St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-19
THE GOLDEN RULE.
If 1t Is Followed Life Will Be



Rev. Marion d. Shutter preached at
the Grand opera house from Matt. 7:l2.
This seems, he said, to have been one
of those elemental laws stamped upon
the human heart when God made it. 1t
was in the world from the beginning,
lust as the fundamental laws of morality
were in man before they were craven
Oh the slabs Of Sinai. The law itself
crs beside Jesus. One of the best forms
is that of Plato: MAY |, being Of
sound mind, DO to others as | would that
they should do to me-" One of the
most unique forms is that OF an ORR
entail: BE careful not to press upon
your neighbours head hat that hurts
your own" If the maxim comes from
God, revealed through human expert
ence. il matters not who first gave it eX-
preston. ltmatters not how many mes
sengers delivered the oracle. Our faith
in the principle itself is confirmed by
the Wilderness of its recognition and the
multiplicity OF its expression. Our text
erects tribunal before which our rela
tons to our fellowmen are to be adj
justed. Your own soul is the court of
justice in which every case must be
tried. every question settled. 1t shows
us also upOu what ground the decision
is TO be reached. Make the measure of
your demands the measure of your con-
duct. Lay the line upon your own sense
of what is due to yourself, and then lay
chat same line full length upon what
ourselves, by the power of Imagination
and sympathy, into the places Of others.
We must look upon every man as if he
were another self, and treat him &C
cordingly. This precept becomes the
m ans OF our moral and spiritual educa-
ton. We are not trained and developed
by minute rules and restrictions. Fixed
laws for every action and emergency Of
life would be imp0ssible; would crush
us instead of helping us. There is no
possibility of either intellectual or moral
growth were everything is decided for
us by some external authority. We
need the guidance of few principles,
not OF many laws. The golden rule is
guarded. 1t leaves no room for selfish
demands from others and gives us no
liberty to make selfish demands OF
them. 1t is not what they ask of us
that decides: it is what we ask of them.
Let us take this rule and make it prac-
tical. Take it into business, into the
home, into the church, into politics.
ulS III ihClplo appllcu Will plCFOIIO wal,
slavery, class oppression, the evils that
threaten on account of strained relations
between labor and capital. 1t will say
to the labOrer: Fit yourself to do your
work well; be as honest and conscien-
tious in what you DO for your employer
as in what you do for yourself. Ask no
penny that you do not fairly earn" 1t
will say to the employer: '"Ireat the
man who is working for you as if you
were yourself grinding at the wheel"
We are in danger just now from the
two extremes of society-from the com
binatiOns of capital called trusts" that
undertake to regulate products and
prices for their own profit, and from or
CARNATIONS at the other end that try to
push wages to all arbitrary and artificial
standard. Whatever interferes with the
natural laws of business. whether it
comes from capitalist or laborer, is a
violation OF the golden rule. We pray
God to right the wrongs of this wicked
world; let us take hold ourselves and
try to make the world better. Gods
work is in the hands of men.