The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-01

control everything to the end of time. No: it
will not unless God dies and the batteries of the
judgment are spiked. and the throne of the
universe is taken by Pluto and Proserpine. the
king and queen of the internal world. Supply
& Demand have joined partnership and put
their wits together to rob the world. You are
drowning and they stand on the shore beside
the only boat and say: PAY what we ask or
for lack of FIVE thousand dollars. They say
"Pay us usury or become bankrupt This rob-
Der firm of Supply e. Demand says: "The wheat
crop is short and we have bought it up and put
it in our bin. Pay our price or starve" Supply
& Demand own the largest mill on earth, and it
rolls over its wheel all the rivers and puts into
its hopper as many men, women and children as
it can scoop up out of the centuries, and their
blood and bones redden all the valleys as the
grinding goes on. AS sure as the ages roll to-
ward millennial release that diabolic firm will
have to step aside for the law Of love, the law of
co operation, the law Of mercy, the law of
Christ.
AS that law takes sway you will see more men
consecrating their life to humanitarian and
evangelical purposes, like James Lenrox and
William E. Dodge, and Peter Cooper and George
Peabody. More parks, and gardens, and picture
galleries will be opened for the peoples holidays
The pallor will 60 out of the cheeks of the work
man, and the frown off his brow, and the gnash
ing out of his teeth. That day will surely come.
Once crossing the Allegheny mountains it was
said that Henry Clay, while the stage coach was
hating. went to the edge of the mountain and
put his hand behind his ear, as if to listen. and
some one asked him what he was listening for.
and he said II am listening to the coming on
of the future millions of this country" To-day
l stand on this mountain top OF Christian priv
ilege. and on the Rock of Ages, and l listen TO
the coming on of the happy industries, and the
consecrated fortunes, and the smiling popula-
tons, and the innumerable properties Of the
closing nineteenth and the opening twentieth
centuries.
While speak there lies in state the great
author and patriot of France-Victor Hugo.
The $40, 900 he left to the poor or Paris in his
will, were only a hint Of the grander work he
has done for all nations and all ages. No won
der they allowed ten days to elapse between his
death and his burial, keeping him under tri-
can hardly afford to let him go, though for more
than eight decades his unparalleled genius has
blessed it. His name shall forever stand the
terror of despots, the encouragement of the
struggling. He has made the worlds burden
lighter, and its darkness less dense, and its
chain less CALLING and its thrones of niquity less
secure. But, after all, he was not the great aud
overtowering friend of mankind.
The greatest friend of capitalist, and toiler,
and the one who shall bring them into complete
accord, was born on Christmas night while the
curtains of tho sky swung as there moved among
them the wings angelic. Owning all the uni
verse, the great continents of worlds and the
aises of light the Capitalist of immensely, he
into our world not by palace gate. but door Of
barn, spending his first night among shepherds,
and afterwards calling fishermen from their nets
to be his chief attendants, with the hammer,
and adze, and saw, and ak, and chisel Of a car
penter's shop, showing himself brother trades
man. accepting entertainments at the house of
one who tanned hides for living, and, though
having owned all things surrendering everything
for others on the hillock back of Jerusalem, and
without sheckel left to pay for his obsequies,
was buried BY charity in the suburbs of city
which had cast him out Assuredly, at the
cross and grave of such Capitalist and Carpenter
all men can afford to shake hands and worship.
Here is an every mans Christ None so high
but He was higher None so poor but He was
poorer. At His feet the hostile extremes of So
ciety will renounce their animosities and coun-
tenances that glowed in preiudices and revenges
of centuries shall brighten into the smile of
would that men should do to you do We even so
to them