Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-05-19

the BlOle. All tne DlOle Is lull VI
promises on this subject, and as the ages
roll on the time will come when men Of
fortune will be giving larger sums to
! humanitarian and evangeliStic pur-
poses. and there will be more James
Lenoxes and Peter Coopers and William
f. Dodges and George Peabodys. As
that time comes there will be more
parks, more picture-galleries, more
gardens thrown open for the holiday
people and the working classes.
was reading some time ago, in re-
gard TO a charge that had been made in
| England against Lambeth Palace, that
it was exclusive. and that charge DEM
onstrated the sublime fact that 10 the
grounds of that wealthy estate eight
hundred poor families had free passes,
and forty crovuet companies, and on
the halliday holidays four thousand
poor people recline on the grass, walk
through the paths, and sit under the
trees. That is gospel-goSpel on the
wing, gospel out-of-doors worth just as
much as indoors. That time is going
TO come.
That is only hint of what is going to
be. The time is going to come when, II
you have anything in your house worth
! looking at-pictures, pieces of sculpt-
ure-you arc going to invite me to come
and see it; you are going TO invite my
/ friends to come and see it, and you Will
say, "See what have been blessed with!
God has given me this, and, so far as en-
! Toying il, it is yours also" That iSgos-
pei.
In crossing the Allegheny Mountains,
many wears ago, the stage halted, and
Henry Clay diSmounted from the stage,
and went out on Il 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: Il am
listening TO the tramp Of the footsteps
of the coming millions of this CONT
nent." A sublime posture for an Amer
lean statesman. You and to-day stand
on the
MOUNTAIN-TOP OF PRIVILEGE,
and on the Rock of Ages, and we look
off. and we hear coming from the future
the happy industries, and smiling popu-
| lations, and the concentrated fortunes,
and the innumerable properties of the
closing nineteenth and the opening
twentieth century.
And now | have two words, one to
capitalists and the other to laboring
men.
| To CAPITALISTS: BE your own executors.
/ Make an investment for eternity. Do
not be like some capitalists | know who
walk around among their employees with
a SuperciliouS air or drive mp to the fac
/ tory in manner which seems to indi-
cate they are the aut0crat OF the uni
verse, with the sun and the moon IN
their vest pockets, chiefly anxious when
they 90 among labOring men not to be
touched by the greasy or Smirched hand
and 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 portions of them, for the relief of the
world. before YOU leave 1t. DO not go
out of the world like that man who died
eight or ten years ago, leaving in his
will twenty million dollars, yet giving
| how much for the Church OF God?
| 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 dol
lars: how much? One million? No.
| Five hundred thousand? No. One
hundred dollars? No. Two cents?
No. One cent? No. These great cities
grooming in anguish. nations crying out
| for the bread of everlasting life. man
/ i'm will giving twenty millions OF dol
/ lars and not one cent To God. III Is
disgrace to our civilization.
TO ldb0ring men: | congratulate you on
your prospects. | congratulate you on
/ the fact that you are getting your repre-
scntatiyeS at Albany, at Harrlsburgh,
Il and at Washington. This Will go on
until YOU will have representatives al
| all the headquarters. and you VIII have
| full Justice. Mark that. | congratu-
/ late YOU also on the opportunities Tor
your children. Yourchildren are going
to have vast opportunities. | congratu-
late YOU that you have to work and that
when YOU are dead your children VIII
have TO work. congratulate you also on
your opportunities of information. Plato
Maid one thousand three hundred dollars
for two books. jerome ruined himself,
financially by buying one volume OF
| Origen. What vast opportunities OF IN .
tclligence for you and your children.
\ workingman goes along by the win
dow of some great publishing house,
and he sees a book that costs five dol
lars. He saws: Il wish | could have
that information: | wish | could raise
five dollars for that costly and beautiful
hook" A few months pass on and he
Gets the value of that beautiful book
for fifty cents in a pamphlet. There
never was such day for the working
men of America as the day that is COM
ing.
prr THE GREATEST FRIEND OF CAPE
TAIIST AND rOILER,
and the One who will yet bring them
torether i'm complete accord, was born
one Christmas night while the curtains
of heaven swung. stirred by the wings
angelic. Owner Of all things-all the
continents. all worlds, and all the Islands
Of light. Capitalist of immensely,
crossing over to our condition. Coming
into our world. not by gate of palace,
hut bv door of barn. Spending His
first night among the shepherds. Gath
ering afterward around him the fisher
men TO be His chief attendants. with
adze. and saw, and chisel, and axe.
and i'm a carpenter shop showing
himself brother with the trades
men. owner of all things, and yet on
n billock back Of Jerusalem one day re-
signing everything for others, keeping
not so much as sheckel to pay for His
obseouies. BY charity buried in the
subyrbs of a city that had cast Him out.
Before the cross Of such capitalist
and such carpenter, all men can al
ford to shake hands and worship: Here
is the every mans Christ. None so
high but He was higher. None so poor
bus He was poorer. At His feet the
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