Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-05-30

in both Are the clerks in your store irat4
against TIE firm Then there IS something
wrong, either behind the counter, or IN the
private Office. or perhaps IN OOcL.
The great want OF the world to-day is the
fulfiIment OF this Christ-iike injunction,
that which He promulgated in his sermon
Olivetic. All the political economists I'M
der the archivOit OF the heavens in conven-
ton for thousand years cannot settle
this controversy between monopoly and hard
worS between capital and labor. During
the Revolutionary war there was heavy
piece of timber TO be lifted, perhaps for
some fortress, and a corporal was overseeing
the work, and ne was giving com hands
to some soldiers as they lifted: ''Haave
away, there, yo neaver' Well the timber
was too heavy; they could not get it up.
There was a gentleman riding by on a
horse, and he stopped and said to this cor
poral, why don't you help them lift:
That timber IS too heavy for them To lift
mo" he said, | won't; l am 4 corporal"
The gentleman got off his horse and came up
to the place. Now. =" he said to the soldiers,
ali together-yo heave" and the timber
went to its place Now" said the gentle
man to the corporal, when you have piece
of timber too heavy for the men 70 lift and
YOU want help, you send TO your Commander
ln-Chief." 1t was Washington. Now, that
is about all the gospel know-the gospel Of
giving somebody a lift, lift out OF dark
ness, lift out of earth into heaven. That
is the gospel Of helping somebody else TO lift.
oh" says some wiSeacre, talk as you
Will, the law or demand and supply will
regulate these things until the end OF
time" No il will not, unless God dies
and the batteries of the judgment dav are
spiked, and Pluto and Proserpine, king
and queen Of the Internal regions. take full
possession of this world. Do YOU know
who Supply and Demand are? They have
gone Ito parnershlp, and they propose to
swindle this earth and are swindling it
You are drowning. Supply and Demand
stand on the shOre-Oue on one side. the
other on the other side of the life boat, and
they cry out to you: Now, you paw us
what we ask you for getting you to shore, or
you can keep from failing in business. Sup
ply and Demand say: Now. you pay us ex-
orbltant usury or you go into bankruptcyr =:
This robber firm of Supply and Demand say
TO you: The crops are short We bought
up all the wheat and 1t is in our bin Now.
you pay our prizes or starve" That is your
magnificent law of supply and demand.
supply and Demand own the largest mill
on earth, and all the rivers roll over their
wheel, and into their hopper they put all the
men, women and children they can shovel
out of the centuries and the blood and the
bones redden the valley while the mill grinds.
That diabOlic law Of supply and demand will
yet have to stand aside, and instead thereof
will come the law of love- the law of CO.
operation, the law of kindness, the law OF
sympathy, the law OF Christ
Have you no idea of the coming of such
time? Then you do not believe the Bible.
All the Bible is full Of promises on this SUBJ
ject, and as the ages roll on the time will
come when men Of fortune will be giving
larger sums to humanitarian and evange-
listic purposes, and there will be more
James LenOxes and Peter COopers and Will
lam E. DOdges and George Peabodys. AS
that time comes there will be more parks,
more picture galleries, more gardens thrown
lTNIII r No
ing classes.
I was reading some time ago, in regard to
a charge that had been made in England
against Lambeth palace, that it was exclu-
sive; and that charge demons trated the
sublime fact that to the grounds of that
wealthy estate eight hundred poor families
had free passes, and forty croquet companies,
and on the half day holidays four thousand
poor people recline on the grass, walk
through the paths, and sit under the trees.
That is gOspeI-gOspel on the wing gospel
out of doors worth just as much as in doors.
That time is going to come.
That is only hint of what is going to be-
The time is going to come when if you have
anything in your house worth looking at
pictures, pieces of soul pture--yOu are going
to invite me to come and see it; you are 60
ing to invite my friends to come and see it,
and you will say, See what l have been
blessed with! God has given me this, and
50 far as enjoying it, it is yours also" That
is gospel
In crossing the Allegheny Mountains,
many years ago, the stage halted, and Henry
Clay dismounted from the stage and went
out on rock at the very verge of the cliff,
and he stood there with his cloak wrapped
about him, and he seemed to be listening for
something Some one said to him: What
are you listening for% Standing there on
the top of the mountain, he said: I am
listening to the tramp of the foot
Sta Of IA az
continent" A sublime posture for an
American statesman. You and [ to-day
stand on the mountain top OF privilege, and
On the rock Of ages, and we look off, and We
near coming from the future the happy in
lustries, and smiling populations, and the
consecrated fortunes, and the innumerable
properties OF the closing nineteenth and
the opening twentieth century.
And now | have two words, one to cap
jtalists and the other to laboring men.
To the capitalists: Be your own executors.
Make investments for eternity. Do not be
like some capitalists I know who walk
around among their employees with supercil-
ious air, or drive up to the factory in 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 the labOring men not to be
touched by the greasy or smirched hand ami
have their broadcloth injured. He
a Christian 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 por-
tons of them, for the relief of the world
before you leave it. Do not go out of the
world like that man who died eight or ten
years ago leaving in his will twenty mill
ion dollars, yet giving how much for the
church of God? How much for the allevi-
alton Of human suffering? He gave some
money little while before he died. TE-t
was well; but in all this will of twenty