Show NATIONS DANGER ol of a few evils fr for american journalists sand nd others other to think liik about all times are not BOC alike the grand and mighty match march of history dh disclosed new phases of buican character and new developments develop menty of huril buann aln events like the shit ting views of a kaleidoscope the various periods ot of history change their general complexion philosophers rs understand under itald this historians record it and none with truth can deny it hence while poets have suns sung of a departed goiden lagden age and historians have written of an iron axe age and of the dark ages most men now admit that we lavein live in an age of marvels an ape age of progress and many are now nov looking forward to a new era a good time coming a day of liberty und and of peace yet y et to dawn upon the eaith society is full of babbling voices which proclaim in tones poetic sublime or ridiculous the coming splendor ado of this new lay day discordant it M may be these voices are yet still they Andi indicate cate that many a watcher upon ails lonely tower peers with anxious eyes toward the gloom curtained future and seek to penetrate its mists and to unfold aboc e secrets hidden hid den from mortal ken A vague impression of coming ill or coming good clouds or gilds toe the anticipations of meo men we may not be able to watell watch the secret forces that are working in 0 OUT air world the wind that floweth where it listeth the electric currents cur renta which in stillness nurse the thunderstorm thunder storm ana prepare its bolts or the unseen ether which bears to man upon its ith subtle undulations the sunlight that gladdens aud and beautifies fles te earth yet we may be able to behold some of the abe outward tokens of that joseen power who guides our race in us its momentous course and works out the mighty problem of human destiny dest itly the age in which we live is peculiar in its religious 1 scientific political and social aspects let us notice some ot of these characteristics the world to is wealthier today to day than it ever was before and with the possession of wealth the love of it increases men grow rich la ill multitudes sometimes by the abominations of the huum trade the iniquities of the liquor trade tae kidnapping of chinese coolies or the oppression of weak and feeble races at other times wealth rapidly advances amid the rattle of machinery where thousands thousand stoll toil for scanty food and early graves that a few capitalists may become wealthy and live in luxury but wheler abe her wealth is acquired by swindling companies and fraudulent associations or by honest toil the fact remains that mat men heap up treasure and acquire wealth as they sever never did before and is not this sign of the times a marked feature in which they dietr horn all other time ti met from all other ages the world bean and is this sign a hopeful one Is the treasure gained worth the price paid iu in crime and blood are men on lib its account purer holler holier and more like the divine master who had not where to lay nis his head than they were to in other arid and poorer days the tact fact of of the worlds increasing wealth brings to our notice the unlimited avarice that prevails among men it Is not the possession ol of wealth that pradines pralines pra lines men now it is the gaining ya inina of it when once th abe demon avarice possesses a man his desires are unlimited save by the limit of bis life the human race have ever loved gold but bat is not their love for it in the present age i intensified we need not refer to individual vidual cases the thefts robberies and embezzle ments so often recorded in our daily aily d journals it will be sufficient to glance at the speculation and peculation the political bribery and public plundering and all the other vast schemes of unrighteousness so often indulged indulge din in by rich corporations to prove the avarice of the pi sent age this seems also to be an age ot of bombast of proud and baseless boasting go where you will there is a spirit of self praise which argues little modesty and less worth from the merchant erchant ni who sells his bis goodsby goods by lying advertisements to the lying lawyer or the statesman or senator who talks tor for buncombe ta la the forum it Is the same intolerable ego ven men boast of talents and strength of skill and power men boast oLmar ofa warlike like prowess of capacity for indulgence of criminal excesses of despoiled des d virtue and of hearts they have e broken such are the great ideas they oe y have of their own importance they even give thi rams alms amid a flouri tab of trumpets I 1 and offer their pray ers with a reporter ready to tell through the newspaper paper how eloquently ly I 1 they addressed the throne of heavenly grace but the so called calle el progress of the age ae is that of which men boa boast pt most Oli course the world is too I 1 progressive to accept the biblical idea of mans origin sceptical philosophers have progressed too tar far and are too shrewd to believe in the existence of a creating deity on theother hand band they teach that man wai originally a marine creature a an oyster a clam or something of ai that kind bind however after long a ageal eti ot of progression the ancestors of these sages arrived at the high estate of tadpoles and pollywog a and strength at st length attained to the abe superior dignity of df the in the shape ol 01 lull fall grown bull frogs progressing ll still the next grade led le them the confines of monkey dome dame where idler after sustaining the various relation of monkey baboon aurang ou tang and gorilla they arrived arrived at t manhood thence passing irom rom savage to a barbarous condition irow from barbarism to civilization and from civilization to table tabie tapping and spirit rapping efcy are grad bated ly death and then edurn to this world to devote their energies to various vanous sublime and imp important occupations such as over cli airy re reak aking loi tables and scrib scribbling blin g ou out unintelligible thus illus illustrating through gli the aid of mediums of varied character and variable morality how soon fools and their money can oe be parted paned in this mundane sphere I 1 pride is another characteristic ov of the present aga ag pride of every kind and grade frum fruin the fallen angel to the fallen man not merely national pride and social pride but religious pride as well behold the grand cathedrals misnamed churches urchea cu of seats of which are sold at ac such high rates that the poor cannot purchase or hire them and where the millionaires millionaire sin in their splendor pretend to worship the tha min iiii ot of sorrows who had not anere to lay his head beneath gothic towers costing thousands of dollars they profess to adore him who was cradled in a manger while under the very shadow of those towers the poor for whom christ died are perishing with hunger and want within amid wa waving v plumes the rustle of silks and patina and the fragrance of perfume and poi pomatum natum the rev kev dr style lolls bolls on his sofa makes a beant ful prayer arid and reads an essay on ittie aesthetic tendencies of chris tian ltv 11 or the difference between the objective and the subjective etc to such an extent has pride degraded the churches of alo apostate state christianity it IS id alo it licentious age in any ot of our great alti cities es W afi may see this dark and terrible picture of human vice in the haunts flaunts of the crowded city woman way may be seen pining in bu hunger riger or vainly sighing for halt paid labor there crime not industry there lust not charity gives to her a scanty relief in her history we read the record of oi the crimes of man upon her stricken soul rests the brand of his bis infamy and though lie he may hold his bis head aloft while she wanders as a defied anti and outcast thing 19 a forgotten grave yet we must read in the story of her sorrows the record of his guilt the foregoing facts might be dwelt upon to a greater extent but enough has been said eald to show that the arrival of a few hundred foreign religious immigrants mie rants however deluded they may he re said to be is id not trie only danger that threatens the great republic for the present we cluse close down the eur tain J H W |