The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1890-05-30

purposes, and there will be more James
Lenoxes and Peter Coopers and William
E. Dodges and George Peabodys. As
that time comes there will be more
parks, more picture-galleries, more gar
dens thrown open for the holiday peo-
pie and the working CLASSES.
was reading some time ago, in re-
gard to charge that had been made in
England against Lambeth Palace, that
it was exclusive, and that charge de-
monstrated 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 halliday holidays four thousand
poor people recline on the grass walk
through the paths and sit under the
trees. That is Gospel-Gospel on ths
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,
If you have any thing in your house
worth looking at-pictures, pieces OF
sculpture-you are going to invite me
to come and see it; you are going to in
vite 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 enjoying IL, 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 a rock at the very verge
of the cliff, and he stood there with his
cloak wrapped about him and he seemed
to be listeningefor something. Some
one said to him: ''What are you listen
ing for?" Standing there, on the top of
| the mountain, he said: II am listening
to the tramp of the footsteps of the
coming millions of this continent" A
sublime posture for an American states
man! You and | to-day stand on tho
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 populations, and
the consecrated fortunes, and the innu'
mera BILE 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 ca pitalists: Be your own execu-
| tors. Make investments for eternity.
Do not be like some capitalists | know,
who walk around among their employees
with a supercilious air, or drive up to
the factory in a manner which seems to
indicate they are the autocrat of the
universe, with the sun and the moon in
their vest pockets chiefly anxious when
| they go among laboring men not to be
touched by the greasy or smirched hand
and have their broadcloth injured. BE
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 i'm
mortal. Divide up your esta ties, or ror-
tions 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 million dollars, yet giving
how much for the Church of God? How
much for the alienation of human suf-
fering? He gave some money a little
while before he died. That was we'll;
but in all this will of twenty million
dollars how much? One million? No.
Five hundred thousand? No. One hun
dred dollars? No. Two cents? No. One
cent? No. These great cities grooming
in anguish, nations crying out for the
bread of everlasting life. A man IN a
will giving twenty million dollars and
not one cent to God! 1t is disgr ace tc
our civilization.
lah man. I Won
on your prospects. / congratulate you
on the fact that you are getting YOU
representatives at Albany, at Harris
burg and at Washington. This will &C
on until you will have representatives
at all the headquarters, and you will
have full Justice. Mark that. 1 con
graduate you also on the opportunitie:
for your children. Your children are
going to have vast opportunities.
congratulate you that you have to work
and that when you are dead your chill
dren will have to work. | congrat
ulate you also on your opportuni
ties of information. Pluto paid thir
teen hundred dollars for two books
Jerome ruined himself financially by
buying one volume of Origen. Wha
vast opportunities for you and YOU
children! A workingman goes along
by the show window of some great pub
fishing house and he sees a book tina
costs five dollars. He says: Il wish
could have that information; / wish
could raise five dollars for that costly
and beautiful book" A few month:
pass on and he gets the value of tina
book for fifty cents in a pamphlet
There never was such a day for The
workingmen of America as the day tina
is coming.
But the greatest friend of capitals
and toiler, and the one who will ye
bring them together in complete accord
was born one Christmas night while tht
curtains of Heaven swung, stirred by
the wings angelic. Owners of all thing
all the continents, all worlds, and al
the islands of light. Capitalist of i'm
mensitY, crossing over to our condition
Corning into our world, not by gate O
palace, but by door of barn. Spending
His first night amid the shepherds. Ga tn
ering afterward around Him the fish er
men to be His chief attendants. WheI
adze, and saw, and chisel, and axe, ant
in a carpenter-shop showing Him sci
} brother with the tradesmen. Owner o
all things, and yet on hillock back O
Jerusalem one day resigning every
thing for others, keeping not so uucl
as a shekel to pay for His obsequies. b.
charity buried in the suburbs of y city
that had cast Him out Before thu
cross of such Capitalist, anC
such a Carpenter, all men can affort
to shake hands and worship. Here il