Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-05-29

a divergence now between the psrlor
ana the kitchen? Then there is some
thing wrong, either in the psrlor or the
kitchen, perhaps in both. Are the
clerks in your stores irate against the
firm? Then there is something wrong,
= either behind the counter or in the pri-
; vate Office, or perhaps in both.
| The great want of the world to-day Ia
} the fultiiiment of this Christlike injunc-
: ton, that which He promulgated in His
sermon Ol;vetic. All the political econ.
, omistS under the archivolt OF the heavens
in convention for a thousand years can
not settle this controversy between mo-
nopoly and hard work, between capital
and labor.
During the revolutionary war there
was heavy piece of timber to be lifted.
perhaps for some fortress, and corporal
was overseeing the work and he was Civ
ing commands to some soldiers as they
lifted ''Heave away, there 70 heave"
Well, the timber was too heavy; they
could not get it up. There was gentle
man riding by on a horse and he stopped
and said to this corporal: why done
you help them lift? That timber is too
heavy for them to lift" ''No," he said,
II won't. I am corporal" The gentle
man got of his horse and came up to the
place. ''Now," he said to the soldiers,
all together-yo heaye!" and the tim
Der went to it's place. Now" said the
gentleman to the corporal, when you
have piece of timber too heavy for the
men to lift, and you want help, you
send to your commander-in-chief." 1t
was Washington Now, that is about
al the gospel I knOw-the gospel Of
giving somebody a lift, lift out of
darkness, a lift out of earth into Heaven.
That is the gospel OF helping somebody
! else to lift.
| 60" says some wiseacre, talk as you
will, the law OF demand and supply will
regulate these things until the end OF
| time" No, it will not, unless God dies
and the batteries of the judgment day
are spiked, and Pluto and Proserl'ine,
king and queen of the internal regiOps,
take fall possession of this world.
Supply and demand owns the largest
mill on the earth, and all the rivers roll
over their wheel, and into their hopper
they put all the men, women and chill
dren they can shovel out of the centuries
and the b,ood AID the bones redden the
valley while the mill grinds. That
diabolical law of supply and demand
will yet have to stand aside, and instead
thereof will come the law of love, the
law of cooperation, the law of kindness,
the law of sympathy, the law of Christ.
was reading some time ago in regard
to a charge that had been made in En-
gland against Lambeth palace, that it
was exclusive, and that charge demon
strated the sublime fact that to the
grounds of that wealthy estate 500 poor
families had passes, and forty crOquet
companies, and on the half holidays
1000 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,
If you have any thing in your house
worth looking at-pictures, pieces OF
sculptor-yOu are going to invite me to
come and see it; you are going to invite
nv 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 it. it is yours also"
That is gospel.
And now | have two words, one to
capitalists and the other to labOring men,
To capitalists: Be your own execu-
tors. Make investments for eternity
Do not be like some capitalists i know
who walk around among their employees
with 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 died for them
and that they are immortal. Dr.
vide up your estates, or pOr-
lions 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 $40, 900, 900, yet giving how much to
the Church of God? How much for the
alienation of human suffering? He
gave some money little while before
he died. That was we'll; but in all this
will of $50 O0O, 900, how much? One mil
lion? No. Five hundred thousand?
No. One hundred dollars? No. Two
cents? No. One cent? No. Three
great cities groaning in anguish, ma
tions crying out for the bread of ever
lasting life. A man in a will giving
$50, 600, 900 and not one cent to God. 1t
is d isgrace to our civilization.
To labOring men: / congratulate you
on your prospects. / congratulate you
on the fact that you are getting your
at Albany, at Harris
burg and at Washington. This will go
on until you have representatives at all
the headquarters, and you will have full
Justice. Mark that. congratulate you
also on the opportunities for your chill
1ren. Your children are going to have
vast OppOrtun ties. l congratulate you
that you have to work, and that when
you are dead your children will have to
work. congratulate you also on your
of information. Plato
paid 81, 800 for two books. Jerome ruined
himself financially by buying one vol
Ime of Origen.
But the greatest Friend of capitalist
md tOiler and the One who will yet
bring them together in complete accord
vas born one Christmas night while the
curtains of Heaven swung, stirred by
he angelic Owner of all things-all the