The
echoes of the recent Peace Congress can never cease, for we may be sure that whatever of truth was embodied in its deliberations and utterances, — that will live on and touch to new and higher issues the silent chords of humanitarian sentiment and unselfish aspiration.
Who
can ever forget the joys of a perfect autumnal day! To stand under oaks and maples that revel in hues for which even a Veronese, a Dolci, and a Murillo have vainly striven, and, looking up and beyond, to drink in the delicious flood of tinted light that is sifted out of cerulean depths, — this is to enter the treasure-house of the sun.
If
we base our judgment upon the history of the church militant, we can but conclude that one of the last things which the followers of Christ Jesus are willing to learn is that the weapons of their warfare are not carnal.
Many of those who are led to speak discouragingly of the apparent inadequacy of Christian endeavor to stem the tides of sin, find the explanation of present conditions in the fact that the terrors of the law are no longer preached, — that the doctrine of human depravity and fitness for hell which incited the earnestness and eloquence of an Edwards and a Finney is practically ignored by Christian leaders.
The case of Speed versus Tomlinson, which has been pending for some time in the courts of New Hampshire, has just been decided by the Supreme Court, — the court of last resort, — in favor of the defendant, Rev.
