The Labor enquirer., 1883-10-27
DENVER, COLORADO cs4 @ T- TZ
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duce gas, and the creator who arranges
forces SO that they produce a world;
between the gardener who plants seed,
and the creator who plants a nebula. +
Socialism which is synonymous with
truth, teaches that there is First Cause;
God, but not God of the anthropoid
variety, not a God who is gratiied by
compliments in prose and verse, and
whose attributes can be catalogued and
whose will can be understood and de-
clared by theologians. God is so great
that he cannot be defined by US. God is
so great that he does not deign to have
personal relations with us human atoms
that are called men, Those who really
desire to worship their Creator must
worship him through mankind and not
through the pocket of a greasy priest.
To develop to the utmost our genius and
our love, that is the only true religion.
To do that which deserves to be written,
to write that which deserves to be read,
to tend the sick, to comfort the sorrowful,
to animate the weary, to keep the temple
of the body pure, to cherish the divinity
within us, to be faithful to the intellect,
to educate those powers which have been
entrusted to our charge and to employ
them in the service of humanity-that
is all that we can do.
We teach that the soul when it is great
and pure alone, is immortal; We teach
that for it there is future life; we teach
that there is heaven surely in the ages
far away perhaps within our grasp if we
will but outstretch our hands before we
fade and die.
A day will come when the European
God of the nineteenth century will be
classed with the gods of Olympus and
the Nile; when surplices and saeramental
plate will be exhibited in the museums;
when nurses will relate to children the
legends of the Christian mythology as
they now tell them fairy tales. A day
will come when mankind will be as the
"Eamily of the Forest" which lived
faithfully within itself according to the
golden rude, in order that it might not
die. But love, not fear will unite with
the human race. The world will become
heavenly commune to which all rIen
will bring the inmost treasures of their
hearts. With one faith, with one desire,
they will labor together in the sacred
cause.-the extinction of disease, the en-
tripation of sin, the removal of misery,
the perfection of genius, the perfection
of love, the invention of Immortality,
the exploration of the infinite, the con-
quest of creation.
You blessed ones who shall inherit
that future age of which we can
only dream; you pure and radiant beings
who shall succeed us on the earth; when
you turn back your eyes on us poor saw
ages, grubbing in the ground for our
daily bread, with ear vibrant with the
crack of the slavedriver's whip, when
you read of us in books, when you think
of what we are and compare us with
yourselves remember that it is to us
that you owe your happiness and grand
eur-to us who uphold now amid the
ieers and insults Of world of slaves,
the scarlet flag of revolt, to us who rob
our mouths of food, our bodies of clothes,
our minds of books for pennies to aid
the holy war, to US who died in the
streets of Paris and the marhes of Spain,
to us who laid our bones upon frozen
Siberian plains and hid our racked bodies
festooned with chains in the dark depths
of the Ural m;nes-remember that it is
to US that you owe your liberty and your
life.
And oh, slaves of this present day
those who now toll and suffer, who live
but to mourn, who die like sheep in the
shambles, unknown and unpitied by
your masters, you workingmen who re-
ceive but two tenths of what you produce
listen to the call that we your brother
send out despairingly unto you.
Now is the time and the hour to aic
us. Now is the accepted moment wher
you should clasp hands with us in one
great final struggle to win forever for al
men the kingdom of God on earth.
What I have pictured unto ye is no
the mere thinning of a dream. Nay, bu
rather the faint outline merely of tht
great vision unveiled to prophetic eye
by the mighty hand of science,
The fate of this world even now trem
bles in the balance. In your hands, pro
letarians of the world, lies the mighty
power to make these dreams realities
your finger is the one which will turl
the scale, upward to the skies or down
ward to the hell of barbarism and eter
nal death.
Take but the first step and hencefortf
the way is clear.
That step is the establishment of social
ism. That will clear the road of the bar
riers that now obstruct the feet of pro
gress. That step will cut the bonds tha
hold us down as slaves.
And unless this step be taken our ma
ton and our civilization will fall and fal
forever, as surely and as silently as fall
a body to its grave.
Have we the wisdom to foresee thi
and the couraee to meet the issue face II