing the great crisis.
George Washington, 1873 years ago, as Americas
first president, proclaimed Americas first national
Thanksgiving day. And his preamble declares:
cit is the duty of all nations to acknowledge