Show MORE PEDIGREE THAN BLOOD A report comes from the congregational church winch which cas casts t 8 a rather serious cloud over the future of that order A reliable investigation baa hall proven that is it a birth rate ia is ety very much lower than that of the moet most reproductive non community ia in the world the birth rate of france which is now the lowest in the scale of procreation ot of any nation ia in the world is given at twenty five ove in one thousand the infant baptisms bap iams in the congregational church which ought to represent fairly well the births in the pale ol 01 the order it aggregate g not more mote than seventeen to ane one thousand the result of this ia is that the congregational church is getting to have a conspicuously venerable appearance this is very picturesque and aristocratic no doubt but if it the same condition prevails through years where will the church be churches cannot run without t people and an d a rel religion filon that looks to conversions to keep its legions full will have tave a serious time of it from now on converts do not come into the fold as rea readily dily as they aeed to by any means the world is not likely to ever have any more exhibitions of churches born in a day as they used to be prose lating to any tiny religious baue whatsoever eber is coming to bo be a pulling sion bion and ad it will be very much mo more re BO so before it ia is any better reason Is taking the place of enthusiasm and people with average minds do n not 0 t grasp the first novelty that pops w into 0 their heads to enthrone it in their heart of heart tor for a religion the religious sentiment as well as the moral and the is craving substantial food tor for sustenance andthil and this sifting silting of the loghe of 0 spiritual truths as might well be expected id is taking the extreme view in the direction of reason just as a the fol followers loa era of the re form churches carried to an extreme that was ft as almost insanity tho the of blind enthusiasm thus not only is becoming a thankless labor but the natural via of many of the churches are falling into decay here is another last ast accounting for the prevalence of gray heads in certain church communities the conclusion of all ia Is that if the congregational church has ha ambitions for forthe the future it would belter better be having a care for the vitality which nature has provided but which the artificial notions of vicious education are destroying in its veins its puritan lineage Is a majestic cou coll it Is not up to much as I 1 a reproducer it it is really true that it is growing BO so exquisitely cultivated in its exaltation that it Is gral gradually bally dying of inanition the church would better be taking itself to lie lite haunts of commoner people and inoculate some human strength into ita its impoverished sj stern LIBERAL tilso was cheap last night and abundant there was a small sized cyclone of it in the carnival palace that threatened to make a wreck of the building DAVID EVANS happy simile last night when the platform went down reminds one of bilboa whoa when he waded into the pacific ocean to da do dare clare himself biffl sell he the bile sole p wesa toe trio old fellow was about la in the young ill i i tat seisal 10 attorneys homor humor when the great wave revolted at big his pompous language and submerged him ft it waa typical a hia mind of how he was going to subdue BU trine the continent arnob rhodes attempted to grow eloquent last night the platform collapsed stay with the platform he shouted aa as the candidates ende to disentangle themselves fraai tho dabro A voice from the wreck supposed sappo aad to be one of the candidates next monday yet e tude judge bat but were in in the soup DMD david evana had evidently braced up into one of hia his ancient attitudes last night bat found his audience somewhat unappreciative of that fort sort t I 1 b in combe the discovery embar raised hl hla eff r pe cepi bl THE tim FALUSO of the platform laet lost night at the liberal rally bad a smack of forewarning about st it that should came cause the born horn blowers blon era of the ll 11 liberals b aral a to watch the omens more closely clo eely they mean something J WESLEY HILLS absence from the rally last eight was noticeable and discomforting it robbed the affair of much of its expected flavor |