The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, November 12, 1903, Image 6
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For a New Two-cent Mump.
The little reddish two-cent stamp
aov in use has ncv?>r been satisfactory
In any respect and the people will l?v
*lad to see the last of it. The stamp
which takes its place is of more artistic
design and more suitably proportioned
It is more simple in composition, the
draped flags being discarded and the
bust of Washington, which Is the main
subject, being proportionately larger
and more dignified, while at the same
time the text is more legible. If tat
color is clear and decided, Instead of
being pale, indefinite and of no decided
character, the improvement will be
**>? r-Vi onwAdlflto/l
Double.D^ck Cars.
Double-deck stlfet cafs are universal
in KOrope. In seme instances the upjjw
deck Is roofed over, in others left
open. This deck is almost uniformly
dirTded longitudinally with seats for
t*rc> on each side of the aisle. The upyr
deck is reached by a semicircular
.^airway and in pleasant weather is
the most sought,
for those losses.
Dwrtag last year no dividends were
paid on |S67,000.900 of common and
preferred street railway stock, which is
?ot less than 50 per cent of the total
fesoed.
Mrs. Rosa Adams, niece of
the fate General Roger Hanson,
CS.A^ wants every woman to
know of the wonders accomplished
by Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound.
"4 Dkab Mrs. Pinkuam : ?I cannot j
Ikoll von with pen and ink what pood !
f jdia E. Pink ham's Vegetable I
Compound did for me, suffering from >
the ills peculiar to the sex extreme
lassitude and that ail pone feeling. I
would rise from my bed in the morning
feeling more tired than when I wont to
bed. but before I used two bottles of
Lydia E. Pin kha m's Vegetable
Compound, 1 began to feel the buoyancy
of my younger days returning. '
became regular, eould do more work j
and not feel tired than I had ever been
^ ble to do before, so I continued to use <
-It until I was restored to perfect health. J
It is Indeed a boon to sick women and
.1 feenrtily recommend it Yours rery |
Tfruly, Mrs. Bosa Adams. 819 12th 8t,
IionisTille, Ky." ? fOOOO forftti it of {
0boo$ Iftttr ^roetof 9tonlo nts$ can*# to protocol. ;
FREE MEDICAL ADVICE TO j
f nujnrjs.
Don't hesitate to write to Mm. !
Fiakbam. She will understand j
.jour case perfectly, and will treat j
owl with kindness. Her advice
Is free, and the address is Lynn. 1
Mass. No woman ever rejrrettod j
havinjr written her, and she has 1
helped thousands.
' . ~i nORSE POWER
MSai* H HAY PRESSi
% I^HBI I | Cheap rr'taMo.
Wft/ " COTTON PRESS
>'orh*Hii?cotion%u<1 *a-tr.
Wrtli for price*. Box S?J t
Henry Copeland,
^ iniW^ CbiUicoofca, Term. ,
biopsy I;
ctffei# V Rfwrts all swelling in StoM
I davs; effects a permanent cure
A in*?to todays. Trial treatment
/AT /'jftK fioen free. N'othingcan be fairer
t?te9dB8w Write Or. H. H. Graan't Son*.
Special!*!*. Box B Atlanta. 6a.
PSAWMILLSESI
{Bwtkh Hepo's Unlreiwi l.o~ Beama.RectlMn H
jjoar. Simultaneous NeiWnrlttfand the Hea-B
B?ck litiiK Variable Feed Works are uuex H ,
iSoel'ec! for acciUAcr. smruciTT, ncB*B!i. f?
(VrrTA.vi) *asb oKot CRXTioK. Writa for fallB .
( descriptive et'culan?. Manufactured ky tbt-sf
iflULE.d IP.ONWOHkF.Winston^alamJJ.C ^ !
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riSaHEEaaEHiiasiiS^
W CW(U 6Klk? All tli? FAIL*.Ki
|h| Dost Oouirti avrup. Tastes Good, t oe Pt
t J In tins'. Bold i>y druagl-ts P*
^IjMBaaSSmp .
i Tf!
Take-Down I
Don't spend from $5C
^jST much less money yo
tyjfa Down Repeating Sho
outlast the highestbesides
being as sai
1 Ji\r dealer can show you 01
W-fAjBf. FREE: <X- U
WIHCWMTCW REREATI
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IT GURES. j
"Rariti* taken Tour wwi'urful "Pateareta" fo?
; three uinntb* am! oeiuc eutirelv cured of tmnach
catarrh and dyspepsia. I think a word ot praise la
duoto'Taaearete t'ortlieirwonuurfnl composition.
I nave taken numerous other so-called remedies
i but without avail and I find that Ca?rar<-u relieve
more la a day taaa all the others I have taken
would in a yenr."
James llcCrune, ICS Vercer St.. Jersey City, 21. J.
m ^ir bowels ^
m?cmi
CANDY CATMAJmC
i PTeassot. Palatable. Potent. Taste Good. Po Good,
Revor Sicken, Weaken or Gripe, ISc. SSe. SOe. Never
I told in bolk. The genuine tabiet etamped CUC.
I Qtiarar.t- cd to care Or your money back.
| Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or N.Y. 591
I UWIMLSALE. TEN MIIUON BOXES
j
I i
1 AAA BANK DEPOSIT,
! ^fiTalMlly Railroad Faro Paid. 500 I
^ " FREE Couraes Offered.
Board at Cost. Wrt- Quick
SEOBGiA-ALABAMA BUSINESS WLLfcbt.wt: ^vna.
Jamaica Taa.
Tea culture experiments have proved
successful in Jamaica aud it is now !
hoped that this most unlucky island |
will prove an ideal place for the I
growth and cultivation of tea. The
Chinese varieties grow luxuriantly,
but more hope Is placed on the Asaani
and Ceylon hybrids.?Mexican Herald
103 Ha ward. 9100.
The readers of tbLs paper will be pleased : i {
tarn that mere Is at lea?t one dreaded di*- :
caso that scieara has b9en able to cure in all !
J itsstages, and that Is Catarrj. Hall's Catarrn 1
I Care Ls the only positive cure now known to j
.be medical fraternity. Catarrh being n con- .
stitutional disease, requires a constitution a; j
treatment. Mali's CatarrhCureis takes inter- 1
naliv. acting directly upon the blood and rnu
couaaurfacos of tins system, tHereby destroy- i
ingttie foundation of the disease, and givin; |
the patient strength by building up the <.-ou- i
stitur'oa and ^ssistiug nature in doing it- !
I work, l'be proprietors have so much fuithiu j
j Its curative powers tuat taey offer One Man- j
I drod Dollars for any case that it fail;. cure, i
j tend tor list of testimonials. Address
F. J. CHJ?.VKV A CO., Toledo, <J.
bc-iil by Druggists. 7o-\
hall's Family Fills are the host.
Metal <?iu House.
Dr. J. \V. <>u.ton o. Levin. Corycil (
County. Texas, has an ail-iron gin j
house. The frame pouts are to he driv- j
en into the ground about two feet; the j *
corners and joints ar<> to be fastened i
together with locks and bolts similar I *
to bed locks; the will's and cover are 1
to be of corrugated sheet Iron.
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tFITSnernwientivwited.
\o U.-? or nervous- !f
'essr.'tcir flr-o d"tv*? us-io '?r. Kline's (ires': . ?
NenreUe<?ior"'.f'iirialb ? -dean! treatlswfree j .
Dr.K.H. Ki.ist. Ltd., Sttl Ar-bSt^l'uil?.. P t. j r
I> is claimed ilia? Canada can famish j r
wo >d for pulp S40 years j (
Mrs Win<dow>S<v)iiiiu'.j Syrup for ehlldrei I ;
teetl>il>!r.softar.tfc?'!?uui$.reduc?!?iuflam-',ti- j
tion.alisy* oaio.cures, windeoiie. 25c. a bottle J *
The population oi t?e world is acoufc I ;
1,850.000.000 people.
PLm>*b Cure for Consumption isan infallible 1 J.
medicine for cough.* and colds.?N. W, I
SA*r?r., Ocean Gro*c. N. .T.. Frh. 17. ?'^G, j j
Stock-Exchange sr.*'*. which m>h? a year ! ago
for ^82.000. arc quoted at $30,000.
Fruit acids will not utam goods dyed I
with ?*VTNA*i Kadki.kss Dyks. ,
USI.CA
Millions of U.M.C. Shot Shells | ; ,
are sold each year. They are 3 f
made in the largest cartridge D
factory in the world.
I The liKIOR MM ALUli liAHHiiUbc. bu. || ;
? Bmocrpom, conn. I I ,
I Year dealer I ! *
Repeating Shotguns
) to $200 for a gun, when for so
u can buy a Winchester Take>tgun,
which will outshoot and ,
priced double-barreled gun,
fe, reliable and handy. Your
ne. They are sold everywhere.
fO-Pagt JUastrakd CttUlogat. 1
WO AMI? CO. NEW HAVEN. CONN.
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HAD A WRONG EFFECT.
Irrprccsive Ccrrron Ccr.firrr.ed Lls?
tansr in Evil Ways.
The little ftnglish vicar of Helton,
v. hoio objection to high church ritual*
ism brought him recently into conflict
with Bishop Potter in New York.
sit one day drinking a brandy and
soda in the cafe of the Fifth Avenue
hotel.
A group of reporters surrounded
him. One of tko reporters said:
"Why don't you try to down ritualism.
Mr. Fillingham, with sermons
rather than with violence?"
The vicar smiled. "Sermons." he
said, "have an effect always, but too
often this effect is the opposite one to
what the aeroionizer intended."
"lie?/ do you mean, sir?" the reporter
asked.
"I'll illustrate to you what I mean,"
said the vicar. "I once had a parishioner
who was a miser. For thin
man's benefit I preached one Sunday
a strong sermon -on the necessity ol
charity, of philanthropy?a sermon on
the duty and the joy of giving. The
miser, at whom I gazed often, seemed
impressed.
"Next day I met him on the street
" 'Well, John" I said, 'what did you
think of yesterday's sermon?'
" 'It moved rce deeply, sir,' he answered.
It has brought home to mc
so strongly the necessity of giving
aim? that, honestly, sir. I've a great
nilr.d to turn beggar!'"?New York
Tribune.
A Find in the Forum.
Guided by the clue afforded In the
first poem of Statius' 811va\ and by
the later modifications in the arrangement
of the central portion of the Roman
Forum. Signor Boni. the head director
of the excavations, has now unearthed
the enormous pedestal which
once bore the equestrian statute of
Domitian. reared in honor of that Emperor's
triumphant campaign against
the Catti and Daci. The base of thi6
colossus measures forty feet in length. '
twenty in width and ten in thickness. |
and lay about five feet beneath the
present level of the Forum. Traces
of the sockets wherein were- the iron
supports of the bronze statute and
remnants of the horse's feet go to
show that the horse and the figure
of the Emperor Domitian were six
times larger in size than the recently
unearthed pedestal. The pedestal Is
situated toward the centre of the
Forum. Tno statute nas tne oasiuca
I'auli on its loft, the spadour, Basilica
Julia on its right. and the Temple of
Vespasian in its rear. The discovery
ronfirins the speculations of earlier
archaeologists, and is of extraordinary
importance a? regards the Forum
topography in the first century of the
empire.
Cn-e cf the Canary.
Great care should be taken to keep
he canary scrupulously clean. For
his purpose the cage should he
strewn every morning with clean sand,
ir fine gravel, for small pebbles are I
ibsolutely essential to life and health
n cage birds. Fresh water should
>e given every day both for drinking
md bathing. During the moulting '
;eason a small piece of iron shonld be j
mt info the drinking water. The ,1
ood" of a canary should consists i
hiefly of summer rape seed, those
imall brown rape seeds which are
>htained from nlonts sown in ihe J
;pr!ng. and which ripen during the i
;ummer. A little cbicfcweed in spring,
ettnee leaves In summer and enJfve ]
n autumn, with slices of sweet appio
n winter, may be safely given. Avoid
iread and cheese. A few poppy ot j
?? - ??,! . 1I?41? limisnl
'hiiar> au\i a iuviu UI Itaovu
ie?nr> may also br given. hut very '
pnrin^y. '
Cleanliness. simple food and fresb. ;
>ut not ro'.d. air Rre essential to the i
ve'1-bciug of a ranary. During the j
winter the capo shonld never br hung
n a room where there Is no fire. If i
hr a'r fs mild and the sun bright the '
window may br opened for fresh air. .
flic rage should new r br less than i
!ght inches in diamrtrr and a foot J
iign. and should have, perches at dif- ]
brent bright?.?C'cra Lawrence. j
Curse Seems to Hold Good.
A recent drowning at Biddeford, ,
dr., roralis thr old legend of the i
urtr put upon thr Saco river by the j
ndiau squaw whose papoose was (
brown from one of the cliffs in "The i
Narrows." by white mrn who wanted j
o see if it could swim. That curse 1
was. as thr legend has it, that no year ]
hould pass without, at least three i
vhite victims of the river. Thcro
ia\e already been two this summer. ,
A Natural Curiosity.
A Brunswick. Mr., man displays a j
? - ? ?V. I 1%%.
urious sniv. ill umn'1 Iv ??? till ? iiitct j
n that town which, thus f&r, no one 1
ias been able to classify. It consists J
>f a hollow. cfTR-shaiied pincc of wood .
ibout the size of a footba'! and of I
r ood one-fourth of an inch thick. Its '
ormation on a tree in srch a peculiar ,
ihape is z nintfer of much comment >
jv all who have seen it. 1
B. B. B. SENT FREE,
t iirp? itlon.l nn.l Kkln TUcpkhpii, r?niwri
IlcUing Hitmom, Hour rains.
Boir.nic Biood Baim (11. i?. 11.) cures i
Pimples. scabby. scaly. itching J'lczeiua. '
IMcers. Katinc Sores, Scrofula. lliood I'oi- J
sou, Hone I'ains. Swellings. Rheumatism, <
l an.tr. K-neciallv advised for chronic (
rares that di>ctorK. patent medicines and '
11.v. Springs fail to cure or hcip. Strength- <
ens weak kidneys. Druggists. fcl per large
boLle. To prove it cures It. It. 11. sent
free by writing Bi.oon Balm Co., 5.1 Bilm lJ
Bldg., Atlanta, Ga. Describe trouble and j
free medical advice sent in sealed letter.
Medicine sent at once, prepaid. All wc
ask is that you will apeak a good word for
R. B. B. when cured. - *? . .
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CHRISTIAN POLICIES"
CIR REGULAR SUNDAY SERMON
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The Great Day of Christian Democracy
That Draws On Apace--Popular j
Religion.
New York City. ? "Democracy and
Christianity" \va> the subject of a forceful
eermon by the Rev. Dr. M. W. Stryker,
President of Hamilton CoHege, Clinton. N.
Y., in the Brick Presbyterian Church, Sun- I
day morning. Dr. Stryker said:
It is not always remembered that, on its !
human side. Moses founded a republican
form of government. It was to be maintained,
through popular representation. T!y;
failure was in Israel, not in the idea. When
Samuel anointed Saul he did it under solemn
protest. It was a relapse from privilege.
Kings were a makeshift and it turned
out badly.
Seeking a sound philosophy of man and
his affairs, and distinguishing humanity
from its utensils and furniture, 1 would
earnestly attempt the connotation of the
two words which state?each in its own
way, but with the strongest mutual bearing?the
whole hope of mankind: Dcinoe
racy. Christianity. 1 ou may run out, jn
their reach and width, the many proposi
tions which i can now only utter, not amplify.
f ha\e only time tor the broadax
and the adz. J
I u?sd the word "mankind"'?that is. ,
man-kinned ? related, cousined, brothers. (
When Paul, the apostle, speaks (literally) j
of "the whole fatherdom in heaven and ; ,
car^i"?he affirms the broad and olemen- ! ]
tal gospel theorem of the common origin, I .
the common opportunity, the common eon- ' j
cern of all'iiumanity. "Hod hath mad# *01 ,
one blood"?"In one spirit nil baptized ,
into one body"?such phrases characterize j
this whole new coveuanl and contemplate ,
the rearrangement of the world. ,
A unity of privilege, duty, afftciion?a ,
common derivation, development and goal j
?the doctrine of the essential solidarity of i
man. To affirm this is the instinct, the t
infrangible purpose of the gospel. Either
this mutuality, this cohesive and integrat- ,
ing impulse, working its way steadily, how- j
over slow itys stages, or at last a sterile race (
and a shattered star!
Economic?? It is the law of the world's j
housekeeping. Politic*?it is man's com- j
inon citizenship. Philanthropy, equity, law, r
ethics, religion?these are tne bonds that j
transcend race and region and date. Be- j
fore their scope nroviwiajism passes into s
insignificance. History is the record of {
the painful hut steady evolution of human
unity?homogeneity. Sociology is ethic*. r
This is the "increasing purpose" of time. a
Man's nature involves society. He is cn- a
vironed by his fellows. He is born into l
and constructed for their close relation.
This is his irrevocable constitution?the ?
means toward it, better or worse, are but r
by-laws. The one inevitable, the others }
provisional and tentative. These are ?
changed and shaken, that remain.?. The y
definition anil practical ordering of this c
relation, whether by rueans better or t
worse, the assertion cf partnership and j
federation, in whatever degree of wisdom <j
?the assertion of a common weal (or woe) f
?this is government. e
However they tyivc blundered, 0* stn!- 0
tered. or fumbled, the experiment toward r
the organizing of human Jt.'e and its artivi- j,
ties have been experiments in search of
fair and fruitful ten-is under which men t
niuy live together. Perceived or unseen, y
the ends of government are to secure the n
well being of men as men. and that must a
he the nest govern'.nnt which most ef- t!
fectually seeks the utmost we'iarc of all %
within its control? which seeks a richt jj
and equitable society. As a means to this H
end it is strong and saved, as a means to ei
anv other ends it is stultified. o
It concerns u*. then, at once to note the
names and essential implications of the .t
several schemes and forms of government ,j
(or ways of getting on together) which <>
men have attempted and exhibited. K
Autocracy?the rule of one man. ecu- o
toring 1 power in his ??wn prr-on and d
responsible only to himself. ''l/euu c'w s:
mot." Absoiiitcisn:?an imperfect man t:
cantioi. a perfect man would not; for j<
either way individually is frustrated. De>- t]
potism is misanthropic. jf
Monarchy?which ordinarily implies a <|
degree ol consent and delegation <>; nower.
and has wide limits according as the f,
subjects have great or small influence. ?
The fonns of monarchy are not inconsis- m
tent with real popular power, only then ?
their terminology * an anachronism and t<
their retention a superfluous and absu'xl < ;
ixpense. u,
Plutocracy is the rnie o' wealth?the n
power 01 money bolder* as such. I: is m
?ulitle and subversive of men. Thai it m
;oe? hv "community of interest." by si- al
lent, arithmetic, doe* not indeed neoes-i- u]
tate, but makes possible oppressions not
leas' actual because insidious and una- ri
rowed. It has mined great peoples. For
"community of the interested" is widely d;
li verse front the interest of the cowmiiDi- ('
Ly. Tiie peoples also "cannot. verve liod p,
tnd mammon." Plutocracy is tot a com- ft
monwealtb. Weal it-self is not. merr i
wealth. The wor<i "wealth"' bogs the !
question. Plutus wa* blind! ra
Oligarchy, the "few" in power, wh.hcr dt
i clique, a bureau, a "machine," or a, ring, hi
md liv whataoever mean* installed and fol:rated.
Its *eiectne?? and separateucs* n<
?ud virtual afeaufttption is it* odium. It* ri
it responsibility is it* vice. Its selfish ri
ft??B is it* detest. It refuses t.i share. ' m
Aristocracy, literally the rule by the tf
!ient. ideally an excellent term and thing. ! tl
practically. however, the wlf-clected at m
.heir own rating?what one has tailed "the pj
Sne irony of an entailed nobility!" Here- i|
ilitary privilege tainted with pride and o!
superciliousness and snobbery nud the dry in
rot of these?a iio.i-?equitns. still exploit- aj
ing t!w many for the few. class preroga- to
live anil the non-human proscriptions or ar
aste. The "l>est" should rule in the in- lo
terestn of what is good, but the self-styled of
best, nursing their own exclusivcness, may vi
become the worst. to
Anarchy! Contradiction in terms! The ri
aw of lotvlessness. the mie of caprice and to
ill violence, denying authority in that j pi
license which is the parody and rnin of tli
true liberty! Freedom crushed under the I g<
ibsolutcisrn of the mob! f p<
Theocracy ? the reign of (i.wj. actual j ih
while God is <?'od. truly realized in itnivcr- J in
<al recognition of llim "the lirst and the ii
last and the living one:" but never dele- o
^atcd to any vicegerent, installed in the
ommon consent of free consciences and it:
when usurped by kingcraft or pri-'steraft to
the basest perversion of the highest truih. i si:
Democracy: ^elt-government by the j Ki
people. The dignity of the people is the J
intention of their Creator. He who is the | Ik
-oarce of this self-rule, is also its only si- j m
urity. Kach man with, not apart from, ar
very other, directly and jointly resp.m- J hi
dble to (foil. The high'-.; !,<u final?man | pi
ib-olved from all usurp, on-, and. a* s: : th
cnau. secured in tIre p' ret freedom of j th
the largest obedience. Democracy may be ! A
i name for the mere tyranny of the multi- j m
tuac?a suoservieDt mass a prey 10 passion t.i
mil to schemers'who are its panacrers?j or
flattering while they degrade. But Mien ( (t
the "rule" is lost, and the demo? is by i so
his means, thwarted of his ends. Demoe-! <|r
racy is ideal when it meets all the con- ' b!
rliti'ons of total responsibility to God-- j jr
when in the high peerage of that loyalty i PI
r?f creature to Creator all neighbor* love ad
all neighbors as one familv of the highest! I
Love, vertical and lateral, is iU law?the i i
"perfect law of liberty."' 11
Therefore. T hold both that Christianity tli
intends democracy, and that only in its of
reality can democracy thrive or endure. T1
Other foundation it cannot lay. If the si
Son of Man shall make the peoples free us
they shall be free indeed, and not other- . cs
wise. His autonomy is theirs. His vain jm
stion exalts them. His rights secure i><
theirs. In Him. who is all in- all, they are "t
complete. ?
A republic is a democracy conveniencinn
its self-rule by representatives who are
its agents. Thc-o are hut trustees and
stewards accountable to the pn pie's intelligent
will. Other, they are defaulters.
Usiievirijc that under (?od man shall not
fail. J believe utterly in democracy u.? the
final experiment of time, up to which all
others have led. If this idea is bankrupted
nil goes down. Only as it reasons deeply
as to the source of its rights and the
scope of its duties ?hall it avert failure
and cataclysm. < lad, or the deluge!
J believe in democracy Iteeause I hold
that man is not a mechanism hut.a mechanic?that
every individual soul 01 the |
race is sacred, that the probation of man- ;
kind lies in the full consent to human j
duality before Ood, anil to all the equities !
which that involves. Here stands the last
bulwark aoainct tvrannir TKij nr.wf !ui I
the method, ir there be any, l>efore which ]
\ false subordination anil a false instib- j
ordination are both to he banished. The j
salvation of the peoples is in a divine liu- j
man society which at last shall real ire the j
whole purpose of .Testis Christ. It. has j
not yet been seen: but "to this bear all j
the prophets witness"?a society fpoling j
all its common responsibilities, and "eaot i
for all" fulfilling every relation? this, and
because it is "ideal," is the finality. In
it democracy and Christianity would
meet, and righteousness wed peace!
To coniptt-r this ideal into actuality is
the task and travail of time?to doubt
that it can be is to surrender tue cause of
mankind.
There is now in some quarter* a sickly
tnd sentimental decent from the go??I of
democracy, and a cov.'artllv whispered
[i rem rente against the substantive claim
of man as man. This reluctancy from the
burden of the problem and disregard of
the good of the nianv is ordinarily Iraceab'e
to a selfish and absentee spirit. It
assumes to distrust what love of ease disikes,
and what comfortable and complacent
apathy would postpone. Its investments
are all in the present, as it is, and
t will take no stock in the future as it
liould be. It interprets the major confident!
ions of hie by the minor. "The offense
of the cross is not ceased." But it
> crucifixion that leads to resurrection.
\wav with this droning and whining pessimism!
And, on the other hand, there are those
vho applaud democracy without reckoning
ts principles and its foundations. Bcwecn
it and absolutism there is, in time's
ong run, no logical half way. Can man ,
earn that democracy brings no one flown,
nit every one up? Can man learn its
eciprocitie* and its emancipations? Will
nan see the basilar doctrine of the iniere?t
value and birthright of each several
oul?value to itself, to all others and to
he one God of all?
If not, then all falls apart and a society
int made Hp of a bulk of subservient* and
i few preferred creditor* is a fatuity and
i dream, and the Nazarene was a dreamer.
Jut that way lies the madness of anarchy.'
Any government is. at a (riven time,
trong. as the ratio is of its people (or
>arfs) who believe in it and are ready to
?ack that belief. Ultimately it is as
troijg as it has principles worthy to be
lelieved in. The bottom idea of demcrecy
is the utmost diffusion of two
hings: (a) authority, (b) responsibility.
Joth of these. Neither goes well or far.
>r can stand fast, alone. These balanced
entrifttgal ard centripetal forces mainain
the orbit. All the phases ami hopes
f a. genuine and rational democracy are
edueiblo to the balance of this double
Jea. The duality is critical.
By this r.s a definition I will stand bat
true democracy is a government in
rhich every whole man. nnu because a
tan, counts one. Persons are the units,
ml government of, by and for these is
he sum of all its parts. Its spirit is as
rcat as the number of spirits that share
and as good as the number of good
nirii.s tlwt share if. its division exactly
[juald the dividend, and the quotient is
ne.
''Division of labor,'' which is made to
scan "jou labor and I divide," is not
catocracy. >in.e. in this long division
f "authority and responsibi.ity" every
tan should be titted to count one. Demrrac.v
menaces i(self, denies its raison
Vtre. when it for a moment neglects to
'tk this fitness of its merits. Kep'-osenition
is of these fit merits. The proxy
valid only in this. The ballot affirms
ie importance of each integer. Its our I
led intelligence and its unmolested free?ni
is its safety, that always it shall ho
. tinted as one, and never more or less.
Ops or more is the suppression somewhere
manhood; less, it were tyrannized;
rore. i; were tyrannical. To corrupt, to
fduee. to intimidate or hi suppress it is
> violate democracy. Democracy alone
iuses the rights of u minority to fear a |
iajority. For all and by all this recog- j
ition of man declares that because every
ian should c? ant one he shall! No other i
icthod' of government declares this, or 1
: tempts to realize it. Resting its cast* .
pon "the right assessment ?f what eon*
itutes human value." it implies that <
gilts, jtnd duties arc strictly correlative i
id reciprocal. It studies its rales in the {
iylight of its principles. Our Supreme
ourt is governed by this overruling eqni'.
Democracy is its test and its dictum.
is the ultimate national refuge of the ]
sonle. ft gives the higher law.
Tne distributive assignment of govern- !
cnt is tilt- radical end of democracy, not
owending to man. hut a-.-ending with t
im. If is not paternal, hut- fraternal. ,
Human ethics rising from loyalty to
ic- mere tribe or c'an ? Uhmaelitish!? j
?es toward the comprehension of man- j
ght. The history of this growth of hu
.11! m.stnmion.s. making an<i remaking ;
icinselvco. discovers that they move with (
ie instinct of a genetic human life. The (
ipulso strengthens as if by hydrostatic ,
easure. That great democrat. Lincoln; f
iat splendid representative of the fine (
d aristocratic family of mats, said well.
185G. what lias the broadest possible f
iplioation: "They who deny freedom }
> others deserve it not for themselves. 1
id under the rule of a just 'God cannot
ng retain it.'' The paramount doctrine ,
equal rights is that each soul lias a dine
right, a kingly and knightly right. f
i all the liberty he can u<-e. and Has the t
phi to stand ip>. in his Maker's image, y
. show what he can use. Its formative ^
oposition is that a just, society lies in
ic good <n all its elements, and that this
iod lies in the removing, by pick or
ncler. of all avoidable hindrances to
ie affirmation of social personality, lies j
its enabling and ennobling (so far as ;i
rcumstanees can) eacn unitary being to 1
it- the fullest possible life. v
All "liberty" has social limitations, and c
< problem is to reduce these limitations a
i the lowest terms necessary to and con- i
?tenl with its own utmost diffusion, i
reedom also i? law. (
It is not the commercial, the strategic-, I
urines of the Monroe doctrine that ! i
akes it strong in our American hearts a
id determination. but its immense moral !>
caning th'it democracy shall not. have its 1evidential
arena narrowed, nor its scope t
iwarted by the imposition of another i
ieory of the people. America (noble v
rnerica) is the vantage ground and the i
11 work of popular free .government, and s
maintain this hi^h theory ot man un- s
idangered. we will fight it need be ? r
bough (tod forb.'i the need) it all the | v
as are to run red! It v.as this tremen- ; i.
ras instinct in which, in one of the no- i J
est wars of time, we rose up to lift.Cuba |
oni under the bloody heel of the line or .
hilip II. and of Alva. The people's day j
Ivances. ! s
1 eonie, therefore, to assert that whieh e
have tried to approach, and this it is: \
hat the aim of a true democracy is in 1<
ic most complete accord with the aims e
the gospel. Both are emancipative, y
heir implications arc mutual. They alike c
and or fall upon the proposition of the a
liveroi! spiritual rights of all men as men. c
neh breaks down all "middle wall of n
irtitiou." and unlooses "the yoke ot t
>ndage," opens the awtcs of day to a
wery creature under heaven!" Each o
eks the greatest quantity of the highest s
[ quality. Christianity,? truly measured.
comes (in the strong words ^ of Ilenry
V's'u. in that splendid little volume. "The
(Icncsj? of the Social Conscience"): "*lo
make the best the world knows native to
the huinb>est." , .
"In His name?"Sftn of Man"?the Bie^$
iCmaneipator lias "authority to execuw
judgment" upon all oppressions. He is
i man's Man! His authority intends the
' ommonalty of all sou!? yielding to Him
! a supreme loyalty. His church is the
J democracy of treed men. Abolishing bar!
ricrs. rending divisive artificialities, leveling
up. not down. He introduces the autonomy
of those He redeems from overv
inhuman bondage, and recalls every child
of Adam, every "prisoner of hope.' to be
1 , nn.l .
, m in** irue ifif Lf11 igm ?i tiuu ??
| priest. All for each itncl each for ail i?
i ihe hold and beautiful charter to which
' His si en aturo is given, and whioh is sealed
j with the sign <>f the cro??! Under it all
".-utter and rejoice together."
Democracy i- not "the multitude in
power, with no adequate ideal to elevate
and to guide:" for that is not rule; hut
it is the people bound i?? a fraternity, an
equity, a unity, in which all are common
shareholders in an uplifted and celestialk
ized nianh.Kid.
Democracy, justly conceived, is indigent).-*
to Christianity?(Christianity imlilies
democracy and nothing short of it.
Dependence (upon (>od): independence
(of all insalutary duress); interdependence
(as members of one great human '
body); these nre the three august watchwords
of what i he Son of Man prepares
and wiil perform. They are cardinal. AJ1
temporizing expedient* will fail. They
are dozy and brittle'. "Paresis stamps
them. They arc judged.
All the real progress in the idea of what
a genuine democracy includes, and what
excludes, has been, consciously or not.
an appreciation and incorporation of
Christ's ideas of man. It has been aoainful
process, slowly penetrating the
intricate processes and sodden politics of
the world, attended by harsh parodies and
bitter failures; but it has been continuous
and culminating, and at last it will conquer.
The errors and follies of men in the sacred
name of mankind have been appalling.
Liberty lies been declaimed i those who
were 'themselves the servants of corruption,"
but the very cum ey of the counterfeit
is a testimony to the value of the
true coin. 1 ^
Timid souls shrink back from the birthpangs
of change. The near-sighted and
ease-loving refuse to think large enough
to see what lies in that proposition, in
which the evangel in cognate with the law
of liberty?that every man is a man. But
the virgin's magnitic.it is the ennunciation
o? a new society. It is a prophecy. An
apocalypse is folded in it. "He hath put
down the mighty from their seal* nnd exalted
them of low degree."
That cause of the people, which by the
utmost widening of responsibility engage*
and educate* the largest number, grows
with each latest day. Before its "awful
rose of dawn" the lanterns of groping
years are superseded. The law of the
spirit of life, as Christ, the people's Man. ,
interpret* it. making all- classes "dangerous
classes." and those the most so who
must absent themselves from the concerns
of men, at large; it instills the conviction
that au actually human relationship yields
to no "adverse possession" of privilege,
and that the dynasty of tnc minority
must pas*.
For democracy America * stand*. To it
we are shut up. This is the people's land. By
Christianity democracy shall stand
and by naught else. If it denies the law
of Christ, it denies that which begat it.
A divinely human society, from God and
through men, with the two great and last
commandments as its pillars, ia that to
which we are summoned it we are to
keen faith with men and God.
Signallv. before ^hc envious nation:-, we
are to chasten, unnold, defend that idea.
\ idc as the earth is. We cannot evade
the duty, and we must not Red the blessing.
To retreat or to retract would be to
rclinouish that onnortunity of which
America in the trestle?not to exploit a
continent, but to uplcad a world. New
and cmnhatic providences thrust this doui.i?
r.:.!. ...
Uf till t.ii tijj'jfi im.
The cause of the peoples?of all the people.
the <au?e of mankind and of every
man. specially the Ion-eat ana the leastis
the came and the only cause of democracy.
and it a No is the cause of Him
whose errand was liberation, and who. as
the eternal deliverer. Jives to accomplish
ah His invincible decree.
HaiJ. Thou Son of Man! T,et all Hie
people prai?e Thee! Then shall the earth
j-ield her increase! The enlargement of
all the ?on* of men is Thy sum-eme argument
and evidence. They shall walk at
liberty because they seek Thy precepts,
[f Thou shall make us free we shall be
free indeed. T?ve is Thr law and the fel
lowahin of low its answer. Unto Thyself
otvc Thou this America.
Well *ii<l (trover Cleve'and say this
inrin g at St. Louis: "It is a solemn
lhi?~ to lteloug to a people favored of
Hod."
They Trusted God.
There was a knock at the door of Aunt
Fanny's pleasant kitchen one morning,
m<l on the steps stood a little girl with
i basket on her arm.
"jJon't you want to buv something?"
lie asked as she came in. "Here are some
nice home-knit stockings."
"Surely you did not knit these stocking*
youruclf, little girl?" said Aunt ?
Fanny.
"No. ma'am: hut grandma did. She is
Lime, and so she sit* still and knits the
thing*, and I run about to sell them:
.hat's the way we get along. She says
ive are partner* and so I wrote out a
>ign and put it over the fireplace: 'Grandna
& Maggie.'"
Aunt Fanny laughed and bought the
(lockings, and as she counted out the
i?. ._ -a# J .
ltoney l<> nay lor mem niaggie mua; xmn
sill buy the bread and butter for supper." "What
if you had not sold Anything?"
Hiked Aunt Fanny.
"You see. we grayed.' 'Give u* this day
>ur daily bread, and God has promised
0 liear when folks pray: so T guess there pj
vasn't any 'if* about jt. When He sayfc
Kings, they're sure and certain."'
Happiness In Work.
Some people dream of happiness a*
omething they will come to by an<! by,
it the end of a course of toil and struggle,
tut the true way to find happiness is as
ce go on in our work. Every day has its
>\vn cup of sweetness. In every duty is
1 pot of hidden manna. In every sorrow
s a blessin" of comfort. In every burden
s rolled up a gift of God. In all life
'hrist is with us, if we are true to Him?
t we nave learned this secret, even the
Kings that seem unpleasant and disagreeble
yield joy in the doing. A traveler in
outh Africa saw some boys playing mariles.
using pebbles. One of these rolled
o the traveler's feet, and, picking it up,
t seemed to him only a rough stone,
mliout beauty or worth. But as ne turned
t over a gleam of light flashed from one
pot of it. It was a diamond, Dunes
pcm dull and dreary to us. unattractive.
iard. hut thev infold secrets of happiness
rhich we find when we accept them with
dvp and do them cheerfully.?Rev. J. Ii.
ililler.
A New Note.
Make up your minds that definite and
cttled opinions in theology, if not within
asy reach, are possible, are desirable, are
rorthy of intense inquiry. Shake off this
ethargy which allows you to remain iu
temaJ suspense, this indifference which
on rail liberality, mis apathy you name
andor. It needs, I doubt not,.some finer
nd more generous statement to win the
ar and heart of Christendom, but I feel a
nightv confidence that, the first time now
hat Christian theology clears her trumpet
nd utters a not uncertain note, the voice
>f Cbanning will be the dominant el the
train.?Henry W. JWlovrs. <~<j
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