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Show Good Ever in the Ascendant and World 'Is Steadily Growing Better Ky JilSflOP JOHN G ART XEfi .M L' It RAY, Kpiscopal Church. Ll-.'l' me lie j i-rri m' 1 1 ! to s,iv thtit I li.nc no common cause with those mImi from Iat form -am in pulpit, press mid personal comment, arc proclaiming Ihe world is worse now than ever before, be-fore, prophesying the overthrow of democracy (whatever that means), condemning the so-called failure of the church, lamenting the decay of good manners and weeping over the deterioration and degen-racy degen-racy of mankind in general. Xo one can he Mind to the evils of the age. (lod knows they are many and their nature is vile. But lie who records them opens no new volume of history in the narrative of human action in any relation Of life. It is simply a continuation of the old, old story of the conflict between evil and good which has been waged with varying odds since the world was young, and will knw no truce until the overthrow of Satan is fully accomplished. . . . And the older the world grows the nearer it approaches this glorious consummation. True, increase in-crease of population has brought increase of evil upon earth but not corresponding cor-responding increase. Good is in the ascendency and the comparative ratio of increase is decidedly in its favor. |