The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-06-06
WEEKLY BAZOO.
SEDALIA, NO.
TUESDAY, JUFE 6, 1882.
A FALSE CLAIM.


The devil Is versatile old genius.
He can more readily invent seeming
~ plausible arguments and reasons fol
the promotion and justice of his king
dom. than any other potentate. And
strange as it is, he invests his subjects
with his magic power.
In no one thing does this prince OF
darkness more glory than in the &C.
complishment of some charitable deed.
Give him but an opportunity to assist
some unfortunate being and he speedi-
ly does go, in a small way, however,
and then HES to the street corners to
tell each passer-by what he has done.
In nine cases out of ten, the be-
stowal of charity by men of the
world, men who delight in crying
down the churches; who are always
picking flaws in the character of
some weak christian who declare the
bible to be lie and God a caricature,
and Christ a wretched impostor, is
done from sinister motives.
They give because they see in the
act weapon they can use either as of.
tensive or defensive. They
boast of their liberality and
and sneeringly point to the christian
as hypocritical money lover; cold
and selfish Pharisee. They claim the
possession of the grace of genuine
charity and complacently make of it
the chariot in which they are to ride
70 eternal rest and peace.
The claim is q false one. Asa class,
the christian is the only true giver.
He alone has built the colleges, hos
pitfalls, asylums, and homes for the
poor, the aged, the helpless and in
firm. Without the spirit of the
Christ, none of these things would be.
They never were before He came,
they are not where His teachings are
unknown or unaccepted.
We too often take individual in
stances of help or neglect as indispu-
table evidences of the: truth of the
claim that the disbeliever in christi.
anity is the generous man, and: that
he diciple of its Founder is never
moved by this noble impulse.
Let but some poor, unfortunate
girl be neglected by the christians of
q community, and helped by the sim
ners, and what Growing, what sneer-
ing at religion, these latter give forth.
How they boast and buster; with
What impudence they claim the right
and title to all the iberality and
noble charity in the land, and de-
ounce the cold selfshness of those s
tho are SO demented as to believe
he superstitions of that silly book
allied the bible! I
What can be more absurd and ''un-
ounded than this claim. Not 1.-THE ,
{ the worlds giving is theirs, not a c
lite in the sum total of the splendid ,
ecord of deeds done in the name of i
weet charity can they claim. While e
ot robbing them of single merit, it
unfair to them and to the grand '
pirit of the christian life, to laud e
it'll fulsome asttery these cheap,
nall and insignificant deeds. n
Where these men give a dollar, the !
sciples of Christ give Thousands.
his finds confirmation in the history q
the present, and is recorded in ever S
sting remembrance in the past. q
A few dollars given to- q poor girl,
atraged and ruined by a fendish 7
ther is no cause of Boosting. Com
on humanity prompts the help. and I
,mmon sympathy moves the hand to l
zen the purse. What if no chris :, :,
an gave to this girl? The money ft
hitch should have gone to her sup =
,rt was spent by her beastly father
'er the saloon bars Of the city. Who
on should have succored her when 9 =
came upon her? The an e.