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By KEV. F. E. DAVISCN
Rutland, VI.
UNSOCIABLE NEW YORK.
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A MESSAGE FOR TO-DAY
International Bible Lesson for
Dec. 19, '09.
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We havp t:(v.
or bron fciml of
the rompany of
tin pessimist nnd
tlio rroakor, but
wo must onii frits
tllilt Kllcll II i.-11
liuvo tlirlr iii-os.
mill there nro
it I p n a abroad
which point to
tho fact thai
Aiurrlia ihi'.Is
tho video of a
111 o il c r n I'.. il,
KimridliiK thro:;h
h h. tho huts of th
tho iialares of tho
jmor. tho sacred nislrs of tho rhtirvh,
tho courts of law, tho marts of trado,
mid tho hulls of plo-isiiro.
For nlthoiuch this nation nevr
stood nt such an altitmlo of prus-T'T-i:y
as It does to-day, thorp aro r, 1 :n
lieiless foes to her perpetuity that
111 rd to bo watehrd and exterminated.
What arc some of our perils?
Present Day Perils.
Materialism Is tho MrVi h to which
this ai;o Is offprint: Kan-ilico.
Sunday Is boconilii'' a social ih'.y In
an unheard of measure to a part ;:'-n- :
oration. Wo air gradually but cer;:;::i-
ly oprlilns the doors of tralllc nnd I
amuseiiiont on Sunday, our railroad '
boiPK tho leaders in this regard. 1
1 Munkenness unions women Is In
rreaslnp;. Thp laxity of tho marriage relation
Is a nation-wide peril.
There Is a laro Infusion of tho
rambling spirit in our commercial lifo.
There Is a race to get rich nt all haz
ards. The Increase in social extrava
gance Is noticeable everywhere.
Nine-tenths of the lnw-breaklns in
America is hatched In the saloon. The
liquor counter is the block on which
hundreds of our beautiful American
tilings are annually assassinated.
Spirituality Is freezing to death in
the church.
The gulf between the masses and
the classes Is growing wider, In the
church and in the State.
This Is a dark picture, but it Is the
consensus of opinion of the w isest
thinkers in our land, men who see the
perils, and are lifting up warning
voices everywhere.
Does it foreshadow our doom as a
nation? God forbid. The fact that
the peril is bo widely recognized Is our
safety. We have grappled with and
Fettled many great issues In this
country and what the fathers have
done the sons can do. To be fore
warned Is to be forearmed.
Criticism Easy.
A person could go into a watch fac
tory and from the standpoint of a
complete watch find something to
criticise In every direction. It takes
time and skill and patience to make
a watch. And It takes time and skill
and infinite puilence to make what
the world will acknowledge as a rep
resentative man. Character is a thing
of growth, not of bi stowment.
Of course, there are people In tho
church who ought rot to be there.
Hut when a fluhermai sweeps his net
mound, and then pullinn It into hN
boat tind.J that he has a great ban! of
mackerel, be does not pitch the whole
lot nverbonrd because he has taken A
few lampcr-eels and snapping turtle.
No. lie rows ashore, after ho ;',ea
through fishing, and sorts his catch
afterwards. So the church in this
world is set to catch men, not sort
them. On the beach of eternity they
will be sorted out by One who Is un
erring In Ills Judgment.
Church a Factory.
Is not the criticism largely due to
the fact that the objector falls to re
alize that no one church can be ex
pected to reconstruct the world. In
this great mission there is work fur
each denomination. It Is like a great
factory where many hands are em
ployed. It is the business of the
Methodists, warm hearted and llery,
If In tliH business of
the Cougregatlonalists, sturdy and
logical, to hammer the rivets. It is
the business of the Episcopalians, to
whom the beauty of piety appeals, to
make the exquisite case. It Is the
business of the Baptists, having strong
predilections for water, to wash off
the works. So that, after awhile, this
w hole world disordered, run down, and
out of gear, will become a perfect
timepiece, ticking away the ceuturlos
of millennial Joy. How Inconsistent
la that critic who takes a single wheel
or rivet or case of a watch and finds
fault because it la not a perfect piece
of mechanism.
It is all very well to criticise the
church for its coldness and indiffer
ence, and aloofness from the lives of
men, but I notice that when scarlet
fever puts Its hot hands into the home
nest, and the roses In the child's
cheeks turn Into the white lilies of
death, no one wants to put away the
sacred dust without the consolations
of the church, and the benedictions of
.doty. No carping then! No secular
-imgs! No acrimonious criticism!
Tlu-n we turn instinctively to tho only
01 sanction which stands pointing
thromrh tha mien nortals. with tho
-lablems of piety in her hands and the
i-iiht of eternity In her oyeB
An Indiana Womttt'i Impressions
Nobody Knows Anybody Else.
"What Impresses me most In New
York Is the fact that nobody seems to
know anybody else," the Indiana wo
man wrote home. "When I came to
visit Kate I expected to meet a num
ber of pleasant people and be enter
tained by them, as she is when sho
visits m.
As a matter of fact I have met no
body. The only woman acquaint am 0
of hers I havo seen was one we hap
pened to meet in a shop. Then Kato
hurried mo around the other way, he
cause, sho said, she only hariieti. il to
know her because they sat at tne m-Nt
table In the apartment hotel where
they usel to live, and she did not care
to keep up the acquaintance.
"The reason for this seemed to bo
the fact that tho woman iilwu;. a
seemed to havo got all her clothe.-) last
year.
"I have been in every sliup i.f any
sl.-.c in tho city, and in ie.u;y -vi-iy
department of each one. When In
terest Hags Kale takes me to l.ae my
hair marcel waved, to the manicure,
or oven, a.; a last resort, to a Turkish
bath. She is taking less ins in p'-,y. I
fal culture to keep down her I'.i -li 1 ad
(studying ikeosopliy under the ii:o.it
lushlonalile Swaml In to'. 11.
".She has bridge lessons 1:1,11 alh-ailj
a series of morning lectin im upon the
art of the fourteenth century an t an
other on the true ideals of Ha -h. At
each of them elherial wuniv iches at.d
iina'-mic tea are served In china v.r.i: li
looks as if II would u-umplu iu our I
hand. 15 ut none of the women pres
ent betrays by the dicker of an eyelid
her consciousness of the fact that
there are others In the room.
"We lunch at restaurants 01 which
we read in society iiovcU in Indiana
and take tea at places which have no
sijui above the door, are located In out
of the way side streets and never see-.u
to lose the odor ,f violets worn ly
tl.eir patrons. Kate t.evc r, by any
chance, knows any ii:i" per.-.oir.i!.y ;
but sometimes in an excited whisper
she points out a woman whose name
is written among the llr.it ten of tne
Four Hundred.
"That evening at dinner she tells
her husband about it and says what a
lovely day we have had.
'Sometimes we dine at restaurants
deafened by shrill music, where the
only person to whom we can Tak
is the velvet shod waiter, who politely
snubs us. There a noted divorcee or
a leading man in society drama with
his next wife is pointed out to me
with exaltation.
"Kate seems perfectly happy and
her husband apparently enjoys It as
much as she does. She wonders re
peatedly whether the woman at tho
table back of us is or is not the beau
ty whose Mrtralt Is frequently print
ed.. She also decides that her new
hat with the huge rose In front and a
little to the left is already out of style.
"Her husband's contribution to t ie
gayety of the evening is the pointing
out of a fat man whose busiiv ss
methods are about to be investigated.
As for me 1 am so homesick that I al
most weep Into my demitasse when I
icmember the Jolly little chafing dish
p li lies for ten after the Tuesday lec
ture ou art which we give by turns
tu heme in Indiana.
"Once we went to the opera, and
Kate was well nigh hysterical with de
light when she was able to lit 11a ies
to half a dozen women in the boxer,.
'There, when you go back to Indiana,
you can tell them that you saw Mrs.
; Wastor and two of the Gouldorbilts,
I bhe triumphed.
I "Yesterday we were invited to lunch
with a woman we used to know In In
llana, who had heard of my presence
in the city through letters. I expect
ed a nice, homey time, talking of peo
ple? we all knew; but I was disap
pointed. "We lunched in the public dining
room of the apartment hotel, on made
over dishes with French names.
While we ate it our hostess and Kate
discussed the trousseau of a bride
whom Kate thought she had once
"After that they told each other
how often they dinned at lasliionable
restaurants and how particular each
one was to have a particular table en
gaged for her each time. Wheu we
went up stairs they compared all tho
new plays until It was time for us to
go home.
"Once or twice I have gone with
Kate to her dressmaker, who brags
about her fashionable patrons and
tells Kate her figure Is exactly like
that of Mrs. Farrlman. Then there Is
the beauty doctor who waxes eloquent
and persuasive over the newest shade
of hair.
"To-morrow I return to Indiana.
Kate pities me; she says she would
rather die than go back, and wants
me to induce my husband to soU out
his business and come to New York.
As for mo, I am counting the hours to
train time.
"Not because I do not like New
York, but because I want to get back
among people who know each other.
Yes, I turn going home, and tho very
first thing 1 do after I kiss my hus
band will be to telephone to every
woman I know to run over and have
a nice, comfy talk."
The Ceylon pearl fishing ueasoc
lasts only three or four weeks, but
during that time 22.000.000 oysters
are brought to tho surface.
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RAILROAD.
THE ROAD
OF
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