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...enforcement of the excise law can do much to aid the respect for and observance of all laws, and in doing so established the fact that Mayor Low has sufficient power to enforce the excise law and that Mr. Roosevelt, when police commissioner, succeeded in accomplishing a more difficult task and proved this statement by quotations from Mr. Roosevelt himself, Mr. Riis and by citing the resolution passed by the Liquor Dealers' Association at that time. He then cited some of the beneficial results which the Raines Law has brought about, such as reducing the number of saloons...
...task of defining the present state of natural religion leads to the question,--"how has modern knowledge affected the treatment of the subject?" All religious problems depend upon ideals and facts. Facts take the form of determined objects, ideals of undetermined. Facts may or may not permit ideals to be realized; and there are many ideals which may or may not be embodied in facts. Ideals are seeking a place in the world of facts, and thus we naturally look for a supreme Being there. Is there such a Being? Is the knowledge which we have enough to warrant such...
...last night was a consideration of the Philippine question from the point of view of an American Christian. The speaker, who has been consecrated Missionary Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the Philippine Islands, has never visited the Islands, and so spoke not of the concrete difficulties of his task, but of the general problem to be faced by the nation. The nation, he said, is now in a state of depression over the task before it, a natural reaction from the excitable enthusiasm of a year or two ago. When these two stages are past, the country will...
...thousand Americans in Manila alone, and from them the natives get their ideas of our country. No official promises or reports can have any such effect over the natives, as will the actions of the Americans they see before them. To the American Church in the Philippines belongs the task of giving a good representation of our people to the natives...
...editorial is worth reading--and believing. In "College Kodaks" the Advocate editors have set themselves the hard task of commenting, lightly and yet with no obvious attempt at joking, upon the little happenings and phases of college life. For the excellence of the aim, one may easily pardon the treatment which has as yet been only partly satisfactory...