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THE- MORfflKG OKEQOfflAy, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1901. IN BROTHERLY LOVE Portland Ministers Start the New Century! NOTABLE NEW YEAR'S MEETING Leading: Men in Unitarian, Episco palian, Jewish and Presbyterian. Churches Make Flea for Tolera tion and United Worlc Union religions services to usher in the new century were held at the Marquam TTheater yesterday morning, beginning at 31 o'clock. The attendance was largo, despite the storm. The pastors who took part were: Rev. A. W. Ackerman, of the First Congregational Church; IDr. Alexander Blackburn, First Baptist Church; Dr. T. L. Eliot, of the First Uni tarian Church; Dr. A. A. Morrison, of Trinity Episcopal Charch; Rev. B. P. Hill, First Presbyterian Church, and Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, of Temple Beth-Israel. The dhalrman. Bishop -Earl Cranston, of the Methodist church, stated that the Catholics had been invited to partllpate. Archbishop Alexander Christie received them cordially, and said he regretted that his official duties would prevent him from attending. The other person approached also found it inconvenient to attend, so they had no representative of the Cathollo church present. The orchestra was led by C. I. Brown, and the choir of the Taylor-Street M. E. Church, sang selected choruses Bishop Cranston, In opening said: Chairman's Address. In assuming, by request, the duties of the dhalr, may I express the hope that all twesent shall heartily enter Into the spirit of this unprecedented occasion? It is fitting that thoughtful and reverent people should In some way other than, by noisy demonstrations, observe the advent of a new century. The past is more than a. memory; the future Is more than a hope. The dead century gave us birth and made us what we are. The new Is to give us sepulture and determine what we shall be. And since what the people are to be must determine also what Is to be the future of the Nation, the hour Is full of great themes. As you glance at the programme and toward this stage, you at once agree that such a meeting would have been Impossi ble at the opening of any previous cen tury. Let It not be supposed, however, that either of tihese gentlemen chosen to address us is here to sacrifice his convic tions. I may remind you that these pat riarchal orators have come down to us from the last century, and you may, In turn, remind me that, whatever their differences In the past, they all occupy the same "platform" today; but I reply that this gathering Is neither political, ecclesiastical, scientific nor commercial. It Is, as to its meaning1 and purpose, dis tinctively American. It is quite Ameri can, you know, to celebrate any day that is worth celebrating and here Is one day, the first of a new century, that we can safely recognize, because there Is no danger whatever of its being added to the long list of National holidays. Then, again, this gathering Is Ameri can because there Is nothing mean about it. "What though we live away out here where we are among the last to get our supply of eadh day's sun and daylight, and where both tumble off the continent Into the sea, we hold no grudge against any body who got into the new century ahead of us. It may worry Boston that this morning's sun kissed the stars on Old Glory In our Philippine possessions a dozen hours before his swiftest "glance touched Bunker Hill monument, but we, believ ing In our ability to catch up and keep up, only stretch our long Western arms across the Pacific, pat our litUe brown people on the back, and say, "Good! Now bdhave yourselves, and make this omen of the sun a prophecy before another century comes your way." But what I really meant to say was that this meeUng Is distinctively Ameri can because it illustrates In its Inception and programme that freedom of thought and that spirit of toleration, in matters of opinion, by virtue of which we are one people, in tplte of our differences In birth and belief. We are here In flhe spirit of the new century, on this soil consecrated forever to human freedom, grateful to God, and our fathers for our priceless heritage to look every man into the face of his broth er man, and say: "What I claim for my self in liberty of thought, conscience and worship, I also freely concede to thee. In the face of God, let each choose his own faith, fashion his own life, and work out his own destiny. This is the token of uie avtn century manhood, and should any man or people aim to rob thee or me of this boon, that man and that people shall, by that act, be known as our com mon foe. and be visited by our united strength." And now, with hearty welcome to the new comury. with whatever It may bring of blessing or of trial, of privilege or of duty, let us pledge ourselves each to the other and all to God above as to be true to the principles of this great national brotherhood." "THINGS WE HOLD IX COMMON." Dr. T. U Eliot Hold That Goodness Ha Greater Strength Than Evil. Rev. T. L. Eliot, D. D.. pastor emeritus of the First Unitarian Church, spoke as follows: Some of the words of Israel's greatest phophet come to my mind as I approach my theme: "The voice of one crying In the wilder ness. Perpare ye the way of the Lord. Make straight In the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be ex alted, every mountain and hill shall be made low; the crooked shall be made straight and the rough places plain; the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see It together, for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it." By divine Providence are not all way preparers, all highway-makers, every up bullder of valleys, the levelers of moun tains, all strong arms which would straighten things crooked, and each soft hand that smoothes the rough; are they not summoned by the Voice to stand to gether as they hope to see the glory of the Lord together? So may It be with us In these ends of the earth, in these be glnnlgs of a new world over which we invoke a new heaven. Should we not know, shall not we "hear that the ever lasting God, the Lord, the creator of the ends of the earth, falnteth not, neither is weary?" Together let us remember there is no searching of his understanding, and he glveth power to the faint. With one Heart and one mind Is It not fit that we be lievers should wait upon the Lord to gether, that he may renew our strength? When one mounts up with wings as an eagle, the first things of sight are the Wide commonplaces of the landscape plain, forests, mountains, streams, bound together upon one map of earth and by one horizon of sky. Surely the turning point of a century, to those who will climb a Mttle, becomes a plsgah, a hill of emi nence, from which we look before and after, and may have discourse of things in the large, of thoughts In their continui ties. We are here together, fellow-Christians, and brethren of the mother church, the house pi Israel, believers all in. God, In the divine humanity, in the everlasting gospel of righteousness, forgiveness, peace and love, converts to a spiritual universe, rejolcera In the hope of immortality, cov enanted, as we love the Lord, to bate that which is evil, to cleave to that which Is good. We are bating no Jot nor tittle of our differences In theoryq and method. In Intellectual conception, in theology or dearly-loved custom of the household of faith. We are ready, all of us, as we ought to be, "to greatly find quarrel in a straw when honor's at. the stake," for our clan name or tribal livery; but the .great er argument of moving time within God's eternity has stirred our breasts to this occasion, this keeping of a new century's birthday, by commemorating our fellow ship of agreements and purposes; our com mon hopes, and, it may chance, our com mon fears. The sense of a common dan ger may help some of us to forget our camp prides; the sense of a coming good, a beauty of holiness, a kingdom of God larger than any provinces in which we have hitherto dwelt, may be the rollcall to draw us Into one. Together can we not front the .Common enemy of Immor ality, worldliness, lrrelIglon? Together ought we not devoutly to pray and to work, to suffer, if need be, and finally to triumph when "God has gone up with a shout"; and whenever we behold some satan falling from heaven, or see the joy of angels In heaven over one sinner that repents? Of the many things in common which religiously-minded men and women hold, 1 think .of one which it seems to me may be set apart and above the rest, for a brief considering, and for the inspiration It always brings. Do we not all stand .pledged , to the confidence that goodness is stronger than wickedness? Is not this a distin guishing quality of the religiously-tempered mind, as compared with that which is called a worldly temper? Goodness Is better than badness; but many a man who can say that does not say and does not live as If he believed that goodness Is stronger than badness. Irrellgion and habitual selfishness may grant you that the- mean are worse than the magnani mous, that the pure are better than the selfish, than the merciful are more lovely than the cruel, that peace Is truer than strife, but the faithful servants of Jeho vah, the followers of Jesus, the devout theist, .one and all, have they not the conviction that these lovable things are stronger than the unlovalbe, that good ness now and today as well as 'In some future Is a more potent thing than wick edness? This matter of power is not a question of bulk; it is a question of the relation of means to ends, a question of dynamics in the world of life and achievement and character. Is selfishness or unselfishness the mightier? Is truthtelling more en during that duplicity? In business are in tegrity and conslderateness more con structive than improbity and ruthless ness? In society are the modest stronger than the forthputting? In statecraft are he highmlnded and, incorruptible stronger than their opposltes? Are wisdom, char acter, love, more powerful factors In the world than folly, wealth and self-serving? The doubt of these things is tne only real heresy, as the taking or the negative regarding them Is the only black Infidelity of thought and life. There Ir. in deed a multitude saying "wealth Is stronger than character and might than right." There are many who are saying: "Virtue is better and ought to be more powerful than vice." But must not re ligion proclaim: "Not only better, not only to be, not only Is going to be some day, but now, in this hour and place, gpodness Is stronger than evil?" The man of God has this persuasion, after measuring power against power. He does not minimize evil, he does not define evil as "good in the making." He sees Its enormity and baleful power, and comprehends that sin brings forth death; nevertheless he plants his feet upon the rock; he underlooks appearances, he over looks outward contrasts and the might of goodness is to him as apparent as was the mountain full of horsemen and of chariots of fire round about the prophets of old. This is a spiritual vision, only those can possess It who believe we are inhabitants of a spiritual universe. Do not the heirs of God, of every name and age share this victorious conviction? It is given voice to where Homer makes war, crying Diomed bid all the other Greeks sail away, "And I alone, with Sthenelos. will fight till we attain the goal of Ilios, for in God's name are we come"; or when Ulysses says to Telema chus as against the lawless wooers: "Mark and listen to me and consider whether Athene and Father Zeus will suffice for us twain, or whether J shall cast about for some other champion." Socrates and Pho clon believed It. St. Francis of Assisl and Milton aver it. Gideon at the ford, dismissing all but the 300; Judas Macca beus, confident In the hour ol Bethhoron, King Henry V triumphing before his bat tle of St. Crispin's day. Livingston or William Lloyd Garrison are types of which there are thousands upon thou sands in whom the conviction that right Is stronger than might wrought out the seeming miracle of "Captain Good over coming Captain 111." The myths and legends, sayings and apologues of all ages tell us of the weak overcoming the strong, the slow the swift, the simple putting to naught the wisdom of1 the wise. Such Is the potent lesson conveyed to us In the story of Prometheus, a righteous Titan, outreslsting and triumphing over an un righteous and unlovely Jove. It Is given us In the apologue of Abraham's Interces sion for the wicked cities of the plain. If 10 righteous, nay. If even five, had been found, the threatened doom could be averted. Does not that mean that the few resolutely good, and pure, and lovers of order, are not only worth all the rest, but like salt or leaven are powerful enough to overcome or transform dark ness to light? In a just cause does not one chase a thousand, and a hundred a host, as often as history Is outwrltten? In an orches tra, it is said, when confusion and dis cord arise, if one violinist with his Instru ment keeps true to score and time, and drives straight on, the others, like a flock, recover from panic and disorder, and, catching on, the swell and swing come back triumphantly. Such power Is there in the soul of goodness. Justice, har mony and loe. They never know real defeat. The stars In their couses fight against the Slseras of oppression, sensu alism and vice. The culmination of science and philosophy, of the profound est study of society and of man In the century we are passing from, is a new optimism, not cheap, not indolent, not all outline and no shadow, nor perspective, but sane and Intensive, measuring the slow-turning arc of a mighty purpose In which suns are dust, and the life and races Of men as a dream when one wakes, but ever the good Is coming up permost, the individual soul is more precious, and character the one thing that lasts. Evil chokes In its own baf fling fumes, a seed of self-destruction breeds In every Injustice, a fury pursues lust, a confusion of tongues haunts every compact of lawlessness and mammon-worship. The same beauteous Power that springs the rainbow In the sky and tells us Springtime and harvest, cold and heat, Summer and Winter, day and night, shall not cease, plants In you and me. as his dlvinest gift, if we are faithful to It, the confidence that righteousness, though but as a grain of mustard seed, can pluck up wrong by the roots, and say to moun tains of vested Impurity or greed, "Be cast into the sea," and they will obey. And because all other things we hold In common depend upon this confidence, root as Jt Is out of which each effort for speci fic ends must spring, because this faith in the might of good is a banner under which men feel most thrillingly that they are laborers together with God, and, be ing members one of another, are sure of leaders who will sift out imperfect instru mentalities, conserving every moral force and devising great means for great ends, may we not emphasize it, as the new cen tury rises, and, whatever else we differ about or mistake or err In, shall we not j resolve to pass on this. sublime faith to the generations who will stand here -when we are gone? "AMERICA FOB -THE "WOULD Dr. Morrison Opposed to Forcing: Oar Ideal Upon- UnTrtlliaa; Fcrelgaeri, Dr. A. A. Morrison delivered an address on the subject, "America, for the World." He began by saying: "When our distin guished dhalrman. Bishop Cranston, made his eloquent opening address, and referred to the achievements of the Nation, and speaking of our attitude in going to the Philippines and patting the little brown men on tile back. I said, 'not yet. I re membered my attempts to catch a butter fly In my childhood. I looked -under the hat and it was gone, and there it was flying around, to my disappointment." The speaker sold his topic involved these people and all others we were brougSit Into contact with financially, so cially and otherwise. He spoke of con quest for greed and later on in-his ad dress condemned forcible expansion. Dr. Morrison said the principles of .the Government of the United States repre sented the highest' Ideals of government the world had ever known, and continued: "We should not condemn the Govern ment because the Ideals of its life and God excel the practice of the believers in it We had set before us an Ideal splendid beyond-descriptlon, practiced only when . citizenship arose to the opportu nities that are suggested by it." The lack of perfect conditions was com mented on, and' it was stated that the blame should be located where it belongs among the political people. The speaker said: "You never can raise the' morality of a place beyond the character of the people who occupy it." Continuing, he said: "But we stand here today, having passed the experimental stage, yet still subject to justifiable criti cism. We rejoice to know our feet are firmly planted as a Nation; but we are well aware we are far from realizing the Ideal we have before us, and we are per fectly willing to admit with shame, may be, any deviations made from that Ideal. "We should endeavor to steer a straight er course during the century to come. The Government depends on the Individuality and responsibility of Its citizens for its well being. Might is not right or we would not be here today, and we are not Justified in going into another nation, whose Ideals had been much lower than our own, because we have the power to do so, and lorce them to surrender them." Dr. Morrison, speaking further along this line, said: "I deny the right of the American people to take even their re ligion Into a foreign nation against the will of that people. Religion Is never propagated without the consent of the people whom you teach." Dr. Morrison said It was not his Inten tion to proclaim his unbelief in foreign missions, and in conclusion said: "We stand before the whole world as a Naton to whom God has given the greatest priv ileges and responsibilities." "THE OUTLOOK.' Rabbi Wise Demands Fellowship On a Platform of Equality. Dr. Stephen Wise, pastor of Beth Israel congregation, spoke as follows: As a. member of the house of Israel, upon me Is the duty in this hour to obey three Jewish laws. The first prescribes that upon every joyous occasion and ev ery memorable season, the faithful give expression to their thankfulness in the J terms, "Blessed art Thou, Lord, our God, who hast preserved us alive to witness and to rejoice in this time." I thank God for having been sustained alive to be hold this day, and to take part in these glorious services of allegiance to the Di vine leadership. Again are we taught to recite a blessing on meeting face to face with a King. The benediction to be spok en In the presence of a kingly personage do I now pronounce, for I stand before a royal presence, a kingly gathering, an assembly which Is the fulfillment of the prophesies of the past, and at the same time a forecast of the blessings of peace and fellowship awaiting humanity In the near future. The third commandment which memory conjures up, forbids a man from parting with his neighbor without uttering a word, of earnest and friendly counsel. Our union services may well be named the peroration of the lflth century, for they symbolize the true and abiding achievements of the century and of the centuries. Let, then, the valedictory ot the century to this meeting be In the nature of a solemn admonition: that our resolutions touching the higher life and Its finer moral purposes, which are being J iramea this day, be cherished throughout the year, and throughout such, a. measure ot the new century as may be allotted to us. Our pledges, made, in common, to consecrate ourselves unto a life of worthy nm.st a ! nAma oim tniief Xa Vn ored for tney are not alone an agreement wlth .self, but a. pact with God and a covenant with .one another. Let us in terpret the valedictory of -the dying cen tury to be a reminder that what we con ceive to be this marvelous and unprece dented meeting of today might have been held -at the dawning of. the 19th century, bntithat soon thereafter a reaction set in, continuing throughout many years, which again made a fetich of form and formal Ism In religion and appeared to be un concerned respecting the lifeless, spirit less character of the golden creeds Inso far as these remained untouched by the breath of humanity. This meeting be our pledge to abide by the standards of the new faith and the new life as uplifted by us' in this hour: "The heavens are open ing"; shall we not be true to the vision that is -before us? Our coming together upon the threshold of the new century was clearly foretold long, long ago. The warrant and the in spiration for a meeting of men of many faiths Is to be found not alone in the widening thought of the new era, but also In 'that great prophetic outburst of Israel's greatest prophet. "For my house shall be called a house of prayer unto all BOTH: YOUR DOPE KILLED HIM. peoples." That was the glorious outlook of little less than 3000 years ago. Our coming together in a spirit of brother hood and friendship signifies that the prophetic vision Is very nigh unto reali zation. A fellowship of the members of all the churches Is not merely possible today, but very near at hand, provided we all aspire after a real fellowship, and not after that false fellowship which is but another name for toleration from above. We must have fellowship upon the platform of equality toleration can exist only between superior and Inferior. Our fellowship must be one not of hands but of hearts. The legions of the devil work in harmony; shall not the seekers after God dwell side by side in peace? The hosts of unrighteousness and all man ner of Iniquity war not upon each other. Shall then the furtherers of the good and the nobte hate one another at heart? We of the world's churches represent the di visions of the army rof the Lord, setting out to capture the strongholds of unbe lief and to lay siege to the embattle ments of evil doing. The victory can nev er be won if we, the allies, give battle to one another, instead of waging common war upon our mighty enemy. The allied armies, representing the powers of the world, liave achieved 'their purpose, and have gained a triumph In far-off China, wreaking havoc upon the anti-foreign Boxers, and relieving the hard-pressed Europeans, because they went into battle under a common leadership, though every force was loyal to Its own national stand ard. The churches of the world are the wings of a vast army; let these be mar shaled together, shoulder to shoulder, in the great battle for righteousness, which is the goal and Inspiration of every church. We can attain unto this ideal fellow ship, provided that each of us docs his part honestly in striving after the end we seek in common. In the first place, the teachers of every church must be strenuous to teach a right view of the meaning of religion, that not any one religion is truth absolute, but only a seeking after, or endeavor to grasp the truth. Judaism is not a finality; it is a step toward the truth, and Christianity is not more than such another step. Again, religious leaders must emphasize the im portance not so much of right thinking and correct belief as of right doing, and worthy practice. Religion is not a theory, it Is dally life; It is conduct, It Is the moral habit of the soul. Yet again, we who profess to worship God in truth must forbear to spread false teachings, such teachings as lead naturally to HI will and prejudice, to intolerance and perse cution. You of the Christian churches have no right to perpetuate the falsehood which Is taught to millions upon millions of Christian children that I and my broth ers in Israel are "Christ-klllera." We, on the other hand, of the house of Israel, must be prepared to tell of the worth of Jesus as a moral leader of men to accept him as of the world's worthiest and best. Furthermore, when the need arises, as oft It does arise, the churches must stand together, one for all and all for one, to avert a wrong, to call a halt unto unright eousness. When, a. few years ago, a hell ish conspiracy was hatched against an honorable officer In the. French Army be cause he was a member of an unpopular faith, the churches, which purport to be the gospellers of justice and righteous ness upon earth, should have entered to gether upon a new crusade In behalf ot this crucified Jew. What shall be said of that great church which could have undone the wrong and brought the truth to light had It but been willing to speak the word, which It acknowledged itself un willing to utter In defense of "a Semite accused of treason," forgetting in its un christian hatred that Christianity was founded by "a Semite accused of treason." I call upon Christendom to protest in all lt3 strength against the awful anti-Jewish outrages which are being perpetrated every day in Russia, Roumanla and oth er East European countries. The real fellowship of the churches of God can not, come to pass lintll Christendom raises its voice to save from the gallows a Jew ish boy confined under sentence- of death in Austria today on the charge of haying murdered a Christian ghrl in order that her blood might be used In the synagogue for ritual purposes. Christendom must give the lie to this infamous charge. Christendom must vindicate this youth for Jesus went to the synagogue and worshipped within Its walls. Finally, in order to bring about any genuine and lasting fellowship, we of the churches must here highly resolve to la bor together In peace and amity for all that Is good, for the spread of civic righteousness, for the upllftment of na tional ideals, for a single standard of mor ality, so that we shall have an end to a gold standard of virtue for womanhood and a silver standard of morality for men. Countless are the great and holy tasks to which the churches might address them selves In common, could they but forget themselves', would they but remember God. Our outlook of today Is upon a new fellowship, a fellowship which Implies St. Paul Pioneer Press. not uniformity of religious worship, but a unity of religious spirit; not a surrender of the landmarks of any church, but peace among the disciples of all the churches; not a compromise of the truth as pursued by any creed, but mutual re spect among the followers of every belief. The fellowship of our outlook would In volve no loss to any church, but imply a gain for every church. We shall find that in the measure In which we lengthen our cords, will we strengthen our stakes. Let not the walls of separation between us be iron barriers, but walls of Ice, melting at the first glance of the sun of love. We wish to lay the foundation of tho church of humanity universal. Let every church contribute a stone to these foundations, and let these stones be tak en up from amid the ruins of the walls which now separate and divide us off from one another. 'For my house shall be called the house of prayer unto all peo ples." When the bars of creed and speech and race, which sever. Shall be fused in one humanity, forever! POTENTIALITIES OF RELIGION. Dr. Edgar P. Hill Demands That Men Shall TaUe on Power for Good. Dr. E. P. Hill was on the programme to deliver an address on the subject "The Potentialities of Religion," but as the time was short, he generously gave way to Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, who, he said, was a new man, while the public had frequently heard him, and he would fur nish some notes of the address he had Intended to deliver to The Oregonlan, which he did, as follows: "When James Watt opened a shop in Salt Market for the construction of a steam engine he hung out the sign, 'Power to sell.' And power Is a com modity for which all the world Is seek ing. Men have dug into the earth for power with which to carry their har vests from place to place. They have sailed across seas to find more dreadful enginery of war with which to fight bat tles. They have scaled the skies and grasped the power of the thunderbolt that they might send more swiftly their messages. Where Is the man with power to sell? We wifl part with everything to possess this treasure. But man cannot live by bread alone. A large bank ac count cannot minister to the aesthetic nature. A telephone on the desk cannot make Its owner wise unto salvation. Rid ing along on an. express train the passen ger gets no larger grasp of truth than does he who rides on the stage coach. We do not need so much the power to send a message quickly from place to place, for, as Ruskin reminds us, it is useless to have the ability to send words under tho sea quickly unless we have words of wisdom to send. What we need today and every day is the power to live one With another, lovingly and hopefully and fearlessly. "In some respects we are very different from the people of a century and a half ago. The Paris nobleman of 150 years ago walked about with a great wig covered with flour, his hat under his arm, while his noble lady walked by his side with her face dotted with court paster until she looked as If covered with the signs of the zodiac, and her head crowned with a full-rigged Bhip. But the heart prob lems of those days were the same that press upon us. We stand by the fresh made graves of our beloved dead. So did they. Today the strong oppress the weak, and the pleasure-lover forgets that he has a .soul. It was the same then. Disciples of a dirt gospel lift their heads impudently toward the throne of God. And it has always been so. Where then shall we get the wisdom to live sanely? Where shall we find the strength to bear our burdens bravely and to enable us to go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart? When Perrfer, the French Prime Minis ter, looked out upon a lawless and rest less people, he exclaimed: 'France must have religion.' And what a nation needs to make It calm and strong every in dividual of the nation needs for the same reasons. '"This is a sad age in which we live. The prevailing note of literature is in & minor key. Men may ask the question: 'Is life worth living? and no one thinks of dismissing the subject abruptly. Whither are wo to turn for that exult ant spirit which leads a man to shout. 'Oh, the wild Joys of living I' Some peo ple imagine that the difference between the man of hope and the man of despair Is that they are differently situated; they look at different objects. The one lives on the boulevard and the other In an at tic The one has a sound body and the other is a dyspeptic. Rut it Is not neces sarily so. The man of despair becomes the man of hope simply by the Introduc tion into his world of a new factor. See those two peasants on Millet's canvas. One man sees there only two weary toll era and some clods. The picture brings to his heart only a message of poverty and monotony and drudgery. Standing before it he talks angrily ot the oppres sion ot the rich. He cries out against the worthIessnes3 of life. He curses the day that gave birth to the son of toll. But listen! The Angelus Is ring off there In the distance, and as the peasants bend their heads the heavens open and the two become worshipers before the throne of God. If only the religious factor could be Introduced Into men's lives, what a transformation this old world would un dergo, as if, when the trees were still dripping from the storm, the sudden sun shine were to change the dark forest into a scene of glory. "More than increased power in send ing trains across the continent, we need the power that can make men righteous. One Is almost afraid to look the sins of men squarely in the face and report what he has seen, lest he be called a pessi mist. But look about you for one day and give nn honest report of your in vestigations. Law Is trampled under foot of men, lust casts Its black shadow across the threshold of the home. Places of vice are crowded with mad throngs. Everywhere we look on the ruins of man hood as if a hostile army had swept through the land, leaving desolation In Its track. Now what Is to be the rem edy? Assuming with Emerson that ig norance is the source of our woes, the disciple of culture proposes to endow libraries and build colleges, as if an educated rascal were less to be feared than an Ignorant one. Assuming with Bellamy that Inequality in the holdings of wealth Is the cause of all our miser ies, the social reformer is sure that If every man had as many acres of land as every other, the golden age would be here, not stopping to think that a sensu alist with $50 in his pocket is just as much to be dreaded as If he had nothing. No, my friends, what the world needs to startle it from its cups Is the preach ing of that old law given amidst the thundering and lightning of Sinai Thou shalt have no other Gods before me. Re niember the Sabbath day to keep It holy. Honor thy father ana thy mother. Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not commit adultery. 'Thou shalt not steal.' It is obedience to these laws, written by the finger of God and not heaped up gold, that represents the true stability of any city. "What is more necessary to true man hood than courage? The men of heroic mould have always had courage. They have dared to stand for their convictions. They have stood unflinchingly against evil and error. They have moved Into the unknown future as if rushing to vic tory. And by what process Is this iron to be Injected into the blood? "There are some lines from Browning's Paracelsus,' which General Gordon re garded as the choicest In all literature: I go to prove my soul, I see my way as birds their trackless way. 1 shall arrive! "What time, what circuit first, I ask not. But unless Ood sends his hall Or blinding- fire balls, sleet or stifling snow. In some time. His good time. I shall arrive. He guides me and the bird, in His good time. "Oh for courage like that, oh for a will ingness to face any foe. If duty calls. Oh for men whoso voices ring with shouts of victory as they plunge into the un known years. And all this is the blessed ministry of religion which whispers In the ear: 'He guides thee and the birds.' "We who are gathered here today rep resent very diverse creeds. Our ances tors spoke harshly one to another, and sometimes sought to press home their be liefs on the points of their swords, "there has been no fiercer opposition perhaps than between Christian and Jew. Re calling the names of his splendid heroes tho Jew has looked with aggravating dis dain upon his persecutors. And the Christian, forgetting the spirit of the gentle Nazarene, has driven the Jew into perpetual exile through the cen turies. But here today as we stand at the threshold ot a new century. Chris tian and Jew clasp hands. We need not surrender a single Item of our -creed. But In the coming years we can stand to gether for righteousness, for love, for God, and thus greet the unseen with a cheer. COST OF LIGHTS. The Wastefulness of Present Means of Illumination. Dr. John Henderson in Cassler's Magasin. Perhaps one of the oldest of all prac tical applications of physics has been, that concerned with the production of arti flcal lght, and It Is strange that, although the problem has been worked at for so many years. It has even now, at the end of the enlightened 19th century, received a very unsatisfactory solution. When, we compare, say, the great ncrease in effi ciency of the steam engine and dynamo of the present day over that obtained 20 years ago with the increase in efficiency of our sources of artificial light, we are bound to adunt that a very small advance has been made. This unsatisfactory state of affairs Is due largely to the fact that the true nature of the phenomenon of light itself has been demonstrated by physical science only within very recent years, and a thorough knowledge of the nature of any phenomena to be repro duced must In all cases precede any sat isfactory and efficient production of them. Under the best conditions obtaining at present, out of every 100 tons of coal de livered at gas works or electric light sta tions, something like 98 tons are, as far as tho production of light is concerned, absolutely wasted, and go to produce use less heat. When one considers the en ormous quantity of coal used annually for the production of artificial Illumina tion, the absolute waste of 93 per cent of it seems little short of criminal. Will the problem ever be solved? It must be confessed that at present the prospects are far from being bright. Some means must be found of exciting ether vibrations between the visible limits only, and of eliminating the slow, radiant heat waves. Whatever method may be even tually employed, it is interesting to note that already, on a small scale, the prob lem has been solved by the firefly, the most delicate measurements having failed to detect any radiant heat In the light emitted by this little creature. Surely this ought to be an Interesting subject for Investigation by the psyiologlcal chem ist, who, working in conjunctoin with the physicist, might enable us to get nearer the solution of this Important question. Odd Time System Ingenious De-rice. Washington Star. Among the Montagnais Indians a crude form of sun dial is used m hunting to let the squaws, who follow their lords and masters, know whether, they may "take" It easy" or "hurry up," for they might fare badry If they lagged behind when their husbands were ready for supper. And so the men when hunting erect In the snow a stick at some well-known place and draw the exact line ot the stick's shadow in the snow before going on. When the women arrive there with their pots and other cooking' utensils they note the new line of the shadow, and by ob serving the angle which it forms with the line already drawn in the snow, they can tell how far ahead their husbands are. HOME FORTHEM IN OREGON PROPOSED TO 'MOVE PITT RIVER INDIANS FROM CALIFORNLU Desired That They Be Located on Klamath Reservation State ment of Case. WASHINGTON, Dec 28,-An effort Is being made by some of the employes of the Indian service in Oregon, and other interested Individuals, to have the Pitt River Indians transferred from their pres ent location, in Northern California, to the Klamath reservation, in Oregon, where they would have every advantage of schools and other Governmental aid, which they are at present lacking. The Pitt River Indians consider that they have been sadly neglected In th past, and are petitioning Congress and the Indian Office for some relief.. In their memorials they say that In early time the Klamaths, Modocs and Flutes carried away many of their children as captives and made slaves of them. The United States soldiers, they allege, chased them from place to place and killed many of their number, which was followed by the confiscation of their lands, for which they were never paid a cent, while other tribes have been well paid for theirs. These Indians now find themselves with out a school, and are asking the Depart ment and Congress to authorize a school for their tribe. In fact, in their efforts to have such a school established, thes Indians have paid out large fees to law yers, who promised that they would se cure such a school for them. - Now, In addition to asking for a school, they ask that they be given back a part of their lands as a reservation, upon which they hope to have a boarding school erected. In fact, they now go so far as to endeavor to enlist the support of the Oregon delegation aside from tha delegation from their own state. In addition to the facts here recited, a memorial to the Senate and House of Representatives goes on to show that the Pitt River tribe has been friendly to the Government since 1865; that the Indians have always occupied a section of Modoo County, CaL, where they have assimilated with the white population and become an Integral part of the community. Most ot the Indians have acquired lands ana homes, without a reservation or recogni tion by the general Government. It seems that there are 225 children among them who are of school age, but are without opportunity for obtaining an education, though they are anxious for an opportu nity. The Fort Bldwell school, some 40 miles away, Is totally Inaccessible, and Is In the land of the Plutes, the deadly en, mles of the Pitt River Indians. In cases where Pitt River Indians have attended this school. It has been with much fric tion, and satisfactory results are not ob tained. In view of these facts, and the very evi dent fact that the Piute schools at Forv Bldwell can never be used by the Pitt River children to any extent. It has been suggested, and, in fact, urged that the neglected tribe bo carried to Klamath by force. If necessary, where It will be pos sible to care for and school them to their own interests, and where they may have ample farming lands upon which to raise their own individual crops. This is a question which has so far just been called to tho attention of the dele gation. No action has yet been taken, and may not be for some months to come, yet it is a question which is being per sistently urged, and will undoubtedly be more extensively considered when all the facta are made known. t Cong-res and the Arid Lands. Salt Lake Tribune. The arid states have but about 20 votes for President. This is .what is the mat ter in the first place. Second, a great many Eastern Congressmen do not want the -slightest Government help extended to the arid lands. Soma do not In the least comprehend the scope of the ques tion, others feel as did Senator Plumb, of Kansas, that to throw open new tracts of land with water, in the arid belt, would have the effect ot drawing settlers from their states and Increasing the population of the West. They are content to vote public money to improve the navigation of petty rivers, on which no boat bigger than a Jolly-boat can run, but their hearts are broken when the proposition is made to add some millions of acres to the area of the public domain that can be culti vated. It is a matter of education. It will take years yet to teach & majority in, Congress a little sense. Pears' To keep the skin clean is to wash the excretions from it off; the skin takes care of itself inside, if not blocked outside. 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