St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-30
WHO is THE INFIDEL?
LII the Working men are UnbeIievers
Who is TO BIame1
To tho Editor of tho HIobo

To the Editor of the Globe.
Are they infdels?'' is the heading of re-
port of the board of home missions in one of
our leading city papers. The report, after
stating that terminals of every sort, free
thinkers. infidels, socialists, communists and
the high pri tests of every error make large
cities their hiding place. says, .sif the labor
ing classes have become infdels we need to
know why it is so.'
We would, from our standpoint as the labor
ing class, respectfully suggest that the
brothers in the church stop long enough from
studying popular opinion to cast their eyes
over the Bible, to study its teachings without
prejudice and to arrive at that truth which is
God Himself; we were taught that God was
the unity of truth and that the Bible was the
revelation of His word to man, or truth, or
God embodied in language, so that even q
child need not err; if this is so then the fault
lies with the church and not with the So
called laboring classes, for the church
has claimed authority to teach,
and if after 1880 years there
is failure of the people to see the truth,
then either the teacher is false or else the
Bible is false, or they may be both false, and
a new d1spensation is needed. Let us now
examine the Bible and if possible see if there
IS any doctrine continuous from end to end
and in accordance with human reason for
this must be the arbiter of the matter, for
without reason we may as well believe the
Bible of one faith as the Bible of any other
faith. We will quote a few texts from the
Bible, to which we will refer later on. LEVITT
Gus, 19 chapter, 9th and 10th verses, ''And
when ye reap the harvest of your land thou
shalt not wholly reap the corner of the fields
neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of
of the harvest And thou shalt not CLEAN thy
vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every
grape of the vineyard; thou shalt leave them
for the poor and stranger, L am the Lord, thy
God" Christians, did the Omnipotent mean
that you should pass tramp and trespass laws?
that If person was unfortunate and he lay on
mans land, even if it was barren, that he
Should be arrested for trespass, and if he
pressed his weary head by the side of the road
that policeman should arrest him for va
grancy and confine him in a lookup teeming
with disease and vermin, you as a good
Christian will perhaps say that the lazy fell
low could work. Suppose it is time of great
depression in business, can all find employ
ment? You, perhaps, as Christian and a
student of the scripture, will say that he
for what he can get. Suppose he
works lower than those in employment, what
VIII 1t do but make tramp of some one that
is getting higher wages. Brother, do you fol-
low the teachings of the Bible in harvest
time! Are you willing everyone shall have
enough of this great earth to rest his feet on
without molestation? Will our brothers please
study this and let US poor laborers know if
God or the church has changed Leviticus, 25th
chapter, 30 to 81: 'And If thy brother be
waxen poor and fallen in decay with thee
then thou shalt relieve him. Yea, osouph he