Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, December 27, 1912, Page 6

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Fulllline of Dennison’s Gift Dressings; also Gibson fArt Co's ved Specialties, Holitliy and Fancy Gouds, [Toys, Ktc. AKELAND BOOK STORE !a BEITER OR WORSE!? ry thk .‘j We can understand how the aver- UICTMOSt Parts of the earth for 4 | hostilities of war. are given for an inheritance and the | in reading accounts of Possession,” how fared the aborigi- rimes, scandals and trag- ¢S of the New World at are dished out continually Reputable historians tell us that spicuously in our daily news- it was one unspeakable outraze, one can reuch the conclusion that, unutterable ruin, without diserimin- aticn of age or sex. ¢ clilzen papels (e world is growing dangerously and hopelessly worse, but to those Nt under the lash in a tropical sun who make some pretentions to infor- Uicd in the darkness of the mines. Wherever an European had set his feop in his lust for gold, there went irom all over this land a cry ol rlation and hopelessness. wation aud erudition, we cannot for tiie lite of us understand how they can be so wholly deceived. , A bishop of the Methodist church is reported o have recently said in a ‘sermon delivered in Savannah, Ga., that “Rome in her worst days, never fishes in the gray of the morning; barbored such conditions of vice as from fever-stricken mangrove thick- jare prevaleny in our highest sociai cts, and the gloom of impenetrable { circles at the present time.” forests; from hiding places in the The good bishop, we are told, made other criticisms equally as appalliny 1:visible caves; frem the along other lines. Draper says: sund-banks, “From sequestered eternal snows of the Andes, where there were no witness but the all-seeing Sun, there went up to God a wail of des- Some centuries after the ‘“declin: and fall ¢f the Roman empire,” when ™" the world was supposed to have been '#!"- iae | softened and elevated by the mellow- .\lll”ofls upon millions, whole races ling influence of the Christian relig- ;l.:n] ‘n:muns were remorselessly cut ’ion, how did the pulpit itself stand as ' (he same as the billions of wild conrpared with its standing today? | ViFeons that formerly darkened the l As late as the seventeenth century ““TU! have been in our day so ruth- | Thomas Babington Macauley tells us ¥ ekterminated. : ! i that the English country squire, who | 'TADer says that the bishop of Chi- ! thought that it belonged to his dig- apa Aumrmod that more lhan‘fifteen ity and standing to have grace said zn.nlhons were exterminated in his :ul his table by as ecclesiastic in fuil Lime, ! canonicals, found means to reconcile hig dignity with economy. A young Levite-—such then was the phrase— ,mighy be had for his board, a small i-.:urn-t and ten pounds a year; he ! might not only perform his own pro made chief justice because he had fessional functions; might not only made a saturnalia of c¢rime. He wor- |bt the most patieny of butts and of shipped at the shrine of the gallows, i listeners; mighy not only be always und filled the sections of England vis- ready in fine weather for bowls, and ited by him with terror, carnage and in rainy weather for shovelboards, rourning. Women, for mere idlé Lut mighy also save the expense of words, were sentenced to be whipped gardner or groom. He sometimes «t the cart’s tail through the market | curried the coach horses and thought towns; a lad named Tutching, for a lnolhlng of walking ten miles to de- mere trivial offense, was sentenced | liver a message (o some other county | to be flogged once a fortnight for sev- | scuire of equal dignity and impor- cn years. In a single term of court tance. He was permitted to ‘dine eizht hundred and forty-one human with the family, but was exnected to 1 teings were judicially condemned to ln(,mout himself with the coarsest|(ransportation to the West India Is- !tare, and when the sweetmeats and lands, suffering all the horrible pains delicacies were brought on he quit-'of a slave ship, and one-fifth were ud his seat and stood aloof until ne thrown overboard to the sharks be- \mu summoned to return thanks for fore their destinution was reached. the repast, from the greater part o1 ' What was the state of literature? which he had been excluded. ! More than half of the hooks, songe Think of a minister or 2 hishop ¢ 'lund ballads that composed the litera- any denomination currving a hors¢ityre of the seventeenth and eigh- for his board or acting as a menial | tcenth centuries would now be ex- in any capacity for a country squire, cluded from the mail as indecent and m our day. improper (0o be read in the family TTow was it in the matter of com- ' circle. mun education? Not one person in five hundred “could have spelled his way through! a Psalm. Therefore, says the histori- an it was not strange that Matthias \.ml Kniperdoling, apostles of lust, | | H | Tlow was justice administered? Men were hanged, gquartered and Lurned for their political and relig- ious opinions. Our readers are famil- iny with the career of Lord Jeffreys, Even in our recollection, works sach as Decameron’s, pronounced classics, were permitted the freedom of the mails, but are now rigidly ex- cluded. We Lave seen slavery avolished, {10bhery and murder, were able for ‘"\:(‘lin'.' abolished, imprisonment for a time to rule great cities. debg abolished, flogging as a punish- llow was it in cases of ordinary | {ment for crime abolished, prisons made healthful and sanitary, section m largely abolished, and a more tolerant and better feeling exx- isting between political parties and 1cligious denominations. Indeed, there never was such a time in the history of the world when there was ereater good feeling and fellowship existing hetween the churches, when there was more ¢har ity and buevolence, when there was such studious care for the sick, aged [wnd unfortunate. There never i time when our rich men and women - gave so abundauntly of their riches 10 aileviate destitution un(l suffering. We live in a philanthropic age. , humanity? How did the infliction of | tortue affect the populace? It a supposed offender was put In e pillory it were well if he escaped twith hig lte from the shower of ibrickbats and paving stones; if he were tied to the cart’s tail the crowd [prossed avound him imploving the a-masier to give it to him wel! atid to make him howl, and the more the unfortunate wreteh writhed in more the onlook: more azony the joyed it. : Wife-beating among those oconpy- ing high station was not nncon men Whigs, supposed (o oc more Limate than tories, murmured vecans, Stal- ford was suffered to die w.h ot see- | There never was a time when so ing his bowels burned hefrre | s {ace. many of the population, compared to A man put to death for refusing to! | the whole, plead or a woman burned at the stake | and when absolute destitution ws ! for coining spurious money excited ( little, as compared with other a ,less sympathy than is now fely fop an| the eenturies immediately pre- over-driven ox or a ceding ours. the family : lultitudes assembled to see gladia- | { nate that feasted on :nn\n once a tors hack each other to pieces with | week, and their homes and furnish- [ deadly weappns, and shouts of delight \ ings, compared with ours, were mere rent the air when one of the combat- ! 'hovels of wretchedness. ants lost an eye or was otherwise mu-: We can say with Macauley that tilated or dismembered. Prisons were | the more we study the anna]s‘of the dark and foul, reeking in iy am‘.jms(_ the more \;'(' rejoice that we were S(‘l"i“?l"ir"‘ “_‘ erime and disease. | live in a merciful age. in an age in ! And on all this misery and jni uman-i“ hich cruelty is abhorred, and iu E:]!_vks:;clvt,\' t\\nholrll discrimination, | which pain, even when deserved, is m”( on w l. hi pro 0“;"“ indif nee. jnflicted reluctantly, and from W s Jigi hd ow was it in matters of religion? i sense of duty only, and th» 'Lns The churches were so intolerant | which has gained most Yy this mcral '|(7\N~ards one :u.lothor. as well as to- | and intellectual change is the clasz { wards the benighted sinner, tjay fi- which is the poorest, the most depen- rally the world was convulseq in fu- | gent and the most defenseless rious warfare which for ferociousness No one can read the annalls ;)f his- has left a fouler blot on the world's tory fairly and unprejudicedly with- (\.\I'('\lt(’hml.l than alt the other trage- | out concluding that the \\torld is dies combined. The most harbarie growing better from all points o} ;‘rnol ies were 'ommm- 4. Burnings view throughout all the ramifications i« the stake were merciful deeds com- { of life ! 3 | rared with others. Men were put to ! death by red-hot irons forced up their xtremities. Their eves wer, ed to their sockets, s ei- enjoyed so many comforts zalled horse. | If the world were not growing bet- ter it would be a sad commentary and % reflection upon the softening, mel- their tongues lowing and humanizing influences of j were cut out and young matrons soon cur Christian religion.—Ocala Ban to become mothers were discmbow- 4 burn- ner.. eled, and the most eruel tortyes that ' could be conceived by fiends were in. ‘ . v p it Affection. flicted upon thousands and thous- 1t is sublime to feel and say of ands of innocent and unfortunate cyl- k& other, I need never meet, speak or] write to him; we need not reinforce | But the spirit of intolerance did |ourselves or send tokens of remems | not cease with®he cessation of actual ' brance.—Emerson. prits. 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