their lives to perfect a and though it is urged that these were made under very imperfect and circumstances it is equally true that they were the most favorable that could l e and better than can now be obtained we stand then in the presence of this state of facts � into those windows would secure the desired result for are persons of all kinds as well as of ability seeking work � that is seeking opportunity to coin their own exertions into the bread and clothes and shelter they so need say there is no work for them and their own and rags give you the lie they themselves afford tliat very market for their labor for want of which they shiver and but the carpenter cannot live on timber even if he had it he cannot even build himself dwelling for want of which his in some damp and thus the tailor grows more ragged and the sees own come more and more fully in contact with the frosty pavement while the out of to her bare garret and god that star rather than may end her long battle now so nearly t for the and bread i there must be some way out of this social for god is good and has not created men and women to star e for want of work the six days thou labor and work for all where ia and edged impulse of either party the the employer parts with his money only to increase it and so it would seem is entitled to prompt payment or faithful service � not specially to gratitude he who pays a of fair wheat for a day s work at for next year s harvest has simply exchanged a of his property for other property to him of greater value and so has no sort of claim to an from the other party to the bargain but so long as there shall be ten who would gladly borrow to one disposed and able to lend and many more anxious to be hired than others able and willing to employ them there always will be a natural eagerness of competition for advances employment and a deference of to employed to employer he who may hire or not as to him shall seem profitable is independent while he who must be hired or starve exists at others mercy not till society shall be so adjusted so organized that whoever is willing to work shall assuredly have work and fair for doing it as readily as he who has gold may exchange it for more notes wiu the be placed on a footing of justice and independence he who is able and to give work for bread is not essentially a he does not desire to abstract without from tlie of the world s goods and he is not a beggar wishing only to convert his own muscular energy into bread it is not merely his but every man s interest that the opportunity should be afforded him � nay it is the clear of society to render such exchange at all times and convenient a community or little world wherein all freely serve and all are amply served � wherein each works according to his tastes or needs and is paid for all he does or brings to pass � wherein education is free and common as air and sunshine � wherein and cannot abide the social but are by a quiet wholesome � wherein and necessarily find their level and but actual service tested by the can secure approbation and none but sterling qualities win esteem � such is the ideal world of the grant that it is but a dream � and such as yet it for the most part has been � it by no means follows that it has no practical value on the contrary an ideal an illusion if a noble one has often been the of grand and beneficent efforts moses was fated never to enter the land of promise he so viewed from afar and never found � who can now wish that he had � that westward to india that he sought so wisely and so yet stiu the world moves on and by mysterious and ways the great brave soul is permitted to the purposes of god contemplating the elevation and blessing of man and so i cannot doubt the unselfish efforts in our day for the of social though their methods may be rejected as mistaken or will yet to their contemplated ends fail not then humble for the good time coming to lend your feeble sigh to swell the sails of whatever bark is with earnest efforts for the of human woes nor doubt that the divine breath shall it at last to its prayed for haven time will not suffice to speak fully of the efforts but yesterday so and active now so languid and for the of the legal penalty of death perhaps this has already succeeded so far as it was best it succeed at present � that is so far that some states in the west as others in the east have absolutely and others the death penalty if we could now forget the whole subject for ten years we might at the close of tliat period compare carefully and the of capital crime in the states which have and those which have retained the gallows and strike an instructive balance between them for the present let it suffice that no one appears now to be seriously contend r and ing that life is less safe or crime more in the states which destroy no human lives than in others and when society shall for a generation have set a consistent example of the of this life regarding it as a sacred gift from god which he only may take away � we may hope that the example will not 