| Show A OF OUR TINT TIME A french author melchior do de vogue has bag attempted to draw a plo pio t ure ture of our time lime with special regard to its moral features feature he it to the time of the decline of the roman empire at the be beginning giDDIng of our era HP he finds bodo that all through the human family can be board beard a heartrending ury for or truth tor lor justice BOO ano for peace and the cry becomes all the more mere appealing 88 a the situation becomes more desperate our time Is 18 elegant and cruel till still beautiful in the bewitching glitter of art and posey poesy but it is dead aa re regards gartle faith falta and poor in piety superstitious in nearly every thing else paralyzed by the noise of conflicting idear and wild fancies without any creative thought brought to starvation by feeding ok theresea the resemblance of eagerly watch ine the falsehoods of theaters proudly pretending to understand everything but really unable to revere anything it has no power to follow the biddi bidding of duty doty but Is vain in its luxury deaf to truth indifferent tu libery asking or of earth to lo be carried jr ic a merry marry prade to the end of the festival feitl val and closing ol its if eyes to the catastrophes it prepares prepare for coming generation A stern criticism but who can otherwise aban feel its ito justice Is io there soy any other remedy for this condition than that which is offered by she he messenger wenger me from the eternal author of our existence philosophy has hai failed human theology to fi helpless back then to the fountain of living water that already has proved its ito power to save aade she he bu human man fam family ly at the most moat critical periods of its history |
