The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-11-23

duty. The policy of speaking kind and fiatter-
ing words OF everything and everybody and hav-
Ing no honest denunciation of wrongs and wrong
doers-peryerters and destroyers of mankind
Ia weakness of excessive amibility The
true leaders or heroes, reformers and saviors
OF men, have been those who smote evil with
the lightning OF their speech, held infamies I'D
to just contempt and indignation, and freed
men from the oppression and impositions of
those who enthralled or degraded them
man need not be embroiling himself in every
Trivial controversy, nor be continuously spoil
ing Tor tight. hot-headed, irascible, con-
teEtious. But he who never speaks out when
the truth ought TO be spoken is q craven and
not man bearing mans part IN the world
The greatest heresy to Christ 10 eowerdice
The opposition of the world Is today the
same that Ii ever was Its spirit is still one of
antagonism whenever its purposes are op-
posed. II IL gracious enough when the men
fall in with its ways and echo its views. but if
Its wicked plans are frustrated it has the same
bitterness and hatred It aver had So was it in
the antl-savery contest; Is 1t now ia the
warfare against the saloon and the lottery A
man who stands for the right may be ridiculed
10 call man hypocrite is the cheap sneer of
men OF evil lives, who would fam degrade
every other 10 their level SO they spoke of
Hayes; SO they speak now OF Wanamsker and
harrison because they are church members.
Again the speaker claimed that true confess
sion OF Christ was in the Christlike treatment
OF the poor and the sinful Pet ers confession,
Thou art Christ the son of the living God"
was grand and noble; but his after confession
in preaching, service and martyrdom was
grander yet The sweet lesson is taught US in
LowelPs vision of Sir Launfal-"
"Who gives himself with his aims feeds three,
Himself, his hungry neighbor and Me-"
And again he says:
Believe it, It's the mass of men He loves,
And, where there is most sorrow and most
want,
There most is He, for there is He most needed >,
Men have not even yet taken in the full sig
hcance OF Chrsts "Inasmuch as We have done
IT unto one OF these my brethren, even the least,
ye have done it unto me-" and they ere reluc-
tant to admit unreservedly that all service to
man is q real service to and confession Of
CHRIST; W. 1. stead, in commenting on
Lowers creed, says: " Wherever a
duty is shirked there is Christ rejected
Wherever we act knowingly and deliberately
as we know that Christ would not have acted
had He been in our circumstances, then we pro-
claim our disbelief in Him. And when we re-
fuse to try to reIned wrongs which degrade our
brother or our sister, and render il impossible
Tor them to lead divine or even decently
human life, then also We deny Him and cruelty
Him again in the person of these. His brethren"
Doctrine, ritual, sacrament-all these may be
unimpeachably correct but II these little ones
are being crucifed, what does it avaIl?"
What Is IL to deny Jesus Christ. asked the
speaker? There ia the denial of the nationalist,
the agnostic and the intidel. But there is more
practical form of denial Judas was not the
only betrayer of his Lord. Every time we give
up any principle, break over the spirit of love,
keep silence when We ought TO SPEAK, when His
cause needs supporters and advocates, and the
right is defeated because of our lack Of interest
and zeal-we, too, betray our Lord. PLATE
is not the only one who has surrendered
the Lord TO crueifxion. Whoever prefers his
own safety to the right, who compromises for
the favor OF the populace rather than hazard
place and life for the truth, is delivering Christ
to the cross. 1t is not simply the soldiers who
nailed him to the cross who were guilty, for
they acted under orders, but those who put
| Christ to an open shame through cowardce,
| who wound him by their inconsistencies, whose
| professions are Hpseryice-they are driving the
| spikes through hands and feet Christ will
! deny those in the present and future who deny
| Him. He repudiates the falss-hearted. He is
sitting out the souls of men before His judgment
seat And his glorious declaration il: Him
| that overcometh shall be arrayed in white gar
| ments, and / will in no wise blot his name out
| OF the Book OF Life, and will confess his name
| before my Father and before his angels"