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1 I I l! A! ly Jly Jly 'sSTABLISHBD' !M 1878. HILLSBORO, N. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1901. NEW 8ERIES-VOL. XXIII. NO. 17. f i ii i i ii i ii mm THE ROOTING SWINE. , r xi,;- i t u:,.v I S,di'th: So their ,vay; " -.i"f TTTITII JIUUL J L U1L Lll. I 4-.. .TO 'he wl 60ils T-i, -i HTC more coarse than the hillside clay, (i0,"t"fov the graveworm s prey, FlU 1 i- ,v-ith the fumes ot a brutish, wine, r Th-rt the will of self obey, 5 sSllS hordes of the rooting swine. c ; the average of earth, Sh t from their muddy sties they stray, in dullness and wax in girth, 6 barter, and cheat and pay, , b'- ' hp muckheaps stay, ji little. 'fi'ailfon husk and carrion dine, v4i down to the dirt for aye Sillcss hordes of the rooting swine. deed, are of little worth r ;. ;f A flaunt it though they may: vJotbt atones for the spirit s dearth 5hes, vanity, nor display. L shall pass in a slow decay. u rotting mackerel stink-and shine, VnMOtten, even uu juuut Soulless hordes ot the rooting swine. ENVOY. iViUot 'Twas a minstrel ld and gray, 4c struck his harp and his eyes met ii - 'ooked at the crowds and I heard him h3 y hordes of the rooting swine." Jj,;nK.i:t MeGaffey,in the St. Louis Mirror. The Bachelor Cousin. ANDY, he's coming again J w this year the same as be- 2 j O fore. About how many i i'A years has Cousin Jim been TfOJf coming here to stay the summer?" Twenty, counting the last stop which was from May until November; really, that makes twenty and a half tiD'.. your Cousin Jim has visited us. He began early and stayed late the last timo. you know. What has Jim Fos- dyke got to say this time, Silas? "jsinie old thing, Mandy; same old tliiug. Jim never changes his tune; works on uiy feelings and tolls about how he longs to visit the old nooks ami corners of the farm once more. Speaks in a fetching sort of way about the old swimming hole down under the willows; also grips me tighter than a burr about the fishing place below the mill danj, where he once yanked out a four-pound pike with a minnow hook Jim's got the same old gift of drawing folks to i nn that he always had. Poor olfl boy! He has not changed ,a bit since be went to the city to build up a fortune. He's cut out for a bachelor and will always go it alone to the end. If hp was married and was going to liriuz along a haughty wife and a lot of fresh and saucy children I'd think umerciiL about ins coming here year aiter year. The poor, lonesome old boy '-lings to the place if he has got barrels of money: I can't say as he throws his wealth around when he does coni? I'liiy pays ordinary, price for board, that's :iu and no more. I will say this aboui Cousin Jim he never finds any buiii with things; he never complains; arm meals or cold, they're all the same to Jim. He really seems to en W plain fare the best, and always tells 111(1 not to fuss with fancy dishes. He 'vawl? up the narrow stairs to the "itle chamber without a murmur. Some re!i old bachelors who live most of the J'w in high-toned hotels and fashion ai,!(' hoarding houses would find lots lf fault. He don't; he's common like ""u easy to please: just likes to take 011 bis float and loaf around; hangs m tuo fence as though he was watch nip grass grow; loves to sit on the i:o in the evenjng like any poor ",:b listening to the tree toads and """S"- Silas, your Cousin. Jim has ,,fver risen a peg above you if he has p ".irreig of money. Poor Jim; I saw 10 as ailing .when he was here the '".time. Perhaps that ..was the rea- ' 1 wiry he came so early and stayed i ... . . 1 ont like to write and teU him that ( rops look poor, and that we are -a littl e Pinched, and don't rpnllv fnr wany this ' 'r. . , , JJont you do it. ilnVf vaii An Av, hy' that would-be cmei and and 14 wouli break the poor 1 ''"(-'helor's hpnrt V rA uT has got left of the old stock in xne rest are all gone to Silas, Cousin Jim just pines fN,. " "ie sight nf I blue - vuj. iciv-c, nuu iuc uiu W II ova you and he were boys '"Sother. Tf ia i 7 iiKR ji MpnvDn wit ii mm hack here with you and .the dear X0.v ""s ue loves so mucu. ,.. TeU Sit richt drvnni nn toll him r. ' Ay" be tickled to see him asrain. '"ill the apple trees arr; bumping oho., i lur inuow kii nr i-Un of the little "uuoer: tpii ll?TV 4V J. J.1 J &'0er . luai iu'J grass is , . than ever, that the snowball wTo , ss 115avJ'' and that the roses - i.t:vei. so sweet you might tell I oVe- ? my last churning was the best 'vs' xrrned out since we got-the new vais(.ji '.rentiH a word about my tl. biscuits and say a little some- lioiw tue bees and the - nice ,hf' old COme like a breath from iio ro,8iVeet bomo when Poor Cousin bo Jr a11 that. He will hardly 7'e to wait, poor boy!" It w duly c .tbe sam old home-coming, nifre ?n Slil Jim hunched over a little troi t? the ouggy.-.as. Silas drove station through the shady I lanes of maples leading to the little farmhmiKA flisnnnnnfl cimvnc 4-V.o. annln A A. j - During the short drive he said but little, and when Silas asked him J a question he -lesitated, faltered and rubbed his chin before replying. When Old Gray turned down the lane where, the robins were singing and the squir rels chippering, a trace of the old light came back to: the old bachelor's eyes and the faded, sunken cheeks glowed a "Si," he murmured, laying his thin hand upon the other's knee, "let me drive Old Gray home through the lane." . .' ... The lines hung listlessly from his hands as the old mare slowly walked along the familiar place toward the house, where Mandy stood in the door way with a glad smile of welcome overspreading her kindly face. Then, when the horse halted at the block, he said handing over the lines: "I think I ; have been driving right into Heaven, Si." Why, Cousin Jim, I am so glad to see you again. It seems so like old times to see you and Silas driving home through the lane." And the good woman came forward, with both hands outstretched. Her eyes grew moist when she saw how feeble the old bachelor cousin was. She and Silas had to almost lift him from the buggy, and her strong arms supported the frail form as he walked with dragging steps up the gravel walk and into the cool, flower-scented parlor. His eyes roved about the quiet place and he sighed: "Heaven, Heaven at last!" "You lie right down on the couch. Cousin Jim, and take a nap- while I get supper. I'll call you in time to wash and freshen up. I'm going to have some raised biscuits and honey you always liked that." The tired man laid his head back and murmured f "Dear Mandy! I am so glad to get back home again. I will rest for a few moments. I am so tired and so so happy to get home home!" Mandy went out and closed the parlor door. "This must be Heaven at last. It is so still, so sweet, so nice. To-morrow I will go down to the mill dam; I will go to the old swimming hole under the willows once more, where dear old Si and I used to swim. I will sit on the stoop in the cool of the evening and I will be at home once more with the good and true and unselfish ones." And thus he murmured as he drifted into the land of sweet dreams. At rest, finally, there in the cool, flower- scented parlor of the little farmhouse, afar from the noise and bustle of, the city. ' The bees buzzed among the lilacs, where the humming birds whirred; the apple blossoms bunted against the blinds and the fragrant petals fell upon the sleeper's face but he did riot stir. He was dreaming of the dear old days of boyhood, days filled With joy and delight and sweetness. Then the good angel of the old man's dreams came in a chariot of silver, and his 'eyelids were touched with a' magic wand. He roved in green pastures. where blue cloud-fleeced skies bent; and he wandered by crystal streams in the cool shady woodlands where birds made glad the fragrant breezes of the summer day of unending bliss. And then then it was no ldnger a dream. Oh. the glory of it all: It was a blessed reality. "Jim!" There came no response from the old man on the conch. Silas, come quick! All is not well with poor Jim." They approached the couch and looked down upon the face. The tired look had disappeared. There was a smile instead. Cousin Jim ' was no longer ill he was at rest, peacefully, at rest. And all was well with him. The city relatives wailed when his will was read. The good and true ones who had loved him to the end. the kindly Jones who livd in the littl house at the end of the lane Jim had given all tb them. New York Times. Timely Hints on Giving- We should not give people things they do not want. We should avoid giving anybody the mumps or the chicken-pox if we can help it. Do not give a friend the cold shoul- der without baked beans and hot cof- fee to sro with-it. A man should not giv a lady a kiss unless he thinks she would enjoy it, except in the case of his wife and his mother-in-law. , Do not give red suspenders to a to tal stranger; he might prefer those of a pale blue shade instead. Do not present a bucking broncho to a tall, pale man of sedentary habits, ns he would not likely live, long to en joy it. '- When you give castor oil to a howl ing infant give it for its intrinsic worth and not merely as an evidence of your regard. Lippincotf s. A Long Weatlier Cycle. A long weather cycle of about thirty five years seems to appear in the Brit ish Isles. From records of ninety years, Mr. Douglas Archibald concludes that a dry period has just passed, and that the years 1903 to about 1920 will show more than an average rainfall and low barometer, and' two bushels per acre deficiency in wheat yield. - ' ' ' ' i1 .... m y ' - ' ' arm. ICS GREEN FOOD IS NECESSARY. Some who raise poultry object tc "making such a fuss about their food," henee will not give them green food. The best way 'to test the value of green food is to take two lots of laying hens, feeding one lot green food with the grain several times a week and the other lot one-third more grain without the green food. The result will be that the first lot of hens;wlll laythe great est number of eggs.' There is no par ticular food value or egg-making value in the green food, but it has a decided action on the digestive organs, which is beneficial. The hens that are fed grain wholly can not and do not give the best returns in eggs. As stated before in this department it makes little difference what the green food is, provided the hens like it, if it is fed with some changes (raw at times and cooked other days) and in some variety. Every farmer who grows potatoes has enough very small tubers to keep a large flock of hens in good laying condition all winter, and fed in this way they will give better returns than when fed to swine. In dianapolis News. FEEDING THE FALL CALF. When one has a calf which it is de sired be added to the dairy the point of good care in its early years is of vital importance. If in a section where the calf cannot go out of doors a great deal during the winter some provis ion should be made so that she may have exercise in an enclosure which is dry and where some sun may be had if possible. To a certain extent this is quite as important as the food the calf has. One of the best rations for the calf is skim milk, but it will not do to make this any considerable of the ration for the day, but in addition the calf should have all the good clover hay it will eat. If this is not possible then let the supply of corn fodder giv en be not only -liberal, but of the best quality; pick out the smaller stalks. those that retain some of the green if possible. If the calf is three months old or thereabouts, the grain food should con sist of from two to tonr pounds daily and may be corn and oats fed whole, although a mixture of equal parts of corn meal, ground oats and wheat bran are more satisfactory. Treat it gent ly, but do not spoil it by petting. Teach it habits of cleanliness by always keep ing the stall clean and the coat brushed several times a week. A calf brought up in the manner described will make a valuable addition to the dairy. In dianapolis News. KEEP CORN IN RATIONS. While most poultrymen advocate va riety in rations, and this means feeding one grain one day and another the next and so on, rather than feeding mixed grains, it is well understood that there are cases where the mixed grains. must be fed. Unfortunately, too many fowls are fed freely on corn and too little of other grains. The mixture known as screenings is, of late years, of little value, and when it is desirable for any reason to .feed mixed grains rather than, the one grain by itself there is no combination that should lack the corn. 1 For example, if w-heat and. oats are to be fed, add one-third of corn, mak ing the ration one-third each of wheat, oats and corn and one has a ration much better than the combination of wheat and oats alone. The corn, if ol the yellow sort, will add richness to the eggs, and if this ration is supplemented with liberal supplies of green food the quality of the eggs will be all that is desirable, and the hens will supply them in goodly numbers. ' While - the other little accessories are very desir able, we believe that if all who have poultry would work along from the be ginning, during the cold months on the mixed grain ration, which contains one-third corn with the green food and keep their houses clean and free from vermin, the results would be so satis factory that they would willingly add the other little comforts which they now terra "frills." Indianapolis News. DAIRY NOTES. A good dairy cow should hold out well. There is no way of cleaning dirty milk. ' Milk yields very variable proportions of fat. Ground oats, corn and bran make one of the best winter rations for the dairy cows. ' v - . Unless a cow turns her food into but ter and not flesh she has no place in the dairy. The making up of butter depends UDon the custom of the market to which it is sent. The big milker is usually a sensitive. "high strung" piece of machinery. If she kicks, don't meet it with blowrs un less you wish to spoil her. At a cost of $32,500,000 a large cen tral railway station, with thirty-two tracks, is to be built at Leipsic. It will take five years to rebuild the' Campanile of Venice. The new tower will probably have an elevator. REPARTEE ON THE ROOF. Twas a stormy day, it was dismal and gray, But the weathercock, perched on high, -discomfort ignored till old Boreas roared, - Ho, friend, will you not tell me -why You would fain remain In this driving . . rain? I think .von'll Thp -ppt if vnn dnf' Thea the weathercock bowed,' chuckled aloud, ' ' "It's foul, but I'm fowl, too!" as he "Ho, ho!" laughed the wind of its lrind. 'Very good Let me now blow you off 'I insist!" I am grateful, I'm sure, but I cannot en ; dure ; .- . t it0 f rW my post I'd be missed ." ' But you Avill not decline such innocuous .- , wine?" .' - . . , Cried the wind. ""Have a . cocktail of rain!" Said the weathercock: "No; for I'm rot proud, although I may be a little vane!" Robert T. Hardy, Jr., in ..he Argosy, H umor of no "I believe he made a fortune out of fiction." "Indeed? What kind of fic tion?" "Wall Street rumors." Puck. ' Though poverty is not a crime,. . . Is it aot funny, neighbor, That, being poor, we serve our timew Condemned to hardest labor? Philadelphia Ledger. Pretty tallkeeper "Let me sell you a letter-opener." Victim "I have one at home." Pretty Stallkeeper "Indeed! What kind is-it?" Victim "My wife!" Illustrated Bits. "Did anyone call me up while I was out?" asked the butcher. "No," re plied the boy, "but a customer whose meat for dinner hadn't arrived called you down." Houston Post. Borum "You need not trouble your self to see me to the door, Miss Cans tic." Miss Caustic "No trouble at all. Mr. Borum. Quite a pleasure, I as sure you." Illustrated Bits. Mr. Goodly "How's your father, Freddie?" FreddieV'Oh, havin' his usual luck. Just as he was comin' out of the fever he doc sayshe's gettin convalescence." Chicago News. Young Gaston MacAlphonse, Esq., Met a maiden and thought he would g., . So he said, most politely, "I adore infinitely Your figure." She answered. "Ycu 1!" Yale Record. "That young fellow I just met told me that he tried on three dozen pairs of shoes to-daj He must be very hard to suit." "Oh, I don't know. He works in a shoe store, you see." Cincinnat Times-Star. - Mrs. Fondmar " When you see the children's stockings hangiug up doesn' it make you wish you had some little fairies of your own?" Oldbatch "Fairies, eh? Well, I think I'd prefer mermaids." Life. "I wish I had been born' a dumb beast," said the youth. ,"Why, you don't mean to tell me that you could talk as soon as you were born?" queried the fair maid on the- other end of the sofa. Chicago Daily News. "Your daughter seeuied to be in reverie when this picture was taken,' said Mrs. Oldcastle. "Oh, no; you see, 'it was a snapshot thai her cousin took. and she was just layin' --around in a kimono." Chicago Record -Herald.- "What," asked the girl who reads the newspapers, "is the difference between a 'trust' and a 'ring?' " "While I can just explain it," said the young man "if vou trust me until to-morrow.. I'll see that you get the ring." Buffalo News. V. .. . The teacher called the bright boy up to her desk. "Now, ..Homer," she said, "can you tell the class why Paul Revere was so successful in his ride?" "Because he didn't,&tart in an auto mobile," said the bright boy. Chicago Daily News. Mrs. Planebuddy "My husband wanted me to have my picture, taken, but I told him I didn't have a dress nice . enough for . the occasion." Mrs. Naybor "And is he going to buy you one?" Mrs. Planebuddy "Oh, no! but the servant girl overheard me, and she offered to lend me one of hers." Phila delphia Ledger. ' - The New Spanish Party. A' hew party tailed the Democratic Liberals has been formed ,in Spain, with Montero Rios, Canelejas, and Gen eral Lopez Dominguez at its head. It is at present regarded as the hope of Spain, ' The new policy favors a much more' active foreign policy, especially with, regard to, France, England and Portugal, with which countries it is desirous of having , Spain come into closer relations. .The model adopted for the treatment of domestic affairs is furnished by the alliances of the So cialists and Radical Republicans in France when Waldeck-Rousseau was premier. : Why She Got New Dresses. The lawyers at Iola were swapping yarns the other day during a recess in the district court. A lawyer whose wife is marked for her good dressing tdld how he had come to be such a good provider. Soon after he was married his '.wife met a girlhood friend. The friend said to her that she wasn't as well dressed as slie used to be before marriage. "Oh, you are mistaken," said the wife. "I am wearing the same ciotnes i uia men. lvuusas uiiy j our- nal. . . A SERMON FOE SUNDAY SUFJECT: - WHAT ARE THE PERMA. NENT ELEMENTS OF RELIGION?" An Eloquent and Forceful r Discourse by the Kev. John M. Davidson Man's In terest iu the Incarnation A Striking Thought About the 'Divinity of Man.' Brooklyn," N." Y. In the Fourth Uni tarian Church, Flatbush, Sunday morning, the pastor, the Rev. John M. Davidson, I preached on "What Are the Permanent I Elements of Religion?" He said: In this period ot ouestionmg. when old structures of ; religious faith are being torn down and new ones are taking their places. when what seems the very foundation of faith is being removed here and there to make way for new material, it is well worth our while to ask the question that is consequent upon such a condition, What elements of our religious faith are perma- nent and are likely to resist the tendency to change? It is a question that is agitat ing more people than ever before m his tory. We have been told that there is a growing: indifference to religion, that men are abandoning the churches, that pagan ism has re-absorbed large sections of the country,, even Puritan New England shar ing in the general dissolution. No one can deny that the influence of the church is not as great as it was when . . - '. 1 almost the only educated men were min isters. We who occupy the pulpits to day, frankly recognize the fact that the occupants of the pews are . not only our ediials in intellect, but are capable of giv ing us instruction in many departments of thought wherein the ..minister of old time was held to be supreme. The minister of to-day . must ' "recognize his relatively changed : condition. : He addresses minds at least as well informed and as bright as his own and on many subjects more so, And ' he is woefully mistaken and uhalert if he does not welcome the change as an advantage to himself and his work rather than a detriment. Nevertheless, for the time being, this condition tends to bring down the church attendance figures and to lessen the church s influence. It will continue to do so .until, the church finds men who are leaders (if not in intellect) in the effort for social amelioration. They must be specialists and authorities in their field, as the physicians and lawyers are in medicine and jurisprudence. That the temnorarv falling off in the in fluence of the church as an institution ar gues for an indifference to religion I do not believe. Ihe church ' has not yet learned its work. -;It is still delving in theologies and philosophies, when men are no more interested in the one than the other. . Both theology and philosophy are vital matters, but the old manner of discussing these subjects cannot now inter - est men who are touched by the spirit. of the scientific age. Until science and the whole new method ot thought that toi - lows unon recent scientific discovery have entered into and vivified theology and phil - osophy, they .will cease to interest or in- nuence man. They have no point ot con- tact with his interests. But men are in- terested in religion. This very question- ing and unrest proves.it. Even the return to paganism, as it has been called, that trend, narticularly noticeable in rural New England, away from the formalism of the church and back to nature, it not so alarming as appears at first glance. We are learning to see that, although for cen turies we .have called certain peoples "pa- gans, thinning to give them a Dad name and so to avoid more tedious investigation into the character of these same pagans, tiro Iio-ito :tyi,tVi f rk Ian rn mTimit TAlienr.Ti arH we may not seldom sit with profit at the teet ot many a pagan prophet. Men are asking whether, after all. a comparatively email sect is right and all the rest wrong, or whether there is, not a bit of truth in them all. They go further. They ask now whether that truth may not make al peoples free; they are wondering whether, after all, salvation is to be found with one and universal destruction with the other, wuclllcr tile Vicatui: ui air uauuua . la , u&c- ly to make one of them His favorite, to give that one a true and final revelation and to withhold it trom all others. Men are going even further than this in their questioning. They are putting the relig ionsiside by side for comparison. They are inquiring whether or not the truth that is in one may not be found occasion ally in another, and they are finding through this comparative study of relig ions that, at bottom, all are alike. Ureal areas of parallel beliefs and aspirations are found making the claim of exclusive reve lation ridiculous. In tact, when it t is found that' every single form of religion on the face of the earth lays claim to an exclusive revelation of some sort, and we find that the term "heretic" is merely an expression of one man's, or group of men's, point of view, we begin to open our eyes to the fact that our own past claims in the matter may not carry so much weight as we had thought. -The discoveries that we have made dm ing the last century about the habits of life and the character - of thought Of the other half of the world, the scientific meth- ods of investigation into the subject of re- ligion, it origin, rise and often its.de- cav. into religious literatures, and among them our own Bible, are broadening in view, even while, and perhaps because, they disturb bur complacency. Religion is given a new interest. We nnd that we Christians are not the only members of God's family, and that there are others who care for Him as much as we do and whom He loves as greatly as He loves us I say that this is the tendency of men's minds to-dav. Hardly do the most of us admit the changed point of view as - an accomplished iact, even to ourselves, and in many localities the old exclusivenesa is as impenetrable as ever it Was in the dark ages. Universally, wnere religious exclu siveness is found it is accompanied; bred and safeguarded by some form of claims to final revelation or final authority for truth some artificial guarantee that the doc trine preached in that church in the be ginning is now and ever shall be preached without change,, world without. end.,.That such claim is manifestly impassible to sub stantiate has never deterred the church from making it. It is one recognition though a weak one that absolute truth is unchangeable, and every religion and every church that claims to . have a final and true revelation must, of course, claim to possess a knowledge of that absolute which SDencer calls "unknowable." Not one such body could step forth boldly and lav hold on the great athrmation of to-day. that the faith of to-day is but the stepping stone to the taith ot to-morrow; that rev elation is not sealed: that truth is a liv ing thing, growing as wc grow; that man kind is saved through perpetual evolu tion from lower to higher, or, in- other words, by fulfilling one meted destiny of Dscommg penecx; as me xatner in neaven is perfect. Our business to-day is frankly to admit that the hnal revelation is yet fai rtff nnd that. Wf have Viv Tin mMno found the "absolute" truth. The know! 4ge, of to-day is but a little section of that iJ,iVL JK& that we are here to enlarge. :.nd that we axe cuidignijj, tiiat section oj imowieuge. j. iitfve saia mat wnavever religious ex clusiveness is found it is accompanied by I l r i t :i . i m auiue is. in (j oi autnonty pin-porung: io guar antee the permanency and. integrity of its faith, j The creed has been changed from its original meaning "credo, I believe" From being tt simple statement of an indi vidual faith it has become a formal state ment of a sys.tem of dogma to which all who would be saved must subscribe. No latitude is allowed for " individual ' inter- pretations or-for the growth of religious and theological conceptions. The aim in simply to lay down a body of dogma that embodies final truth, and a confession t wnicn tne wnpie world must subscribe re gardless of individual reason: and. unaf- " iected by the growth of knowledge and moral consciousness. The attempt has al ways failed. There is no creed that holds the same, meaning for us to-day which it held for mankind a century ago. If it i not now actually changed in form, as in the case of a notable number, it is changed in content to the minds of its adherents. If we are but willing to onen our eves we shall find that there are hundreds of mean of salvation, and each method breeds a sect. Jiut what does the method signify beside the tremendous ultimate fact that all the world is looking for salvation? Here is the universal and permanent thing. in some way the truth has percolated I through every mind that we are put into 11' t 1 J.J ITT this world in order to grow. We are not universally interested in speculations about Nirvana, or about atonements, or about the "survival . of the fittest." nor in the discussion as to the proper aim. whether. for happiness or virtue. Perhaps every one is interested in one or another of these means to the end, but we are all in terested in the outcome salvation for the human race. It is a universal longing. It I is one of the permanent things of religion Then mankind .has been universally in terested in another thing the incarnation. Ever since man became man and learned that there was a power outside of himself to which he was bound, he has thought of this power as in some waytentering into and becoming the guiding power of some' ( object of the visible world. At first it was a mere stick or stone,, a tree or river or wild beast that was the chosen dwelling I place of deity. Then in good time the feel ing grew-that none but man -would make a J suitable habitation for the Creator; so we hear of the Greek heroes, "descendants of the gods," oi Druidic and Delphic oracles and of prophets in all lands whose speech was controlled in an especial way by Deity. We hear of a perfect incarnation of Deity in .Buddha, born of a virgin, with his di vine parentage attested; by miracles of va rious kinds, and teaching that there are many incarnations similar, to his own: that whenever the, world has advanced to 1 a condition in which its needs are different I from the old, God incarnates Himself in & I mortal, who thereupon becomes a great 1 leaaer and propnet. twr minds, or course, I now revert to another incarnation, that of 1 God in Jesus, who also taught that there I are many incarnations; who prayed that wis disciples might be one with God as He Himself was one with Him. And again we see the tendency of men to obscure the great truth by the particular example. The truth which has most obviously appealed to men is the incarnation of God in a sin gle man, or, formerly, in a class of men,, as prophets or priests. The truth of that endures, and that has been pointed out by Jesus and all the greatest leaders of men is that of perpetual and universal in- i carnation, uoa nas oreatned the breath ot life and has lit the spark of divinity in mankind, tor we are His children, made in, I TTis TTinral imntrf inlipritnia nf TTic I itt-iti If tj I because we are natural sons and heirs. I his is the tremendous fact toward which I the world is groping.' It explains the now I proven fact that mankind's trend is up- ward rather than downward.- It gives us the courage for going on. for keening ut tne struggle when to our restricted view tne oostacies seem insuperable, it com pels us to believe that this world is found- I ed upon good, that' the good is "hastening vij. iuaiu zxxi.iiiuxiiautv, tvxiuc cvxx is scil destruction.. If j"God's in His heaven," God's in His world as well, the guarantor 01 its lunaamentai integrity, the inspirer of every good thing in the heart of man. Uo you not see how intimately connected are the two ideas, the incarnation of God and the divinity of man? Both ideas are everywhere recurrent in the theologies of the world, though their particular expres sion in. one faith is utterly different from that m another, and it is the difference in the isolated expressions of the truth that keeps men apart. The permanent thing, the larger truth must wait upon our fur ther enlightenment and . broadening of view before it can bring us together. We are learning, it . is true. The existence of an. unwonted spirit of toleration and unitv in religion, the modern armation of the universality of spirit shows that we are catching some glimpses of the larger truth that lies behind our incarnations and atonements, our theophanies and oracles, our Buddhas and Jesus of past time. H we had heard the real message of Jesus and the prophets and poets we should long ago have discovered this truth. To be a man is to be a descendant of God, to be a de- scendant of, God is to be His prophet, Hia incarnation, the inheritor of His divinitvi this! is the larger permanent truth, one which is prepared for by every religion that the world has ever known. After having agreed that to do right 5 the end of conduct, can we not take each other bytb.e hand in the fellowship of that profession, even: though we may differ as to the adoption of means to that end? If we all recognize the fact that the salvation of humanity is the permanent object of all religious effort, then our various methods of attaining salvation will soon take their proper places as subordinate elements of faith and variable according as the needs of men vary. The creed then will be not a Shibboleth by which tosave one and to exclude another, but a covenant of kindred minds bent upon a common' object and drawn together by the natural sympathy of similar beliefs. Religion will be ne longer made up of religions some false, some true but will be recognized as fun damentally a, unit wherever man has lifted up his head and called on the power that is above him. Weshall see that the essen tial elements of religion are not the differ ences that divide, they are the permanent and fundamental things upon which all forms of religion are founded, and. which, if we but let them, will unite men in the sympathy of common aspirations and in spirations. - The Alloy of Self. Achievement fused with self is too brittle to stand the test of time. The secret of the success of one who had accomplished much in many fields was well expressed W Vt on -if ifros coirl l-riof- rio liar! lparnpi) til concentrate his powers on the result, irre- i spective of how that result would afiect himself. Every atom of force deflected tow'ard " self becomes friction. - Introspec tion, self-consciousness and egotism arc all synonyms for wasted energy. Are yu striving to rid yourself of this waste
Orange County Observer (Hillsborough, N.C.)
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March 3, 1904, edition 1
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