The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-07-24


mill on earth, and all the rivers rcll
over their wheel, and into their hop
per they put all the men, women and
children they can shovel out of the
centuries, and the blood and the bones
redden the valley while the mill grinds.
That diabolical law of supply and de-
mand 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
Have you no idea Of the coming of
such time? Then you do not believe
the Bible. All the Bible is full of
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
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-Gospe1 on the
wing, Gospel out-of-doors worth just as
much as indoors. That time is going
| to come.
That is ouly hint of what is going
to be. The time is going to come when,
il 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 l have been
blessed with! God has given me this.
and, so far as enjoying it, it is yours,
also" That is Gospel.
And now 1 have two words, one ttI
capitalists and the other to laboring
men.
To capitalists: Be your own execu.
tors Make Investments for eternity.
DO not be like some capitalists l 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
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 por-
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 wears ago, leaving in his
will twenty l. llion dollars, yet giving
how much for the Church of God? How
much for the alienation of human suf-
fering? He gave some money little
while before he died. That was we'll:
but in all this will of twenty million
dollars aow 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
will giving twenty million dollars and
not one cent to God! 1t is a disgrace to
our civilization.
To laboring men: I congratulate you
on your prospects. l congratulate YOU
on the fact that you are getting YOUR
representatives at Albany, at Harris
burg and at Washington. This will go
on until you will have representatives
at all the headquarters, and you will
have full Justice Mark that. l con-
graduate you also on the opportunities
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-
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jerome ruined himself financially by
buying one volume of Origen. What
vast opportunities for you and your
children! A workingman goes along
by the show window of some great pub
fishing house and be sees book that
costs five dollars. He says: ST wish
could have that information; l wish /
could raise five dollars for that costly
and beautiful book A few months
pass on and he gets the value of that
book for fifty cents in a pamphlet.
There never was such a day for the
workingmen of America as the day that
is coming.
But the greatest friend of capitalist
and toiler, and the one who will vet
bring them together in complete accord.
was born one Christmas night while the
curtains of Heaven swung, stirred by
the wings angelic. Owners of all things
all the continents, all worlds. and all
the islands of light Capitalist of i'm
mensitY, crossing over to our condition.
Coming into our world, not by gate of
palace, but by door of barn. Spending