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Show Is coming west. At grow in numerical nu-merical strength, we must assume tho responsibilities of government In proportion. pro-portion. And the samo is true of tho religious factor. The church must measure up to the standard of Influ-enco Influ-enco for tempcrauce and morality that it strength give it power. Another purpose of the census Is to give us a new view of the trends of t?cial life needing correction. We ventnte to predict that In this respect the showing will be disappointing only to those who have heretofore seen only the darker and unnatural side of our scoial life. Many evils will doubtless doubt-less be of such a magnitude, and threatening power as to call for speedy correction, but wo are optimistic optim-istic and believe that on the whole the report will show marked social, moral and religious advance over the one of 1900. Nations and corporations take ptock because they find It an important factor to know Just how they are developing. de-veloping. Is it not as Important a factor In daily religious or moral life? Are you becoming more or less a man or woman In the powers of mind , heart and soul as the days go by? How many of the principles and Ideals which your mother gave you have you discarded? Are you growing grow-ing richer or poorer in the values which can stand the test of eternity? If the government can afford to spend a great sum to determine its true condition as to growth In real strength .surely we can well afford to question our own life tendencies and ascertain tho goal towards which we are going. WHEN FIRST CENSUS WAS TAKEN Mother's day was observed Sunday Sun-day evening In the First Fresbyterlnn church. The audience was a large one and filled the large auditorium. Many white carnations were worn by those attending. At tho morning service the themo being. "Tho Spiritual Lessons of the Recent Census." Rev. Carver took for a text the commaud for the first census as given in Numbers 1, 18, and 6aid in part: "Tho census Is as old as Moses. There are traditions of a census being be-ing taken in early ages In China and Japan, but this census taken among the new Hebrew people In the wilderness wilder-ness is the first authentic record we have of tho commencement of tho census Moses was the first man j to really comprehend the value of organization. or-ganization. He 13 the father of con- : stitutlonal government and the founder found-er of the republican form of government govern-ment by representation. Ho is the author of our graded courts as well as the law giver of our moral code on which all codes nnd statutes are based. He Is also the world's leader ! In organization. Gradually the nations na-tions have followed him In this. The census was Instituted In Rome in 555 B. C. Charlemagne founded It in modern Europe in 7S0 A. D. William j tho Conquerer In England, in 1081. Instituted It there nnd published the Doomsday Book. Sweden first carried car-ried It Into systematic completion in 1749. In our country the constitu- tlon of 1787 make3 a decennial census cen-sus a constitutional part of our political poli-tical system. j The Book of Numbers, the fourln In our Bible, Is really only a census cen-sus report, the first one to be placed upon record. It reminds one of a stock book of a business house, for census taking is In a way stock tak- I ing of the most valuable kind when we remember that human life is our land's most valued asset. True to the character of its greit ! founder, the census today is purely j democratic. Each Individual Is of value val-ue not for property or talent, but be-causo be-causo he or she Is one of the great nation. Census day connta all to be of eo.ua! importance man, woman and child alike. In this it speaks a very different dif-ferent message from the assessor, and reckons "a man a man for .V that" Surely it must hao been of divine origin or In a day when most of humanity were slaves some distinction dis-tinction would have been made. And J today It speaks the message of God as In the day when Cod said it should he taken, for God and his uiessago ' alone today counts all men equal, caring not if they be white, black. j yellow or red; giving them no dis- dainlng preotlng because of thdr . rngs or lack of culture. In the midst" of a time when dollars count for so much the census roan quietly furthers good biblical teaching of the law of equality before God. "One purposo of tho census Is to as-alun as-alun responsibility . Population ! changes and the center of Influence j |