| Show WHERE REFORM SHOULD BEGIN The be NEWS atone at ODe ona time tima noticed the tha scheme of ef the tha Vienna philanthropist Dr to 10 found a colony I In D Africa oa on communistic oom principles Theoretically the plan seemed to be perfect but when whan tested it proved to be bea bea baa a signal na l nal failure as a so o many similar at- at attempts at attempt tempts tempt have bava ba e been beAD and the tha collapse of this Free Land colony gives the Europ- Europ European Europ-aan Europ ean an press a text for far various v riou comments TW i London dimes says ny Spiteful Ration h has haa never presented pr nt more moving toles talea of sordid strife and J tyrannical l greed than may be b found in inthe inthe intha the history of some om of these tha well meant wll-m wll fraternities It is r sad nd but buL it is r true that the perfect p commonwealth has bas never n vr ex- ex existed existed x-l x isted t d anywhere save av in the pages of speculative romance romano Emotional craving however sincere bu has never navr yet stood food the thet test teat t of the daily dully buffets of conjoint ex- ex existence existence x-i x Competition the th instinct of aggrandizement and acq these acquisition these th may be ba very vry painful to those thor who dream dreams dreama of human perfectibility ty but as aa yet no one on has ha invented any substitute for them as a source ouro of social ocial energy n ry Somehow or other oth r the altruistic sentiment nt flourishes nouri h i most when it has h l to playa play a part in diminishing dimini the friction of individualist struggle When virtue virtu is i placed in an atmosphere ot of its own it sickens and becomes become cor cor- corrupted corrupted corrupted into frailties Atlantis Atlantic and Ar- Ar Arcadia Arcadia Ar Arcadia cadia are delightful places in books but they are not apparently habitable by ordinary human beings Other papers comment in a similar vein velD The Tha subject ii is important enough to demand serious attention No one ona can very well help notIcing the fact that among the human family many are suffering from want and destitution notwithstanding all their efforts to toI tomake tomake I make life endurable while some even without toiling far surpass Solo Bolo Solomon Solomon mon in 10 some ome respects The question is 18 this I Ii Is such ucb a condition normal Is Isit Isit it in tn accordance with the tha plans plane of the Creator and consequently con beyond remedy as far ai as a human device devices go fo or oris is it not rather a consequence of devia devia- deviation deviation deviation tion from the original plan of God God- God something in itself wrong and call lug for a remedy Dr Hertzka as asso a so o many of his hie predecessors evidently takes the tha latter view and if they a all have bave tailed failed 10 so o far flU in finding floding the tha right remedy that fact doe does not warrant the conclusion that the evil must always alway remain Some Boma time the true cause will be ba understood and the tha proper treatment found When Whan contemplating the wron wrongs s and ills 1118 to which mankind are subject the supposition suPPO l is near at band that they are ara all due dua to existing laws law and customs It would follow tollow that with society reconstructed and governed b by different legal laal codes the tha earth would be made a paradise Thus Thui rea reason on not net only oDly anarchists and communists but the varIous schools of socialists and many other modern reformers That the view taken if tl most mo t superficial should bould need naad no argument The Tha fact is II that the laws law themselves are but an indication of the tha moral planes which mankind in Its It various groups groupe and families have bava reached Their de- de defeats de defect feats have their cause inthe very mora moral nature of man Here Bere then all aU effective effective tive reforms reform must commence If It man man- mankind mankind mankind kind can be ba educated so 10 ae as to make maka a Utopian state tate possible the laws law necessary necessary sary ary to regulate such a state tate will follow naturally But to commence the tha re- re reform reform re reform form by changing the law laws law and leav leaving ing all the tha Jn instincts of the lower lowar nature as they thay are is II a vain labor It ii is tear tear- tearIng tearing tear Ing the tops topi of the tha weeds off oft and leav- leav leavIng leaving leav Ing the tha roots rood in the tha ground f round and the result will be ba very much the same ame The garden cardan may look ook well wall for tor a short time but bot soon 1000 oon the tha same lame weeds waada will be ba seen leeD can more mora flourishing than ever avar Ai As in the tha construction of ot a b b the quality of the tha material I la Is a aa as Ual a ae as the correctness of the tha a ar r rural lural plan plaD so 80 o the excellence of ut tk moral qualities of the citizens 9 It Utopia Is lea a factor more mora Important f t than than an the laws law thereof Any r who hG neglects neglect to co o eider this faa a L L doomed doomed to disappointment appointment di The Tha greate greatest t Reformer who W r ron lived on earth arth zed J this thia i ft tant taut principle The teachings lm 01 ml great NazArene when carried out act 0 i their consequences consequences-as al ai they thay are as tined to be necessarily be lead l ad toA universal brotherhood tW love that mighty toro force 0 of which h the Almighty Creator ie is said aid to be ha to source Yet Yat He formed no 1 state gave no social law laws T mankind He as it wu was wa He Ha taught and and ax in His life Ufe those bole I which individual ia Q I be effected well knowing that lout out that social J III itt I possible pOl ible His Hia followers follower did t the e and in so 10 o far tar as a they succeed d- d dying from the world II as phrase was wai living a new naw life I a 1 to the tha cause caun of man 14 God they proved that the ot of a Millennium are within tb the tha h hai nature r iii i They never dreamed of at a however abbe in which everybody ab sh be in every avery respect equal to ever every else elile a Differences there are ara and lets always be ba What they aimed at V that while each ach one ODe had bad to his biM own burden yet strong should bould assist a let weak thus equalizing the under which now so o may mazy Christias perish In 10 other worde words Christi as taught b by Christ Chr t and a as under b by His Hie immediate followers a tt by Bi His Hie Church in this thie age afa alia s condition among men in which dv vi Individual lives live no 00 longer Ionar for his haa oh wib selfish b lottre interests ts and purposes bul r the benefit of hr his fellowmen t So- Sot C- C t may be his bli Intel l J power powers acquirements gift gifts and bl JI r they will be exercised for tor the tha I g go all aU and it seeks a aki 0 o gain xain ain this thia gr- gr great 1 by that regenerating process W f itha the theological term term-by term by which min ift made as a it were ere a a new naw creature lJ- lJ In the meantime the tha many ii by by bl philanthropists ts to reach the gua goal pr ve the need nead of just Juit thi- thi this thia the failures failure are necessary to of the of 01 unc there thare I Is reason realon tort rd hope bope that mankind will wm at Jas last Jaak ret r that only in the tha Gospel l ie is to be ba to o effectual remedy for all it its iu ings |
