St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-27
THE BOND OF FELLOWSHIP.
Humanity and sympathy - The
True Basis of Honor.

W. j. Lhamon. at the Church of
Christ, yesterday, preached upon 1.-THE
Relation of Divine Love to Manly
Honor" The papers told us the other
day, he said, OF a rich man in this city
who, when his hOusemaid took sick,
wanted her carted off on a cold night to
the city hospital. After the Johnstown
disaster ghouls were found plundering
the dead and dying. Be sure this Min
neapOlis piutOcrat had not paid the girl
half her wages. Where there is no
spark of divine love there is no touch
of human sympathy, and where SYM
pathy is not the soul of honor is deau.
The worship of maEmon brutaliZes its
WOrshiper. According to the Apostle
John the love Of mankind is corollary
of the love of God, and out of this
grows the hoToring of man and God.
Christian love means sympathy. and
practical sympathy means self-sacrilice
or devotion, and this is the soul of
honor. g..
He hates who his brother is
murderer, says the apos-
tie. Hatred here signifies such
lack of human sympathy as leaves the
man without honor enough to protect
or help needy and dependent fellow
mortal. The ancient Roman master
could dispose of his sick slave if he
liked, as we do of a sick horse. The
Minneapolis master can not do that; he
would fear the hangman's rope. The
Christian centuries have done so much
for the help of the helpless.
But there are great landlords and
moneyed merchants and corporations
that are no better in spirit, or even in
fact, than Pharaoh's slave masters. The
lash of commercial competition is con-
tinually cracking over the backs of
workingmen. There is too often no re-
lation between employer and employed
but the money one. When times are
good the capitalist speculates on the
muscle of his men; when they are hard
he closes his shops, though the men
may Starve. His only care is for proper
dividends on well-watered stock. There
is no sympathy in this, and there
is no honor in it. Sympathy is
the true basis for honor, and
for political economy. Let the.
employer and the employed be brothers;
let them learn to share their gains in
prosperity. and their losses in adversely.
Why should not the capitalist sacrifice
something for his men, when they or
their families are in want, as the true
citizen does for the state when 1t is en-
dangered by war? Because sympathy
is lacking, and commercial honor seems
not yet to have been born.
Until its birthday is SCENT Fouriers.
and Louis Blancs, and Karl Markses,
and Stuart Mills, and Henry Georges,
and Edward Bellamys will have been
born in vain. There is 10 social econ
omy without social sympathy, uor any
permanent social sympathy without
God and Cody honor. John Ruskin
traces the roots of honor" to the spirit
of Self-sacrifice, and the Bible does the
same. Without the honor of man for
man there can be no equitable life
among men. In Christ we have the
revelation of divine and human dig
nifty, therefore love, therefore sympa-
thy, therefore honor, therefore Justice
and charity. He that seeth his brother
or his hOusemaid have need, and shut
teth up his feelings of compassion from
him or her, how dwelleth the love of
God or the honor of man in him? The
high priests of mammon and the leyites
of commerce nowadays send for the
patrol wagon when their servants get
sick. or turn them out of doors onto
public charity. The "Good Samaritan
is the only high priest that humanity
has in reality, and he also is the true
political economist.