The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1885-02-19
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EDITOR DEMOCRAT. i wonder IL tne
Scrlbes and Pharisees, the men or
great moral ideas,' ever conceded or
believed the words OF Christ, when no
said: "He that believeth On me 40 the
scriptures hath said, out OF his belly
shall dow rivers OF living water" and II
they pretend TO believe, where 10 the
living waterp know they claim 10 be
the party Of great moral IDEAS" bat
the Jews did tVg, and yet Christ told
them that they would compass both
sea and l%and-brlbe or anything TO make
one proselyte, and after they had made
him, they would make him three fold
more the child OF He'll than they were
themselves.
Let those would-be leaders Of the
world 20 to Christ and learn what kind
of spirit they are OF. No man can BIO o
follower OF Christ and lift the sword
against his neIghb r. Put up thy.swOrd
Into thy sheath, thou knOwest not what
spirit thou art Of" was the significant
words OF ChIi't' II came NOT 70 de-
stroy mems lives but TO save them"
Resist not evil, but overcome evil
with good. The misfortune OF the
modern men of God 10, that they mis-
take the meaning Of Christ. There are
obviously two meanings In this text.
some say II would lead us to LOT evil run
rampant, and end In pandemoninm.
But this 10 not 30. II is quite clear, NJ
least 10 me, that II 10 only ylOlence--co-
erclOn, that Ia meant, for no one ever
stood more brayely, and spoke out more
manly against evil and corruption In
high places than did Christ,
"Woe unto you scrlbes. and pharisees,
%hypocrits, etc, how can 70 escape the
damnaiion of help" "Woe unto rich
men, for 20 shall weep and howl.
for the mlseries that shall come upon
you; your garments are moth eaten and
your gold Ia cankered, and they shall
rise up against you In the day OF jndg-
ment" We are not TO understand here
that Christ meant tho judgment OF the
last day that we hear 30 much about,
but the destruction OF Jerusalem. Moth
eaten garments In abundance, while
the poor, who we're robbed, had not entfi-
cient 10 shelter them from tho inclem-
ency Of the weather. Gold cankered,
boarded up, and used only on usury, I'LL
the masses were ground down and their
hearts became cankered, filled with
deadly hatred against those money
grinders and ext0rtionlsts, Till they In
their madness destroy everything before
them. Take an example OF the French
Revolution. We will never prosper Till
we realize the fact that war 10 the nat
ural resistance Of overbearing tyranny
aud oppression, There is a caufe. for
every effect, In politics 10 well az phys
ics. Society Ia more often to blame for
the evils within or around II than the
direct authors OF the evil. "As you SOW
80 shall you also reap"
When Nic0demus came 10 Christ no
said: III l have defrauded any man bv
extortlon or falae accusation, | restore
him four fold" thus sigDifying that
Christ's object was 10 teach justice, and
Jesus answered: This day hath saliva
ton come 10 this house." How signia'
cant OF the fact that TO do justice 10 more
than all the foolish praying and nne
spun sermons we hear from time 10
time, but without any Visible effect.
Christ did not inteDd 10 convey the Idea
that no would punish the rich; no only
pointed out the fact that II was coming;
that II was inevitable; the way they
we're running things. Cannot the peo.
pic OF these grand states, United States,
take q Lesson from the past history OF
the world, and establish q philosophy
on its teachings, and make laws or I'M
make, ~ needed. Why should laws DO
made TO play into rich mems hands oil
the timer Awake thou that sleepeth;
arlse from the dead; take the torch Of
truth and freedom In thy hands, the
light which Christ brought into the
world, and believe In II, aud practice H.,
aud help on all true reform for tho bene.
NJ OF thy brother man; and thou shalt
realize the meaning OF Chrlst's words:--
"0ut Of thy belly shalt flow rivers OF
living water" JOHN s, MILLER,