Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-20

OF ficnes in Christ's way. Saturday and
SMonaay are forever crowding and pushing
sunday Mems souls are being coined into
SILVER dollars. What labor there is to be
ltcn, ana what lack Of practical recognition
What need there 4 of Christian adjust
ment Q! values which shall set all people
ana things exactly where they rightfully
Deio1g! There is only one possession
%hcn Is Of genuine and lasting worth, and
Inat Is the possession of blameless char
acter. There is only one kind of man or
woman who deserves reverence in Christian
soclety, and that is the man or woman who
Is rlcn with the priceless wealth OF an
honest life. There ought to be no rich and
no poor In the Christian Church, except in
tne christian sense. They are rich who are
enr1ched by Christ. They are poor who
nave no appreciation for that kind of riches.
THE PASSENGERS ON A SHIP.
am afraid that a ship at sea is true
SYMBOL OF much of our modern society.
There is the first cabin, and the second
cabin, and the steerage. The people in the
first cabin look down upon the steerage
passengers who are crowded together on the
lower deck, and they look across at the
second cabin people who have small deck
OF their own and are shut away from all the
d
these three classes there Is no communica-
tion. There Is great gulf fixed. And the
difference is difference of money. There
are some who say that that is symbol even
OF the Christian Church, that Mammon is
enthroned on Christian altars, and that
Dives is the first saint in the Christian
calendar.
I read book the other day entitled
Joshua Davidson, Christian and Com
munist, " in which the people who have none
OF the riches of this world are represented
as being trodden under foot by two great and
remorseless tyrants, one named Society and
the other named Ecclesiastical Christianity.
The accusation is often made, and we ought
to think about 1t and see if in any way it
means us, and take pains that it shall not
mean us In any way. It is the mark of the
real Christian to care for real riches in him
self and In his brother men, and to value
men only by that standard. Away with all
false distinctions, and humiliations, and
unchristian judgments, and unbrotherly
barriers. There is only one point of view
from which any Of us should be content to
look out at life, and that is the point of view
from which Christ looked. And whoever is
really enriched by Christ will look from
that point of view and from no other.
THE BASIS OF REAL RICHES
It Is to be enriched by Christ that we
need. 1t is to bring out lives within the
inspiration of His uplifting example, to
guide our daily steps by His words of
Illuminating counsel, to make earth into
heaven every day as He made tit is this
which lies at the beginning of all honest
We need to learn of Christ,
and to love Him. We need to set Christ
first in our lives. That will remedy all
that is wrong in US. That will show us
where to put the emphasis, and what and |
whom to value. Whoever would know how |
to appreciate pictures, let him look at the |
best pictures, and look long at them, and |
study them. By and by his taste will be !
uplifted. He will not look at daubs. Let |
US associate with thoughtful and refined |
people, and we will find it impossible to
enjoy the society of Doors. This is one of
the great facts Of life-that the way to drive
the lower out is to bring the higher in.
That is what we must do in our spiritual
life. We must live with Christ. We must
study to appreciate the real riches which
He gives Then we will know the real
from the false
Value things as Christ valued them.
Measure all ambitions by His ambition.
Seek the company of those whose company
BE would seek if He were living in our
society to-day. Set the places of precedent
where He set them. Draw the social and
lines where He would draw
hem. Test all worth by His standard of
work. What revolution that would
make GEORGE HODGES