News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-05-22

ulations, and the consecrated for
tunes, and the innumerabIe prosperi-
ties OF the closing nineteenth and the
opening twentieth century.
And now I have two words. one to
capitalists and the other to laboring
men.
WORK WHILE IT IS DAY."
10 capitalists: Be your own execu-
tors. Make investments for eternity.
Do not be like some capitalists I know
who walk around among their en-
ployes with supercilious air, or drive
up to the factory in a manner which
seems to indicate they are the, auto
Gratis OF the universe with the sun and
moon IN their vest pockets, chiefly
anxious when they go among labor
ing men not to be touched by the
greasy or smirched hand and have
their broadcloth injured Be a Chris
tan employer. Remember, those who
are under your charge are bone OF
your bone and flesh of your flesh, that
Jesus Christ died for them and that
they are immortal. Divide up your
estates, or portions of them, for the
relief of the world, before you leave it.
Do not 60 out of the world like that
man who died eight or ten years ago,
leaving in his wall twenty million dol
lars, yet giving how much for the
Church of Coda How much for the
alienation of human suffering? He
gave some money little while before
he died That was well; but in all
this will of twenty million dollars,
how much2 One miIlion2 No. Five
hundred thousand? No. One hun
bred dollars2 No. Two cents9 No.
One cent? No. These great cities
grooming in anguish, nations crying
out for the bread of everlasting life.
A man in will giving twenty mill
ions of dollars and not one cent to
God! It's disgrace to our civiliza-
ton.
To laboring men: l congratulate
you on your prospects, l congratulate
YOU on the fact rnat you are getting
your representatives at Albany, al
Harrisburg and at Washington. This
will go on until you will have repre-
sentatives at all the headquarters, and
you will have full justice. Mark that
l congratulate you also on the Oppor
tunities for your children. Your chill
dren are going to have vast opportuni
ties congratulate you that you have
to work, and that when you are deaC
your children will have to work.
congratulate you also on your oppor
tunities of information. Plato paiC
one thousand three hundred dollar
for two books. Jerome ruined him
self, financially, by buying one vol
ume of ''Origen.
What vast opportunities for intelll
gence for you and your childrenl I
workingman goes along by the shov
window of some great publishln:
house, and he sees a book that cost
five dollars. He says: Il wish l coul'
have that information; I wish | coul,
raise five dollars for that costly ant
beautiful book" A few months pas
on and he gets the value of that boo
for fifty cents in a pamphlet. Their
never was such day for the working
men of America as the day that
coming.
But the greatest friend of capitals
and toiler, and the one who will ye
bring them together in complete az
cord, was born one Christmas nigh
while the curtains of heaven swung
stirred by the wings angelic. DIVINE
) of all things-all the continents, a
, worlds, and all the islands of ligh
Capitalist of immensely, crossing owe
to our condition. Coming into on
, world, not by gate of palace, but b
, door of barn Spending his first nigl
amid the shepherds. Gathering afte
: ward around him the fishermen to /
his chief attendants. With adze, an
| saw, and chisel, and ak, and in a ca
? penter shop showing himself brothe
e with the tradesmen.
0 Owner of af things, and yet on
e hillock back Of Jerusalem one day T.
I signing everything for others, keepin
0 not SO much as a shekel to pay for h
e obsequies. By charity buried in Il
) suburbs of city that had cast hi
e out. Before the cross of such cap
. talist, and such carpenter, all me
O can afford to shake hands and wo
n ship.
4 Here is the every mans Chris
Y None so high but he was highe
o None so poor but he was poorer. /
;, his feet the hostile extremes will y
n renounce their an imosities, and cou
! tenances which have glowered wit
i the predjudices and revenge of ce
+ turtles shall brighten with the smile
4 heaven as he commands: whats
g ever We would that men should do
t. you, do We even SO to them"