Show BETTER oil WORSE 51 way is the world growing in discussion DI THE B Y COLLEGE two essaya selected select sd b by 7 a comby itom Stude aU zim 0 ad A spang sprang un up in the classroom class claas room recently at the 15 Y college as tp to whether the world is growing better to or worse professor or apperley su suggested that each his bis views on oil paper this was done and a Coniti committee littee consisting 0 of E G davis da vis albert I 1 matheason Ma theaon and harriet taylor selected tile following n on oil the heir I 1 amative and ne negative 0 active as being beina the best for publication they are therefore given iven to tha readers of tur tor journal JOUR Joun NAL AL is ae war world ild growing better lor or worse r je 1 i 1 think it is growing 0 better for tile following reasons I 1 am growing inc better myself each day pome forie hatle vie conquest con over wrong tl doing rf is i made arid and I 1 am able bowein clearer vision new truths and beauties in the intellectual and moral world my MV parents pir enla my my brothers and sisters ay iy my teachers all try iry relations friends aro are older wiser and better than over ever beaure As each new bear year comes arid and goes the they y are more gene generous rutis aud and levinz lov aas towards me and towards each other when I 1 recall to mind my my in ingrati 0 rati 1 tude of earlier years and the quarrels bet between families arid and neighborhoods with the in injustice k ustice with the 11 love dhati today and the practice cfall of all the christian virtues virtue I 1 know that the little world in which I 1 live is daily growing 0 wiser and better betler but what can a school gail 0 ill know of the great reat world that spins on outside of her own little circle well NV ell the study that I 1 have 0 given this year to tn psychology Ili history sory 1 ethics arid and the beautiful principles io 10 political economy as explained b tn ny my affectionate teachers all te I 1 the same story these tudie studies tol toil me what I 1 have not been able to learn by observation and travel tile alie cumulative evidence 0 given by these studies with all their kindred branches point to this orie one aitio though ugh the world is rowing growing wiser and purer and better flora the time god said let be light it has bas been streaming 41 upon our earth tile the physical light fight has so BO changed the of tze globe that it has become a fit aade for exalted man instead of a dwelling 1 0 place for reptiles as in the reptilian period the intellectual light has bas ben shedding itself upon the understanding C of men enabling them to advent and construct machinery of ten tell thousand different kinds and uses lisas though the aid of this machinery man dian has bas f fi aced from nature tier her richest treasures steamships and lall roads have brought HIP continents together multiplied comforts and made mada mankind brothers the great inventions have i led man from ii a state of barbar baram r tm m and slavery tu to civilization civilia tion ind and f fc edom do not civilization and deedom make better men than i ignorance and slavery those who cannot answer this quee question tion in the affirmative should take a course in history under our beloved teacher and historian brother miller put but when we think of the spiritual light that the cooil all father has sent upon the different generations of men and now this ii light ht has increased in its ep lender during the nineteenth century we are filled with amazement and gratitude the spiritual truths that are coming to earth from the radiant i spheres of the upper dep deep are daiv ing away away the mists of materialism and infidelity and giving givin to man faith in god and an assurance immortality does not faith in god with a knowledge ledge of a future life whole we shall join the loved and the fair who croad aroi bcd the river of death in the darkest hours of our heavy 1 b bereavement rea give us new ashira aspirations eions ta that lead ad to nobler deeds the new light and the stronger faith and ho hope pe that are coming in into my life seem to magnify my indiscreet acts of today to day until they are mountains high hut but nith this new light has come new strength to overcome ni rny follies and make myself ac f more perfect i in it t the he eyes of G god ad and man As it is with me and mine iris so go must it be with those that hat I 1 know not for wear we are call all the children of a common parentage and gods love is enough to save in his own due time every son soil and daughter of father adam and mother eve that there is yet much ignorance and injustice in the world a and nd man ilan k wrongs to be righted righted 1 do 10 not attempt to deny bloody revolutions may come the combined wisdom loin of a all ll 11 the agest ages may not be able to prevent the dark clouds from 6 gathering gl 1 on oil the horizon arid filling ller tile the hearts of men with fear but judging the future by the past t the he world will pass pass through n her firey bircy trials and conic come out purer and better for the world in its pro progress fesq does docs not move in strai straight 0 clit lines but it moves forward i in n cliches all nature does the sa game me front from t the he grow growth th of the tiny plant up to the moral and the intellectual intellect nal development of the face race of man man 1 cynics and cold blooded philosophers land and dyspeptic preachers nay may claim that nature is reve reversing itself and that the world is going back into barbarism barbaris rn or the darkness p of aibe the middle ages aes V one ullo mio has pure pure pur e blood circulating circulation in healthy channe 1 lr if he takes the necessary sleep arid and exercise arid and smiles on nature and man inan as they smile on him will join with me in being hopeful and happy p and in saying that the world it i growing browina sweeter and better EUNICE |