Mexico weekly ledger., 1883-08-09
ICOmmunieated-l
MORE WAR..NO. 2.

Between the extremes of commun-
ism and worldly mindedness, there is
a happy medium, on which some mar
row.minded cranks have eve been
able to concentrate their feeble minds.
This is shown by the fact that this
class Of bigots seize upon every pre-
text to assail from the sacred desk
those whom they denominate rich
men and women, as the case may be,
under which head they class everyone
who, by industry, economy, and the
most abstemeous self-indulgence, has
secured a competence On which to
subsist when the infirmities Of old age
shall have rendered them physically
unable to earn a living. The gross
absurdity of the position they assume
in regard to this whole question is
made manifest by the fullsome fat
terry they bestow upon such as give
literally to the Lord, rs they term it,
when in fact, in many cases, the
Lord, from all appearances, would
utterly repudiate any such agents.
They assume that a gift to them,
however much it may be prostituted
to worldly uses, is o gift to the Lord.
Now, it is not all gold that g~litters
neither are they all Israel that are of
Israel nor are they all agents Of the
Lord who claim to be such. In these
latter days, ''stealing the livery of
heaven 10 serve the devil in" is a
well authenticated maxim The
Savior said, s'by their fruits We shall
know them. Men do not gather
grapes Of thorns, nor figs of thistles."
Seeing the utter absurdity and impos-
sibility Of carrying out the exploded
doctrine of communism directly, an
indirect method is resorted to, the
chiefest Of which is to belabor the
church members under the guise OF
missionary work, home and foreign,
till such as have no manhood through
fear of exposure to the public gaze
will come and lay their substance al
the feet Of these bowling fanatics,
that they may travel from the heads
Of the rivers to the end Of the earth,
and swim through life in idle vagran.
cy On the hard earnings Of those
much more worthy than themselves.
One Jones, in a late article in a st,
Louis paper, airs himself grandly or
this modern communistic idea, il
which, forgetting even the thin gauzt
of heavens livery that he claims tt
sail under, classes his church mem
bers under three heads, viz: Ignor
ance, meanness, Indifference. The
first, he says, is the greatest trouble
After q sort Of school boy twadd;e or
this head, he passes to the secont
cause, meanness, which he oefnes tt
be littIeness. Says tive are little mel
and have little ways" Of course b.
need not have committed the gratult,
of calling himself little. This wa
already very we'll understood, and hi
little ways are also found in the fac
that a hundred dollars a month sala
~ and travelling expenses, even
bed bugs in hospitable homes do bite
constitutes the measure of his how
for agitation. He claims to be tn
agitator in chief, and certainly he i
man worthy Of his calling. 1t is nov
plain to every one, not stone blind
that all disguise is about thrown off
and, b. a sort of pious fraud, tn
church members are to be dragoonet
into communism in the interest Of
class who have never earned by tn
sweat Of the face an English shilling
and who, like a certain class spokel
Of by the Savior, would not toucl
work with one of their little fingers
The colleges are now running, ant
have nests Of unfledged birds SOL
to be on the wing, who will come pre-
pared to whoop up this. communism
note. What is all this for? Is it b
unappease the members Of ignorant
mean or little, and Indifferent person
who now fill the churches? But thi
is the compliment PAID by of tn
chief communists to those faithful
men and women who, in three quar-
tiers Of a century, have dotted thi
country all over with churches
schools, colleges, orphan asylums
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