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WHAT SHALL WE DO TO GET
SAVED?
Our earthly conditions are by no
means ideal. Our ailments are many
and so are the natural obstructions,
not to speak of the artificial ones, set
up by man, that we encounter on our
path, and which by right become our
most fascinating interest in life to
obliterate. Some succumb in their
struggles, while very, few, mostly un
worthy, succeed in finding that covet
ed “easy street,” where they can satis
fy their different aims and ambitions.
The vast majority lead lives of more
or l%ss misery, although many do not
even realize that fact. After death a
very important decision we are taught,
a.waits us, no matter what our lives
were on earth, whether we should be
damned or our troubles be changed in
to eternal bliss. The spiritual side of
the question thus depends on circum
stances, especially on grace and on its
logical opposite or disgrace, which
latter be the one that really matters.
Each sin, such as sins may be, is
enough to cause eternal perdition, the
sinners however being given the
chance to redeem themselves simply
by believing the impossible. To some
this is actually easy. They go to heav
en, all principles of justice notwith
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standing. To the investigating mind
nonsense remains nonsense. Its pos
sessor goes to hell, because he cannot
be intimidated into accepting a bribe
that involves a complete violation of
his convictions or a negation of
his better self. This was the position
of the early martrys, and of those un
fortunates on whom the war frenzy
settled its rage. Such as they of sound
and superior minds did not have to
die first to go to hell. Their salvation
must consist in a more real and hu
man enlihgtenment of their fellow
men. Just think of the enormousness
of fatality. A positive abhorence is
likewise to contemplate the vast num
ber of human beings who for some
reason or other try to believe in the
impossible. Some profess such be
lief outwardly, while inwardly they are
unprincipled rascals. Those we call
hypocrits, a monstrous product of so
cial perversities. To consider the in
fluence for the bad of these manifold
forces on the human race as a whole is
also horrible.
Those who feel the necessity to be
lieve in this maxim: “Extra ecclesiam
nulla Salus,” which means that out
side the Catholic church there is no
salvation, should for a starter all be
come subjects of the only truly or
thodox ecclesiarch and his really won
derful organization for the saving of
human souls. For those who are in
its fold it would be sheer folly to
leave. Its salvation—business is just
now booming. Cardinal Mandelin is on
his return from Rome with two checks
each $500,000, to be invested in the
seminary at Area, Illinois, where men
are trained for the Catholic priest
hood. Just think of how many Ameri
can children’s minds poisoned j how
many more crimped souls that means
for these United States. Other relig
ions are bad enough on the subject of
salvation but not so utterly contempt
ible as Catholicism. Belief in the im
possible as a" means of salvation is
however essential with all denomina
tions of the Christian faith and more
so with many other religions.
Most intimately connected with sal
vation is the prayer. O! Misery beyond
all other miseries! In it, this old fal
lacy, the whole world is captivated.
Otherwise most excellent people are
its victims. Have we not prayed
long enough to this or that negative
quantity and wasted our breath in
agony? Who is he that never in
thousands upon thousands of years
would have the kindness to listen to
or answer our desperate sollieitations
when in distress of body and soul ?
The Almighty? No, that could not
be. The cruelty personified? Yes,
and he is no god. He is chat miserable
devil that lately has become so per
fectly out of date with sensible folk.
Rely on the prayer for your salavtion
or believe in those pious liars who
volunteer to tell you that they have
had their prayers heard and favors
granted in fullest measure, if you j
want to fool yourself good and plen
ty.
If a clam in all its composition striv
es to see in order to enable it to main
tain life and go along easier, nature
has a tendency to satisfy such crav
ings when kept up for generations,
in this case by the species of clams, j
the developing organs naturally adapt
ing themselves to the surroundings,
shell ,sand and salt water. Supposing
such endeavor existed within the fam
ily of clams, it would constitute the j
clams’ unison prayer to nature, liable;
to be granted in the fullness of time, j
Men are individually inter-depend
ent on each others; it should be easy)
to see that nations are subjects to the
same principle, yet man destroys man,
one nation the other nation or tries
its level best to annihilate its neigh
bor’s chances to live, lessening there*
by its own opportunities. When man
kind sees the uselessness, futility,
harm and crime in wars, the desire
from within ourselves for peace will
develop stronger, more intensely than
at present, and enduring peace will be j
established.
Do you remember how Wilson be- j
fore he entered the war issued a proc- ;
lamation to pray in all the churches in j
the United States for the speedy ter
mination of hostilities in Europe ? The
clergy responded gloriously. Here in
Seward we had at the time, a very
zealous representative of his cast who
did his very utmost to fulfill the pres
ident’s message. When the prayer
was going to come off solemn dignity j
in face and bearing, was his play. His j
descent from the pulpit to the plat- j
form below, only a few steps, gave the
audience the desired estimation of his j
importance and of the gravity of the
situation in Europe. He kneeled, he
raised his eyes to the ceiling, his arms
towards heaven, when his slow and |
mighty river of trembling words be- j
gan. At first modulating his voice in
to the most pitiful supplication, he j
proceeded to reason with the Almighty j
what a relief a speedy action would
mean to all mankind and he seemed to
be on the very best of terms with his
heavenly master, in spite of his servil- ;
ity. His river was ebbing and flood- j
ing. He quit assuring himself and the
audience that his prayer had been
granted. A long pause, painful still
ness of death; lowered head; arms
hanging limply at his sides. Returning
to the pulpit even his backbone re
gained its original dignity. Wilson’s
ruse had been fulfilled by a most
faithful servant. No human could have
worked harder to induce the almighty
to stop the hostilities speedily. I sup
pose the pei'formances all over the
country were equally spectacular. Wil
son watched his chance. The war broke
out. It is unbelievable to me that Wil
son could have set his faith in a pray
er of this kind. Had he kept us out of
war it might have strengthened the be
lief with some supestitious people in
the efficiency of prayer. As it now
happened, no single act of any man
has ever had an equal effect on eman
cipation of the masses from the ab
ject submission to fareial prayer as a
means of salvation .
Now which is better to acknowledge
the truth when we have found it, elim
inating all falsehood and superstition,
and to make a r.ew start with logical
facts or to tolerate the falsehood and
superstition, shunning to acknowledge
the truth openly, and to get along in
the same old ruts as in the past, ig
noring sound and logical thinking. I
say let the truth be shouted from the
house tops ,that we may have less
sham which means more sincerity,
more truthfulness in our lives, stricter
compliance to natural laws. That is
our spiritual salvation.
S. LUNDBLAD.
AGED SiTKA RESIDENT
DIES FROM STROKE
Mr. A. H. Bauer, who hase been a
resident of Alaska for over twenty
five years, died two weeks ago at
; Sitka of a paralytic stroke.
The deceased was born in Chicago,
j Illinois, and came to Alaska in June,
11884 on a trading schooner landing at
! Unga. Shortly after, he went to
: Sitka on the schooner Leo, of which
I ship he was purser on the run be
j tween San Francisco and Sitka. He
has been accountant for the Sitka
Wharf and Power company for the
past ten years.
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j preparatory to the filming of a motion
picture comedy featuring a skidding
automobile.
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