The Labor enquirer., 1886-11-13

the press. nor Judges or juries, will COM
bel men to- "dwell together in unity
when that glad time shall have come,
but "a little child shall lead them r
The purely human attributes. The
Is off, leopard and lion nature thst has
filed 60 large place in the world dur
ing the struggles Of the race for q bare
existence, viii dwell peaceably with the
lamb, kid and calf. for gentler human
qualities, when at last mans more regal
powers are unfolded and q truer-or
more properly speaking fuller social
reorganization Of society is accom-
plished. In "ths Messianic era' that is
now being inaugurated the working
classes williinevitably judge the civil
lied institutions Of society BY new
standard of equity.
The photographer defines this all-po-
tent word equity as used sin jurispru-
dence. The correction or qualificatiob
of law, when TOO severe or detective or
the extension of the words of the law,
to cases not expressed, yet coming
within the reason of the law"
Already it has come to pass that the
great army Of the worlds workers, no
longer the mudsills of society and there
fore to be easily nodded by their mas
ters, are massing together, under leaders
chosen froal their own ranks, in the po-
litical arena to demand the enforcement
of this great law of equity by the gov
ernmsnts of the world.
The Messianist is not superstltlous
dreamer. looking for ''the coming man"
whose word of authority is to compel
obedience to the law of equity. The
Messianist is pre-eminently scientlss.
The supreme ideal of liberty or freedom
in "the Messianic age" is summed up IN
the saying of Jesus: "If the truth shall
make YOU free, We shall be free indeed" >"
We know and teach that "the ne"
era will be ushered in through the
dominance of the innate law of right
which will be written in the heart and
put into the minds" of the race, through
the natural law of evolution or unfold
ment, and not through the inserposltlon
of miracles. We believe that the great
error of nominal Christianity, which
gave birth to "a Christian civllizatlon,'
was in the worship of the man Jesus a.
God, to the almost entire exclusion 0
reverence for the great laws OF lntelll
gence and right conduct that formed the
basis of the teachings of the Nazarene
as we'll as the Hebrew prophets and
must IN the nature of things become uni
versally dominant before true socle
tary reorganization can be established Il
the earth.
Natural organizations are torme
around centres. These centres are nc
negations. The Messiah of the new er
will not need to proclaim his Messiah
ship no more than the sun needs to pre-
claim itself the centre of our solar syi
tenn.
Ia all of "Sidartha's" writings, teach
ings and conversations, he does not la
any claim to the Messiahship.
The magnitude of his life-work, Ri
arduous and untiring researches in tn
realms of. scientific truths, wherein h
discoveries have been broad and ia
reaching, have precluded the possielllt
of his making the Messiah himself,
prominent figure in the Messlanic age
the world.
On page 1923 of THE Book Of Life" l.
saws: "Tne prophets have great des
to say about the kingdom and but yer
little to say about the king who was
be It's founder, and we have a right
think that this shows that the kingdol
was much more important than th
: king"
TIE whole burden of his teaching
: and writings demonstrates the ultimat
. harmonious developement of all the fat
ulties of the mind, in the universal ma
and the ultimate organization of societ
around it's natural centres are clearl
) defined in all its purity and perfect
| organized. as in the human body. Fac
faculty of function. animal or intelle
t tual being provided with all the facu
, ties for it's normal action in correspond
, ing departments of the body polite thi
r nature has provided for the normal a
ton of the organs of the body and tt
supply of their needs.
A narrow and unsclentific mind, in II
small and petty conclusions, natural
overlooks the scientific or demonstrate
truths of his great works, and seizln
upon the hypothetical parts thereof, {
) per .onal beliefs, which "Sidartha" do,
not in any case give as authority, nor
r any sense as more than logical dedu
, tions, sees in them only theories to de
: pise and condemn. Such mind ca
: have no clear conception of the ult
mate triumph of principle over passio
i. of the reign of reason over mere bru
: instinct, or Of the rule Of common sens
in the place of fear and superstition an
personal authority.
I, But the Messianist finds nothing
despise or contemn and certainly not t
revile in the indlsput bile scientif
truths taught by this truly Yonderf