Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-11-01

eminent and dishonesty in business; greed and
pammonism in high places, and pauperism and
vice in the lower strata of society; drunkenness
and crime filling our pententares and poor
houses, and capital and labor organized against
each other with fearful results looming up darkly
ahead of them; these are all bred of the self-in-
terest of to-day, and give us pagan rather than
a Christian state of society.
The one encouraging feature Of the time, in this
maddening maze of ills, is the awakening OF noble
men and women, scattered here and there in the
nation, to the dangers that are threatening. With
hopeful unanimity they see not only the evils OF
the day, but in the main agree On the remedy, and
the old call that has sounded through the ages is
heard in our midst "They that are strong ought
to bear the infrmities of the weak" Obedlent to
this call, we behold one organization after another
wheeling into line, whose speciality is the breaking
down some particular wrong or injustice.
The irresponsible monopoly of land by greedy
cormorants is arraigned, who, Indifferent to Its
most advantageous use and the welfare OF the
people living on it, care only to speculate with it
for their own pecuniary profit, thus increasing
poverty and immortality.
The attitude Of capital towards labor, which
denies the workngman and woman fair share Of
the wealth they create, is bombarded by the polit-
ical economist, the philanthropst, and the prac-
teal Christian. And the laborer is receiving aid
in his great battle from the allied forces Of the uni
versity, the study, and, in many instances, the
press.
Drunkenness and RIGHTEOUSNESS are combatted
by hosts of women, aided by true-hearted men,
who attack legal enactment with petition and con-
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loving persuasion.
The rights of children to be well-born, to love,
education and freedom from dwarfng toll, are be-
ing proclaimed all over the land, and organizations
are being formed for the protection of the little
ones.
All the corruption of government and the dis
honesty of business, inseparable from the present
system of conducting it, are thoroughly exposed
to the knowledge of the people. Every kind Of
social question is crowding to the front, and the
watchword of the hour, heard amid the tumultuous
din, is "Human Brotherhoodp' By this sign
shall we conquer
Oh, if the church would put on its beautiful
garments, and baptze itself into the spirit of the
Christ it processes to follow, how speedily the
problems Of the hour would be solved? If, while
not ignoring the heather of the Orient, it would
organize mission at its doors for the conversion
to Christianity of capitalist and aborer, saloon
keeper and drunkard the rich as we'll as the poor,
the fashionable aud respectable as well as the out
cast and the abandoned, how soon society would
take on divine charm. If it would only learn
what Christianity is-a battle, not creed-a life,
not professionalism for man equally with love
for God, and pronounced by Jesus interchange
ably the same-then might we begin to grid our
lolns and prepare for forward march to the mil
lenlum-From "What is Christian Socialism," by
Mary A. Livermore, in The Dawn.
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