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How rapidly he can be conveyed hcross continent or ocean; the point is what kind of errand is he going on? What are the objects of his
the haste, inotive of his keen exertion? Rail, telegraph, wireless, aero- pläne; free trade, free speech, free press, free thought; secret ballot, popular government-the whole question about all and any of them is the question of the kind who' of
men and women
them. make
of are to The amazing apparatus of modern life can do many things. But there are things beyond its power, and one of them is to en- able us to gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistles. Chemists are beginning to say that the dream
use
the old alchemists may turn But to be ro dream, but that some day it may be within their power literally to change dull lead into bright gold. That may yet be done, but as Herbert Spencer said in The Man versus the State** it will never be possible to get golden conduct ou: of leaden instincts. Leaden instincts-the motive power of dull, heavy,!
souts which earth-bound, cleave in selfishness unto the dust if there be nothing better than such to work upon, then the more senpe you provide the worse will be the results, for the more favourably you situate the cor- rup: the bigger is its crop of unwholesomeness."
Fundamental therefore to the urgent work of reconstruction is the work of building character, the problem of the better man. The failure of which so much in our modern civilisation stands convicted, is due to its neglect. I am not thinking specially of the Life, with all that gives it WAT value, has been wasted in peace with a recklessness which could nut be exceeded.
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So long as the industrial machine kept running few of us seemed to be alarmed crashamed at he egregious cost of material pro-perity in values which all the wealth of the world annot repay-in infant life for n-tance, in disease and over.. toll in vice and squalor and overcrowding. Starvation. both of body and mind has been the lot of millions under the proud Bags of Britain and America, not to mention countries more re-
To the church in especial the times of pears the cost would mote from the van of progress. Millions have had to grow up in have been considered prohibitive, same problem is always present. surroundings which would have but the war had affected our sense For what is the church's business crushed the possibilities of clean of proportion both as to getting in the world but to form character and intelligent citizenship out of and spending. After spending in Christ and for Christ? The most of us had we been exposed $8,000,000 a day to destroy men place of the church in the recon- to them. Our drink bill-God lives a few millions a year does structed world is the subject of Forgive us, if He can, for we sin not seem exorbitant for saving much debate, but it can only be against the light and apparently them. or. put otherwise, having what it has always been, in whatever ways and methods its to meke mean to go on sinning-has been spent
work may be carried out, viz. to { IX. eight, ten times our bill for world safe for democracy
to invest witness for God and the unseen in reasonable starved ucation. We schools and fattened our distil-millions in helping to fit the a world where these too easily make a happier pass out of men's knowledge to lers. The jerry builder made democracy to fortunes while. the character world. An investment it is. like bring the life of time into the light planting good trees. and one that of eternity, to minister the grace builder. the teacher, made i
will pay commercially with high and power of Jesus Christ our pittance. Neither brains LOT character earns more than a bare interest, but if it were otherwise Lord, unceasingly beseeching men living in this world unless they it would be just as much our first to be reconciled in Him to God. can be turned to direct money-duty and as well worth while; For that is the heart and essence making, and then they deteriorate. for the better man is worth all he of the whole problem, to bring us If we fail to to God truly and practically, till I am reminded of a striking pass can cost and more. age from Ruskin's "Unto this produce him we fall critically, we think His thoughts, delight Last which is not get out of though our flag should continue in His will, are happy in His smile. The root of such a life in date: "It remains open to serious
to wave in every breeze.
man is Christ. "I am the vine," question.
whether among national manufactures, that of Souls of good quality may not turn out a quite leadingly lucrative
A
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If human beings are not to │He says, "ye are the branches."* grow better, what object is there The branch is fruitless cut off in the world's going on at all? If from the vine, so also are you there is to be no increment in and I if we suffer. either the character, no advance in know pleasures and satisfactions or kindness, uprightness, the cares and disappointments of Nay, in some far away and un-ledge. dreamt of hour. I can even ima-large-heartedness, it is hard to this life to come between our gine that England may cast all see why life should be perpetuated hearts and their thoughts of pursuing wealth back from one generation to another deemer.
Divine Re- But if He sees out
His soul and is
to the barbaric nations among any longer. Among the objects world becoming a world of really whom they first arose, and that, we set before ourselves surely. better men, He receives of the while the sands of Indus and the according to the plainest lesson travail of adamant of Golconde may yet of the time, must be the produc satisfied. stiffen the housings of the charger tion of the better man, for noth- and flash from the turban of the ing else can justify the travail slave, she, as a Christian mother, and suffering of the ages whose may at least attain to the virtues rich and costly inheritance we and the treasures of a heathen have entered into.
one, and lead forth her sons,
saying, 'These are my jewels."
What man who is a man can more worthy than he has been of
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