Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 20, 1893, Page 8

8 SEAVEY'S HAPPY THOUGAT Police Chiefs from Ooast to Const Join Hands to Fight Crooks, NATIONAL ORGANIZATION AGAINST CRIME What Prompted United Action in This Re- apect—State Leagues of City Marshals Will Now e Formed-Bertil- lon System Endorsed. A couple of years ago a notea criminal evolved a scheme for a wholesale robbery all over this country. His idea was to form all the crooks into a secret co-operative organ- ization and make it almost impossible for the volice ofticials to cope with them or bring them to justice. This man visited Chicago, Denver, San Francisco, New York and other large places, but he was arrested in the east before he could complete his work. The scheme was discovered, and precau- tions were tuken to frustrate any such movement When the plan became known to the ¢if- ferent police officers in this country, the magnitude of the idea and the work that a body of desperate and daring men could a complish astounded the officers and set them to thinking. A few years ago an at- tempt was made to form an organization composed of the chiefs of police of the more important cities, but the ofticers went mto the work in o half-hearted munner gnd 10 good results were attained. at the jewelers, banker were organizing to protect their property from thieves, the chiefs of police determined to organize for their own mutual benefi but it remained for Chief of Police of this city ake the in'tiatory towurd such an organization, and his “effor! have succeeded beyond his expectations. As a result of his efforts the National Chiefs of Tolice union was organized Rewarded His Enterprise. About the first of the present year Chief Seavey took it upon bimself to open up a correspondence with the chiefs of police of the lorger cities and ascertain if they were favorably disposed toward his plans. He received so muny favorable responses th meeting was arvanged and held in Chicago durmng the early part of May, which resulted in the above organization, ' and Chief was highly complimented Ly being elected president of the sunion. With the exception of New York City, the princi- al cities of this country were represented n this convention. There were: Major Mc- aughry of Chicago, Eldridge of Boston, ack of Nashville, Crow] of San Fran- cisco, Seavey of Omaha, O'Meara of Pitts- Deitrich of Cincinnati, the chiefs from ul. Milwaukee, Memphis, St. Lows, P Burlington, la., Orange City, N. J., Leadville, Colo., and many other places. These men formed an organization which has already made itself felt and feared by the eriminal cl; s, and the chiefs of police in the capital cities throughout the country are now trying to form state organizations of the chiefs, s and ofticers of the different. municipaliti In Connecticut and Michigan suc zations have been formed, and they aking it almost impos- sible fora crime to be cominitted and the verpetrator make his escape from the state, With such an object in view Chief Seavey has sent out a letter to ali the municipal ofticers of this state inviting them to attend a convention which will be held in Omaha on December 13, This letter is as follows: Now Forming Stato Leagucs. T have the honor to inform you that during the first meeting of the National Chiefs of Police union, held in Chicago May 18, 19 and 20 0f this present year, a resolution was adopted requesting that the chiefs of police and city marshals of all cities, towns and villages 1n each state orgunize a chiefs of police union in each state, to be auxiliary to the National Chiefs of Police union. The states of Massachusetts and Michigan have slready orgunized these unions, und tho chiefs ot police of several other states are preparing to organize similar unions for the purpose of general co-operation, and also for the purpose of meeting and co-operating with the National Chiefs of Police union, which will hold its first annual meet- ing at St. Louis, Mo., the tirst Tuesday n May, 1804, Believing that in “unity there is strength,” and realizing trom eleven years experience as a police ofticer, how necessary it is for universal co-operation of the heads of police departments in the matter of the prevention of crime and apprehension of crininals, I very much desire to see the chiefs of police and city mavshals of Ne- braska thoroughly and systematically or- ganized ‘The citizens and business men of the cities and towns in this state naturally expect that the police will give them all necessary protection. If we are organized, know each other better, and have a practical working system with which we are all familiar, we u, by taking advantage of this, accomy much more in criminal work, which is in. ing cach year. h these ideas in view, I write you to ascertain if you will meet’ me In Omaha, ‘Wedn ay, December 13, of ths year, for the purpose of forming a chiefs of police union for the state of Nebraska, A copy of this letter will be sent at ouce to the city marshals of seventy-five cities in this state, Let us all make a special effort to get to- gether and effect A permanent organization of which the citizens of Nebraska reason to teel proud. Politics and Policemen, No one has an idea how the various police dcpartments of this country are hampered and their uscfulness handicapped through politics, A policeman who has to de- pend on politiciuns for his job makes a very poor custodian of the lives and proverty of the taxpayers, as a usual thing. The heads of the police departments in citics where the police departments are not or- ganized under the metropolitan system change with the political complexion of the municipal government, and there isnot much of an incentive for these chiefs to prepare to stay in their positions for any great length of time. : I'he greatest hindrance to police organiza- tions has been the At many police de- partments have been controlled by politics, Where such has been the 2 those con- nected with the force have ha entive or time to think ubout informing themselves or bothering with organization, They have Lived inan atmosphere of uncertanity, not koowing when a change of politics would result ia their removal, and have becn kept busy *‘pulling wires” to save their h A chauge Is bewg gradually however. Many of the large i been ado) 4 nouvartisan system, and many other citics contemplate such j move. uy be along time before nonpartisan olice deparuments are universal, but the ng ones say it is sure to come. v true policeman at heart aamits that any force in politics 18 hampered. Inspector of Detectives Shea of Chicago, a city of all others in the United States that is cursed by volitical “pull,” in a chat recently stated that npnpurtisanism was the prime feature of a gooa police force, and is bound to be in. troduced as people seo its benelits, Take his own 0, for instance, He 1s a patural born policeman—a man who loves the business, and has taken & pride in trying to better mmself. He was inspector, when a change in polities resulted in his being r duced 1o & . captain and “put out in the woods.” He has suffered by political chunges often, ST detest the idea of having topull wires,” said he. “I would never do it and they threw me about. Once I had to call upon a zolmcnl friend or I suppose my head would ve gone off. Politics and police business don’t mix ut all.” Talk of Government Control, At their national convention most of the chiefs expressed tho hope that before many yeurs came Lo pass that the police denart- ments of this country would under the control of the national government and treated in & measure like the government troops, only with better pay. Some of tho smaller countries in Europe are patrolled by police oficers in the ewmploy of the govers- ment, and such a system fiuvm. partially in Russla and France. The most feasible nner in which o protect suburban resi- dents and thickly settled portions of the country districts has also been the subject of considerable discussion among the commis- sion ohiefs of police. The residents in ' the suburbs are exposed to the attacks of burglars, sneak thieves and other criminals, who seek the cover of dives in the citics and then go out into the unprotected districts and ply their nefarious occupations in the darkiiess of night. An eastern exchange says that this ques- tion 18 one that has many phases, and is just At the present time being :iscussed and given a good deal of consideration by super- intendents of polive, mayors and others inter- ested in volice nffairs, to the end that there is a bright possibility of a system of com- plete police patrol of all territory being formulated on a plan distinctly American and different from anything now existing. The question itself is an old one and has, in & spasmodic manner, attracted the atten- tion of different police officials for years without any definite result or combined action. Nor can it be said that a system has been formulated in its entirety now, though a great stride has been made in that direc- tion, The time is ripe, and from many signs and soparate mo ants, all on a general pla and with the sume end in \iew, those inte ested in police business can begin to discern the outlines of the great innovation that is coming simply from force of circum- stances Before combined action can be obtained great changes will have to be brought about ‘hanges that many now scout as im- possible and far-fotchied, changes that will bring with them complete modifications of municipal and county administration, 1n many districts these primary stages have been passed over, and by an aceumulation of dates and facts it will be seen that it is not only possible, but very probable that the change will gradua keep on until it be- comes universal. Criminala and the Cops. Criminals oftimes prey upon the citizens insuburbs, where they know they arc out of the jurisdiction of the practical thief takers and men trainod to suppress them. Persons have been robbed and murdered by high- waymen, houses have been bur i wommen have been subject to assaults countless unlawful acts committed, son times by professional criminals, but more often by men living in the district. who have been encouraged to acts of violence simiply by knowing of the lack of protection and the immunity from arrest offered. Again, eriminals have hived in the suburbs and preged upon city re com- mitting some o 4 ve escaped to the suburbs and then the city authorivies have been handicapped in catching them through the lack of & concerted system, With all the interchange of courtesies each department is still handicapped, and the work never has b nd ne can be done with the degree oi satisfaction that it would were the departments united by some ~om- mon bond as has been suggested by the fore- most police authorities i the United States. By departments being united there is no thought of their being brought together as one department in the strict sense, but b; system on the same general plan as that by which these whole United States is united ~a system of local government and concerted goneral action, and the benefits to acerue will be plainly'seen. The lack of concerted action does not alone hamper police departments in dealing with criminals in suburb: The same state of affairs exists between citics. A burglar, pickpocket or other criminal, for instance, operates in New York and then comes to Omnaha. He may be known mn New York but not here. 1f there was concerted action when such a man came to this city the police authorities would be ready for him. Again, the need of more concerted action in tracing and capturing eriminals who escape from one city to another is felt. In the latter regard the need of more uniform fugitivo and other laws reiating tocriminals 1n different states is felt and can never be brought about except by concerted action. The first step in this direction was the in- troduction of the Bertillon system of meas- uring criminals, assuring their identification, regardless of pictures or changes in appeas ances. Y It was invented by M. Bertillon of Paris and was soon introduced throughout France, and its introduction is now gradually spread- ing throughout Burope, ‘I'ho system was first introduced in this country in the Joliet (I1l.) penitentiary, then in Chicago, and is now used by wany large cities, and may soon be in use in Omaha. The use of this system has brought police departments closer together. Chiefs of police have seen the benefits to be gained by an interchange of information regarding criminals, and have furtler realized that they could be benefited in many other ways. Endorsed by the Chiefs, [his feeling resulted in the formation at Chicago last spring of the National Chiefs of Police union, among its members being prominent chiefs of police from sllover the United States. The chicfs met and ex- ohanged ideas on many subjects, They de- cided to push the introduction of the Ber- tillon system. They talked over plans of more uniform laws and agreed to assist ach other in every way possible and much good was sccomplished, Recently the chiefs of police of Michizan formed a state union. Counecticut hasa state union and other states are following the example set,and here isa part of the system: It is proposed to have unions in eyery state, and it is thought it will not be long until they ave formed. Nebraska needs one, and prima fforts are already afoot to organize one, With a union in each state they could elect delegates to the national body. “Uhis idoa is not an original one, exactly, as it has been hinted at in seversl papers containing police news, und has been con- sidered and declared feasible, both at the meeting of the chiefs of police in Chica and of the Michigan chiefs in A Further, not one, but many chiefs of police are working to bring about this ehan The state unions will be composed of all chiefs of police, sheriffs and otners in police authority, and all will be U¥nefited by the interchange of information, of ideas and as- sistance in the work of suppressing crime. They will be bound together by bonds not only of sympathy, but business and social in- terests. The system contemplated goes further. [t intends taking in the country, as well as cities and small towns, There are now in existenco in diferent states many polico organizations in rural dis ts. Many of them are county associations. here are the horse police, or an organization of men banded together to stop horse stealing, In many sections farmers have banded togother for mutual protection. In time all of these organizations may be banded together, Patrol for the Suburbs, 1t will be a long time before the Buglish system of constabulary may be needed in this country, but some substitute is impera- tive now in many sections. In England country districts are patrollod and an officer veady for business can 38 be found, In‘some sections of this country, outside of corporate limits, but thickly populated, somo system of patvol is needed. This brought about by rural organizations pay ing mounted men, Ivis estimated that the cost would be comparatively small, and even farmers huve experienced the neell of some one at haud ready and with authority to act besides there ave many unincorporiited dis tricts thickly populated by eity residents and those who live through “the ‘channels of trade in cities, 1t is a possiblily that the counti in some_instances pay for a police patrol, but that is for the future. Police patrol in' the rural districts, except adjacent to cities, is something that may ve considered years hence, but the need of police patrol on the outskirts of cities has long been apparent, The only drawback has been to bring it about, and how better than by an organiza- tion of the citizens in that district which would subseribe for and pay mounted men? Preparing for a Club Flush. The enormous immigration of convicts and ticket-of-leave men Lo this country as well as theagents of anarchistic and socialistic socie- ties and such organizations as the Mafia and Highbinders, which have transferred the scenes of their operations Lo this country, and the great fucreasn of terrible crimes committed here by these classes, have awakened the police departments o the fact hat they must be thoroughly organized in ordey to effeciually suppress these criminals and give them @ wholesome dread of the laws of this country. Ta show the effccts of thorough organiza- tion aud the efticiency of diseipline of the }nohceunll'cn. Chicago, during the World's air, is cited as an instance. When the fair we an assured fuct the crooks and thieves all over the world began making preparations to go to that city and reap a rich harvest from the people who visited the exposition. 1t was then tnat the manage- ment of the fuir, acting upon toe advice of bul:armundlflll McClaughry of the Chicago police force, begun 0 wmake preparations to | give these gentry a chilly reception, They | welected ex-Inspector Bonfleld, who has had A great deal of experience in dealing with crooks, as chief of the fair police depart- ment. Mr. Bonfield corresponded with the heads of the police departments of this and other countries and persuaded them to send their best men to the fair. Pollce Art Exhibit, ‘With these men, who had a good knowl. edge of all the criminais from the vicinity in which they lived, he was able to protect the enormons crowds which visited the fair in a most creditable manner, Then Superintend- ent McClaughry sent a trusted man to the larger cities in this country, Canada, Mexico, England and France to secure photograpbs of the most notorions criminals from the va- rious rogues’ galleries. He got about 7,000 of these pictur After perfecting these arrangements they awaited the advance guard of the horde of crooks which expected to get rich robbing people at thefair. The first of them were so casily apprehended and either run out of the city or sent to prison t it had a most dis- couraging effect upon their delectable am- bitions, and beyond the usual small robberies which are bound to occur as long as all peovle do not strictly observe the eighth commandment, no great crimes were com- mitted. Owing to lax law: d other con- ditions over which the police have no power, the number of criminals in the country is rapidly increasing, and the people are grad- ually awakening to the facy that they must render more assistance to ¢he police, and that the police must more thoroughly organ- ize in order to give better protection to lives and property. This movement is not in its infancy, but is moving forward with pleas- pidity, and Neb ka will soon be among the first of the states to become thor- oughly organized in this manner. Much good is expected from the efforts of the coming convention. ——— Cure indigestic and billousness with DeWitt Hard and soft coal, 2,000 pounds to a ton, W. R. Bennett Cq store. ——————— DESERTED MIDWAY. Famous Fakirdom Desorted and Nearly Dismantled. Midway is being destroyed. It isa de- serted, dilapidated place. 1ts charms ana its curious people are gone. It is in pos session of the wrecker. Vandals are pulling down the odd houses that helped show the visiting millions the life and habits of the people of other lands. Very soon the inter- national street will be but a memory, Iew go into the street now, says the Chi- cago Heraid. None of the gates from the city are open and across the entrance fromn the park is a high board fence. At the park gate a Columbian guard stands who will let no one enter, and even remamning inhabitants of the Plai- s who get outside have hard work getting back to their abodes. They must have passes or convince the guard that it is right they should pass, and this is many times hard work. Not many others pass within, and, by the interference of the pow- ers, are thereby saved from the melancholy remembrance a visit to the streev would leave. Men of the west, who work for a stated sum per day and are frugal and calculating, have taken the place of the careless eastern- ers who cared but for the present. The re- sorts in Midway have been given into their hands and within a month they will not only be leveled to the ground, but all the material will have been carted away. The despoilers Ling rapidly, and long before the ex- hibits in the buildings of Jackson fark have been all removed their work will be done. The place presented a sad sight. Thelone- someness was in marked contrast with the gayety of last summer, and the wrecker's hammer told that the last party had been entertained there. The picturesque walls of Old Vienna and its weather stained roofs and quaiut shops were being destroyed as ruthlessly as were cities in the time of own. Men with pickaxes made the music in the enclosure instead of a band of proressional musicians. They quickly destroyed the 1llusion made by the ola architecture by opening the way for a sight without. The stuff was tumbled into o big pile in the middle of the enclosure. All around Oid Vienna the work of destruc- tion is going on. The ice railroad, which ex- tends behind it, is already robbed of its superstructure and the bare posts alone re- main. Teams are drawing the timbers away and but little remains to tell of the joliy coasting on ice it afforded when the mereury was in the nineties. Across the streot men are knocking boards off the fence that borders the American Indian village, and spoiling the painting that might not have been of sufficient merit to pass muster with the jury of installation of the fine arts de- partment. The Indians themselves have gone to other fields of industry, Jeaving their Midway residence for white people to de- stroy. 'I'his duty the pale faces are perform- ing with as much thoroughness as did the former destroyers of Indian homes, and the red men will not have been long in the land of the sunset before their last traces in Midway are obliterated, The panorama of the volcano Kilauea is nothing but a shell. The canvas that hune on its walls, showing the fiery crater of Hawaii’s great furnace, has been rolled up and the work of taking down the structure is now being pushed and will be completed within the time prescribed. Up the street men are at work on the Lapland village, and the abode of the ostricites hus been in- vaded. Robert Levy’s big Turkish colony has left for the domain of the sultan. It was the largest village in the street, containing 450 of the dark skinned men, evy had planned an auction to ais- pose of the goods, but his plans were inter- ed with by President Higinbotham. onsequently Mr. Levy will not take with him a kindly memory of the exposition's | president. The work of shipment will be expensive and will reduce the profits of the village. By the lust of next week the Libby glass factory will be removed. This wus one of the most exten of the street. Al y is all in pieces and ack aring down the building will commence immediately. The company hoped to sell the plant’ for re- moval to some town anxious for more fac- tories, Several offers were re ved, but the sale was made impossible by the limit o the time for removau The building in which the diver went to the bottom of the sea is entirely down. So is the one within which was the Colorado gold mine, The big house that contained the panorama of the Swiss Alps is being robbed of the filigree work that ornamented its face. The begun the de struction of their ba These little folk are ovidently satisfied with their visit here, as on the door is a sign that reads: *No. See you at the next fuir. No.” The Hindoo jugglers ave among the few reminders who are still in Midway, They to California to attend the Midwinter nd they hope to swell the profits of their American tour. Work will begin at on the dest ion of their little build- I'ne Moorish palace, the Persian , the buildings in 0, the Javanese huts and the Irish villages remain intact, but they present a sorvowful apps Their signs ave dilapidated and the weather has left its marks about their doors and en- trances. The Javanese people ave gone, hav- ing by this time reached San Francisco. ‘The German villuge will not be destroyed until the articles in the museum are sold. With the exception of the workmen the source of pleasure to millions is practically deserted. 1ts stiliness Is broken only by the whacks of the hammer and the a And above it all the Ferris wheel still goes round and round. — - Pills that cure sick heaaacne: DelWitt's Little Early Risers. o — The Madison (family botel), 21st and Chicago. Transients. $2.00 per day. e Order your coal «f all kinds at W R. Bennett Co.’s store. e Wore Another Man's Fauts, James B. Reynolas was found wearing a paw of William Smuller's pants yesterday and he was urrested on the charge of larceny. ‘fhe pants were stolen several days ago. Reyuolds cluims that he pur- chased them from aoother man. ————— Little pills for great il DoWitv's Little Barly Risers. A We have a few second hand base burners on sale. They are burgains for anybody looking for sccond band stoves. ‘Win, Lyle Dickey & Co., 1403 Douglas. BISHOP NEWMAN'S SERMON Belf-Conquest she:8abject of His Discourse at the Fitst Methodist Ohurch. GREETED WITHAA LARGE CONGREGATION Bishop Waldem of Cinelnnati Occuples the Pualpit ar Teinity—Hamanity and Divinity of Christ's L Compared. At the First Methodist church yesterday a large congrogation heard Bishop Newman preach on “Self-Conquest.” his text being “‘Ho that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a ciy.” The bishop said part ough siately column, cathedral and triumphal arch have been erected to com- memorate the great deeds of the past and to be laid away, when dead, in an imposing mausoleum is a common ambition with men, the world is too poor in bronze and marble to ercct a titting monument to him who has gained the mastery over himself. Life is 100 short to ck i h of the skies, extending from horizon to horizon, is his triumphal arch and God alone is his eulogy. “I'hiree things are essential to gain com- plete mastery over self. They are self- knowledge, self-denial and self-consecration When Thales ote over the door of an an- cient temple, “Know Thyself,” he chiseled in stone one of the wisest exhortations ever de- livered to man. To know himself a man must be acquainted with his strong and his weak points, He must know the measure of his endurance. He must search himself. He must not be deceived, Heis a bold soul who takes the candle of the Lord and goes into his own heart to examine every part. The trouble with , man is_ that he s nov natural, buy abnorinal. The holiest man is the most natural man. We have no warfare with nature, for nature is good and is the fairest offspring ot the Almighty. CLrist, who was the most natu- ral man that ever lived, came into this world to make men natural. We do not want preachers to inyite men from the darkness of nature into the lignt, of the gospel, but to bring them into the light of nature. This is the great mission of Christianit, “Vice 18 the excess of virtue, Passion gratified within the limitations of law is as pure as au angel's soug or the prayer of a saint, but carried to excess it plunges men into an ubyss of sin, shame and disease. You may say thatmen in giving rein to their desires are following natural laws, but you must remember that limitation of law is co- extensive with law itself. Two mysteries are the lease of growth and the lease of Iife. There is a time in the life of every man when without change of food or air the tissues cease to increase and stature is complete. ‘This 1s the limitation of the law of growth. There are trees in California that have lived since the days of Solomon, but man gocth to his long home at three score and ten. This is the limitation of the law of life. ‘Wickedness in the World. Wickedness 1s in the world not by the op- eration of naturalluws. but on account of theirabuse. I wouldnotown thatman as my brother who is incapable of anger, for anger is natural. God is angry with the wicked every day, but he does not allow the sun to g0 aown on his wrath. Righteous indigna tion purges the world of sin, but when it reaches that peint where it prompts the hand to strike, or the lips to speak slander it becomes a viee. Humility in strength, meekness is a virtue, but our self-abasement should not be so abject as to permit us to suffer that our ¥ights of property or of home should be trampled on. Paul, the meekest of men, was jealous of the «rights that were his and when it was necessary to appeal to Cuwsar, he did. Vanity .that causes us to desire the good apinion of others i atural and commendable,- forapon our relation to our ow-wen @epends our influence over them, but that degree of vanity that impels us to sacrifice principle in the hope of re- taining or acquiring the esteem of others is a vice. Child of the Skie “Man should know the measure of his endurance and he should not be the author of his own temptations. 1 do not pray ‘lead me not 1nto temptation, but I do pray ‘leave me not in temptation.’ But fearnot tempta- tions. Let them assure thee that thou art a child of the skies and that avgels are thy companions. Jesus was made strong by temptation here can be no virtue in the universe without this test. God did not make mana machine. He could not make him a little lower than the angels, nay, a little lower than himself, without giving him liberty, and in that is involved the power to disobey. It is the vivtuous who are tempted and not the vicious. Hence, we cau have no sympathy with those who run off to monasteries and nunneries to escape the evil enticements of the worla. Stand forth rather in the arena of life to make yourself strong in the conflicts of life and in resisting the temptations of the world. The general criticism 1 have to make on all forms of modern cducation is thatv they lead man eway from himself. There are those who can trace the courses of the starry constellations who do not know the plan of their uervous syste There are those who can name the rivers and oceans of the globe who cannot tell the amount of blood that courses through their veins. Our thought should be subjective as well as objective, We should look inward as well as outward, Self-denial being twofold, consists in the refusal to disobey divine prohibitions, and in the exercise of magnanimity. Thore is the law that says thou shalt, the law that says thou shalt not, and the law that says thou mayst, but. there is as much kindness and benoficence in the mandates that are prohibitory as in those that are permissary. Magnanimity and Sel iar. “Magnanimity is the highest form of self- denial, and to this the world owes much. It was magnanimity in Washington that led him to risk his competence aud his fortune, to sacrifice his casy life on his large estate, to struggle for the princivles enunciated in the Declaration of Independence. 1t was mag- nanimi in Paul which made him say *If meat cause my brother to offend I will eat no meat while the world stands.’ You who re in the habit of taking a social glass may v that temperance is the moderate use of good things, and hence you ave guiltless if you drink not to excess, I grant that tem- perance is moderation, that total abstinence is unnatural, but though certain things are viul they are not expedient, and, there- fore, when 1 say that if wine cause my fellow man to offend, 1 will drink no wine while the world stands. 1 am not austere or abstemious or intolerant, Itis magnanimivy to deny yourselt the use of an innacent thing if yovr example in using would cause your brother to ruin himself by excess. Misslon of the Orama, “The drama ission as the vehicle of truth anl ure, but it 1s today wortn the reputation of any Christian, and es- pecialiy a clergyman, to attend the' theater, and what surprises me is that any woman of Christian training and education can attend the modern drama where such filthy nudity exhibits itself and the vilest passions are catered to. Letthe drama be restored to its proper place and then we may consider the question whether it is propcy for Chris- tians Lo attend the theater. “But self-conquest cannot be effectual without seli-consecration. Draw your in- spiration from the Son of God. This will you power. I have traveled lu all THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 18 lands, traversed all seas, stood at the shrines of all religions, and I come back to say ‘In the cross of Christ I glo BISAOP WALDEN AT TRINITY, Haman and Divine Sides of the Life of Christ Compared, Bishop Walden of Cincinnati occupied the pulpit at the Trihity Mothodist Episcopal church in Kountze Place yesterday morning. The bishop is an eloquent speaker, who has no trouble in commanding the closest attention of his auditors. He talked in a plain man- ner without attempting flowery oratory, and his gestures were without ostentation. The bishop was greeted by a large audience, and his subject was on the life history of Christ and the lessons to be learned therefrom. Bishop Walden spoke of the human and divine sides of the life of Jegus Christ, and in comparing them he thought that a too close study of either nature made Christiun neople overlook the other. In an elogquent manner he delinowted the sufferings of Christ i order that He might be the Pri of ation for all veople, ““When He suffered the agony of a crucl death on the cross,” remarked the bishop, it was the will of God that His Son should kiiow of the sufferings to which His cml- dren are subjected. trom the infancy of Christ to the time when He went forth as a minister of the gospel we are allowed oc casional glimpses of His life, but there are many things that do not scem fo be recorded in the history of His even:ful caceer. We are given glimpses of Him as a child, as a youth vior. ct of this study is to bring you s as a triend to whom we can all turn during our trials and tribuia- tions. Christ's sufferings were of a disci i cter, and our’s should be also. needful t st should como in contact with these human experiences in order that He might know our trials, He was made acquainted with fearful and dark scenes before He was made Captain of our salvation. He suffered sore temptation, but ame out a perfect Man, and after a full trial Goa said: “This is My Son, in Whom n your own hives you have had expe »s for which you could not account. T'his is a sort of adversity to which all people are subjected. Pure men and women shrink from evil, but here was our Savior brought into contact with all kinds of evil, and He came out holy and uncontaminated. There are many beautiful lessons to be learned in the history of Christ, ana we may read it over aud over and receive new thoughts of His greatness. He was sorely tempted many times, but He did not use the great power vested in Him. Ho only did this to supply the needs of others, and when He w chal- lenged by an adversary In a tantalizing way to show His power, by turning stones into bread, He refused, and in the course of time overcame this adver; h the will of our Heavenly Father The bishop described the greatest tempta- tions of Christ, and spoke of the sublime simplicity of His unswers to His adversa- ries. *'God has endorsed prosperity,” said the bishop, “and e has given us such con- ditions that1f we put a small seed in the fertile soil it is reproduced an hundred fola. I hope that the lessons to be learned in the history of Christ I help us all to bear with the many contentions which constantly confront us. Christ entered into all of our experiences—into our joy, sorrow, want and prosperity—so that He could know our whole lives. By these experiences He was made perfect. “I'he end of a Christian life is glory, but 100 104 times do we look at it asa crown, and a life of eternal bliss. A Christian life 7As pervaded with glory, peace and joy, never ending, and eventually ends in a grand burst of glory. The vringing of the soul to glory is a progressive one. God brings His sons to eternal grace step by step, telling them all tho time to come up higher and share in the atonement which fle has accomplished through Christ's sufferings. He is waiting to enter into a compact with_us all. As a elder brother He says, give Me your heart.” At the close of the services Bishop Walden remarked that he had assumed the re- sponsibility of an indebtedness of £18,000 in order to h out the school established by his church at Nashville, and that while he was mnot soliciting contributions from the congregation, he thought some of the mem- bers who have enjoyed the fruits of pros- perity in a greater mead than had he, might become moved to a: t him in paying the obligation. 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