Show MENTAL narrowness it la Is a fatal error when any person party or organization concludes conclude that he be or it alone possesses all the truth aid nd light that there la is to la the world on any dy subject whatever abir nation has baa just passed through one of those periodical times when abuse takes takei the place of argument and misrepresentation tho the place of truth it things said eaid in the heat beat and fervor of political contest were really true mental ability moral perception and patriotism must all be rare ingredients ingredient in the party tra deuced and representative men are unfitted for the courtesies and unworthy the confidence of any honorable and well intentioned mem wom ber of society to be sure me these theae charges sito are aone sonne what vague when directed against a party things so 0 o said of individuals would be readily resented and personal chastisement or legal process would be in order as ae a balm for wounded honor bonor and a setoff set off against malicious vituperation but little of this personal pe abuse has baa been used in the just closed national campaign although some very hard and diabolical things have been raid by both sides probably but little personal enmity will remain now that the result is determined ADY way it is a fashion in politics politic which as 88 snakes pears peare says would be for far more honored in the breach than in the observance this habit ot of depreciation to is oot not all 11 confined to political contests as party antagonisms we have beard quite as much ae it wag pleasant to bear in religious circle clr clee sects have ridiculed each other they have misrepresented each other the vilest things have been charged and disseminated for truth facts have been distorted and doctrine perverted ignorantly or wilfully without enquiry and without considerations consideration erat era tion ions anu ana in fact with indifference as to the result but few ew communities have had bad a larger share ebare of this illiberal feature of society than our own probably when the century ot of its ex arrives arrivee men mea will still witness some remnants of this abominable and dangerous habit to be sure tho the people here make extraordinary pro pre ton fonslow lensi slow om their theories find and thought have come in contact with large air dee logo with influential organizations and with all religious training trai and tradition but even that falls fails to justify intelligent men in resorting to the obe unworthy weapons of a far low lew time however it irmay may te be that the misrepresented are some what to blame first for tamely submit ting without protest or correction I 1 as was done for so go many years second tor having in their superabundant and knowls knew leoRe OXe of the 00 truths they had bad too readily concluded that truth was their special posses slob overlooking the fact that the world in 1 lull of truth even if associated with error that human nature cannot be ban bantiles tiled or combined on error alone and that the true rue binding force and power everywhere existing Is 10 dependant lor for all or most moat of lie its success on the possession and ana lite life ot of truth there Is a more power of course in properly 8 systematized truth ruth in its orderly presentation la in the he intelligently understood relation which a series of truths bear to such each other and this is ie the grandest evidence of divine roveal monto as it is the tb highest testimony to human comprehend compre hen slon and practical value the intrinsic importance of faith Is 1 universally accepted in religious cirk cir k oles also repentance to la an acknowledged ingredient of progress in all mor a al reli Klous and judicial education baptism by immersion emersion immer m nion is a righteous rights or ordinance d I 1 nance when practiced practised atleed by any denomination ded even if shorn eborn of 0 f its in bierent virtue by misunderstanding or ignorance and the laying on of of bandal for confirmation and bles slog is beautiful even in its perversion to go one who i comprehends its broader scope and understands it to be without authority in an unaccepted church it is an insult for a democrat to assume that a man cannot be an intelli gestand conscientious pop ulyst or monarchist that wisdom is all concentrated in the advocates of either kold irold silver or paper that the advocate of unrestricted intercourse betwee nations as between states to is an u gated crank or that the one who believes in tariff for revenue or crotee lion to is superlatively wise difference in conclusions are in great part the results of training raining environment mentality the most liberal man may bethe subject of prejudice the man who he be in strictly bones boneet with himself may often find his hie wish is father to the lie thought and the beat of men barry with them unconsciously the reflected mental shadows shadow of generations past and present men of strong religious sentiment eek for supernal light irrespective of their affiliations in the political world thle thie la is rare hence reformers or protectors are few and scarcely ever are they found in the ranks of those who are intensely partisan reform ers ere come from the crushed humiliated and oppressed most frequently from men into whose souls the iron has entered 11 their voice finds echo sod and sympathy ym pathy in those similarly situated and accretion in numbers makes aggressive gres sive unto triumph that idea as 88 truth born of suffering and baptized in sad and suffering nog experience that there are dissatisfied souls in ID the religious world who earnestly be serob the heavens for light is ie beyond controversy toe the fountain unsought or derided by politicians is the very water of life to one struggling upward by aspiration and effort he realizes the tremendous gulf that thai there la Is between human uncertainty azad aou divine revelations revelation and turning unerringly to the great exponent of divine purpose even jesus of nazareth he MOO fees how the historic page testifies and creed adversity alver olver sity eity corroborates the idea that as to his doctori doctrines nes professed christians and ana christendom havi have parted bis big garments amne them and cast lots lota for his hia vesture 03 as the psalmist had declared this thin system originally created can only be conceived by that wisdom which cometh from above 10 but the same name wisdom evidently in the he midst of all controversy contro verey and division rendered more easy this restitution by retaining 10 lo the spiritual wind mind of it if separated and individualized those doctrines doctrine which when combined re fleet fact the perfected wisdom of the heavens it might have been intensely difficult to reintroduce thel the truth of the authority of priesthood of baptisms baptism of tithes and many other if toey they had not been perpetuated petua ted through the ages age by special lots who were building better belter than they know knew 21 the demonstration of revelation on religious truths truth however point unmistakable fingers we the source of all true knowledge it testifies that wisdom from above is as adequate equate for temporal social and political salvation as for that which ie 1 called religious or spiritual the mom maa ll IN RD an unit sod and for perfect harmony light for hla his entirety vinti must come from one source not through the PuD pres lon adoll of human effort or the overthrow of experience bu ba as originally and yet supplementary to both so bo will come a now new era a now new and grander civilization which the prophets poets and seers sears have called moo the rule of right the kingdom of god and the millennium of the human racel |