Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-01-14

aud the knowledge of true christianity,
which NIL es princes out of peasants
mobiles of the earth out of the humblest,
tillers of the soil. Castles and palaces
that have been centuries in course of
erection. do not crumble to dust in
day. The rain of intelligence must beat
upon them, and the winds of independ-
ence penetrate these strongholds. before
they decay. never more to retain stone
upon stone.
This new dispensation to which mod
ern sentiment is tending needs new
doctrine,-or the old doctrine of the
Mount restored and carried out in the
interest of humanity. For centuries
it has been perverted for the enrichment
and qualification of princes of the world.
The text, all millionaire greatness dies a
disrespected death, is the modern ex
emplification of Christ's comparison of
the camel and the eye of the needle.
History will bear out its application.
Dynasties have been founded that made
the world subject to them. Wars
have been waged that extermi
mated nations for the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Of
the conqueror. Great men have achiev-
ed wealth and fame by expressing their
| friends and suppressing their enemies
Mighty orders have been established only
| to be crushed out of existence by the
iron heel that had no more use for them.
knighthood raised the high and lowered
the low. Science was bartered for social
or religious gain. Invention was strang-
| led by privileges and grants to kings
and ecclesiastics. Greatness trafficed in
unborn blood. Life was but football
under the feet of the powers that were,
| to be put out with as much indifference
as light is extinguished, if the end JUS
| titled the means. Wall street stock job
bling is no more corruphble than was the
buying and selling of the most sacred
| benefices.
Faction was arraigned against faction,
and the most inscriptions gained the
day. That holy spirit which should
preside over peoples deliberations, was
not unfrequently packed off to the Seven
Hills lin rags" and left to append its
impress at leisure, after the contending
factions had Withdrawn to whichever
side of the mountain they belonged
which had divided them.
! The royal sire was in ecclesiastical
hire, and vice versa. The princes of the
church sat with the princes of the king
dom, until self-interest broke up the un-
holy partnership. There were sanity
men in those days, but the vices of kings
were virtues of the church. until in.
fringsment was made upon her revenues
or her rights. Then rosues fell out and
just men got their dues, just suffer
ed with the unjust.-the deserving with
the undeserving. History records it all
Let every child study, not one side, but
every side-ancient and medieval. Edu-
cation will strengthen this new text and
render the repetition of history well
nigh impossible. The great man, of ex-
elusive wealth or distinction.-the hero
of day, the tyrant of an opportunity -
must die the death of the disrepected,
because life and liberty and human
rights were stified and trampled upon in
the attainment of more than that which
belongs to the sweat of mans brow
his daily bread. which the Creator has SO
ordained, but which human greed mono
polizes and out of which it makes its
millions, leaving the widow and the
orphan crying to Heaven for vengeance.