Western Clarion
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issued: 2016-04-04
issued: 1912-08-24
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note: 9 NED AND CONTROLLED BY THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF CANADA tr PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING CLASS ALONE NUM * 682 VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 19J2 Subscription Price m\ a A PER YR4R VlslU ALL THINGS III COMMON Sermon Delivered in the Methodist Church, at Bellevue, Alberta, on Sunday, April 7, 1912. Text, Acts IV, v. 32. "And the multl tude of them that believed were of one heart and one soul; neither said any of them that aught of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common." If the religion of the Jew was su perior to other religions, its superiority lay in the spirituality or mental calibre which emancipated him from being a victim of his immediate surroundings. The truth appeared to him in its nakedness and he viewed it without the prejudice of one who could see no farther than his own individual interests as isolated from the interests of the social organism. He saw the truth from a pinnacle above the "mists and vapors that crowd theBe earthly damps," among which they live who "love the darkness neither come to the light." The industrial revolution of the past century and a half has swept over our civilization as a great veil or mist, obscuring the truth from human intellect. In that mist *ye have run hither and thither, knowing not whither we went, rushing, as we thought, towards the light, but finding only darkness everywhere. Scientists have observed reptiles lying In watch for their prey A bird flies overhead, it stops, it approaches the enemy, nearer and nearer it comes, right up to the very Jaws of death. Why? Because the eye of the bird has been caught by the eye of the reptile. The bird has been charmed, intoxicated, and it freely plays with death. The human mind is subject to very much the same kind of intoxication as the bird. We are captured by the grandeur, show, splendor. If royalty visits us we call out the militia, decorate in gaudy colors, form grand pageants. Why? The answer ls always th…
note: Titled The Western Clarion from June 18, 1904 to June 1, 1907; titled Western Clarion thereafter.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Vancouver (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0318783
language: English
lat: 49.261111
long: -123.113889
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver, B.C. : The Western Socialist Publishing Co., Limited
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text