The Brooklyn Divine's Sune day Sermon. Subject; “fhe Old Fight to be Settled.” Text: “Whatsoever ye would that men whould do to you, do ye even 50 unto them.” Matt. vei 12, Two hundred and fifty thousand laborers in Hyde Park, London, and the streets of American and European cities filsd with rocessions of workmen carrying banvers, rings the subject of Laver and Capital to the front. That all this was dons in peace, and that as a result, in many places, arbitra- tion has taken piace, is a hopeful sign. The greatest war the world has aver seen is between capital and labor, The strife is not like that which in history is called the Thirty Years’ War, for it is a war of cen. turies, it is a war of the Hive continents, it isa war bemispheric. The middle classes in this country, upon whom the uation has depended for holding the balance of power and for acting as mediators between the two extremes, are diminishing, and if things go on at the same ratio as they have for the inst twently years been going on, it will not be very long belora thers will be no middle class in tos country, but all will be Vary rich or very poor, princes of paupsrs and the country will be given up to palaces and hovals, The antagonistic forces have again and again closed ir on each other, You may pon pooh it; you may say that this trou. le, like an angry child, will cry itself to sleep; you may belittle it by calling it Fou. rierism, or Socialisia, or St. Simonism, or Nihiliswo, or Communism, but that will not hinder the fact that it is the mightisst, the darkest. the most terrific threat this century. Most of the attempts at pacifi. cation have been dead failures, and monop. oly is more arrogant and the trades unions more bitter rive us more wages,” cry the employes, shall have less,” says the capitalists, ympel us to do fewer hours of toil in a day.” “You shall toil more hours,” say the others, - “Then, under cer tain conditions, wo say these, “Then vou saall starve” say those, and the workmen gradually using up that which they accumulated in better times, unless there bs some radical change, we shall have scon in this country three million hungry men and women, Now, three mill ion hungry people cannot be kept quiet. All the enactments of lsgisiatures and all the constabularies of the cities, and all the army ani navy of the United States cannot keep three million hungry people quiet, What then? Will this war between capital and labor be settled by buman wisdom? Never of fist of the other mors clinched. But that which human wisdom cannot achieve will be accomplished by Christian. ity if it be given full sway. You hava heard of medicines so powerful that one drop would stop a disease and restore a patient, and 1 have to tell you that text preperiv administered will stop all and complete health to all classes “What soever yo would that men should do to you, do you even so to them.” I shall first show ye this morming how this controversy be- tween monopely and hard work cannot be stopped, and then I will show you how this comtroversy will be settled, Futile remedies, In the first place there will come no pacification to this trouble me farthing of wages Into a callous palm, Burbarism will nevar cure the wrongs of givilization. Mark thati Fraderick the Great admired some land pear his palace at Potsdam and he resolved, to get it, It was owned by a miller, He of tered the miller three times the value of the! property. The miller would not take it, be- cause it waa the old homestead, and he felt about it as Naboth felt about his vineyard when Ahab wanted it, Frederick the Great was a rough and terrible man, and he ordered the miller into his presence; and the King, with a stick in his hand-~a stick with which) he sometimes struck his officers of state —said’ to this miller: “Now, [ have offered you three times the valus of that property, and if you won't gell it I'l! take it anyhow.” The miller said: “Your Majesty, you won't.” “Yes,” said the King "1 will take it” “Then,” said the miller, “if your Majesty does take it I will sus you inthe chancery court.” Atthat threat Frederick the Great yielded his infamous demand, And the most imperious outrage against the working classes will yet cower before the law. Vio. lence and contrary to the law will never ac complish anything, but righteousness and ac’ cording to law will accomplish it. © Well, if this controversy between capital and labor cannot he settled by human wis- dom, itis time for us to loek somewhere else for relief, and it points from my text roseate and jubilant, and puts one hand on the broadcloth shoulder of capital, and puts the pther hand on the homespun covered shoul. der of toil. and says, with a voice that will grandly and gloriously settle this and settle everything. ‘‘Whatsosver ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.” That is, the lady of the household will say: I would like to be treated if I stairs, and it were my work to wash, maid in the kitchen to preside in the parior.” The maid in the kitchen must say: “If my pmployer seems to be more " wperous than i, that is no fault of bh her asan enemy, I will have the same in- dustry and fidelity downstairs as I would ex- oct from my subordinates if I happened to othe wife of a silk importer.” | The owner of dose of my text bef an i mill, having taken we leaving home in the ng intc what is called the puddling room, and besweated and exhausted with the labor rnd the toil, and he will say to him: “Why, here. You look very much sxhausted. 1 hear your child is Fick with scarlet fever. If you want your wages a little earlier this week, so as to pay the nurse and get the medicines, just come into my office any time.” After awhile, crash goss the mone ket, and thers is no more demand for the articles manufactured in that iron mill, and the owner does not know what to do. pu hall time, or shall [ cut down the men's wages? room all day, bardly knowing what to do Toward evening he calls all the laborers to. gether, They stand all around, some with what the boss is going todo now, The manu- “Men, business is bad: 1 doi't Inake twenty dollars where I used to make Somehow, there is no demand ow for what we manufacture, or but vory to soa wh rou would advise, 1 don’t want f work, and you have always been very faithful, and I like you, and because they are rich. could be. Sometimes through a fortunate in vention, or through some accident of pros perity, a man who had nothing comes te large estate, and wo see him arrogant snd supercilious, and takin Just as other people took him by the throat There is something very mean about human nature when it comes to the top But itis no more a sin to be rich than it is a sin to be poor. There are thos who have then there are millionaires who have gathered their fortnne through foresight in regard to changes in the markets, and through brilliant business faculty, and every dollar of their estas is as honest as the dollar which the plumber gots for mending a ere are those who keep in poverty because of their own fault, They might have been well off, but they smoked or chewed up their while others on the same wages and on the same salaries went on know a man who is all the time complainin of his poverty snd crying out against ric men. while he himself keeps two do, chews and smokes, and is filled to the chin ih whisky and beer! feawber said to David Copperfield: + Copparield, my boy, ome pound income, twenty Shillings and sixpence expenses, re- sult, misery, o pound imcome, ¢ ses nineteen shillimgs own improvidence, and it is no sim to bepoor. I protestagainst through economy snd self-denial and assiduity, have come to large fortune, bombardment of commercial success will and labor, Neither will the contest be settled by after, and your wife will after awhile want a I don’t know what to do.” There is a dead halt for a minute or two, the ranks of his fellows and says: “Boss you prospersd we prospered, and now you Says: in favor “Ay! ay! ay” But the mill owner, getting in some new machinery, exposes himself very much, and it settles into pneumonia and he dies In the proosssion to the tomb are alithe workmen, tears roll down their cheeks and off upon the ground; but an hour “Boys, what do you say to this? f my proposition will say ay.” rave waiting nara JApaant, T the they started from That night in all the cabins of the workisg # Iman tions look over the iron fence of ths ceme- of the Christ-like injunction, Vbatacsver yo would that men should do to you, do ye sven 0 to them.” Oh.” says some man here, “that is all Utopian, that is apocryphal, that is im. possible.” No, I cut out of a paper this: "One of the pleasantest incidents recorded in is reported from Sheffield, Eng. The wages of the men in the irom sy ¥ land, of arbitration, by whose decision both laboring classes, @ or dradght horses, ir nerves are nothing, their domestic comfort is nothing. They have no mors sympathy for them than a bound hae for a hare, or a hawk for a hen, or a tiger for a calf, When Jean Val y the greatest hero of Victor Hugo's wri after a life of suffering and brave endurance, goes into incarceration apd death. they clap the book shut and say, * for him" They stamp their feet with indignation and say Just the opposite of “Save the working < " They have all their sympathies with Shylock, and not with An and Portia. They are plutocrats, and their fee! ings are intern ey are filled with irrita. tion and irascibility on this subject. To this awful tmbrogilo between tal — tip end labor they will Hft not so much as of the little finger, Neither will thors be any pacification of this augry controversy violence. God pever blessed murder. w up to. morrow the coun sate on the ihe Hudson, and all the fine houses on uare and Brookiyn yao Rill and oS J unprofitable, and the employer can- sot, without much loss, pay the wages fixed by the board, which neither employers nor pmployed have the power to a To avoid this difficulty, the workmen in one of the largest steel works in ShefMeld kit upon p device as rare as it was us, pflered to work for their employers one w without any pay whatever, How much better that plan is than a strike would be.” + But you go with me and I will show you ot so far off as Sheffield, England 1, -, banking houses, store houses, and costly en- lerprises where this Christ-like injunction of my text is fully kept, and you no more get the employer to practios an injustice apon his men, or the men to conspire against the employer, than could get Jour right hand and your left your t aye and your A eye, your right ear your left ear, in . Now, aa where is this to in our ! Inour stores, on our farms--not or other against the firm? Wivng either behind the counter private office, or The great want of the world today is the Juliet of this Cuiibiite Injumotion, which He TRON Olivetic, All J iguind a Hip Stevich der the archivolt the heavens in conven. will, the law demand and supply will regulate theses ihings until the end of time.” No, it will not, unless God dies and the batteries of the judgment day are spiked, and Pluto and Proserpine, kin and queen of the infernal regions, take fu possession of this world, Do you know who Supply and Demand are? They have gone into parnership, and they propos: to swindle this earth and are swindling it, You are drowning. Supply and Demand stand on the shore—ons on one side, the other on the other side of the life boat, and they cry out to you: ‘Now, yon pay us what we ask you for getting you to shore, or go to the bottom I” If you can borrow $5000 you can keep from failing in business, BSBup- ply and Demand say: ‘Now, you pay us ex- orbitant usury or you go into bankruptey!” This robber firm of Supply and Demand say to you: “The crops areshort. We bought up all the wheat and it is in our bin, Now, you pay our price or starve!” That is your magnificent Inw of supply and demand, Supply and Demand own the largest mill on earth, and all the rivers roll over their wheel, and into their hopper they put all the men, women and children they can shovel out of the centuries and the blood and the bones redden the valley while the mill grinds. That diabolic law of supply and demand will yet have to stand aside, and instead thereof will come the law of love, the law of co operation, the law of kindness, the law of sympathy, the law of Christ, Have you no idea of the coming of sucha time! Then you do not belisve the Bible, All tha Bible is full of promises on this sub- jeot, and as ths ages roll on the time will coms when men fortune will be giving larger sums to humanitarian listic purposes, and there will be James Lenoxes and Peter Coopers and Will iam E. Dodges and George Peabody, of 0 open for the hol ing classes, a charge that had been made in England against Lambeth palace, that it was e th and that charge demonstrated the fact that to the grounds of wealthy estate eight hundred poor families and on the half day holidays four thousand poor people recline on grass, through the paths, and sit under the trees. That is gospe on the wing, gospel out of doors worth just ax much as in doors That time i# going toc That is only a hint of what is going to be. time is going to come when, if you have ung in your bouss worth looking at-— f sculpture-—-you are going the zospel Hane, ing to invite my friends to come and woe it, pad you will say, “Ses what | have been plessod with! God has given me this, and bo far as enjoying it, itis yours also.” ts wospel. crossing the lleghany Mountains inany years ago, the stage halted and Henry in the stage and went put on a rock at the very verge of the cliff, kad be stood there with his cloak wrapped shout him, and he seemed to be listening for wmething one said to him: “What ire you listening for Standing there, on the mountain, be said: “I am Bstening to the tramp of the foot stan the coming millions of this continent.” A sublime postu American statesman You and I today stand on the mountain top of privilege, and on the rock of ages, and we look off, and we hear coming from the future the happy in- dustries, and smiling populations, and the ponsecrated fortunes, and the innumerable jprosperities of the closing nineteenth and Nome Hie Lop of of re And now I have two words one to italists and the other to laboring men. To the capitalists: Be your own executors. Make investments for cternity. Do not be like some oapitalists I know who walk around among their employes with supsreil. fous air, or drive up to the factory in a manner which seems to mdicate they are the auto crataof the universe wi be sun sod moon in their vest pockets chiefly anxious when touched by the greasy or smirched hand and have their broadcloth injured, Be a Christian employer, Romember those who are under your charge are bone of sour bone and flesh of your flesh, that Jesus Christ died for them, and that they are immortal. Divide up your estates or por tions of them, for the relief of the world before you leave it. Do not go out of the who died eight or ten years ago, leaving in his will twenty mill. jon dollars, yet giving how much for the church of God? How much for the allevi- tion of human suffering’ He gave some noney a little while before he died. That as well: but in all this will of twenty No. No. One hundred No. One osat? roaning in anguish, Uollars? No. Two cents? No. Thess great cities life, A man in a will giving twenty £t is a disgrace to our civilization To laboring gn; I congratulate you on your provpests , eongrataiate you on the fact that your are getting your A tives at Albany, at Harrisburg, and at Washington, This will go on until you will bave representatives at all the headquarters sad you will have full justice, Mark that, songratulate you alec on the opportunities for your children. Your ehlidron are going » have vast opportunities. I congratulate you that you have to work and that when joa are dead your children will have to ork. Icongratulate you also on your op ortunities of information, Plato paid ome thousand threes bundred dollars for two books. Jerome ruined himssif financially, What vast you and your children! A workingman goes along by five dollars! Hesays, “I wish I could have that information: I wish I couid raise five A few months pass on and of that book for fifty cents ina pamphlet, never was such a day for the working. men of America as the 7 that is coming, But the greatest fri of capitalist and toiler, and the one who will yet them together in complete accord, was born ons Chftutenas igh wills the curtains of heaven swung, wings angelic. Owner of all things—ail the nage all and all the islands of light, Capitalist over to our con \ to our world, not by gate of palace but by door of ep on I Suid n; around Him the fishermen to oy His chief attend. and saw, and chisel, and commands: “*Whateoev at or yo would that men do ye even so $0 them.” I 0 se. Olive, Thorne Miller, the Brooklyn suthoress, has a reom set apart exclusive- ly for her pet birds, about which she writes so ontertainingly. In this indoor apartment she trains and watches them, and from her observation of thelr wa writes such books as *‘Birds' Ways” + Nestling Time,” ote. Australian settlers complain that there has been a great decrease in destructive insects since the rived and drove out Towels, First of all, have plenty of towels. Comfort and cleanliness depend upon it. You can better afford to go without any ornaments whatever, than you ean afford to have a scanty supply of towels, I have visited where there were not enough, and been most uncomfortable. After one or two lessons, 1 learned to earry two or three towels in my trunk, although it is pleasant to add 1 seldom have to use them. Have them of a good size. They are more satisfactory and wear enough longer to pay for the difference in original cost. Somehow,one feels dryer if she has had enough of a linen sur- face to dry upon. A friend of mine begs me not to forget the misery and discomfort produced by the “summer resort” towel, about one-third as large of it in the hands and before one has wiped at all. Most of us know towel, and love it not. Shall the towels be This is a watter of taste, Some | out of fashion and a nemstitehed | had taken its place. nA all { but turned a deaf ear {to it, for a while to come. But s hem really pleasanter than fringe, { has the advantage of looking well | the very end, as fringe does not. Bhall our towels be huck-a-back That, too, matter taste but it is also a matter of plexion The skin needs rubbing with a somewhat face to ke Pp the pores open ever fi persons may have, cleanliness and open pores are the first requisite # complexion, Hueck-a-back for general use, then: buts few damask towels are a nice possession. To get the “new™ out of towels it is or | damask? inf rough ys BLaQ siur- what. of ih good seems best wet and let them freeze. Does this imply buying them in winter? Well 18 n the winter that mos our large stores have their “linen sales.” O ye econon hi keeper! another bit of advice bearing upon micety is: Iron your towels «¢ It takes but time and makes them ple Just a word about bathing Have Turkish towels if you they are proper and a comfort, There are few housekeepers who do not know the advantage of roller-i at one or more places in their he where frequent washing is done. There should atleast be one in the kitchen bathroom, or wherever else the family ‘Hock’ to wash. Inthe ‘children’s room” it presents great advantages. It is hung up, and not on the floor; it always “there,” and does not have 4 ] ted for while wet hands are 3 IORI JOB ii ire little m both sides, towels: f Can, ior WELK IT RON and fara lie % tr dripping, to dry,in a way ve ry sccommodating to a hurried boy or girl; and it is not easy | Ie say in connection with all that they are nof wash-cloths, even the corners of them, as people seem to suppose, The best thing which to roller-towels, is Russian told it is woven by peasants, Atany rate the best medinm qualities are more satisfactory for roller-towels than any other erash 1 not of crash. I am new. Just here comes ins word as to when to begin using new towels. Let it be in the summer time, when skins ere not chapped or sensitive, and when Isundry work is so mu easier that the conscience feels less ocompunction ch the wash for frequent laundering. One who has ever supplied towels for a | group of growing boys and girls, will sorry work. Nor is { with the advice to buy in the winter, Buy and frecze, and then wait for sum- mer to continne the necessary soften- ing process. One thing more: All know how very disagreeable new dish-towels are Well, don't have ‘em! Go to the sup- ply of roller-towels, select some of the oldest, best-softened ones, cut them in two, and hem at both ends. The dish- towels are thus never new, and the azple replenishing of roller-towels will make it all right. Does some one suggest that this is not a clean way to do? Then use more soap, water and boiling when you wash your roller towels, and it will be, Is there any use for other towels that have developed very thin “middles” and lost most of their fringe? If one has time to devote to such saving work or if there are little girls in the family | who need employment, my advice is to | cut the towels down the centre, length- | wise, and “over and over” the edges { together. This gives a firm “middle” | good enough to out square wash-cloths | from, for those who like such, or to nse | for any other purpose for which soft | linen can be used. Always have towels of linen, Do not be tempted into trying the cheaper cot- ton, which is very costly to temper and strength, as it leavesa disagreeable lint behind it, in gentle protest. Once I was beguiled into it, and the experi- ence now serves to put greater warmth into my advice. One word about “‘company” towels Have them better than family towels if you please; but be sure to have the family take the “new” off. This may be hard on the family but the wiping guost will love you more, and leave hind a blessing instead of a re- proach. Good Housekeeping. Ture new Johnston Line steamer Queensmore, Captain Trenery, arrived at Baltimore lately from London via Boston on her first trip to this side. Captain Trenery reports that he en- countered a shower of red rain off the Banks of Newfoundland. He was startled when his attention was called to it by one of his but ea yet account for it. After the show er, which lasted but a Short the the weather extremely oo s00n brightened SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON. BUNDAY,JUNE L 1890, The Good Samaritan. LEBSBON TEXT. on on E31. ( Luke 10 Memory verses, 53.33.) LESSON PLAN. Toric or rae QUanTER : Saviour of Men, Jesus the Gorpes Texr This {a inde cid thie of the world. Yor THE QUARTER: Christ, the Saviour John 4 : 42, Lesson Toric Words on Ne igh { 1. Captious Questioning, i ve, 2 4 suiiful Bled, Lesson OurLing Answering. vs. Personal Ya. Goroes Texr: Thou shalt love thy thyself.—Lev. 19 ; 18, Application, {| neighbor as Day Hour Brapinas - M.—Luke 10 neighborly love, T.—Lev. 19": 1-18. neighborliness. /,~1 John 3 law of love, T.—1 Cor. 1 inencoe { love, F.—1 Sam. 20: 1-23. and Jonathan, 1 Bam. 20 24-42. David and Jonathan. Matt, 25 : 31-486. The fruits of Love Words on 25-317. The old law of 10-24. The The pre-em- La Love LESSON ANALYSIS, I. CAPTION 8 QUESTIONING, ed him (25). tempt ve (Matt, 22 : IR), | A lawyer, ing him The Inwyers rege ected rt : O ye hypocrites? wked him a question, tempt- { Matt. 22 : 35). the counsel of God (Linke 7 Some of them tempted, {1 Cor. 10 : 9. II. The Wise Reply. What nin thelaw? how read- ost thou? od i erished 18 writte 4 £4) (Psa. 19:7. and to the tes ing the T'o the law No. $3rr yy HLINOnY [sa : wi), # They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them (Luke 16 ad}. The sacred writings which are sable to make 2 Tim. 3 : 15). il. The Evasive Question: And who is my neighbor? (29), In the resurrection whose wife shall she be? (Mark 12: 23). | Lord, are they few that thee wise be » Bav ed Pilate saith unto him, What Foolish and ignorant use (2 Tum. 2: ~ “Master, wi re- 3 3 1 I do to inherit eternal life?” A great aspi- ration; (2) A wise appeal.—(1) The candidate for eternal life; (2) The Lord of eternal life. “What is written in readest thou? : he law; (2) The stu 3) The disclosures of the law. “And who is my neighbor?” The lawyer's Meant to shield himself; (2) Turned to con- viet himself, : 1 Ae law? how ' (1) The contents of r of the law: question (1) 11. BRILLYUL ANSWERING, . A Picture of Suffering: Kobbers. .. stripped him and beat im, leaving him half dead (30). So Satar smote Job with sore boils (Job 2: 7 Wounds, and | sores (Isa, 1: This is A people robbed and spoiled (Isa. 42:22 bruises, and festering 6 robbers (2 Cor, 11: 26). il. A Picture of Neglect; He passed by on the other side (31). me (Pea. 31: 11). My kinsmen stand afar off (Psa. 38: 11). No man careth for my soul (Psa 4 Se Shutteth up his compassion from (1John 3: 17). 111. A Picture of Relief: Heo set ham on his own beast, brought him to an inn (34), Thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin (Psa. 82! 5). He answered me, (Pea. 34: 4). He Iayeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing {Luke 15: 5). You did he quicken, when ye were dead (Eph. 2: 1). 1. “He fell among robbers.” (2) The unfortunate traveler: (2) His eruel treatment; (3) His forlorn condi- tion. 2. “By chance a certain priest was going down that way.” (1) A chance opportunity; (2) A culpable neglect. 3. “He was moved with compassion, and came to him.” (1) His mo- tive; (2) Hisaction.—(1) Imperiled; (2) Unselfish; (3) Beneficent. Ill. PERSONAL APPLICATION, I. Apveal: Which of these Shree, thinkest thou, roved neighbor? (36). lieve yo that I am able to do this? (Matt. 9: 28), Simon, I have somewhat to say unto thee (Luke 7: 40). Simon, son of John, lovest thou me? (John 21: 30): di ont th th Kin rippa, believ ou the pro. I yw 26: 27). 11. Acknowledgment: He said, He that shewed mercy on him (37). : They ny unto him, Yea, Lord (Matt 9: 28). Thou ht Christ, the Bon of the living God (Matt. 16: 16). This is indeed the Saviour of the world (John 4: 42), os, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee (John 21: 16). 111. Application: Jesus said unto him, Go, and do thon likowise unis (37), faith hath made { cheer; th Be EO OMe D: x © yma #1008 is thy (Matt, 15: ponce, and be whole of thy Go in gil ASUS (Mack 0: 34), no more, Jest a worse thing befall ! 3ha John 5: 14), wah him and (1) The priest? (2) The Levite? (3) Samaritan? 1 Which?(2 in? (3) Why? 2, “He that shewed mercy (1) The mets by which mercy is shown; (2; The character which iu shown by mercy. ‘io, and do thou likewise.” Outgoing; borliness, 1 YY UeTe him.” on 5 dy (1) (2) Activity; (8) Neigh- BIBLE READING, NEIGHBORS, LESSON Good neighbors a blessing (Prov. ! 10). Neighbors should co-operate 12 : 4; out, 27 : 17. Entitled fo respect (Pra. 101 25 : 1», Bhould bu treated honorably (Prov. 26: 19 : Heb, 2 : 15). Should be taught religiously (Jer. 34 ; Heb. 8 : 11). : Bhould be loved as ourselves 18 ; Mssk 12 Do good to neighbors (Bom. 15 Do not compromise with their wi (Exod. 32 : 27). LESSON SURROUNDINGS Int Evests. — The ! | the seventy is narrated in Luke 10 { 24. If they sent ft | feast of tabernacles, | othe rs Exod 5: Prov. 31 {Le IVENING ret Ware Out Al 21 “ws hold, then their only intervening event or { if 4 ii, ! i 0a Bobins n INKK, out before the feast of tabern iber of events | departure 12), Christ's rej village, f want it oh ntervened from Galiles | aritan { John 9:58 | ers (Luke 1 {| TENCE Bobinson also Pla e8 Lhe seventy after Luke 10 : i As the chr ofl 118 difficult to ai OF 10M determi order make Price, identifies | ney the seve ith that t. + menuoneq : 1; Mark 10 1; hence he fixes SOE point near Daruaris, 3 Pera. But Bol thinks the place was somewhere Jerusalem, the next seems to be at Bethany. Tue. According to mediately after the feas October, T82 Year of Andrews fis of i Lhe same 5 13 RT iso ne WE bile Prrsoxs.—Our Lord and a lawyer, In the parable, a traveler, robbers, ¢ yriest, Levite, and Samaritan, with the ler #5 an nn. Ixcroesrs. ~The lawyer with his testing question; the counter-question regard- { Ing the law; the lawyer's reply from the um of the Decalogue; the J.ord's {swer. The question, “Who i | neighbor?” The parable of the Samaritan in reply; the subsequent ap. | plication of the parable to the lawyer. A Ms ss sine iterature, - — The reviewer of the literary seasos in this country could not fail to notice | that during the last two or three years Americans have turned with their onoce | well-known fondness to European lit. erature as a source of the most profit. abie entertainment and instruction. The favorite authors studied in liter. ary clubs have been Robert Browning, Tolstoi and Ibsen. The most talked { about and probably the widest read ibook of the winter has been the { “Journal of Marie Bashkirtseff,” those | frank revelations which the most au dacious American girl conld not have | imagined nor disclosed. The repeated new translations of foreign suthors | show that the publishers are sure of | 8a demand among American readers With this marked eagerness in follow: | ing European thought there has arisen ia half expressed dissatisfaction with | literature in this country. Mr. George ! Parsons Lathrop says in the current | Atlantic, “There is a lack of independence, an | insuffic:ent variety of bold opinion, an | indefinable disposition to discourage or | modify salient individuality in om | writing which is detrimental to vigor | and diversity.” And from other eritics | come equally positive opinions in re {gard to the need of more force and | downrightedness in American literature. | In former days, when there were nc | books worth reading in this country land when our dependence upon Butepe was necessary, the need of for. eign literary support was not surpris- ing. The attitude, at present, may be interpreted either as neglect of our own authors or as a sign of cosmopolitanism in literature. It may be regarded as the necessary condition of an interreg. num, when the process of assimilation is going on in preparation for a bril- lisnt period of future creation, With few exceptions, the efforts of the Younger generation of American suthors seem to be tenative, often characterized by a timidity which de. serves even the severe criticism of Mr, Lathrop. But these efforts are not re stric toa small circle of writers Dr. Holms has uttered Lis protest inst the vast quantities of common. on annually issued by small poetasters. M ine editors often give their wearied testimony upon the mass of prose issued by apparently untiring American writers. From this eagerness to produce literature and from the sincere efforts made to de- velop loeal linrities of custom and dialect, a brilliant future of American literary work may be predicted. The time may come w the study of our authors may te eagerly pursued by clubs and individuals as that of foreign authors at the present ime. 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