Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 31, 1900, Page 5

THE OMAHA DAl LY MONDAY DECEMBER T 1900, INFLUENCE OF CHRISTIANITY Tt Has Beon a Potent Tactor in Nineteonth Century Frogress. "ESSENTIALS OF CHRISTIAN RELIGION Rev, Newell Dwight ey Memorinl Church, Rev. Newell Dwight Hillls of Plymouth ®hurch, Brooklyn, preached a New Year's Sermon at the evening service in Kountze Memorial church Sunday. Rev. Mr. Hillis took his text Master, what lasting lite?" from Luke xviif, 1§ s0d shall we do to inherit ever He said in part Thero s something In the air tonizht making mo feel as 1 sit here that we ar ( under the spell and the awe of a new cer tury, Taken all in all, the century now closing Is the most unique in history. Th Bixteenth century stands for the fall of feudalism, the eighteentn for the o of that old fdea of the diy {Kings and the nincteenth for the relgn of the i people ) the symbol of the sixteenth century \ { broken fetter; for the eizhteenth It s a } Lottering throne. and for the nineteenth (he Tise of ull those institutions which make for the liberty of thought, of speech and Yof political action Men often think of the century as on standing first for the fncrease of wealth se i the last 100 years we have mul the comforts of life to the highest There 18 one thing great in :ho century above all others, and that is (h reallzation that Christianlty s the chief progressive influence. Our age 1= co tantly amrming that all things huve bec new Wa are ceaselessly reminded that old tools old medicines, old books, old agriculture old customs, ‘have pussel away. Hut reallty the ching wecming and super- ficlal ‘rather than real. We have n new netry that Interpreis the stars, but the sun shines In tie sky; we hav @ new geology, but the rocks lie In the mame old layers; we have a new physics, but there are no more elements fn natir than there were fn the morning of crea tion. The psychology is 1 but noi_the intellect, nor’ the emotions, nor the wil We have theory to how MoNes came to write the ten commandrrents, but the same old moral principles arc with vs and from the moment when the first man entered thix earthly scene to the last mo- ment of eternity it has been and will be wrong to kill and steal and it will be right to love and hope and pray Facts Remain the Same, We have changed our theors as to how David came to write his Penitential Psalms but the facts of temptati € the moral 1apse, of hours niteno the ey bilnded with tears and the heart broken With grief I8 an ablding fact. If, in the Hght of sclence, we have rewritten our the orles of conscience, of sin, of churches, ot ds, we have not changed the great facts which' these theories describe. It for the casy limits of the Gurden of Eden we now have the stellar infinitudes, and if for that hand's breadth named 6000 years we now have the geologle ages, with the new und wern ot not falthful to a church, for the [ hopes of his children, who wete tolling In church was not yet organiged But they | offices instead of beitig in colloge and alko were faithtul to Christ reon. Therc. | for the sorfow of the broken-hearted wife ore they were Chrietlans. When 10t g | and shortly afterward he himself went on time had passed by, slowly the men begai | toward that great day of revelatfon when [ toystate cheir spiritanl eXperlentean in i | €Very wecreg "deed ‘shail be brought ' ifito ellectual forms, named creeds and to wor's | judgment. What a problem was that that | vt their methoas in Christing acuvity. in | the ‘edifof asked, How ¢an a man become | cstom “pumed | the institicions of 'tns | reconciled to his record ainly, repent- hurch, But these things came afterwarl | ihice, confession and restitution were impo- Bd Bean Curiaiany Deforenang, AL Mel | tent to do away with hie sins, Thess acts g1 stlans beforehand could not bring banker back to his Life Goes Before Knowledge, ‘:l;m_ could not s ngy ation i unately, it 18 not necessary to know | the_injured stoekh could not pu I order sy 14l Dot necessary Lo KNow | these vounk dauwhters ‘back im college, The little b fn the cradle is a per could not heal the widow's broken heart and fult Casenting rupertences | O what o world of unsuspected meaning ot life t And fts mother4 | there s in the statement, “ile |u..|n~ our face, but it VR BB He carrles our eorrows, He was [ statement ‘rewarding optics. 1t lves and | Wounded for ous transgreasiond | 1oy nd grows, but it knows nothliz | Ne Dishelievers in Christinn Life. | Whatever about ‘the laws of physiolog g | and the origin of its iife. Children enjoy rom time to time men arise who publish | mrustc g before they understand the sir unbelief {n Christianity. Each gen- color, scale and the laws of harmony. | tion indeed has ite own arch-inflis! deed, millions go through iife enjoying the | Bome Jullan, some Rousseau, som J beautiful in nature and ort without cyer | Grnounces his anbelief in Christiar But | knowing anytt bot the laws by which | 4% & matter of fact there has te en | colors complement each other. Also, mil- | an infidel to the Chrielan life. Men have lions go through life as Christians withsut | Fefused belief to the sacraments, to creeds, | ever atopping to work out philsophicaliy | {0 popes, to religious teachers, to churches thelr 1deas about the bible, or the churen, | but no one has ever beza an icfidel toward of the oreed. And ot they are Christians, | the Christian life. One man is infidel to because they are loyal to Christ, History | the creed, but this is unbellef toward a 15 of w young puint gricder in the studlo | philosophy. ~ Another s infidel toward the italy's greatest master, who developed | churchthis s unbelief toward an organiz, tking evidences of nrtistio skill When | tion. One is infidei toward the bible Lan enemy of the kreat teacher came Ly ) this represencs want of belief in the stata. | the ‘boy and urged him to found « echool | ments of some man named Moses or Paul | of his own, saying that wealth and honors | But who has been infidel toward Chris- | &nd fnvitations to kinks palaces might be | tanity? “Whatsoever things are true, [ hi. the youth answerea [ effect ¥1 am | whatsoever things are honest, whataoeves not ambit o found a school or dwell | things are pure, whatsoeve ngs are o i o"pi bt T am ambitjous. o caten | K00d report ' Who | who danies Raph, {1t and reproduce in mysclf [ and despis high and Idenis 5ra le thought ¢ | Bod-like ver thinze enses in a word t ce of the Chris. | ate true importancs tan Hee, T 14 an ambition to rise to the | of truth, Once truth js fuily revealed, e level of Christ's thotights, to feel Tils thrab | that of Newton ot Milton or Shakespeare of sympathy townrd the poor and weak, | men hang over the pages as they ha Lo abhorevi ac e ablorred 1t, 1o hunges | above a casket filled with precious jew for "righteousness s’ He hungered for ¢ [ And when the truth ‘ie painted“how do and 't walk with eur Father as Chris: | the multitudes crowd about the canva | walked :ny,k Hie e e o Christian who | And when the truth is spoken by some | 1 Toyal to Christ in thoughts, sympathics, | &reat orator, how do men crowd about him | frienashipy, purposes and idedls. [ Who brings that truth to hear upon conduct and charateor? And the Christian is one larger temple of nature, we have a new and nobler worship. Aleo the extended heavens declare the glory of God i tiny heav ens of Moses never could A the new | stellar roof covers a temple worthy of Him inhablts fts eternity. Indeed, so far m wclence having disturbed f the at fundamental facts of the Christian ife {t has only strengthened them by the new explanations. We can make no greater mistake than to fix our eyes upon the anging theory and neglect the moral facts that are permanent and personal and vital. Alus for the man who 8 &0 con cerned with the fact that the old sickle is gone and the new reaper has come, that he forgets to sow and culti and_reap, for that foolish man will die of hunger. More pathetic stll the case of the youth who Is fascinated by the changes that are now be- ing recorded by diffe wuthorities and flits from book to book, from theory to theory, us the butterfly Af from flower 't flower, and so neglects the ecul- ture of the spiritual life, starves his finer and deeper convictions, and stands at last in a critieal hour of his carcer unsup- ported by the great spiritunl realities with which life {8 concerned. The t s are translent, but the truth ls permanent. The graphies come and go, but the moun- ns and hills and seas abide. The physi- s change, the human body remains nastien pass and politicul parties disap- pear, but not the people. Theologleal st ments rise and full like the grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, bt the word of God standeth forever. I's truth 8 eternal, man's statement’ Is temporal Erowing with man's growth What It is to Ue a Christ Keeping in mind our former studies, what 88 0t 1o be a Chrisilan? From the view- point of careful definition, the Christian is one who iy loyal to Christ. Having read Christ’s words the Christian feels that hese words command his reason. Looking out upon Christ's career, upon the beauty | of His life the wpotlessness of His | character, the Christian affirms that that character commands his revere tlon. Having noted Christ's attitude to- ward little children, toward the publican and pre I, he 18 a Christlan who feels that Christ’s’ bearing toward the poor und admira weak commands his sympathies. Having | read His gold rule, His serr N on the mount, His law of love, the Christian bows in loy ce of Christ's ideals of possib) e, feellng that these ldeals At once condemn his past anner of life reveal present lutent powers of character und open up new excellencles possible to the future. Just as an setist pupll becomes & disciple when he yields himself fully to the Infuence of some great master; just as Yennyson became o discipls of Shakespeare when he yielded his imagination fully to the Imagination of the great poet, so a mun is r Christlan when he yields himsclf Influcnge of Christ and feels i e fre to be loyal to Christ's life and teach- Ings. For the whole emphasis is upon lovalty to Christ as a Master and Savior. A wan Is not a Christian Lecause he has wrought out fully his fdeaq of the bible. That s important, but it s fidelity to a pook. A man is not a Christlan becauss o his wrought out his iden of a creed That is Important, but it is fidelity to a philosophy. ~A ‘man 15 not a Christian L tause he yields himself to ‘some priest or bishop. That “fs fidelity to a human teacher. A man is not a_ Christian be- cause he has fulfilled the directions of church. ~ That 15 Adelity to an organiza- | tion. These things are import But they are not first and cssential. The one essen- tial thing s fidelity (o Christ Himsclf AL this becomes very elear if only in ¢ ur thought we Journey hack to the time when Christ met Peter_and John in the way holding men e wall to them How M Straightway they fors all and followed IHim. Now from that mo ment they were Christ's. Yet they had 110 bout an inspired bible, because (he nt - was written. Thoy . whatever about o creed, fo) theology not yet taken its rise. They 25 Years Younger “l am now SC\'?H[_\'-(\VO years of age and my hair is as dark as it was twenty-five years ago. People say 1 look at least that much younger than I am. I would be entirely ibald or snow-white if it were 'not for your Hair Vigor.— Mrs. Axva Lawrence, Chi- cago, 1ll,, Dec. 1898, Avyer's Hair Vigor restores color to gray hair every time, And it is a wonderful food to 22, the hair, making it grow rich and heavy, and keeping it soft and glossy all the time. also an elegant dressing. It is 1( your druggist cannot supply you, send s fi00 and Wewil] express a Potele to you, il charges prepaid. De sure and give us your nearest express office i J.C. AvER Co., Lowell, Mass. Bend for our handsome book on The Hais, to the | me Christinn who loves the truth; wants il the facts in Another question of like simplicity and | the case; is asking what is soclal truth importanee is. How shall 1 become a Chris- [ and artistic truth, and spiritual truth; than? Sclentifically a man becomes a Chris- | then follows that truth as the needle fol- tian in as normal and natural a wiy as he [lows the pole. “Whatsoever things ar becomes . ¢ tor or i printer. When n | honest.” A rugged virtue—honesty: aut it on_ the vahold of his | fal to manhood as strength s youth “stands upon the threshold of I F, od as stfength career ho passes in review the various Ih Gak, as hardness fs essens handieratt and - professions. He argues 1 black of granite And what higasr that he is unfitted to be a lawyer or a [Pralse can you bestow upon some LIfcou teacher. of editor, because he has no skill | than te say he was uwn hor an? What In writing or speaking atrariWive, he | Fevelation in the provern, TAn honsat tut finds (hat the human body has such fasci- | 1% the noblest work of God. ' fthe, BORCST nation for him that he is always trying to [ MAn never undertakes a truth for his own read o face ko as to interprot the state of | L 1! Weara 1o his own hurt, ‘and the perdon’s health, ko he decides (o enter | chapges not. And when such a truth lover a medicnl school and become a phystelan. | TGRS A%, dlker “Stand. torth fully' re- Once the decislon has been reached he | yoqjod the whole world rises up 0 ad- waits, for nothing magieal or mysterious. | ko ind approval of suct. @ character o simp! a book on anatomy or | MIEALION & physiology and sits down at his desk and | “UGAUEEC Lol Gk just. There has goes to work. When a traveler finds him osver tHings are 98 inndel toward self golng toward the worth, where dwell | JERGE POGH t A W ons of tate and storms, Arctic snows and perpetual winter, | {50EE RS led thereon. In the fnner- once he feels mure that he 18 moving in | most ehamber of thoe pyramids the Egyp- the wrong direction he turns sharply upon [ (' King fixed standards of measurement his heel and marches toward the south. But | that justice might be meted out, One cav in (his reversal of his direction there i8 | ity raprosents, for example, i measure of nothing magical, nothing mysterious. Yet [ ofl or wine: a reprosents the meagure when he has turned toward the south we | for ‘wheat, and another givex the unit of must not suppose that the traveler has t for n bale of wool or silk. These wched that land of trople frufts and fic rtd5 cannot be tampered with crs. Porhaps he has taken but one ste te and measures became impossible toward o summer land that is a thousand [and this emphasis of the fmportance of miles away. Neveriheloss o has startod | just sfandard, witnessed to by the pyes: for that glorious clime. Thus the vouth [mids, i but one of a thousand testimonies ¢leanses his mouth of profanity and starts | to, the mportance of Justice o toward purity. He cleanses his appetite of | “Whatsoever things ‘are pure 0 hus KIntiony ind starts toward seif-control. He | ever been infidel to purlty? What maner Cleanses his habits from idleness und vice | of man would he be who disliked the newly- and starts toward industry and thrift wh rose, the dewdrops making the grass But gnce youns Ihe higher educa wparkle’ with diamond fire, the purity m, mov tions of de that lles upon the fake of the sweet babe | and ‘honor, not good enough | In the cradle, the purity of the voung [ o Join @ Christian’church.” He feels that | bride’s face, the purity of the spotless |1t 1 an unworthy #nd ungenerous thing for | Snow that rejoices the mountaine s with [ him to announce himself as disciple of garmenta of God? " Not “that bloom | Jesus Christ unless - he represents those | lfes over the frult fs iluring A% | high and noble qualities that Christ repro- | the soft bloom <]>f‘ i;”l“'- L R | sents. He thinks that the platonist must | that les upon the brow of south W | have the qualities of Intellect that char- | malden, whose “‘v‘;"""_l'* bR | acterized Plato. He belleves that the dis. [8In and whose pure hea 3 [ §lples of Tennyson should have some of | tnfdelity Loveliness Unthinkable, Tennyson's skill in mastering verse anc B i # feels that he who allles himsclf with the Whatsoever things are lovely. Whe church of Christ ought to be pateiclan fn | ever was infidel to loveliness, whether phy the beauty u nobllity of his character, | $lcal or mor he friend hag some lovely bw. Whatt 18 o church? 1t is a school of | qualities, the hero some admirable traits, mordls. What 1s Christianity? 1t iy the | the reformer or martyr some qualitios that | selence of right living and character-build- ke praise. but your ¢ ‘l'n‘vl;(r\,'v‘l“ ”\l:‘(_. [h. What is the bible? 1t {x God's hand- | ness. perchance, I8 your moiher, long since { book, full of directions for the bullding of | dead, patient with your faults, tender when { a worthy life, based upon the foundation of | others condemned, torgiving © | Christ. “And who s the Christian? He is a | Were bitter, hapeful even In oy anderd | pupil in Christ's school. But nobody is re- | ing%, when all others have despaired, and Lelved Into o school because he 16 & ripe | At last her love drew you back to a right scholar, When @ child goes to & school the | ife and to God. -And now in memory her | principal say What do you know about | fuce shines like the face of an angel of grammar?”’ “1 don’t know anything about | God and he who would disbelleve in-whato |it: T want to enter the school to | ! [ soever things were lovely In her life would What do you know about Latin and |8eem to you below the image of a beast or Groek? “Nothing." the bhoy answers, | demon. Infidelity to loveliness becomes un- | “Are you up history and sclence and | thinkable for the sound intellect | terature? I wm not sure that 1| . Men there are, blessed with such genlus, | Know what those big words mean, " the boy | that they can cause a lump of mud to stand | replfes. To which the principal’ answers: [ forth with the lines of w vase, cor with © “Well, you are sufficlently ignorant kes of the chisel let an ange recelved istian. 1 they are A man sh to jol good, Plymo! never: have uld ¢ W ver gpeak a wrong word thing for ten reception v mean or wicked would vota against the man. He s not bad Plymouth church and Christ s a teacher. n bad man who war e like Christ although a star in th miles high that star is titude enough The church is a And the disclple & to become better hest of men who feels that he wants to fentists tell sky may be a million than our in comparison with the in This school is founded for bo: who do not know but want to know re to unite with the church but becaus me to me and 1 church to be And not hey are 1y I am n thought, en't done years," I of that get into school 15 that wrth, still nite distance to' the farthest star, side by side with our carth. And in comparison with the purity of God, from the standard of ideal excellence, there Is scarcely a hand's breadth of difference between the lowest sinner and the highest saint. All are pupils in the school of cha where Christ is the ind human life, one Savior ang d Lord [ few str | of time I8 that sublime And yet the marvel secret stirring the divine life In the soui and the leading ot that new and noble impulse forward until it has cleansed the whole man. harmonized all his faculties, refined, clarified and sweet- ened the whole body, mind and heart. And nothing short of this {8 the task that Christ, the schoolmaster, hath set before himself it sclentists could change mud to gold, or pebbles to diamonds, it would be as nothing ¢ the block of marble. compared to this tfransformation of man from the er of sin and satan into the light and beauty of the kingdom of God. And once such a transformation has been wrought the whole earth ought to wake and cvery string of heaven quiver with the out-blown joy. For there 18 joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance. Rep attle In ape. ™. J, O'K editor of the Hemingford Mr. O'Keefe r men wh her bu visitor in the clty Nebraska newspay le to branch out in Herald, I8 is one of the has been loxs and he owns one of the most pr What Converafon Means, Perous cattle ranches In western Nebraska Now great confusion seems to have| “The present winter has been all that €prung up n many minds. Men say could be desired for the cattle interests in Bunyan or Gough that they were inst the western part of the state. A Mr converted and in an hour Lecame new | O'KKeefe. “We have had such fine weather ‘hat they really mean is that in a that cattle on the ranges are in splendid matic moment that sprang out of s litlon and are now in shape to stand a great experlence dhey Teversed the whoie | b siege of weather if we should course o lite, nssembled i thought | get one. The present outlook warrants th thelr old passions and fmpulses and in an | prediction that the spring shipments fr hour, flaming with sspirations, litted the | Nebraska ranges wil be exceptionally lary torch to the old impulses, men lft the | gnd the grade of catt articularly high. tarch pon 4 fiean of woeds that s cursod | “N! ' Kevte contemplates an early toir the frultrul ground. But ence the old 8ins | of California and expects to spend the Deen deatroyed then bogins the work | preater portion of January on the coast of sowing the new growth of simplicity, THOY G5 SRIEE S temperance, service, ‘sacrifiice, truth, jus- Midnight Maas nt Sacred Heart. L or the Christtan life represents | A¢ ype Church of the Sacred Heart the growih und development, 115 an educiis |04 century will be ushered in tonight with ot tho mwine ey’ Yall pan his Knees | solemn high mass, the services beginning and cry. "Lord, descend and bring ealvue | promptly at midnight. The services will tion,” but let him not think that God s an | be conducted by the pagtor, Rev. Jo infintte’ clothter, who deals in character | Judge. assisted by Tev. Joscp Sanay w . merchant deals (n bales of wool. and [ deacon, and Rev. Andrew Judge, subdeace that the great God cuts off a character | A speclal program of music ha o 4 [ pared, which will be rendered by the full uit and drops it down for men to put on | bared, 3 : ful Mon for themselves must lift the torch |cholr under the direction of the organlst, upon the old life, ‘to destroy It Agter- | Miss Cannon ward when they iy to God to come dow 4 ——— and bring salavtion they are praying ¢ Elks Celebrate ¢ the sun to shine on the seeds in the fi Omaha Elks will celebrate v salvation is not hin, | the century with a stag social at their man on the outside; it 18 a work done in | rooms tonight. The tainment will man on the Inside, and God is alwavs | furnished by membe the varfous th coming to man. He besots the soul befor ricul compant iy, assisted and behind. We dwell, as 1t wer by home talent will preside very heart of God, as men dwell in the all- encompassing summer. Hut the sun, fall Tght. {ng upon the stone and sof!, is not the same | On New Year's eve cars on all lines run- ir. result. The sun falls upon the stone and | pig (hrough the center of the city will run goes away, leaving the stone unchanged. | two hours later than usual. Last north and The sun falls on o seed, and it leaves the | gouthbound cars leave Farnam str at seed u sheaf; and the soul 13 o secd, stored | A*p't elpt and westbound cars leave Six with latent qualities that are divine, nnd | feonth street m. God's spirit, falling thercupon, brin it theeo divine germs of love and truth and Croup. T thetantaniaty ani conversion bt | Mr. R. Gray, who lives mear Amenia, this has to do with a negative and ie- | Duchess county, N says; “Chamber- jructive vork that is lrgely man's “Ticn |jain’s Cough remedy is the best medicine I e AN re rnT 38 % |1 have ever used. It is a fine children's merit, practice, drill, patlent, " persevering | remedy for croup and-never fails to cure.” tofl, s they work out theif own salvas O aivan: a8’ sOnR a8 €kl GRIIA hensrae o et oo warker i tan | When given as . hild becomes VWi 804 to do of T8 good nledsure | |hoarse, or even after the croupy cough Tt some thoughttul youth ‘will rise up [has developed, it will prevent the-attack \nd ask, What shall @ man do with his past | phis should be borne in mind and a bottle clenc Krew At fan length Ame u when 1 editor slippe saying that W at the his opponent’s buank Ively et mse e become nd his fean elty D between in_an any BiW rivil rvi o st How shall he st 1f he banks chat v bitte i edit famine sw hour ere © to financial gol str time o and pt n 1ke with afghten out his rec- has a black sin {1 his past friends some how con > Wgo, in enmity A banker. over the panic own, the deadly Although he knew that wil o the solvency of an instl i manage in the TUmors wer i th morning )ing around ition that bith- 1y sound editor paper N erto had been considered safe, ete. Had that editor taken a pllow steeped n germs of a deadly plagic and made his wiy to some street corner in the midst of the city and there midst a high wind shaken out the feathers to sow the city with germs of disease he could not have done a more flendish de At noon, when the odisor left his offl » saw the crowd standing in front of the bank and within w few days the institution w By reason of the public excl Stress up sther institutic cover y was impossible and everything the banker had was swept away. Hroken spirit and weakened in health by long excitement at last the young banker fell on death. Several years later remorse brought on sickness that cut short the editor's career. One day he sent for a fi tor end banker's death, for the @ told him that he was responsible wreeked of the Cough remedy kept at hand ready for instant use as soon as these symptoms appear. For sale by all druggists. Winonn Quar © Declaved O, ST. PAUL, Minn., Dec 30.—~Dr. Justus O'Hage, health commissioner of 8t. Paul, having been satisfied that the new health board formed at Winona has taken proper mensures to guard against the spread of smallpox. which is sald to exist there, has raised the quarantine between the two cities. HOME JKERS EXCu s 10NS, Via Missourl Pacific Railway, Round trip tickets will be sold at low rates to points in Kansas, southwest Missouri, Oklahoma and Indian Territories, Texas, etc.; also to certain points in the south aud southeast. Dates of sale first and third Tuesdays in the months of January, February, March and April. For information, pamphlets, etc., call or write company's agents, 8. E. Cor. 14th and Douglas Sts., Omaha, Neb, THOS. F. GODFREY, P. & T. A J. 0. PHILLIPPL, A, G. F. & P. A, very Arkansas, F No matter how well your Meats, Fish, Soups and Salads are prepared they will be im- ved by Lea & Perrins’ THE ORIGINAL WORCESTERSHIRE W~ BEWARE OF IMITATIONS This signature on every bottle PAST CENTURY IS REVIEWED Great Progress in All Lines of Human En- deavor is Uharacteris RELIGION HAS KEPT PACE WITH REST Many blems Affecting the Wel- fare of the Human W Remnain Un- Rev. Hubert C. Herring's Sunday morning sermon at the First Congregational church was apropos to the closing of the nine- teenth century. His theme had particular reference to the achievements of Christi- anity during this period. “The sun of the century is setting,’” he said. “Only a day or two more and it will have passed Into his- tory. You and I will never be as much in | the new century as we have been in the old Our youth cannot be transplanted and it re- mains for us, by the grace of God, to make that part of the new century which we shall share the richest and most fruittul of our lives The century just closing has been a cen- tury of conventions, a century of science, laborious, painstaking and brilliant; a cen- tury of communication, the world being drawn closer together by the power of the press and through the agency of steam and electricity; a century of the Anglo-Saxon, the race having swept forward with a com- manding step to a place of leadership. “It has been a century of specialism, more and more each man doing one thing; a cen- tury of self-consclousness, for in it our world has been coming to a realization of what importance it {s. It has been a cen- tury of democracy. All of these things may be sald and there be none to dispute the assertions. Religion the Underlying Cause, “Can it be said to have been a century marked by the growth of the kingdom of God? Has this kingdom moved forward at a corresponding pace 1 am going to as- sume an affirmation and venture the asser- tion that such movement has had as its un- derlying cause the religion of Jesus Christ. My text fis self-explanatory, ‘The kingdom of God cometh not with outward show,’ and in accord with it the most conspicuous, tangiblo evidence of the growth of God's kingdom during the century just drawing to a close is proven by the extraordinary growth of brotherhood. “Whatever may be the essential element of God's kingdom the one conspicuous out- come of it had to be the growth of broth- erhood. This brotherhood which, as I as- sume, has been a mark of our century, can be qistinguished as divided into three as- pects of brotherly effort. The first has been the growth of political brotherhood, an ad- vance toward that ideal where all stand equal beforg the law, equal in society and equal in the sharing of burdems. It has been a century of emancipation, which has been the fundamental reason for an ap- proach to the ideal of political brotherhood. It has been marked because of the libera- tion of slaves and the practical abolition of slavery in all its forms the world over The single exception where slavery now thrives is In countries where the Moham- medan religion flourishes. Growth of Religious Brotherhood. “There has been a growth of religious brotherhood, the getting together of men religiously. Among the movements of the century none have more significance than the religious movement. The Christian in- stinct of brotherhood has been the im- polling thing behind the movement of mis- sions, inaugurated in prayer and welling up out of the sentiment of brotherhood. It has gone forth to alien people and to pagan races to draw them into the com- munion of religious brotherhood “The third has been the growth of the industrial or economic brotherhood, and in this there has been vast improvement. Work is the lot of most of us. With few exceptions everybody has to work, side by side, shoulder to shoulder, toiling either with brain or muscle for our daily bread. It that work be unfraternal, each man striving to binder each, there could be no greater curse, but it it be fraternal, each man helping each, there could be no greater blessing. In the eighteenth century the i dustrial lives of men were contradictory to the gospel they professed. It has re- mained for our century to define the prob- lem and start its solution. There have been wonderful improvements in the rel- atlve conditions of capital and labor and vet there is vast room for improvement. Thig feeling of antagonism existing on the part of labor toward capital must be wiped away and, on the other hand, the great ag- gregations of capital that are belng formed are, to my mind, the one great menace to our future growth and happiness. These issues will enter into political “struggles, and we will never be called upon to fight out another presidential battle in which this great issue will not be an lmportant factor until it 1s settled and settled right Descendants See Dangers, “So we bid goodby to the nineteenth century. Standing on the threshold of the pew one we know that there are more good, true hearts. 1If, in the new century, political, religlous and industrial brother- hoods make an advance corresponding to that of the century closing 1 verily believe that our children’s children, standing down there on the farther shore of the interven- ing flood of years, will grieve over the dan- gers and difficulties that confronted us and thank God for the era of peace He has brought them, and then they shall give praise to Him who is the only blessed po- tentate, the King of Kings and Lord of ords, who only doeth wonderful things for the mchievements of the century which are ours in the second place and His in the first.” INSURANCE OF ONE'S L Dean Falr Setw Forth Aceruing from the Benefits tlon, In digcussing the insurance of man's life and property at Trinity cathedral last night Dean Campbell Falr took for his text St Timothy ii, 5-8: “If any man provide not for his own, especially for those of h own home, he hath denied the faith and is worse than an infidel.”” The dean said It may be that before next Sunday soms ane here tonight, strong, able and robust, may be laid low and feeble upon a bed of dangerous illness. You may lose your health of body and your strength of mind. In a moment an accident can strike you down and in a second you become helpless “What then? Expedses continue as be- fore and are added to. The physician's fees, ubly earned, must be met and drugs necessary for restoration are to be paid for. But with thousands of our fellow men wages stop when illness begins; from where then can rent and food and clothing and medicine be paid for? We can turn to and get credit, but this means debt; furniture an be pawned or sold, but that is pain- ful loss; you can borrow, but few are will- ing to lend; you can ask for charity and willingly the church will give it, but an honorable soul shrinks from asking alms: you may put the children to work, but children should be b school, not in store the wife and mother may wash and scrub, 1t her place is with the sick breadwinner, where ner heart is. What else can be done? We cannot prevent sickness, but we can provide for it! By membership in a fraternal and beneficial order, such as the 0dd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, Red Men and such like societies you can have a con- tract that by paylng about 2 cents a day when you are well you will be patd weelc when you are sick! About § cents a day when we are working secures us al- most $12 4 week when we are ill! This is @ business contract, not charity! Seven cents daily when I am well secures me nearly $3 a day when I am prostrated! What right have any of us breadwinners— providers for households—to omit such a provision for the sick bed, when by economy, self-denfals and a little priva- tion we can have as secure a fund for our maintenance as wages are when we are well, strong and working and earning? Has any one a right to throw himselt upon charity when by a business arrangement of & few cents daily he can make ample protection for illness and prostration? “But, my fellow man, something else is to happen! That illness may end in death and what then? What and who are to support the helpless widow and more helpless orphans. Here comes in the mag- nificent system of finance we call insurance the greatest of our many ‘godsends,’ to prevent pauperism and preserve the home. 1 bow in reverence before an insurance agent. I honor with unfeigned reverence the old line insurance companies and fra- ternal and beneficial organizations of America. They have saved the homes of our country and fed and clothed the wid- ows and orphans of America when nothing else but begging and borrowing and an almshouse could have fed the hungry when death took the husband and father to the grave, Consult a representative of these great companies and excellent orders and at once while you are in health and strengti pass the medical examination, secure your policy and never cease its payments-—from $6 to $20, saving your family $1,000 or $2,000 when you are gone—so that you may be a free and honest man. What shall such a course as this pre- vent? It will prevent an aching heart upon the bed of death as you think over from whero can bread come to feed my loved ones. 1t will prevent shame upon your brow aud poverty In your home. It will prevent the relieving officer coming to your widow and children to take them in the paupers’ wagon to the Douglas county alms- house. 1t will prevent a thousand and one 1lls and make you feel that you can look with confidence iuto the face of loved wite and children, of mother and sisters, and know in your heart that because you loved them you saved them the awful condition of being a ‘destitute family.' “Some men tell us they don't believe in insurance and that the world owes them and their families a living. I never argue with such men because I feel the world owes them a kicking and 1 wish someone would do it right off!" BUT NOY Muann so Characterizes of Ninetee “The men and achievements of the nine- teenth century deserve to hear the epithet ‘Great, but Not Faultless,'" said Rev. Newton Mann yesterday morning at Unity church. “The century has made a record which {8 unparalleled. The advancement in sclence, art and letters has been pheno- menal, but the character of man has not changed materlally. There is every reason to belleve that the world is better than it was 100 years ago, but the change in the spiritual condition of wankind has not been us prouounced as the achievements of men in the realms of sclence. “One hundred years have brought ahout 4 complete revision of religious beliefs. The God of last century was a terrible belng, stern and cruel. He was supposed to be like man, only very much larger and more powerful. He was a God of wrath and vengeance and was supposed to punish all men because of the sins of Adam. The religion of the eighteenth century was so harsh that fathers thought they must treat their children badly to carry out the teach- ings of their religious leaders “But this sort of teaching could not endure. Channing and Parker and other advanced thinkers began to teach man had too much of good In him to be mistreated by God and that God was t0o good to be | GRE AT, FAULTLESS, | had not spoken a word above a whisper for cruel to His children. The leaven added 10 the loat of religious bellef by these men has permeated the whole loaf. Congrega- tionalists are preaching what Parker taught. Presbyterians hate voted for a re- vision of their creed. Baptist theologlans are among the most advanced thinkers of the day. Reason has been applied to re- liglon and man is following the dictates of his own soul Rev. Mann reviewed the great progress which steam has made possible during the century. Within sixty-elght vears steam has been applied to travel on land and sea and distance is no loeger a barrier to ad- vancement. Telegraphs, cables and excel- lent mail facilities have developed remote parts of the United States and made pos- sible a republic which began the century with little more than 5,000,000 people. Whit- ney's cotton gin, Howe's sewing machine and a thousand other fnventions of less im- portance have reduced the demands upon labor and made possible great wealth which could not have been acquired with the primitive & achinery which was used at the beginning of the century. Electric lights, improved methods of heating and ventilat- ing houses, telephones and other conveni- ences make the home of today a place that the man of the eighteenth century would not have dreamed of. In medicine and surgery the advancement has been more pronounced tham in any other feld of science. Especial progress has been made in the prevention of disease. Pasteur has relieved rabies of its terrors. Smallpox 18 no longer dreaded because of the immunity afforded by vaccination. Surgical operations which formerly in- volved great pain are now performed with- out the knowledge of the patient by the use of anaesthetics. The terrors which lurked in the physiclan’s knife and in tho germ-laden air have been banished by sterilizatio For Honrsenes; Benj. Ingerson of Hutton, Ind, says he months and one bottle of Foley's Honey and Tar restored his voice. It is used largely by speakers and singers. Take no substi- tute. Myers-Dillon Drug Co., Omaha Dillon’s drug store, South Omaha. OBJE ED TO RED HAIR, Amateur Acto Leading Man's Loe tant precedent has been estal- Chivi famous Northwester An im lshed ot university Tho ren issue is whether a red-headed udent shall be permitted to enact the hero of the junfor play. Young Mr. Smith was cast for the part. Vital statistics show that §71-3 per cent of all the Smiths in the civilized world are red-headed. This | particular Smith was no exception, and he was not ashamed of it As the rehearsals progressed one after #lve that charity and consideration shoulé be withheld from a man becaise ho i red Red hair {8 no bar to great achievement upon the really and truly stage. Mrs. Car ter and Nat ddwin are whout as red hended as they make them are Hern- hardt and Marfe Allen, the chorus lady who disinfects low comedians when they call her down. A'l these have attained diy tinction far removed from the ordinars And there are others T adornment, even freckles, has out prejadice of the olde 1 may Indicate d peppery, even pas Ate temper, but 1t 1kewixe denotes an ardent and affectfonate nature, It his come to be respected fnstead of roviled ex )t at the Northwestern unfversity t f% doubtless i great disapnoiniment to young Mr. Smith not to he suffered to play the lover.” He would probably have played the part like a human blast furnace. Bt he can console himself with the knowledge that the red-headed boy usua®ly develops into an opulent hustler Tn after years, when he s rich and re- spected and has a brood of red-headed youngsters all his own, Smith can cast the pitying smile upon the' scornful blonde and rinette beauties who now turn him do The chances are that they will be spec tacled spinsters teaching school nnd sigh- ing vainly for any kind of a man, whether his topplece be an lurld as an Augiist sunset At maturity. oF as hald as the barren mountain peaks of Montana FIRE RECORD. Damages o Lumber Yard, LEAD, 8. D.. Dec (Special Tele- gram.)—Fire this mornir¢ destroyed a por- tion of the Price & Baker Co.’s lumber yard and office in this city. The loss Is fully covered by insu ® an at Went Lorue, Ont WEST LORNE, Ont., Dec. 30.—A disas- trous fire visited this village tonight, wip- out one of the principal business blocks ot the village. The loss will reach $25,000, For Pneumon! Dr. C. J. Bishop, Agnew, Mich., nays: I have used Foley's Honey and Tar in three very severe cases of pneumonia with goed results in every case.”” There is nothing so good. Dillon's drug store, South Omaba; Myers-Dillon Drug Co., Omaha. Eyesight Is the most preclous of gifta. Im- paired or dofective eyesight s almost me in thess days. Glasses can t will take away these detects—We make sclentific eye ex- aminations free and can tell you if another of the proud lady puplls cast for the heroine laid her part on’ the prompt | table and walked out. First it was Miss White, next Miss Wasson and then Miss Adamé, Each in turn declined to be wooed | and won, even in mimic portrayal, by a red-headed hero. Finally a brave, resolute girl from South akota consented to stand for Smith, buc in the meantime the 18" had exerted their pull with the faculty and the red- headed aspirant for histrionic fame was relegated to the small part of a broker, which required him to wear a black Wik with powdered temples cxpressive of vil- lainy and rapid living. Smith was very nice about it and said he | was In the cast for the good of his class and would play any old thing or even work props, but his salf-abnegution does not cloud’ the vital fesue. It {8 quite as im- portant as whether hazing shall be toler- ated at West Point or foot ball permitted at Oberlin A college education is supposed to de- velop liberality of thought and nobility of character. In a religlous institution “like the Northwestern it may also be reason- ably supposed to inculcate the Christian virtues. 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