view will be taken when the Sabbath is duly appreciated. What the "Christian Union" of May 9th, 1889, says: Railroads reducing Sunday traffic to a minimum. 66 SEC. 73. BISHOP WHATELY'S Thoughts on the Sabbath" misleading. Makes the law of the Sabbath merely positive. It is a law of the body and the soul's nature. Bishop Whately finds warrant in the "power of the church," but the church used no power. Doctor Barnes' very pertinent note on the change of the Sabbath day. The first-day Sabbath instituted itself by the logic of great events. SEC. 74. MARRIAGE. Prelude on domestic peace. The authority for the marriage institution. The sacredness of marriage. Its holy love. Scripture proof-texts. The Conjugal Law: Life-long, permanent and exclusive union. SEC. 75. REQUIREMENTS IN MARRIAGE.—I. Compatibility. 2. Mutual affection and love; how secured-the nature of true love; a subtle principle. Extract from Spectator 490, finely presenting this view. 3. Congeniality in sentiment and taste, feelings and opinions, especially in what pertains to religion and conscience. 4. Capability for the common duties of life; each one's part. 5. Authority; when to be exercised--the voice of the man; the voice of the wife. SEC. 76. PREREQUISITE QUALIFICATIONS.-I. A pure walk and conversation. Why the virtue of purity is essential to the young man. Scripture injunctions. 2. Education Special: To fit for adversity or prosperity. 3. Knowledge of Requirements: a. Of duties and rights; b. of capability to meet them with willing mind; c. faults to be considered; d. “Love is blind;" e. well to guard the possible contingency of "a family jar." SEC. 77. DIVORCE.-The law of it. Matt. 19:9. When separation. Duty to suffer rather than to sunder the tie. Jesus gives the principle. Man should make laws to put it into practice as near as he can. SEC. 78. THE THEOCRACY.-The Jewish nationality a theocratic institution. Its purpose, to make known the one true God. Historical Sketch of Means Used: Abraham's call. Joseph under Providential care. Moses taught “in all the wisdom of the Egyptians;" schooled into meekness; divinely commissioned as the leader and deliverer of his people. The Moral Law: The discipline in the wilderness; the land of promise; the ministry of the prophets; the captivity in Babylon; the Jews, now faithful and dispersed, testify among all nations to the monotheistic idea-“Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord;" the grandeur of the Jewish economy, as a Divine institution. Christianity evolved from it, enlarges the spiritual idea to a spiritual kingdom; to immortality. SEC. 79. THE STATE INSTITUTIONAL.—Its Origin: In the social nature; for benefits; for defense. These causes develop patriarchal, provincial and state government. Its Idea: Includes the idea of all the institutions and laws that necessarily belong to an ideal state. The existing state is the approximate idea. England cited; its House of Lords; its Commons; as to the fact; as to the ideal. Its Objects: 1. Its duty in protection. 2. Its reciprocal right of service. 3. Its duty as to education, culture, franchise. SEC. 80. THE CHURCH.-As an Institution: In the United States, has no authority in civil affairs. Webster expounds the Constitution in this regard. But religion is recognized by our institutions. The union of Church and State-what it means. Its advantages in educational interests; hence the clergy a leading estate of the kingdom, and hence they began to claim rights and powers. The service of the Church and of the State entirely distinct, yet harmonize and tend in one direction. SEC. SI. DISADVANTAGES OF A CHURCH AND STATE UNION.-I. Inculcates a false idea of religion. 2. Invests the Church with dignities and duties not of its primal function. 3. Invests the Government with powers and duties that pertain not to it. "Head of the Church" a misnomer for Henry VIII. "The estates general” in France. 4. The Church and its dignitaries become puffed up. What is the national church becomes questionable. Contentions, wars and persecutions follow. Revulsion follows usurpations and abuse. SEC. 82. PUBLIC EDUCATION.—Institutional: Already discussed under the social, ethical, natural, logical. Education begins in the family; if it ends here, is often very defective from ignorance. Tends to evil from moral weakness. Instance the high priest Eli; his lack of moral courage brought ruin on himself and his house; his grandchild named Ichabod "The glory is departed;" and Ichabod is written in the history of every people, when in education, morality and religion are neglected. Warlike states educate youth for martial purposes; hence the general idea of the state's duty in education. Our system of public school education in lieu of the national church in general education. SEC. 83. FAMILY; STATE.-Which has the superiority; compared to a like question between man and wife. Why common public schools must exist. The question is not of superiority, but is one of duty. What duties in the matter of education do pertain to the individual, the family, the state. When the state must assert authority. SEC. 84. CAPITAL; LABOR-THE IDEA.-I. Capital (caput) implies wisdom, not labor; includes power, machinery, material, and cash to pay wages. 2. Labor is not capital, and so has no right to profit and loss as such, though by agreement this may be shared. 3. The wages of labor defined; the amount, the value of wages. 4. Value of products; how estimated, not by the rate of wages or the cost of labor. Illustrations. 5. Value of labor to the employer; how to be determined. SEC. 85. UNION OF CAPITAL; OF LABOR.—Its social aspect; its moral aspect; its ethic principle. Example for a proper labor union. SEC. 86. THE UNION AS A REGULATOR of wages must be local and special. In a general combination there is conspiracy involving unjustifiable coercion; stringent legislation. SEC. 87. CAPITAL COMBINATIONS, as abnormal, are artificial and immoral. Should be a subject for legislation and judiciary action. SEC. 88. THE LABOR UNION, as abnormal, deadens the natural laudable desire to excel; encourages inefficiency; puts the un skilled on a par with the skilled; subjects the individual to the dictum of arbitrary power; disqualifies for freedom and civil liberty. Other evils of the labor union-eight of them. SEC. 89. THE SUM AND THE MORAL OF IT.-Liberty endangered. What the evil-minded imagine; how disabused. Health and happiness in small affairs. Two suggestions: 1. A court of appeal to settle differences where a half million of capital is used in a business corporation and five hundred men are employed; less matters to be let alone to take care of themselves. Suggestion 2. To regulate unjust capital, co-operative work, in the long run, is better than "the strike." 66 SEC. 90. NOTE ON PUBLIC EDUCATION-Relative to ideas in some papers" read before the National Education Association, at St. Paul, Minn., in July, 1890. INDEX. ACHAN: The story of his coveting used to illustrate the AFFECTIONS: Defined; when become sentiments ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY: Inquires of nature, 14; does not directly seek within nature; what clue to truth, 20; APPETENCY: Of the soul for the beautiful, true, right . BARNES ALB'T.: His note on the Christian Sabbath BLACKSTONE: On property rights CAPITAL: Implies wisdom; its idea includes the use of tity, of quality, 57; give rise to judgments . CASUISTRY: Defined, applied, 197; its ethic CERTITUDE: Kant finds it in the ethic ground-principle PAGE 91 74 17 152 22 30 73 225 ΙΟΙ 150 173 252 67 23 198 23 121 CHARACTER: Self-intuited as good or bad CHIEF-GOOD: Was the search of Ancient philosophy; is an 23 CHILDREN: Have rights; Scripture injunctions outflow from its source in the true moral nature . 22-38 148 CHURCH: Its union with the state logically impossible when we hold to the true idea of each 238 |