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THE BEOQKLYy DAILY EGLE. YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1900. LET US HAVE A FAIR FIGHT. mm. mm mm hTV'i The Calling of Offensive Names Will This root of many evils ability to get rid of it easily, catarrh; other ailment's, including the consumptive? tendency THE DAILY EAGLE is published every afternoon on the working days of tbo week and on BUNBAY MORNINGS.

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SILAS VERNOOY Wawarsing, N. writes: "When our daughter was two years old she broke out all over her face and head with scrofula sores. Nothing we did for her seemed to do her? any good, and we had become almost discouraged when we thought we would try Hood's Sarsaparilla. The first bottle helped her and when she had taken six the sore, were all healed and her face was smooth. She has never shown any sign of the scroti ula returning." Hood's Sarsaparilla cleanses the system of all humors inherited or acquired and makes rich, healthy Wood, 'BTT HIM AXONE IN HIS GLOBY." Wolf, pupil judging teacher, teacher judging pupil, parent judging children, and children with keen eyes estimating their parents.

How many hasty Judgments; how many judgments out of insufficient evidences, sweeping generalizations both of praise and of blame which the facts do not warrant. How many Judgments out of envy, resentment, some ill motive! Is it not responsible business? Think what it means to cast an imputation upon another man, to throw an aspersion even by the silent verdicts of your attitude, upon his conduct. Haven't you ever trembled as you thought how the idle word that should escape another's lip from some misinterpretation of your act might sully your fair name? Haven't you trembled the more when you have realized that your own carelessness of speeech or action might blight with unhap piness the life of your fellow man? It Is responsible business, and no man has a right to be the critic of his fellows who Is not conscientiously trying to come into the large Dess of mind and the tenderness of heart and the unselfish purpose of Jesus Christ. He knew so well how to take the whip in His hand and swing it with a biting sting in the end of it, how to rise to awful heights of anger, white with heat, and yet with no touch of bitterness. And then He knew so well how to take that great mantle of charity and cast it over a multitude of sins.

It Is the saints who have the right to judge the world. "And they do judge it. Not alone by their avowed declarations but even more by, their sainthood. It is the best men and the best women in the community by whom the com I munlty really estimates its life. Men may be content with an Inferior standard' so long as no better one is known, but when once the better standard is raised before them, though they do not heed it, they cannot forget it.

Every pure life is an invitation to every other life to come up to its level and a constant rebuke to those lives that per Not Make Converts to Any Cause If the Case Were Otherwise Billingsgate Instead of Sound Argument Would Decide the Presidential Contest and "Tenderloin" Thugs Would Be Potential Intimidation Should Be Condemned. Theodore Roosevelt has declared that the framers and supporters of the National Dom ocratic platform are advocates of national dishonor and disorder, that they are cow ards and virtually bad characters generally. Chauncey M. Depew has characterized Bryan as "a charlatan." Mark Hanna has said that the Democratic candidate for President is an "ass," likewise "a hypocrite." He has been dubbed, an "anarchist," and even the clergy have Joined the chorus ol personal abuse, for it was but a few nights ago that the vener able and white haired Reverend Theodore L. Cuyler raised Ms voice at a Republican meeting to say: "Here and now I brand William Jennings Bryan as a skulking coward!" From every Republican quarter torrents of abuse have been turned loose; upon Bryan the cartoonists have alternately depicted him as a slimy snake, donkey, baboon and hog even the children of the kindergarten cartoon schools have exhausted themselves In mak ing faces at the young Nebraskan, and their feeble efforts have been commended by pa pers that ought to be above such childish business.

And all the while that President McKinley's orators are calling Bryan and his supporters anarchists and cowards, these Re publicans who are indulging in bitter personalities calculated to provoke breaches of the peace are trying to make people believe that Bryan is desirous of inciting riots. It is as if one man should call another all the vilo names at his command and then say to the victim his abuse, "You are an inciter of disorder." It is gratifying to note the fact that the millions of voters (there were 6,500,000 of them in 1896) who advocate Bryan's elec tion have patiently listened to the epithets of "cowards" and "anarchists" which have been hurled at them from Republican plat forms all over the country. And it must be still more gratifying to all fair minded citi zens that Bryan is conducting his canvass with dignity; that he has not demeaned him self by reply to his heated assailants in the same coarse tone which characterizes the ut terances of those who have called him anarch 1st, hypocrite and skulking coward. Not one word of abuse for Hanna, Depew, Roosevelt or their kind. The issues at stake In this campaign are fairly debatable; men may have honest differences of opinion concerning these issues, and should be able to express their views in temperate and courteous language.

If offensive names were arguments, If epithets were to be generally accepted as substitutes for facts, then the slums of our great cities would decide the presidential contest now raging. The "Tenderloin" of New York would be more potent in the campaign than Fifth avenue; the dives would be far more powerful in the use of Billingsgate than the most fluent of Hanna's spellbinders. Any body can call a vile name, but everybody cannot advance a convincing argument. No converts were ever made to any cause by per sonal abuse; if the case were otherwise, Chuck Connors, Jim Corbett and their ilk would be very influential in this national contest. And so we may be sure that this campaign is to be decided by sound argument presented to.

reasoning minds, vituperation will have no influence in the making of the verdict that will be rendered next month. Let ua have fair play all around In this campaign. Let every man have bis say, but let his say be couched in language that is not calculated to create brawls. And every man should be permitted to vote as he is in clined, for there is no act more likely to cause a disturbance of the peace than an effort to prevent one from voting for the candidate of his choice. Intimidation should be prevented and resented, so Republican orators have justly said in reference to attempts to disfranchise the negro in Southern states.

This reminds me of a paragraph that appeared In yesterday's New York Sun and which reads as follows: TO SUSPEND IF BRYAN WINS. Tho Remington Martin Company's Notice to Its Workmen. Watertown, N. Oct. The Remington Martin Company of this city, who are building a large paper making plant at Nor folk, St.

Lawrence County, have notified their workmen that in case. William Jennings Bryan Is elected President they need not come to work on the morning of Nov. 7. as work on the big plant will be suspended indefinitely, or until the future policy of the new Administration shall be known. Similar announcements from other business concerns are cropping up in the newspapers here and there throughout the country.

They may be hailed with gratification by Republican politicians, but I am sure will not be read with pleasure by thoughtful and conscientious supporters of Mr. McKinley who believe in fair play. And this is the way tn which one Democrat views these warnings to Bryan's followers: "When a business concern says to its em ployes, 'If Bryan is elected we will shut up that is an act of intimidation. Sup pose business men generally should combine and say to the voters of this country, 'If you vote for this or that candidate wo will shut up our Suppose workingmen. clerks, bookkeepers, artisans, employes of all kinds should be influenced by these warnings and vote as desired by their employers, Would not that mean the establishment of a.

commercial oligarchy? Would not the Trusts become the real rulers of the country and American manhood be degraded to the level of serfs? "Suppose that organized labor should say no man can become a member of a work ingman's union unless he agrees to vote for Bryan. One can easily imagine the storm of indignation which would sweep over the country. Or suppose that the followers of Bryan throughout this country should say at Hub time to the business men if Mr. McKinley is elected we will all so on strike until you give us a larger share of the profits of prosperity than we now receive or we will shut up your shops if McKinley wins until we learn If the policy of his administration is to be for the benoflt of tho few or the many. What a howl would arise from Republican headquarters!" It is undoubtedly true that some business men really fear that Bryan's election would interfere with their enterprises.

The "Trusts" certainly are apprehensive of hla election, and that is why they are all supporting President McKinley. Nevertheless, when an employer says to his men In the hent of a presidential campaign that he will put up his shutters if Bryan is elected, that Is an act of intimidation, quite as reprehen sible as the announcement from organized labor to business men that all over the land workingmen would drop their tools and shut up the shops of their employers if McKinley wins. It may be said in an attempt to excuse the warnings that corporations are giving to workingmen who admire Bryan these business men are simply tak ing their employes into tholr confidence I iiagie mailed to them, postpaid, ior i per month, the address being: changed as often as desired. The Eagle will be sent to any address cuiuiJO at per moim, pomade HtjciKiiu. BAPK NUMBERS.

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ijavjs, tirookiyn; w. Green, Boston. AN ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED, Mr. and Mrs. 'William Perrott announce the engagement of their daughter, Katherine O.

Spencer, to Herbert S. Coutant. Miss Spencer is the daughter of. the late Captain James Hudson Spencer. The wedding will take place the latter part of this month.

Pawn brokeks T. Newman Son, 1.076 Ful ton st, between Classon and Franklin avs. Liberal Zioans on Diamonds, Watches. Jewelry, Wearing Apparel and Personal Property of every description. CABTOniA Bears the signature of Chas.

H. TLiaom In nas for more than thirty years, and 2'lte Kind You Wnrv Ahnayn Jiought. DIED. BOtl RINGER On Sunday, October 7. MARY, loved wife of John Bohrlnger.

Relatives and friends, also of her son, John. and members of Fortitude Lodge No. 19. F. and A.

are respectfully invited to attend her funeral, from her late residence, Sll Atlantic av, on Wednesday. October 10, at 2 M. 2 BOWERS Suddenly, on Saturday, October 6, at Great River; L. PETER. M.

BOWERS. Funeral from Emanuel Church, Great River, Tuesday morning at 11 o'clock. Trains leave Flatbush av 8:28. EROWN At 7C8 Hancock st. Brooklyn, on Saturday mornlnfr.

October 6. 1900. ELIZABETH wife of G. R. Brown.

Funeral services Monday evening. 8 o'clock. CAWL Entered into rest, October 8, STEPHEN CAWL. Funeral sen ices October 10. at 10 A.

at 231 Adelphi st. XE NYSE Saturday, October 6, 1SO0, HELEN LOOT DE NYSE, wife of the late Rullf V. N. De Nyse. Funeral services at her late residence, 306 South Fifth st, Brooklyn, Tuesday, October 9, at 8:30 P.

M. 7.3 DONNELLY On Monday, October 8, NELLIE M. DONNELLY, wife of Edward Donnelly, and daughter of the late John C. DufCee. of funeral hereafter.

(California papers please copy.) FOUNTAIN On Sunday, 7th MARGARET, widow of Captain E. T. Fountain, In her 80th year. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral on Tuesday, 9th at 2 P. M.

from the residence of her son in law, Martin Demarest. ZC0 Clifton place. On October MARY J. FRIEL, aged 28 years, niece of James and Frank Meehan. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral from the residence of her uncle, Frank Meehan, 149 Park av; thence to the Church of the Sacred Heart, on Wednesday, October 10, at 9:30 A.

M. 8 2 HANFORD On Saturday. October 6, 1900. MARIA UPTON HANFORD, wife of Dr. Samuel C.

Hanford and daughter of the late Daniel and Electa Upton. Funeral services at her late residence, 17S South Fifth st, Brooklyn, Tuesday, October 3, 1900, at 8 P. M. HENDRICKSON At Jamaica, N. on October 7, 1900.

CATHARINE L. CLARK, widow of Hendrick Hendrlckson. Funeral services will be held at the residence of her granddaughter, Mrs. Eugene Bennett, 60 New York av, on Tuesday, at 2 P. M.

KINGsLEl On Sunday, September 30, 1900, at Fiesoie. Italy. HARRY SMITH KINGSLEY in his 3Sth year. Jotlce or luneral hereafter. 2 SiOW On October 0.

SIDNEY LOW, son of the late Francis and Hannah R. Low, in the B6th year of his age. Funeral strictly private will bo held at his late residence, 281 Ryerson st, Brooklyn, on Tuesday evening, October 9, at 8 o'clock. In terment at Rural Cemetery, Albany, N. Y.

Wednesday. Positively no flowers. (Philadelphia and Albany papers please copy.) MCCAFFREY Month's mind for Rev. THOMAS McCAFFREY in Rose's Church, nockaway Beach, Tuesday. 10 A.

M. Reverend clergy, relatives and friends invited. MOTT On October 7. 1900, at his residence, 115 Decatur st, Brooklyn, JESSE MOTT, aged years. Funeral service Monday evening at 8 o'clock.

Interment at the convenience of the family. KEXSEN In Brooklyn, October 6. 1900, EDMUND F. KEXSEN. Funeral services at his late residence (home of his son in law, William J.

Ltidd), 107 Woodruff av (West Clarkson st), on Tuesday evening, at 8 o'clock. O'KEEFFE FRANCIS A. O'KEEFFE, beloved infant son of John A. O'Keeffe and the late Kathcrino Butler O'Keeffe. Funeral private, Monday, from his residence, 194 Hewes st, QTJINN On Sunday, October 7, 1900, at the residence of her son, Joseph G.

Qulnn, 349A Gates av, Mrs. FANNY QUINN, aged 56 years. Notice of funeral hereafter. ROBINSON On Octobor 6. 1900, at the Jandro Sanitarium.

62 Puluskl st, Brooklyn, after a llngorlnK Illness of ton years, MIsb SARAH A. ROBINSON. services at the sanitarium TueBday, October 9. at 2 P. M.

No flowers. Oll City and Bradford, papers please copy.) STEWART In his 07th year, JAMES STEWART, native of Scotland. Funeral sorvices, Monday, October 8, 8 P. at the residence of his daughter, 297 Hart 8t. Relatives and friends Invited.

Interment private. 7 2 tTATLOR On Saturday, Octobor 0, at his residence, JOHN BROWN, beloved husband of Hannah Dayton and son of the late John Browcr and Phoebe Francis Taylor. Relatives and friends are respectfully Invited to attend funeral services at tho residence 0f Ills brother in law, Beter T. Loniiworth, 295 Eighth at, Brooklyn, at 8 o'clock P. on i Monday, October 8.

Interment private. 1 Judgment seat to day. Are we conforming to its high standard? What is the supremo test we are bringing to our lives? Is it social position? Is it success in business? Ia it pleasure or comfort? Or is it something which brings all these into subordination the imitation of the spirit of Christ, the becoming like Him? Oh, that we might be 89 like Him as not only meet his judgment, bu9 to have also the right to share His judgeship? that our very presence might put the bad shame and be an encourganfent to the good. Like Christ, before whom the Pharisees came, and dropped their eyes, and crept away; before whom a poor, desolate, sin stained woman came and humiliated as never before in the presence of spotless purity, yet lifted her eyes and went out to a bettee life judged by the saint!" STAATS ZEITUNG FOR NIC KIN LEY Bryan Eesolved, It Declares, to Destroy! Gold Standard and to Bring About Eree Silver. The following editorial appeared in thm New Yorker Staats Zeitung this morning: THE LESSER EVIL.

The campaign has entered upon its last month and the situation has become tolerably clear. It does not appear likely that events will occur which can materially change the present aspect. The Democrats have not succeeded in the attempt, undertaken by their convention to make imperialism the paramount issue and to place the silvee question In the rear. Their own candidate has frustrated all efforts in this direction by. his letter of acceptance, in which he took a decided stand for free silver coinage, and by asserting in numerous speeches that ha and his party had not changed their attitude toward the financial question since 1896.

Thia means that William J. Bryan is still resolved to use his whole power to destroy the gold standard and to bring about the free and unlimited coinage of silver. Our estimate of the dangers connected witl President McKinley's colonial policy has undergone no change. We are not only firmly convinced that the Philippine Islands will never repay in material advantages the sacrifices made for their possession, but we aro also satisfied beyond all doubt that a continuation of the policy of conquest must hopelessly corrupt our public life and either de stroy our free institutions entirely or at least compel us to engage in a severe struggle for their preservation, not to mention the dan gers of foreign complications. Furthermore, we are fully aware of the fact that Mr.

McKinley's election will be interpreted and exploited as a victory of imperialism, even if it has been caused by the distrust of Mr. Bryan's teachings and character. In spite of all this we consider a Republican; victory less dangerous for the welfare of the nation than the election of William J. Bryan It would have been possible to overlook mar of the weaknesses ssses of date if he had stod fl. he took in bis speech of accepiiKXencTifan apolis.

But after he has shown, in his formal letter of acceptance and in numerous) speeches delivered since then, that he has not learned, cannot and will not learn anything in regard to the financial question, that him ignorance and lack of perception in this direction are incurable, he must be considered tho greater immediate danger. His election would undoubtedly produce a widespread disturbance of present economic conditions, front which hardly anybody would escape and which would subject a large part of tho American people to severe suffering. It is not well to rely too firmly upon the hope that Congress will not contain a majority friendly to silver. The lack of confidence iu William J. Bryan's character is so pronounced that his election would suffice to produce grave economic convulsions, even if his hands were completely tied.

But he can do untold harm without the assistance of Congress. And we must consider that his election would be interpreted by the politi clans as a victory of silver. Politicians are always anxious to be on the popular side of every question, and it is more than possible that, as President, Bryan would be able to secure a majority for his schemes in both houses of Congress. Many of the Senators and Congressmen who are now opposed to free coinage have voted for it before when they thought the majority of the people desired it, and they would do so again. While we earnestly desired an entirely different solution, and must acknowledge that we are bitterly disappointed, we cannot re sist the conclusion that the success of tho Republican ticket, while undoubtedly a gravo evil, will be the lesser of two evils, and that, therefore, the election of William McKinley will be connected with less Immediate dan ger than that of William J.

Bryan. MAYOB'S OATH A MOCKERY. Supreme Peril in Disregard for Pledges, Says the Bev. C. Myers.

'The Mayor's oath is a cruel said Dr. Cortland Myers, in the Baptist temple, Sunday evening. He declared that one of our supreme perils was the growing disregard for oaths, and the wreckage of broken promises. The Mayor for this second largest city In the world has purjured himself, disgraced his high office and stands aa an example for all office holders under him. Find fault with the police for not keeping their Bacred oaths and even with the firemen for not doing their duty, but remember that the Ice Trust Mayor has not given answer to the abused public confidence, on his owS violated oath.

The great army of under officials are encouraged in the guilt of the same Iniquity. The Mayor's oath has come to be our cruel mockery. We are next to the Frenchmen in our attitute and action. We are startled and stunned at first, then howl our denunciation, and Instantly forget all about it, and listen attentively to Croker's moral maxims about trusts. He and his kind ought to be hissed and shamed into silence by the boiling of a righteous and deathless public conscience and sentiment.

The oath is losing its sanctity in our society, and Benedict Arnold still lives witout being called a traitor. The office seekers promise everything, and, after the ballots are counted, violate almost every pledge they made. They sanctimoniously promise a Garden of Eden, and then give us the desert of Tammany Hall government, without any water or schools or anything, except taxes and disgrace. YOUNG PEOPLE'S BAXIiY. A union young people's rally will be hoM under the direction of a Joint committee representing the Bpworth League of tho Brooklyn North District, the Christian Endeavor Union (Fourth District) and the Scarlet Sec tion of the Young People Baptist union, in the Central Baptist Church, Marcy avenue and South Fifth street, on Thursday evening.

The purpose of this nnd contemplated succeeding meetings is to stimulate, according to the committee, of which H. G. Simpson la secretary, a renewed Interest and enthusiasm in the young people prayer meeting, rne theme of the first meeting Is to be "Tetl mony." The Rev. Dr. Charles L.

uooeu, pastor of the Hanson Place M. E. will be the speaker ot tho cyenlafr pointing out in a friendly way, the evil consequences that will follow upon the heels of Bryan's election. To this the cynical work ingman may respond: "If Mr. McKinley is elected will they give us warning whenever they intend to shut up shop?" John W.

Gates of the American Wire Com pany shut down twelve mills in May last without giving 7,000 or more workingmen an hour's warning. Mr. Gates is with Mr. Hanna for President McKinley's election. Let us have peace, a fair, free vote and a campaign free from personalities calculated to create disorder.

MUL. A NEW CHURCH OPENED. Celebration Services Begun Yesterday at Grace Church's Edifice. Grace Reformed Episcopal Church, at the corner of Herkimer street and Saratoga avenue, was largely attended at all its services yesterday. The occasion was the opening of the new edifice.

A number of distinguished clergymen were preeent and took part in the various ceremonies. Bishop Nicholson of Philadelphia opened the morning service with a sermon, portraying the early struggles of the church and its present success. In the afternoon there were addresses by various persons under direction of the Rev. Dr. Phillips.

In the evening the Rev. Dr. Robert L. Rudolph of Manhattan preached. The serv ices will he continued this evening, when the Rev.

Dr. Forrest B. Bergen will preach. On to morrow and Wednesday nights, respectively, the Rev. Dr.

William T. Sabine and the Rev. Ephraim Phillips will make addresses. HARLEM AND THE BRONX. The Rev.

J. H. Makepeace, the Rev. Wey land Spaulding and the Rev. J.

H. Elliott will address Group 3 of the Sixth District Christian Endeavor Union, at a Bible study conference, to be held this evening, at 8 'clock, in Trinity Congregational Church, One Hundred and Seventy sixth street, corner of Washington avenue. Howard Spear, of 208 Alexander ave nue, son of the clerk of the Second Municipal Court, Morrisania, and Miss Edna Sea mon, daughter of Mr. John Gildersloeve Sea mon, will be married to morrow evening at the residence of the bride's parents, 241 West One Hundred and Twenty eighth street. The Rev.

Dr. William C. Bitting, pastor of Mount Morris Baptist Church, Harlem, will officiate. Three hundred invitations have been issued. The Rev.

Romilly P. Humphries, rector of St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church, One Hundred and Seventieth street and Washington avenue, has received a call to the rectorship of Trinity Church, South Nor aik, and it is more than probable that he will accept it. For the past ten years Third avenue, from One Hundred and Sixteenth street to One Hundred and Twenty fourth street, has been locally known as the Harlem Market, on ac count of the large number of fruit and vegetable peddlers that gathered there, espe cially on Saturday nights. As their stocks ere just as good and fresh as those sold in the near by stores and very much cheaper.

they were liberally patronized, especially by the working classes. Last Saturday night. however, not a push cart or wagon was to be seen at the old stand, much to the disappointment oi would be purchasers, and when one of the extra force of police that was sent to keep the avenue clear was asked the reason, he replied that they were only carrying out the orders received. PARIS PASHIONS TJP TO DATE. Prom the Eagle Paris Bureau, 53 Ru Cambon, through the courtesy of Abraham Straus.

Green cloth gown, embroidered with black and gilt. Blouse and yoke of mirrored velvet, fastened with black velvet rosette. THE FAGUL1 OF JUDGMENT. Dr. Dewey Says It Is the Chiefest Conferred by God on Man.

THE RIGHT TO JUDGE THE WORLD Lies Only With, tee Saints Goodness Essential to Saneness A Coming Storrs' Memorial Service. The Rev. Dr. Harry Plnneo Dewey, pastor of the Church of the Pilgrims, Henry and Remsen streets, was back in his pulpit yesterday after his somewhat extended vacation. He preached for the last time about the middle of June.

He comes back in excellent health to find some improvements made in the church and his study in the edifice made bright and new and the large library all catalogued for use. Dr. Dewey has taken possession of the residence so long occupied by the late Dr. Storrs at 80 Pierrepont street, which has been renovated and painted throughout. The change from one pastor to another, his Concord people parting with him with much regret, was a severe strain, and the long vacation granted arid enjoyed was welcome.

Dr. Dewey announces himself as ready for the active and arduous duties of his large parish. A large audience greeted Dr. Dewey yes terday morning and he was given a warm wel come at the close of the service, many of the members lingering to shake him by the hand. Among the announcements was a memorial service, in honor of Dr.

Storrs, to be held on November. 19, at which Dr. Lyman has been invited to make the, addTess. Dr. Dewey's sermon was preached from a text found in the first Epistle of St.

Paul to the Corinthians, the sixth from the second verse: "Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world?" Dr. Dewey's Sermon. "The chiefest faculty which GoS has conferred upon the human mind," said Dr. Dewey, "is the faculty of judgment. As the definition runs, the power of comparing ideas, examining facts, debating courses of action and forming conclusions thereupon.

Conclusions that now have to do merely with considerations ol expediency or merit, and again more seriously with considerations ol right and truth. One day your child returns from school and very fluently recites to you what he has learned; in your parental satisfaction you venture to, ask him a question different in form from that he has heard in the school room, but calling for an answer which you think may be readily inferred. To your surprise there is a look confusion upon his face; be jumps wildly from one answer to another, and it dawns upon your mind, with no little disappointment, that the learning of ycr child is the retention of memory and not the product of reflection. President Eliot recently said that the principal function of education is to give mental grip, to cultivate the power of reasoning, observation and re flection. We deem it the Bignal mark of a teacher's ability when he is able to inspire a love for information and to provoke to a diligent search for it.

We are very certain that our schools and our colleges fail of their mission if they do not excite original investigation. It is true that something of our iflooa of nur theories, of our information, in earlier life and all along the way, must, of necessity, be obtained second hand. But if learning is to become a personal possession; if it is to be transinutable into knowledge; it it tn hn ntllizable for the pracUcal ends of success, it must in large measure be the result of one's own Independent search and reflection. And if the judicial temperament be so necessary tor the acquiring of knowledge, how important it is for wisdom of action. If a child shows discouraging propensities and yet reveals beneath the thoughtlessness a fund of good sense, we say that nice points are gained tor a creditable career.

"It is not the men and women of brilliancy of intellect who are those always to be most relied upon, but, rather, those who, with or without this distinguishing mark, are characterized by saneness of mind the ability to distinguish between the permanent and transient, between the true and. false, between reality and appearance. Bad' Judgment! when a man throws his money away in a wildcat financial speculation. Bad judgment! when a young man, in estimating the effects of ill doing, sets his feet in the pathway of wrong. Bad judgment! when even the best intentions are thwarted by a want of the sense of fitness of things, by a failure in tact.

Many arc the calamities and woes that fall upon us by the blunders, the mistakes, the stupidities of a wandering mind. Oh, for a clearer foresight, for an insight more deeply to see beneath the surface, for a keeher discrimination, for a nicer discern ment, for a more well balanced, poised, in tuitive, interpretative, comprehensive for a saner, wiser, mind! That is the prayer of the business man caught in the fluctuations of the market. That is the prayer of the doctor standing in tho sick room, baffled by the elusive and conflicting symptoms. That is the prayer of fathers and mothers, feeling the immense responsibility of parenthood. That is the prayer of us all when we come to those junctures which we all meet sooner or later, where we realize that fateful conse quences are to ensue from our actions and recognize thnt the responsibility for the re sult lies with our own Independent, unaided, solitary judgment.

And Paul says that the man whose judgment can most bo relied upon is the saint. He is not thinking of 1 somo departed spirit, clnd in celestial virtue: he is thinking of men and women with their feot upon the earth, dealing with tie practical affairs of life, hut ruled by tb. desire. above all, to do the will of God. And when we stop and think how much depends, sometimes, upon a single action; how the incidental word or duty often has immense power colled up within itself, which we recognize when It is but of our control how the single determinations of an hour may be the turning point in a career, may not one hesitate to choose or decide in anything great or small if his mind is not clarified and sustained and guided by the spirit of Christ? i The Good Man the Sane Man.

"That the good man is the sane man appeals, I think, when we consider the purpose or our existence. It Is one of the significant utterances of our day that such men as John telling us that the ends of evolution. are moral ends; that the great process moving up from the protoplasmic beginning, through the lower to the higher, through the simpler the complex, through the law of natural selection and the survival of the fittest in the fierce struggle for existence, Is a process which seems to be steering re sistlessly toward a distant goal, as if a creative mind, had set It in motion, with the distant end in view the goal of a more righteous, a more moral, a more godly humanity. It is the solentiflc sanction of the great dictum of St. Paul when he says that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together, until; now, waiting for what? For the revelation of the sons of God.

And the purpose for the race is the purpose for the individual. You' and I are no't here for any particular pleasure or pain, not here that we may have this adversity or that fortune. These are hut the concomitants, the conditions, the circumstances, the instrumentalities through which something else is to be wrought. "rliis dance Of plastic circumstance, Tnia present thou, forsooth, wouldst fain arrest, "Is machinery just meant To give thy soul Its bent. Try thee and turn thee forth, sufficiently "Not enijbyment and not sorrow Is our destined end or way.

But to act that each to morrow Find us further than to day. "Yea, further, toward the fulfillment of that rounded manhood, tne powers and possibilities which lie slumbering In us all. And brethren, if that be the purpose of life if the circumstances of our lot, If the experience through which we pass, If the duties and privileges even of a single day are but the means to an end, how can it be possible for us to choose wisely or decide reliably in anything if the mind be not clarified, and guided, and held by the all commanding purpose? The astronomers tell us that in addition to Venus and Jupiter and Mars and the greater planets of the solar system, there is a company of something like four hundred little planets so small that some of them on their surface are no larger than the City of Boston: and we know that the numerous company keep well along together without a jar because they are all held by the central sun. Drift a single day from the supreme consideration what is right to the subordinate consideration, what is expedient, or what is politic, or what is pleasurable, and Inevitably one must go blundering and stumbling on his way. There is no better definition of sin than that given by the old Greeks "A missing of the mark." Wrongdoing is loss of aim, and when a man has lost the aim of life, of necessity his mental operations are unreliable.

That goodness is essential to saneness is the more evident when we think of Judg ment as applied to that which is immediately moral and religious in its bearing. Here Is a man who says to me, I do not care for church, Bible, ordinances of religion; they are well enougn lor you, DUt i do not need them. His evidence is irrelevant, it does not count, it is ruled out of court If he himself is diso bedient. Can a man believe in prayer if he is not prayerful? Can a man believe in Jesus Christ if he doe3 not follow Him? "My sheep know my voice," said Jesus, and the implica tion is that If we are not His sheep we do not hear Him, we do not know Him. Are you standing before some duty to day questioning whether it really is your duty, half feeling that it Is not.

Be certain that the mists clouding your minds do not rise from some low lying selfishness, from some pam pered lust of the soul: for a twist in the conscience means a distortion of vision. Moral obliquity means spiritual stlgmatlsm. We cannot think right if we do not do right. We call in the experts to decidenicequestions, consult the musician to tell us what music is. the artists to tell us what art Is.

Shall we not with equal propriety demand that the righteous shall he the reliable critics of right eousness? The pure in heart see God. and one unrelinquished sin will eclipse the divine face. Paul on Judgment. "But Paul gives another turn to this matter of judgment. It has to do not only with our own lives.

It has to do also with the lives of others. We must judge one another. There are judgments that never ought to be made. Judgments' which' might at. least be held In abeyance; but deducting these, every day we are called upon to estimate our fellow men, to interpret their motives, to pass opinion upon their conduct and upon their character, and sometimes to take an attitude In accord with the Judgment.

It is responsible business. It is said that the ancient Greeks required their judges to determine all causes in the night, that their number and their faces not being known, they might not be open to corruption, and that themselves knowing neither plaintiff nor defendant, they might be impartial in judgment. It has always been recognized that judgment is an office that calls for the highest integrity. Go into a court room. There ie a criminal arralgn'ed for sentence with the manifest evidence of guilt; there are the stricken wife and children, covered with shame, and perhaps on that side also the unfeigned penitence of the criminal himself; and there Is the court, within the limits of the law, privileged to decide aB he will.

Are you not moved with sympathy as you think of the task before him; who must apply tho law to the fate of his fellow being. Do you not see how delicate, how difficult it is to balance, in such an instance, between Justice and mercy? Can any man be fitted for such a responsibility whose mind is not trued and calmed and sustained by the mind of Christ? But there are other courts than those which the state sets up. There Is a tribunal in every man's mind and before it every day hla fellow beings are coming for sentence. "Eciployers Judging employes, employes Judglffl. employers, friend estimating friend, sist in remaining lower down.

What a re unite there Is in Innocency. That is a characteristic story of the little girl who welcomed the burglar in the night, misapprehend ing his motives, and by her sweet unconsciousness of evil drove the dark Intent from his heart. There Is no more beneficent book in modern literature than "Little Lord Fauntleroy." Have you not been abased in your own mind as you have Isoked upon the simple atrectness, the unreserved unselfishness, the spontaneous trust of a little child? wnat parent nas not been cast down from all pride and been made to see his defects with pain of heart and to yearn for a better me, as ne nas seen tne confidence and the admiration and the pride of his little child going out to him; the child who was placing him upon a pedestal? He looked upon me as a saint, Free from fault and sinful taint. Supreme and grand; But he was a child. Sweet, undented, and could not understand.

Oh, to have lived so that to day I might look In his eyes and say, I would have him live as I have lived And do as I have done In every way. But has there ever been a man Since Father Adam went amiss Who dared to face the boy he loved And tell him this. The Rebukes in Innocence and Character. "There is a rebuke in Innocenw. Tho is a rebuke in character.

There was that miserable, petty, selfishness you were harboring, condoning, excusine th half bad; and one day you came alongside a nobler friend, and something made you particularly conscious then of his sterling conscientiousness, and in the revelation the.rp was a contrast made which brought the evil vniug out irom its moing, threw oft its disguise, and you saw it as it was. It was the sham detected by the erenuine: it wu tbo brilliant fading before the diamond. Horace uusnneii said that when he went into the British Museum and saw thn fn and cfueens on the walls and in the midst of them the portrait of the Great Protector, iub xaces oi royalty seemed to shrivel Into insignificance before his look of robust rectitude. There is a rebuke in character, but there Is encouragement, too. Emerson Mid of Thoreau that he was a man who loved the truth and the consequence was when any civic question was up, everyone wanted to know what Henry would do.

"How did Sherman vote," asked Jefferson one day when he came into the House, not knowing wnac tne question was. Who was that man," said Moody, of an usher whom he saw extending people a welcome at the church door, "I will give htm a thousand dollars for it." And Thomas, hardly un derstanding Jesus, yet fascinated bv Him as ne saw Him resolutely facing death; said, "Let us also go that we may die with Him" comment upon that saying of St. Paul that for a good man some would perchance even dare to die. Yea, verily, because the eood in other lives puts a premium upon the good in our own lives and is a confirmation of It. Does not every humble patriot turn to the Garibaldis, and the Lincolns, and the Princes of Orange and say.

There Is the vindication of my heroism? Does not every humble philanthropist turn to the John Howards and the Clara Bartons, and fell that In them is the sanction and 'approval of his benevolence? Do we not all, going about In our ordinary duties, bearing that burden without complaint, facing that obligation without a murmur, exercising our full hearted unselfishness do we not instinctively, almost unconsciously, turn to those lives that are more conspicuous in their rectitude than our own and say. There is my guarantee, there is my summons, there is the undisputed witness to the worth of my fidelity. Yea, rather, do we not turn our eyes to Him who is the perfect man, and in the light of His wondrous blending of strength and duty, every fault and every weakness in us seems detestably hateful, and every good thing, poor, brolcen, maimed, though It be, Is lifted up and glorified and given the unimpeachable commendation of its abiding value. 0, my brethren, of the Church of the Pilgrims, you are looking out into the future as a church; as individuals, you are saying to yourselves, perhaps, In these days, as so many are saying, that the tendencies are against the church, that materialism is making inroads upon its life. There is one thing that we may settle in our minds: as never before, men are feeling the fascination of the manhood of Jesus Christ.

Men of the church and men of no church, men of creed and men of no creed, men of religion and men of no religion, are recognizing the Mas ter as the supreme test of moral worth. "Irresistibly they are constrained to enthrone Him upon the judgment seat of con duct. You and I are standing before that.

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