The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-12-16

narxe Of God and the kings appealed
| 10 the same source Of authority. Aaa
| suffered a. long a. be could Revolt
tfan, reformation vas simply : reSr-
ton, q cry from the poor wretch that
| was between the upper and the neither
milestone. The liberty Of man has in
creased just in the proportion that the
a7th0rify Of the gods has decreased
| In other words. the wants Of uaafs. IN
I Ktead Of the wishes Of God, have IN
assgurzted what we call pragre<s. and
| there Is this difference Theology IL
/ ha.ed upon the narrowest and tntens-
est form Of seihshnezs. OF course, the
/ theoioeian knows, the Christian
| knows, that he can 10 nothing for
God consequently aii that be does
must be and i for himself. his object
being 10 win the appreciation OF this
/ God, 10 the end that he may become
I fsyorite. On the other side. men
touched not only by their own Eisf0r-
tune, but by the misfoftgnes Of others.
are moved not simply by seihshness,
but by a splendid sympathy with
their feliow-rsen.
Nothing IL more cruel than orthodox
/ theology nothing more heartless than
4 charitable institution. For instance.
I in England, think for 3 moment OF
! the manner ia which charities are
F, Distributed, the way IN which the
crust Is flung al Lazarus. II that par
able could now he retoid the dogs
I would bite him. The same Il true in
/ this country. The institution has
I nothing bat contempt for the one il
T relieves. The people ia charge regard
the paaper IS one who has wrecked
himself. They feel very much as a
man would Feel rescning from the
water some harebrained wretch who
had endeayored 10 swim the rapids Of
siagMra--the moment they reach him
they begin to upbraid him for being
such fool. This course makes char
ity hypocrite, with evey pauper for
/ its enemy.
Mrs. Ward compelled Robert Els
| mere TO perceive in some slight degree,
/ the failure Of Christianity To do away
With vice and suffering. with poverty
and crime We know that the rich
care bat little for the poor. No matter
I how religious the rich may be, the snf-
ferings OF their fellows have bat little
effect upon them. We are also begin
ming 10 see that what Il called charity
will never redeem this world. The
poor man viii go TO work, eager 10
maintain his Independence, knows
/ that there is something higher than
charity that Is TO say, justice. He
/ finds that many years before he was
| born his country was divided out he
tween certain successful robbers, fiat
terers. cringers and crawlers, and that
in consequence Of such division not
only himself, but large majority Of
his feli0w-men, are tenants. renters,
occupying the face Of the earth only at
the pleasure of Others He finds, too,
/ that these people who have done moth
ing and who do nothing have every
Z thing. and that those who do every
thing have bat little. He finds that
/ idieness has the money and that the
toilers are compelled 10 bow 10 the
( oilers. He finds also that the Young
men of genius are hribed by social dis
/ tinctions -unconsciously il may he,
/ but still bribed in a thousand ways.
I lie finds that the church is a sort OF
/ waste basket into which are thrown
7 the younger sons Of titled idleness.
I Society is corrupted because the
/ laurels, the titles, are in keeping and
within the gift Of the cOrruptors.
/ Christianity Is not an enemy OF this
4 syStem-it Is In harmony with ii.
\ Christianity reveals to Us a universe
presided over by an infinite autocrat--
a universe without repuhlicanism, with
out demoeraey--a universe where all
( power comes from one and the same
source. and where everyone using au-
thority Is accountable, not 20 the peo-
pie. but to this supposed source OF au-
I ihority. Kings reign by divine right.
/ Priests are ordained in a diYinely APP
pointed way--they do not get their
Office from man Man is their servant
not their master.