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Davidson, reached on “What Are the Permanent Peas of Religion?” He said: In this period of questioning, when old structures of religious faith are being torn down and new ones are taking their places, when what seems the very foundation of faith is being removed here and there to make way for new material, it is well worth our while to ask the question that is consequent upon such a condition, What elements of our religious faith are perma- nent and are likely to resist the tendency Zo change? It is a question that is agitat- ing more people than ever betore in his- tory. We have been told: that there is a growing indifference to religion, stat men 2s abandoning the churches, that pagan- sm has re-absorbed large sections of the aE even Puritan New Eng.and shar- ing in the general dissolution. No one can de that the influence of the church is not as great as it was wien almost the only educated men were min- isters, We who occupy the puipits to- «day frankly recognize the fact that the occupants of the pews are not only our equals in intellect, but are capable of giv- ing us instruction in many depat tments of thought wherein the minister of old time was held to be supreme. The minister of y } Iw to-day must recognize his relatively changed ' condition. He addresses minds at least as well informed and as bright as his own—and on many subjects more so. And he is woefully mistaken and unalert if he does not welcome the change as an advantage to himself and his work rather than a detriment. Nevertheless, for the time being, this condition tends to bring down the church attendance figures ard to lessen the church’s influence. It » continue to do so until the church men who are leaders (if not in intellect) in the effort for social ameiioration. They must be specialists authorities in cians and lawyers finds their field, as the phy are in medicine and jurisprudence. That the Jeforary falling off in the in- fluence of the church as an institution ar- gues for an indifference to religion I do not believe. church has not yet learned its work.. It is still delving in theologies and hiiophios when men are ho more interested in the one than the other. Both theology and philosophy are vital matters, but the old manner of discussing these subjects cannot now inter- est men who are touched by ‘the soirit of the scientific age. Until science and the vhole new method of thought that f lowed on recent scienti tie dis e entered into and v ivified the and phil- osophy, they will cease ‘to interest or in- fluence man. They have no point of con- tact with his interests. But men ‘are in- terested in religion. This very question- ing and unrest proves it. Even the return to paganism, as it has been calléd, that trend, particulariy noti iceal le in rural New England, away from the formalism of the churgh and back to potive, it not_so alarming as at first glance. We { appears are Jearning to see that, FH for cen- turies we have called certain peoples “pa- gans,” thinking to give them a bad name and so to av oid 1 more tedious investigation into the character of these same pagans, we have much to learn about religion, and we may not seldom sit with profit at the. feet ‘of many a pagan prophet. - Men are asking w hether, after all, a comparatively small sect is right and all the rest wrong, or whether there is not a bit of truth in them all. They go further. They ask now whether that truth may not make all peoples free; they are wondering whether, after all, salv ation is to be found with one and universal destruction with the other, whether the Creator of all nations is like? ly to make one of them His favorite, to give that one a true and final revelation and to withhold it from all others. Men are going even further than this in their questioning. They are putting the relig- ions side $ side for comparison. They are inquiring whether or not the truth that is in one may not be found occasion- ally 4) another, and they are finding through this comparative study of relig- ions that, at bottom, all are alike. Great areas of parallel beliefs and aspirations are found making the claim of exclusive reve- lation ridiculous.’ In fact, when it is found that every single form of religion on the face of the earth lays claim to an «exelusive revelation of some sort, and we find that the term “heretic” is merely an expression of one man’s, or group of men’s, point of view, we begin fo open our eyes +0 the fact that our own past claims in the matter may not carry so much weight as we had thought. The discoveries that we have made dur- ng the last century about the habits of life and the character of thought of the other half of the world, the scientific meth- ods of investigation into the subject of re- ligion, it origin, rise and—often—its de- <ay, into religious literatures, and among them our own Bible, are broadening in view, even while, and perhaps because, they disturb our complacency. Religion is given a new interest. \ve find that we Christians are not the only members of ‘God’s family, and that there are others vho care for Him as much as we do and I atly as He loves us. 1 say that this is the tendency of men’s minds to-day. Hardly do the most of us admit the changed point of view as an accomplished fact, even to ours Ives, and in many localities the old exclusiveness is as impenetrable as ever it was in the dark ages. Jniversally, where religious exclu- giveness is found it is accompanied, bred and safeguarded by some form of claims to final revelation or final authority for truth —some artificial gu: wrantee that the doc- ‘trine preached in that church in the be- ginning 1s now and ever shall be preached without change, world without end. That such claim is ‘manifestly impossible to sub- stantiate has never deterre the church from making it. It is one recognition— though a weak one—that absolute truth as unchangeable, and every religion and every church that claims to have a final and true revelation must, of course, claim 10 possess a knowledge of that “absolute” which Spencer calls “unknowable.” Not one such body could step forth boldly and lay hold on the great affirmation of to-day. that the faith of to-day is but the stepping stone to the faith of to-morrow; that rev- elation is not sealed; that truth is a liv- ing thing, growing as we grow; that man- kind is saved through perpetual evolu- tion from lower to higher, or, in other words, by fulfilling one meted destiny of becoming perfect as the Father in Heaven is perfect. Our business to-day is frankly to admit that the final revelation is yet far off and that we have by no means found the “absolute” truth. The knowl- edge of to-day is but a little section of that absolute. The thing for us to remember, and to take courage from Ee is that we are here to enlarge, :nd that we are enlarging, that section of knowledge. I have said that whatever religious ex- clusiveness is found it is accompanied by some kind of authority purporting to guar- antee the permanency and integrity of its io faith. The creed has been changed from its original meaning—* credo, belic ieve’ to an imperative ‘“‘thou shalt From being a simple statement o vidual faith it has become a formal ment of a system of dogma to which who would be saved must subse ribe. No latitude is allowed fo pretations for the growth and conceptions. 1 simply to lay down a body of dogma that embodies final truth, and a confession to which the whole world must subscribe re- gardless of individual reason and unaf- fected by the growth of knowledge and moral consciousness. The attempt has -al- ways failed. There is no creed that holds the same meaning for us to-day which it heid for mank and a century ago. If it is not now actually changed in form, as in the case of ® notable number, it is changed in content to the minds of its adherents. If we are but willing to open our eyes we shall find that there are hundreds of means of salvation, and each me hod breeds a sect. But what does the methed signify beside the tremendous ultimate fact “that all the world is looking for salvation? Here is the universal and permanent thing. n some way the truth has percolated through every mind that we are put into this world i in order to grow. We are not universaliv interested in speculations about Nirvana, or about atonements, or about the “survival of the fittest,” nor in the discussion as to the pr aim, whether for happiness or virtue. Perhaps every one is Interested in one or another of these means to the end, but we are ail in- terested in the outcome—salvation for the human race. It is a universal longing. It 1s: one of the permanent things of religion. ‘hen mankind has been univer dy in- »sted in another thing—the incarnation. Lace man bec came man and learned e of himself > which he was a he has thought of this power as in some way entering into and becoming the guiding power of some object of the wisib.e worl At first it was a mere stick or stone, a tree or river wild beast that was the chosen dweiling 1 Then in good time the feel- ew that none but man would make a utable habitation for the Creator; so we hear of the Greek heroes, “descendants of the gods,” of Druidic and Delphic oracles and cf prophets in all lands whose speech was controlled in an especial way by 2ity. We hear of a perfect incarnat ion of Deity in Buddha, born of a virgin, h his oh a tor per vine parentage attested by miracles of va- | rious kinds, and teaching that there are many incarnations similar to his .own; enever the world has advanced to tion in which its needs are di ent the old, God incarnates Himself in a who thereupon becomes a great and prophet. Qur , of course, revert to another inc: ion, that of 1» Jesus, who ht at there incarnations; w ho prayed that es might be one with God as He as one with Him. And again we see He tendency of men to obscure the great truth by the particular example. The truth which has most o ously appealed to men is the incarnation of God in a sin- gle man, or, formerly, in a class of men, as prophets or priests. The truth of that endures, and that has been pointed out by Jésus: and” all the greatest leaders of men is that of per petual and universal in- carnation. God has breathed the breath of of divinity in nkind, for we are His children, made in lis moral image, inheritors of His divinity! we are natural sons and heirs. is the tremendous fact toward which world is groping, -It explains the now en fact that mankir nd’s rather than downw ard. for going on, for J A hen to, our rest i 1 GQ od life and has lit the spark ma H n 200d, that he good 1astening ard immo: Safty, ” while evil is self If “God’s in His heaven,” in His world as well, of its fundamental integer of every good thing in 0 you not see how intimately are the two ideas, the incar and the divinity of man? Both ideas are everywhere recurrent in the theologies of the ‘orld, though their particule e sion in one faith is utterly on o that in another, and it is the difference in the isolated expressions of or truth that keeps men apart. The j )ermanent. thing, the larger truth must wh upon our fur- ther ame a broadening of view before it can bring us together. We are learning, it is true. The existence of an unwonted spirit of toleration and unity in religion, the modern armation of the universality of . Spirit shows that we aL catching some glimpses of the larger trut} that lies behind our incarnations and atonements, our theophanies and oracles, our Buddhas and Jesus of past time. If we had heard the real message of Jesus and the prophets and poets we should long ago have discovered this truth. To be a.man is to be a descendant of God, to bea de- scendant of God is to be His ‘prophet, His incarnation, the inheritor of His divinity; this is the larger permanent truth, one which is prepared for by every religion that the world has ever known. After having agreed that to do right is the end of conduct, can we not take each other by the hand in the fellowship of that profession, even though we may differ as to the a rdoption of means to that end? If we all recognize the fact that the salvation of humanity i is the permarent object .of all religious effort, then our various methods of attaining salvation will soon take their proper places as subordinate elements of faith and variable according as the needs of men vary. The creed then will be not a Shibboleth by which to save one and to AL another, but a covenant of kindred minds bent upon a common object and drawn together by the natural mpathy of similar beliefs Religion wiil be ,no longer made up of religions—some false, some true—but will be recognized as fun- damentally a unit wherever man has lifted up his head and called on the power that is above him. We shall see that the essen- tial elements of religion are not the differ- ences that divide, they are the per anent and fundament al things upon whi i all forms of religion are foun led, and w! hich, if we but let them, will unite men in the sympathy of common aspirations and in- spirations. Gooa Ont of Blunders. What we intend to dv is an indication of our spirit and purpose. We are respon- sible for our words and acts as we endeavor to have them effective for good or ill. But God is ever working in love. He often brings good out of ill, or out of thought and “speech beyond the best motive of a speaker or doer. A co-worker in Christ's service in Cuba notes. the sta lement in these columns that Emerson’s search for truth made discoveries which are helpful to those who ‘think far more Christ than he did. Then she wisely adds: “How that is continually done in this world has been illustrated to me for years. One who makes a true picture of anything in the universe—a leaf or a flower, a shell, a landscape, a cloud or a star, an agony, a joy, or any such thing—may and must Te- veal to some others more than he himself has seen. A child describing in a child- ish way some new flower might, without knowing it, give valuable information to a botanist.’ How good is God, to use for the welfare of others not only our best endeavors, but our very blunders and our poorest efforts! of ee The Alloy of Self. Achievement fused with self is too brittle to stand the test of time. The secret of the success of one who had accomplished much in many fields was well expressed when it was said that he had learned to concentrate his powers on the result, irre- spective of how that result would affect himself. Every atom of force deflected toward self becomes friction. Introspec- tion, self-consciousness and egotism are ‘Panello resi upon his head, inflicted by - killing of, his wife. > 1'day labor, Are you waste? | a : i i all synonyms for wasted ene striving to rid yourself of thi i Sapien. The world, lying in sin and sorrow, with a thousand des to be better, simply | calls to the church for exa: those who 1 abe 1 ith | and walk 341 KEYSTONE STATE. CULLINGS FOUGHT TO ESCAPE. An Italian Charged With Murder Ar rested at Greensburg After a Desperate Struggle. After being sheltered in the Italian colony for two day: ys Donato Panello, charged with the murder of Grigria Pariello, at Newark, N. J, last Satui- day, was arrested in Greensburg hy Chief of Police A. K. Hutchinson. sted arrest and he was only cusiody after a furious , in which he attempted to use He was identified by a scar the man he is alleged to have killad. He does net deny that he is the man wanted, but claims he did not know that his victim died. M. R. Seybert, of Curllsville, Clarion county, committed suicide on a train, between Oil City and Emlenton, Sey- bert swallowed carbolic acid. He was accompanied by his two sons, and boarded the train at Buffalo. Short- ly after leaving Oil City he went into the closet and swallowed the contents cf an ounce bottle of the poison. Re- turning to his sons he told them: “I am going to die,” and collapsed on the seat. The bo lenton and forwarded to Curllsville. Seybert was about 62 years cold. No cause assigned for the act. " President Mitchell has ordered all the available organizers and speakers of the anthracite workers to the soft coal regions of Western Pennsylvania, where they will endeavor to get the bituminous men in line for a strike which is expected within a short time. The mine workers say that the soft coal operators are determined not to renew the scale, which expires in Ap- ril. and that an effort will be made to reduce wages. At Kittannis was taken into struggle a knife. g. Augusius Troutwein sentenced" to ‘be hanged for the When asked if he had anything to say why sentence should not be passed he arose, and in a trembling voice said ‘that when he had seen his wife, in the arms of an Italian’and the 1dtter kissing her, that he lost his head, and without realig: ing what he_svas doing; puiledy is” Pe- volver and shot her? George, an’'s- vedr-old ‘con of Stoohen Welsh, of Eastdale, was drowned in the Beayer. river. Young Weish, with his older brother and another boy, was skating... He broke through the ice, and although his brotRer tried hard to rescue him, he was. unsuccessful. The body was found Bough feet away from. the place "elsh broke through. 3 The maintenance the present ie for. pick. min but a substan- ial increase in machine mining and are demanded by the con- vention-of sub-district of district. No! 2, of ing Lg United Mine Workers of : America, in its seeond day session in Lilly. These demands will be presented to the oper- ators at the March meeting of the dis- trict in Altoona. ,. BY the will of Mrs. Tracy Boyd, late of West Finley township Washington county $1.000 is given to benevolences, $300 each to the foreign and home mis- sion boards of the Cumberiand Presby- terian church, $300 to" the Windy Gap Cumberland Presbyterian church ‘and $100 to its Sunday school. Word was received by the coun.y commissioners {rom Hairisburg san- nouncing that the request of the local authorities to have the State build thé Moravia bridge, over the Beaver river, which was destroyed by the recent flood, had been granted. Five viewers were appointed. It was announced that the Standard Steel Car company of Butler had 'se- cured orders for 3,500 cars from East- ern railroads. As a result the works will start full time beginning March 1, giving employment to about 2,500 men, instead of about 300, as at present. The postoffice at Cresson was broken into by five burglars. who exploded the safe and secured $110. In a battle with a number of citizens, who were attracted by the explosion, about 50 shots were fired. One of the burglars is supposed to have been wounded. Deputy Coroner R. W. Brown has succeeded in establishing the identity of the stranger killed at Shenango by an Erie train. Papers were found in his possession giving his name as George Dickey. His residence is either in Chicago or Seattle, Wash. The Rev. James Young, aged 86 years, is dead at his home at North Hope. He was the oldest minister in Butler county, and for 60 years was in the pulpit for the Methodist Epis- opal Church. He leaves a family. The body of Frank Wilson, who fell down a coal mine shaft, near Urnion- ‘When the work was 80 feet of town, has been found. of rescue began there water above the body. A broken rail caused the overturn- ing of two passenger coaches and the injury of about 30 passengers at Mar- wood, on the Butler branch of the West Penn railroad. The Alice, Mabel and Shenango blast furnaces, at Sharpsville, which have been idle for some time, res ed operations Monday. About men are affectad. The new office building of the B mer and Lake Erie Railroad company, at Greenville, was damaged about $1.- 000 by fire, which originated from zn exploding gas oil stove. George Deek, a Baltimore and Ohio railrcad engineer, was seriously sca um- 500 id- ed, at Cumberland, Md., while trying to repair a steam valve under his en- gine. A large barn on the farm of Frank Shoaf, in Shenan®o township. Law- rence county, was burned, together with five horses, five 1 1 of cattle, some small stock, a large quantity of hay, grain and valuable farm imp ments. The loss will reach 0. i is the third fire the same hborhood within a we Harry K. Thompson Western railroad b train at Knox, and dy was taken cif at Em- - _8¢ IENCE NOTES. Of all criminals in prison 55 percent dre between the ages of 21 and 40. A shell from a 12-inch gun makes its flight of nine miles in 42 seconds. Only 54 percent of Germany's young men are fit for military service. Dr. Stricker finds that heart disease has increased 300 percent in a decade. In an article on “The Age of the World,” Sir Edward Fry, the famous English geologist, declares that 450 - 000,000 years must have elapsed since the existence of life on the globe. In Australia every leaf on a grape vine is an advantage to it, because without the protection it affords the sun’s heat—which often exceeds 100 degrees in the shade—would scorch the berries. The extraction of nitrogen from the inexhaustible supply in the air, by a method so inexpensive as to make it feasible for the production of fertiliz- er has been accomplished by bringing the nitrogen into combination with a mixture of powdered charcoal and lime in an electrical furnace. While strong plants destroy weaker ones by crowding, or by depriving them of air, light or food, it is rather surprising to hear that one plant may poison another. A plant called Hu- mea elegans, which exhales a power- ful odor of Russia leather, was placed in a- greenhouse near a peach vine, when the nearest leaves of the latter began to wither and fall off. The in- fluence was felt. even at considerable distance, the result being that at last the young leaves were all stripped irom the peach. * . The Appetite of a Bird. When an 6ld-fashioned hostess urges her guests to eat, after the convention- al manner of showing hospitality, and remarks, “Why, you haven't the appe- tite-of a bird!”. she really speaks the truth, though she does not’ intend to. The average,man, if he had a bird's appetite, would devour from thirty to thirty-one pounds of food,a day, which would be a tax on the Jarder of his hostess. - Recent experiments Pave proved that the averagé bird manages to eat about one-fifth of his own weight daily with ease, if hé can get so much food, and in a wild state, though the bird has to hunt fer.his daily provender, he is eating a large part of the time dur- ing the day, and manages to get his full rations. The smaller the bird the more vora- cicus seems to-be its appetite and its power of ab sorption. A German scien- tist ‘recently kept a canary -under ob- servation for a month. The little crea- tire weighed only sixteen grammes, but in the course of the month it man- aged to eat:512 grammes’ weight of fcod—that is; about 32 times its own weight. The bird must, “therefore, have eaten its own weight in food every day. An ordinary man with a canary’s appetite would consume 150 ‘pounds of food a day. But the canary is am ex- treme- case. The ordinary bird, in good health, will be satisfied with one- fifth of its. weight a day by way cf food.—Answers, The Rattlesnake Business. Rattlesnaké hunting is a profitable business over in Connecticut, and it is not overdone either. In the town of Portland there is a hunter of rattlers, John C. Reeves, who has had a na- tional reputation for some years past, and has now added fresh laurels to it. Early in the present month “Del,” as he is generally called in the coun- try around there, went hunting in the Somerset mountains, just east of Port- land, where within a couple of days or so he managed to kill 36 rattlers ranging in length from 15 inches to nearly five feet. Seventeen of various lengths were killed within a space of about 15 square feet. Some of the large snakes had or ten rattles, while some of smaller had but one or two. snakes were beautifully striped. Ten baby rattlers were found huddled to- gether near their nest, which was in a rock crevice. Reeves captures his snakes by stealing upon them while they are basking in the sun and pin- ning them to the ground with a forked stick four or five feet in length. He then uses a club. He finds much spor in rattlesnake hunting, and also finds it very profitable. One dollar an cunce is realized from the cil. The skin nets him from 25 cents to $2, and occasionally more fer unusuaily large one.—New York Commercial, nine the The ar Aialleable Glass. Glass for fireproof theatre curtains to take the place of asbestos is a prop- osition coming as the result of a dis- covery by Bavarian glassmakers. A product of one Bavarian factory, it is announced, is malleable as any metal, as well as capable of being drawn out in sheets or threads, ana is absolutely non-breakable. Cooking utensils made «f the new material stand the heat of fire without cragking or melting. An extraordinary test to which the new glass has been submitted is ..at of patching, a feat which cannct . accomplished with any glass made in America. A plate of the Bavarian class has been bored, it is said, and tier. the hole plugzed with the molten composition. 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Mrs. Winslow's Soothing r Sy yrup forchildren teething, soften the gums, reduce inlamma- tion,allays pain, cures wind coli c.abottle Strong is the man who knows his weak- ness. Trade Secrets, The two oldest secret trade ses now in existence are conside dt be the manufacture of Chinese red, i vermilion, ong that method of the hardss with gold and which seems to have >n practic Damascus ages i Inia ed at ain if I
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