Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-11-30
THE LIFE THAT NOW Is.
Rev. David Utter Discourses on
That Subject at the Church
Of the Messiah.

49,
From the Chicago Times.
The following are extracts from
his late sermon in which he says the
grasping spirit in man is the great
curse Of this age.
There is no earning ones bread
otherwise than by doing work that
benefits humanity" said Rev. Utter.
Accommodating is not earning money,
and neither Is specializing IN chang
ing values, watching the markets as
they go up and down, and buying and
selling for the sole purpose of accum-
ulating so much money.
He who builds railroads to carry
the products Of one region to supply
the needs Of another, he who builds
factories to supply human wants and
employ the labor Of other men, he
who directs great enterprises of this
kind is earning his living in the
world, and it may be that he is earn
ing the thanks of humanity besides.
If he is a religious man, if he pro
fesses or pretends to be a servant of
the most high God, to love God, to
believe in the fatherhood Of God and
the brotherhood of man, let him re-
member regarding wealth while he
directs these great enterprises accum-
ulated in his hands that in the pres
ence of God he holds it as a trustee,
and is in all honest duty bound to do
the best he can with it, to somehow
help the cause Of those who are help
less and weak, make ways of reforma-
ton for those who are criminal, ease
the burdens of those who are taxed
beyond their strength, enighten the
darkness of those who are in ignor-
ance, and especially let such man re-
member to do some of this directly
and personally, in little ways that he
knows about, as he goes along.
Deep should be the shame of him
who is worth a million dollars who
will Cypress the people that work for
him, who will make Of girls and
children slaves, taking advantage Of
their necessities and paying them
scarcely enough to clothe and feed
them on the cheapest food from day
to day. I know right well that it is
not business to use the smallest spark
of benevOlence or charity In the way
of wages or rent, but there are higher
laws and there are deeper and better
morals than prevail in the business
ideas of a great, greedy, wicked na-
ton such as ours.
"God help us, we shall yet open
our eyes to a heavenly vision of bet
ter world than that we live in now,
when there shall be something Of the
spirit Of brotherhood recognized even
in all our business ways. It is the
lack of this, it is the spirit of greed,
the rapacity of those who, right or
wrong, are determined to have large
possessions before they die, this and
the forgetting on the part Of those
who inherit wealth that they have
any duties to the world, that deep
down is at the bottom Of most of the
remediable misery that our age pro
duces.
1T is not by giving little here and
a little there and palliating the sore
that we shall discharge the Obliga-
tons of life that are upon US, only
real devotion, only a whOle-sOuled
saying, Lord what wilt thou have me
to do2 can really give US peace, can
really do anything toward reaching
the many complex wrongs under
which the humanity Of to-day lies
groaning and suffering"