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" "Ci''VW''' Fr f i I CAPITAL CITY COURIER, SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1K02 nt P. r r, t m i l . BfiTVEIl Oil WORSE? REV. DR, COLLYER, THE NEW YORK divine; TALKS ABOUT HUMANITY. Ho Hi)m Thill itt Ni Tlmn Hun tlm Dr.lrc for KiiouIimIkii of Clirlntliiulty llci'ii Nit Omit it It It Now In III Opinion Crcriln Do Not Count, tint OmllliiFM Horn. ISi't'clul Corri'Motnlcnco.) Nr.w Yokk, Deo. ill. A question ol abiding Interest, frequently discussed by thoughtful men nntl women, is whether tho world in Its religious uspeots is standing mill, growing better or retro grading. In it scientific and educational viuw, in tho Hold of discovery nnd o.xplorntlon, in tho domain of mechanism, tho arts, commerce, and all Industrie, results nro pnlpnblo. Wo can hco nnd touch them. But what nmld tho boundlqss activity of tho ago that hat supplied our outward wants has been tho progress of spiritual life? How wages tho war botweon Christianity and crime nnd selfishness! Which is tho winning side? Hov. Robert Collyer, in answer to questions I put to him, said: "1 think that at no time of my life havo I observed such a deep nnd nbidlng interest in religion as I notico now. So far as it turns on tho words of Christ, Yo shall know tho truth and tho truth ahal! mako you freo,' thero never ha? been so eager nnd devouring an anxiety with reference to tho Christian faith a; at tho present time. Pcoplo everywhere aro rending nnd thinking nnd trying to mako up their minds about what Chris tianity means, no matter whether thoy aro living what is called tho Christian faith or not. "Faith lu tho old axiom that hold its own for along tlmo 'Tho Blblo nnd the Biblo only is tho religion of tho Protes tant' (I think that was Chilling wort h't saying), has licon disturbed very rudely within these fifty years of my observa tion, nnd tho Biblo is now only one ol tho great foundation stones to faith in God nnd in all goodness. Thero is it growing disposition to wolcomo truth from whatever quarter it comes, whothe: it falls into harmony with something in tho sacred Scriptures or not; nnd also tc believe that tho now truth of today Is at divino as tho old truth of 2,000 or U.OtM. years ago. So that all great sacred trutlis as wo find them and tnko them tc our hearts aid winning an authority and a lovo nmong us as deep as that wo feel for tho ancient Scriptures. "When wo keo an error In tho Blblo oj a statement that cannot bo verified by tho stnndards'of truth wo hold now, wt say so withoutf ear and without reproach. Tho foundations of religion, thero foro, nro inudh broador than thoy were whon tho axiom wns accepted. Emerson said that 'Ono accent of tho Holy Ghost, tho heedless world has novor lost,' but tho iieoplo aro listening still for tho same accents, nnd aro eager to hear them mid to blend them with those of tho old time. "1 havo no doubt thnt tho wider dis semination of it true Christian litoraturo must havo that outcome, but 1 naturally ' question whether a good deal that good under the name has a perfect right to It. At tho same tlmo it is to bo said for all the churches and denominations, thnt thoy aro trying to get nearer to tho heart of Christ; to understand his lifo and mission and to care less and less about doctrinal differences and distinctions. "1 never find a man, a good, truo man, even though ho Is not ready to accept tho Christian faith, who is not ready to confess that pure goodness is tho root of tho noblest lifo; not genius, but good ness; and that is tho inmost heart of Jesus." "What aro your viows with reforence to missions?" "1 am used to say-that 1 do not think so much of tho missions to tho heathen as tho great majority of men nnd women do who make such splendid sacrifices for them, because I think thoy aro founded on a false alarm. It seems to mo its if it largo number of ersons had rushed through tho streets shouting 'Firol' 'Firo!' only to find thero was no such firo when they reached tho spot. But so far as Christianity can rescue tho heathen from tho hell upon earth in which so many of them liye, and can lift them out of their degradation and misery into a noblor and truer lifo, 1 bcliovo in Christian missions with all my heart. That is what thoy aro doing more and uioro. Thoy aro more and more dis posed, us I think, to lot tho old cruel alunn that if tho heathens aro not res cued from their heathenism iu this life, thoro is nothing but eternal damnation for thorn iu the lifo to come, go down thowind, nnd 1 am glad of it. ''Christianity, as it will bo when it has outgrown its limitations and dog mas, will win tho world, but it will tnko into full fellowship the old fakir I hoard of iu India iu tho timoof the great Sepoy rolwlllon, who found an English child nlh'o iu tho thick of tho enrungo ol a town tho only living thing. Ho tool: 'it in his urius nnd made for tho nearest English post, defending it by tho way until ho was soroly wounded. When ho reached his destination and carried the child in nntl laid It down bof'oro lt friends, and thoy subscribed what to him would bo a great buiii of money as a reward for his bravery, ho said ho wanted none. But ho added that when peueo should como again ovor tho laud they might take the mouoy and make a well at it certain place, If that pleased them, in ordor that tho weary, wayworn travelor might bo refreshed, and then ho went his way and thoy saw him no uioro. That man would not havo to stand outside tho Christian palo if ho could not accept the Christian faith or dogma. "I said to a missionary vho frail been many years in Egypt, a good Presbyte rian, in Illinois, 'Tell mo, on your honor. of what fnlth tho best man was you found in Egypt.' 'Tho best (nan 1 found in Egypt,' ho said, 'was my instructor in tho tongue. Ho was a Mohammedan, but he was tho straightost, fairest and cleanest man I saw iu tho valley of the Nilo.' 'What will bocomo of him?' I in quired, 'Ho must bo damned,' was tho answer, 'liecuuso ho has not accented tho terms of salvation. Christianity wjll grow great enough to accept n mnn and never ask n question In thoeourso of tlmo. Jesus said, 'Other sheep 1 havo that aro not of this fold.' Ho meant, as 1 btllovo, men Hko that.'' "Speaking of hell, havo not many men censed to regard it as a buglwar?" "Undoubtedly. Men who aro very good and sweet fellows laugh in their sleevo and often openly when the thing is propounded to them in tho old fash ion. Thoy do not iwllovo it, nntl thoy do bollovo they can find no authority for It In tho Blblo, as it has been pro mulgated in soino of tho Christian sys tents, and If It could lw proven today by the Word that It Is all truth, they are ready to say, with Theodore Parker, 'So much tho worse, then, for tho Bible.' "Wo tiro slowlv but surely coming to accept (ho grand central truth that God Is lovo and God Is light, and lu him Is no darkness ut all; that men will Ihj weighed by their character and not by their opinion. Why, oven tho light that is beginning to gleam on us touching tho transmitted troubles and depravities of our human nature Is going to make us moro pitiful and tender toward those who aro tholr victims, as Jesus was to tlio publicans and harlots. "Education Is exerting it most whole soino Influence. I novor havo nny trou ble among men and women who are educated in n broad ntd practical sense, and 1 think tho whole tendency of what one might call our religious education takes that trend now. Education, how ever, in the special dogma of a church and its system makes men narrower nntl moro bigoted. Tho bright and cheer ful aspect is this, that all the great pop ular channels of education which reach tho pcoplo far and wldouro of tho broad er and liner sort. I never snw it great magazine or sound public journal of any kind that does not possess this charac teristic. Tho uovol, which Is so popu lar iu our time, is also of, that quality, broad in its sympathies, calculated to reach tho heart's finest tissues and make us feel tho touch of humanity. "A few years ago, lieing in Luzorne in Switzerland, I saw a notice that there was going to bo a Protestant service iu a Catholic church on Sunday. I attend ed and found thnt tho service was con ducted by a Presbyterian minister from Greenock, in Scotland, Tho sermon was on tho oxainplft of Christ and what It was to follow Christ. Touching mira cles, ho said tho ago of miracles bus not passed and gone, but is still in full force. Miracles continue to heal the sick, givo sight to tho blind, feet to tho lame nnd strength to the palsied iu the hospitals. These miracles aro just ns great and divlno in tholr way as any 'tho world over saw. "When tho dlscourso was finished 1 went up to tho minister and, taking his hand, said, 'I have also n miracle to ro Iort a Presbyterian service in a Roman Catholic church and a sermon fair and truo to a confirmed heretic' That is tho way it is going. Our thinking Is broad er, our sympathy for ouch other is broader and wo nil look forward to tho tlmo when thoro shall bo ono Lord, ono faith and ono baptism, ami all the churches and all tho sects and all the j men and women within them, and vast I numbers outside them, will bo branches of tho living vino. "Ono church now says, you must bo llovo in mo as tho truo branch, because I am tho oldest; another, you must bo llovo in mo becnuso 1 am tho newest; a third, you must beliovo in mo because 1 am nearest tho water; a fourth, becnuso 1 mn farthest away. Ono says, you must bollovo In mo becnuso I am most iu the shadow: another, beliovo lu mo becnuso 1 am in the sun. Ono says, bcliovo In mo because every twig on this branch of mlno is trained up on tho ecclesias tical trolliswork, and another, becnuso overy twig is left to find Its own twining in its own fashion. Thero is only ono great truth to toll about them all what sort of fruit do you bear, and how does that compare with tho fruit borno by the other branches? Tho fruits of tho spirit, tho apostle says, aro lovo. joy, peace, long sutforing, gontleness, pa tience, goodness." "In n general way, doctor, don't you think tho world is growing nobler and better?" "Surely, suroly," was tho reply, in that earnest tono which men uso when thoy leavo no doubt to bo Implied, "al though we nro too closo to the clash anil clang of things to realize the full sig niflcnnco of the fact. It is well illus trated, however, by old John Evolyn, who said that when ho was in Holland it wns some time in tho Seventeenth century ho wont up into tho boll chain bor of it great cathedral and was soroly hurt by tho uoiso of the bolls, but when ho went away a mile or two and heard ringing their soft, sweet notes, tho very air seemed rich iu harmony. Thero was uo discord thou no Sweet bells Jitni-leil, out of tutio nnd lmrsli. "And this Is what wo should all try to tlo now nnd then. "Soino time ugo 1 recoived a lottor from a friend in England, whoso mother had just died nt n very great ugo. All iter lifo she had lived in a quiet nook among the Yorkshire moors, and my friend wrote thnt during her last years sho was forever thanking God that the world had grown so much better since sho could remember. Sho had watched it with wise oyes, living in a quiet place, anil sho had but one story to tell whon tho end drew near of tho betterment of all things: " 'God's in his heaven.' " 'All's right with tho world.' " 'When wo ire right In it and bellove iu him and do his work.' " Fi:i.ix G. uk Fontaini:. Why Ho t'uit't I'ulilUli. Prince Bismarck has placed hiinsolf In un awkward position. When in power ho procured the passage of a law which forbids nny Prussian minister or embas sador to publish documents of any kind minting to public or ofllcial affairs with out tho express porinlsslon of tho empe ror. He has just finished tho first vol ume of his memoirs, hut tho young kaiser refuses to sanction its printing, und tho ono time autocrat of Germany is gotting a UsUt of his own modicinn CAPITAL U0S8I11 THE FRIENDSHIP TARIES RUSK DETWEEN 9ECRE' AND FOSTER. 4prnhcr Crlni ami II U "Inn Mnnncra, Mr. .McMIIIIb, of TiMinrmi'i', nuil How Hi-Su I'd Itltnxrir finoi Dry Hot Other MkIIitk. Hm'IiU l'nrnioiiilMirc. WAHiiiNtiros. Dec. 111. Thero aro no closer friends in the cabinet than Secre taries Foster ami Rusk. Tho former Is recovering from an Illness which entiio to near carrying him olT thnt for two or three days thine lu the secret feared his tV'uth at any moment. Only the doctor, ilecretury IIsk and Mr. Foster's private Hfcrctary knew tho truth, which wns JKKUY KU8K niVUS CIIAnl.UY KOSTKK l'llX'K OK III MINI). carefully concealed from the patient himself nnd the members of his family, A man could not bo moro devoted to his own brother thnn tho big, patriarchal secretary of agriculture was to his friend of tho treasury department dur ing this long Illness. Every day and every night ho was at tho sick bed: ho was us thoughtful as a trained nurse, as tender as n woman. When 1 heard this pretty story of friendship my mind ro vertetl to u'nother story Involving tho same men a story of politics which has never yet Iteen printed. When General Gurfioltl becamo presi dent. .Kerry Rusk came down from Wis consin and wns a candidate for it place iu the cabinet. Ho wanted to bo secre tary of war. At this tlmo ho wns sim ply ox-Congressinnn Rusk, having served three tonus in tho houso. Garfield was not favorable to tho idea, but in his mild and pleasant way was careful to so word his expressions as to givo no intense. As a result the Wisconsin man und his friends continued to hope and to keep p tho pressure. Finally Garfield wea led of tholr importunities. Ho sent for buries Foster, who had for years boon is intimate friend and who had nlso ecu on friendly terms with Rusk when o threo served together in congress . .n 1871 to 1877. "Jerry Rusk and his friends nro both eriug tho life out of mo to mako him secretary of war," said Garfield to Fos ter. "Can't you tnko him out ono sido, havo it, long talk with him and coax him into accepting tho post of commissioner of ngrlculture?" "I'll sco what 1 can tlo with him," said Foster, and thnt same afternoon tho Ohio man called for Rusk ut tho Riggs Houso and proposod to him that inasmuch us tho day was a flno ono they tako a walk in tho suburbs. Rusk agreed, and thoy started out. For a time nothing wns said about politics, Foster wits thinking of tho euslest man ner iu which ho could lend up to tho business in hand. Finally thoy stopped under a trco und Foster But down on a log, determined to begin then und thero. Before ho could open his mouth Undo Jorry spoke. "Chnrley Foster," said ho, "you needn't begin to horn und haw ami beat about the bush. I know what you have brought mo out hero in tho woods lor. Uiirllulu tins sont you to tell mo thnt 1 can't bo secretary of war, but that 1 mny have soino minor pluco If I -want it." "Yes." muttered Fostor, "you have guessed it. But tho place which you may havo is ono not to bo sueozed at. It is tho commissiouershtp of ngrlculture." Rusk was furious. "Commissioner of agricultural" ho oxchiimod. "Distributor of seeds und peddler of pumpkins! You go back to Jim Garfield and tell him thnt Jorry Rusk is not thnt kind of n man. You toll him that if Jerry Rusk is not good enough to sit iu Jim Gar field's cabinet ho knows what ho is good enough for. He is good enough to bo governor of Wisconsin, and you and Jim Gilrfleld hud better look out for him. Jerry Rusk is going to bo president him self some of theso days anil ho'U remem ber you follows und don't you forget "it." lu vain did Mr. Foster onileavor to calm tho auger of the otfeuded states man from Wisconsin. That sumo day ho packed his grip and started for homo. Two days later ho sat iu it parlor of tho Plaukiuton Houso, Milwuukco, und I gathered about him were a half dozen 1 of tho leading Republicans of Wiscou- ' sin. "1 want to bo governor," said Undo Jerry, "and 1 want you men to help mo. 1 want to teach theso upstarts ut Washington n lesson. Will you stand by me?" At tho next election Rusk wns 1 chosen governor of Wisconsin. Gar- , field tiled so soon after his inauguration tuat tho revengeful schemes of Uncle Jorry woro never put in oporation. nnd probably would not have been pressed in nny event. "Tho iiiunnor in which Mr. Rusk divined what Charley Fostor took him out into tho woods for," ro- I marked tho gentleman who told mo the l story, "shows how keen tho secretary of agriculture is. Ho tloes not know much about literature, but you cannot fooi him ou human nature. Ho is as sharp us a razor, and 1 tell you to keep an eyo on him. lie will bo presidout yet, just us ho said ho would." Speaker Crisp is known nmong his as sociates us it man of line manners. Tried in tho crucible of it sts'aUorslilp contest, pulled and hauled about by scores of men driven by selfishness or passion, ca joled by some of his friends and threat ened by soino of his enemies, tho speaker has not for one instant lost that silt polso . otpiuiimi,ty, that absolute IN j ... - Vm " mm A self MssoRHlnn wi u u nave made lili one of tho most reuntrkabh' men of I In times. I wits talking about this the other tiny with Representative O'Fer mil, of Virginia, yho succeeds Mr, Crisp us chairman of the committee on elec tions. "For six years," said Mr. O'l-'er-mil, "Judge Crisp and I havo served together ou that committee, It Is lu that cnmml'A-o room that we have thun der u'iJ lightning, Thero wo try many lavvsiiiis, in every one of them the lire of party passion heating things up to a high temperature. In nil tho hand to hand lighting lu that committee, iu nil tho cross llrlng nntl personalities luei dent to a desperate combat, I never once saw Mr. Crisp lose, even for an Instant, his self iMissession, never for a second change his manner nor his words from that even anil polite tenor which is his nature. What is more, 1 never know him to make n mistake. He Is Indeed one of tho notable men of our times," There Is uo more popular man lu the house of lepieseiitatives than Mr. Me .Mlllin, of Tennessee, who wns thought by many t one moment to bo almost sine of receiving tho speakership nomi nation as a dark horse. The day ou which SMaker Crisp announced his com mittees Mr. MoMlllln wns taking lunch eon with n now member who had not been given a very high pluco on the committees, und who watt in conse quence much discouraged, "Before yon conclude that you have been cruelly treated." said Mr. McMlllln, "let mo tell you my experience. When I first anno to congress my committee pluco wns worse Until yours, it gave mo no op portunity whatever. 1 sat up nlghtH trying to evolve soino scheme by which I could distinguish myself in the rolo which tho speaker had assigned mo, but I couldn't do it. I wits re-elected, and when I came back to tho house I natu rally oxpecteil to lie promoted. But 1 wasn't. If anything, my second com mittee assignment wns more discourag ing than my first one. Finally Phil Thompson, ot Kentucky ho nntl 1 were in tho same boat as to committees held a council of war. Phil, said I, 'I am dying of dry rot. I must tlo something or perish. Not for fifty years has any mnn repre sented my district moro than two terms, and unless 1 can stir something up I'll not get buck hero. What can wo dor Nothing but raise hades, Mao,' replied Thompson. 'Very well,' mild 1, 'let's go in und raise hades. That will I. preferable to sitting around doing noth ing.' So wo mailo it up Iwtween us that whenever wo saw it chanco to jump on some fellow's little public building or other local bill or anything else that looked as if it might bo extravagant or foolish, wo would sail In regardless of curses and kicks and havo some fun. Wo enjoyed ourselves In this way for a tlmo, und tinully wo round a great op portunity. A log rolling scliemo wns devised by which 170 moinbors who wanted public buildings in their dis tricts agreed to stand together nnd help puss each other's bills. It was a strong combination, und seemed Invincible. Carlisle told Thompson and mo that we couldn't beat it. Holmau told us it was too big for us to' tacklo. Everyiwtly said the same thing. But Thompson mid 1 didn't euro how big u thing was wo wero out for fight and this was too good a chance to bo lost. 1 told Phil to preparo hiinsolf on ancient history with a sot of 1870 census reports while 1 took up modem history us found in tho census of 1880. Tho first day the combination got to work, Thompson quoted ancient history on them to show that the towns for which It was pro posed to mako appropriation wore mere villages in 1870, when 1 followed with modern history to show that thoy wero only smull country towns lu 1880. Tho first day thoy passed three bills on us. The next day thoy pushed two through. Tho third day thoy culled it halt, for they found that as fast its bills wero passed they lost tho suport of the men behind those measures. All tho follows with bills in their pockets becamo alarmed, und tho combination wns burstetl. Just five bills out of tb) 170 passed, and Phil Thompson und 1, out of a simplo do termination to stir something up tokeop ourselves from going to dry rot, saved tho government it grent many millions of dollars. Since then 1 havo not cared what committee 1 wits placod on, or whether I was on any coinmitteo nt nil. Thero is somo satisfaction in being a freo lunco." Tho now member of congress from tho west Is ono of tho characters of tho cup Itul. Ho wears striped trousers, old fashioned black string neckties, it slouch hat nntl big boots. Ho is earnest and itudious and a good deal of it man. Ono ':;: Till: NBW COSOHKSSMAN A Nil THE I1A1W. tiling 1 lilco nlHint him in thnt ho brings his wifo to WuRhington with hlin hl wifu und baby and is proud of thorn nntl thoy tiro proud of him. 1 havo in mind ono young congressman who walks to tho Capitol ovory m8mIoii dny with his wife by his side and his baby in his arms. Tho trio go in on tho floor, nnd bnby is porchetl upon tho btatosinitn's desk till tho hour comes for clearing tho floor. Then wifo nnd baby go up Into tho gab lery nnd sit all tho afternoon, or till tho session is over, watching hubby nnd papn legtslnto. It is only while tho now con grussman is very now that ho does this, lie soon gets over it, nnd then wifo and balw uro lof t in the background or per haps ut homo iu tho far west. 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