Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-22


| looking at-pictures, pieces of sculpture
you are going to invite me to come anC
| see it; you are going to invite my frind
to come and see it, and you will say
"See what 1 have been blessed with
| God has given me this, and, so far as en-
ioTing It, 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 listening for something. Some one
said to him, ''What are you listening
for2" Standing there, on the top of the
mountain, he said: 81 am listening to
the tramp of the footsteps of the coming
millions of this continent. A sublime
posture for an American statesman
You and 1 to-day stand on the mountain
top of privilege, and on the Rock of
Ages, and wO look off and we hear COM
ing from th9 future the happy Industries
and smiling populations, and the conse-
Grated fortunes. and the innumerable
properties of the closing Nineteenth and
the opening Twentieth century. And
now l 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 1 know
who walk around among their employees
with a supercilious air, or drive up to the
factory in a manner which seems to indi-
cate they are the aurocrat of the uni
IL.
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 immor-
tai. Divide up your estates, or portions
of them, for the relief of the world, be-
fore you leave it. DO not go out of the
world like that man who died eight or
ten years ago, leaving in his will $780,
900, 900, yet giving how much for the
church of God? How much for the allie
Walton of human suffering? He gave
some money little while before he died.
That was we'll; but in all this will of
$40, 900 900, how much? One million?
No. Five hundred thousand? No. One
hundred dollars? No. Two oentS2 No.
One cent? No. These great cities
groanlng in anguish, nations crying out
for the bread of everlasting life. a man
in will giving $40, 200, 900 and not one
cent to God! It is a disgrace to our
civilization.
To laboring men: 1 congratulate you
on your prospects. 1 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. 1 congratulate
you also on the opportunities for your
children. Your children are going to
have vast oppoI tunities. 1 congratulate
you that you have to work, and that
when you are dead your children will
have to work. 1 congratulate you also
on your opportunities of infor-
nation. Plato paid $1,000 for two
books. jerome ruined himself,
financially, by buying one volume of
Origen. What vast opportunities for in
telligeuce for you and your children! A
goes along by the show
of some great publishing house
and he sees book that costs So. He
says; 81 wish could have that infor-
nation; 1 wish could raise S. for that
costly and beautiful book. - A few
months pass on, and he gets the value of
that book for 80 cents, in a pamphlet.
There never was such day for the work.
ingmen of America as
THE DAY THAT is COMING.
But the greatest friend of capitalist
and toiler, and one who will yet bring
them together in complete accord, was
born one Christmas night while
the curtains of heaven swung,
stirred by the wings angelic. |
Owner of all things-all the continents,
Ill worlds, and all the islands of light.
Capitalist of immensely, crossing over |
10 our condition. Coming into our world,
lot by gate of palace, but by door of |
barn. Spending His first night amid the !
shepherds. Gathering afterward around |
Him the fishermen to be His chief at |
With adze, and saw, and |
'hisel, and axe, and in carpenter shop |
moving himself brother with |
he tradesmen. Owner of all
hings, and yet on hillock |
,ack of Jerusalem one day resigning
for others, keeping not q
hekel 10 pay LOT bis Opsequles. by
harity buried in the suburbs of a city |
hat has cast Him out. Before the cross
# such capitalist, and such carpen-
er, all men can afford to shake hands
nd worship. Here is the every man g
'hrist. None SO high, but He was
higher. None SO poor, but He was
'oorer. AT His feet the hostile extremes
Till yet renounoe their animosities, and
which have glowered with
he prejudices and revenge of centuries
hall brighten with the smile of heaven
8 He commands: Whatsoever ye would
hat men should do to you, do ye even so
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