The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1889-03-07
A BROADSIDU FROM KNIT,
What Ails the Farmer, the La
bOrer, the Minister and
the Lawyer,
Some Talk on Adam and the Boys
OF the Early Days-home
Terae Comments on
tho Times,

EBITOR on DEnOCRATi - Please
allow me 10 draw tho attention OF
thinking men 10 tho handwriting on
the wall, II requires no argument 20
convince the farmer that he Is not com
pen8aled ior the labor and capital en-.
pl0yed In his business. II requires no
argument 10 convince the laborers and
mechanics with willing hands, who, In q
country with only sixty million people
Qarge enough for u thousand nil
lion peOplel, are now unable 10 mud em
ployment NJ living wages, II requires
no argument 10 convince all clasaea OF
business men (unleaa they have q mo-
nopOlyl that they are not paid for the
labor and capital they are compelled 70
employ, II requires no argument 20
convince any honest lawyer (f there Is
any SUCH that our courts OF justice are
oyorcrowded from the lower 10 the
higher courts, tho country over, and
that lawyers are drawing untold mill
lions from an oyerbuTdened people,
10 should require no argument TO
convince olergymen that immortality
crime and inGdallty are increasing
faster than the natural increase Of pop
ulatIon, Ministers who preach 70
wealthy congregations are all right
themselves, so long as they don't poke
any real Christianity at thtmi but II
thOy do, on comes their heads, and they
arc careful not 10 DO IT, Thus religion
becomes demoralgod, aud Intelligent
working men, no matter what excuse
they may give for not going to church,
simply think that II that Is religion,
they don't want any Of II,
Ourgoat bulwarka, Christianity and
our public schools, have proven them
selves inadequate even 10 keep preach
cra from lighting through the press,
aud great mOml(D editors from selling
their editorials and decelylng the pub
Ito with bogus correspondence in The
Interest OF monopoly
Allow nae 70 dlgreg8 here, 10 consider
q point that has q great hearing ON this
social aud economic problem. The mis-
take that nearly everybody makes M
regard 10 religion The church OF God
Is made up OF two component parts,
the palanganorla ana the CO6mNa, or In
other words, the diylpn and the human,
The divine aud essential part OF The
church cannot bc altered or changed by
man, and as the essential part was AT
thOrzGd by divine authority, and VIII
be sustained by divine authority dntil
the end Of time, Now, while thO divine
part of the church cannot be- uttered or
changed by the human; more or less OF
II may be- takon, ana on this rests the
morals Of society
The Reformation was simply lght
between the human aud the human
part OF the church, ProtcgWnllsm
iu their rebellion, cast OF the Divine
altogether aud made 10 all human 80 inr
as they were COncOrned' aud the result
In fnultlCiAm has been fairly Illustrated
In q recent article by the high priest Of
the opera house, Mr. SChHcier And
the effects on society are SGT forth In
the beginning Of this article In order
20 Illustrate this point more clearly
take the parable OF the Good Snmari
tan, A certain man went down from
Jerusalem 10 lerioO and fell among
thieves, who, after having robbed him
and uft him half doNd on the ground
A certain Priest seeing him passed by
and q certain Levite passed by, but n
Samaritan seeing him, bound up his
wounds, pouring In oil and wine
and setting him on his own beast
brought mm 10 m Inn, and gave 10 the
host two pence, and said, take care of
him aud what You do over aud above, !
at my return win repay thee As this
parable rs generally taken 20 Illustrate
that every man No our neighbOr, does
anyone think that the Savior who pro
claimed that for every idle word that
man should speak would have 10 render
an account, would himself have roCited
that whole long parable, when one SEN
tenCe would have told as much; more
clearly Undoubtedly the Savior had
another object In view. The wounded
man, | take H. was the whole human
race IN the person Of Adam Jerusalem
Is interpreted by the interpreters, "City
of Peace" Adam, while In Paradise,
dwet In Jerusalem, or city of peace, In
peace with God and with all nature,
But the instant he consented TO
temptation he went down from Jeru
salem and fell among robbers, the devils,
the ay0wed enemies Of God and man.
They first stripped him OF sanctillying
grace, with which Adam was clothed
while In Paradise. Wounded him I'M
his viii, his memory and his under.
the three great powers that
makes man like God,
Adam, while in Paradise, enjoyed
these three powers 10 perfection, But
after mans fall the history Of man
shows how imperfect they became.
JeriCo was the city of the priesthood,
the next stopping place Of man In his
travels. The Samaritan was
the Savior himself the Prlestan Leyite
that passed him by, simply had no
power TO help the wounded man, That
required redemption by the death Of
the Son of God. Then the Savior bound
up his wounds by giving him his Law
and requiring him To do his will, under.
stand his law, and remember II; restored
TO him his supernatural life by baptism
by pouring In wine and oil, or the sac.
raments OF the church. Sitting him on
his own beast, or shoulderlng mans
own burden onto himself; brought him
TO an inn, or his church. SO that the
Divine componant part of Gods church,
was deposited with his church ut the
and will remain with his
church until the end of time unchanged.
And the progress Of civilization the
moral status Of society and the saliva
tion of souls depends on this Divine
The human part Of even
Gods church may be a stumbling block |
10 many, but the essential part of |
can be found there and
here only. And IL is our loss II we fail |
10 benefit by II. But now, TO return to
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