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Show A NEW EARTH. John, the great seer of Patmos, saw "a new Heaven and 'a new earth." Ever since his day the human hu-man race have been yearning toward that new earth, especially. Many times some portion of earth's peoples have fondly imagined they had attained at-tained to it, only to be disillusioned when through the rosy mist of optimism optim-ism the same imperfect old world emerged. The latest effort toward a radical change of earth and earth's people is the effort of the Russian Bolsheviki to attain thereto, mainly by a repudiation repu-diation of all earthly obligation and a throwing down of all responsibilities. These gentry have, it seems, preached an absolute personal liberty as the ultimate attainment toward perfection in this life. Of a life to some they appear very skeptical. Their teaching has, however, defeated de-feated itself, in that they failed to perceive that there can be no such thing as absolute personal liberty Vthout degenerating into anarchy. That was the inevitable and logical effect in Russia, and it will be the same with any other nation which v e-takes to put personal freedom and license ahead of the Interests of humanity in the large. Whether or not a stable government govern-ment will emerge from the chaos into which its masters have plunged poor Russia, it is an impressive ob-1r-.t lesson for all free peoples, a les-pnn les-pnn hnt should impress them with the fact that man may have entirely too much freedom for his own good, and that the safest course is to keep Close, to the old landmarks. |