The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-03-10
A TIMELY DEFENSE.

A n LEE 6NSC
The following extract is taken from
the sermon of the Rev. DR.. j. B.
Hawthorne of Atlanta, Ga:
GA man may indulge the passion
for money until it gets the complete
mastery of him and renders him in
sensible to the influence of moral
truth. Jay Gould is said to be worth
$3.50, 100000. Surely that is COM
potency? Why doesn't he stop and
devote his energies to something
nobler? Because he has not the
moral power to do it. The earth
born passions rage within him like a
furnace heat, and he has no more
control over it than he has over the
cyclone, the volcano or the earth
quake. He has less conscience to-
day about making a money panic,
wrecking great industries, multiply
ing hardships and woes of the poor
and bribing a congressman than he
ever had. Jay Gould is a veritable
slave. Some men are enslaved by
drink, some by hcentiousness and
some by gluttony, but he is the rich
slave Of Mammon. He has sold him.
self into everlasting bondage for
money. When the plain old chris.
tan commonwealth of Georgia was
recently asked to bow down to it and
pay reverence to this guilty slave, an
swering through her noble chief exc
cutive, she said may, nay and from
the mountain to the sea all people
responded amen and amen"
An old reader of the BAzoo having
read the above thus comments on it.
"The gentleman from Georgia pro-
ceeds to show up, the life and actions
of Jay Gould, an American citizen,
whose only crime appears to be that
of having gotten wealthy by his own
exertions, and who, still is going on
making more money. The papers
have given US for the past twenty
nve years, the daily report of MIR.
Gould and his family, and in all that
time no word of evil repute or re-
proach has been sail, against him or
they.
His family / believe, are members
of the Presbyterian church in New
York City, and try and live at peace
and harmony with the world. But
the father of this Christian family has
Aouey and is making more money,
and here lies the ofense.
Our reverend gentleman, says
'he has sold himself into everlasting
bondage for money Simply this
and nothing more, for if Mr.. Gould
thinks certain property will pay him
10 purchase it, he buys it and pays
for it. He runs the chances of its
being a success and generally makes
it success.
A few years ago, the city Of
Memphis was scourged with yell
low fever. People and cities
gave literally, and among those you
will find the name of Jay Gould for
$4,000. Memphis is not so far from
Atlanta that gift of this kind could
De forgotten aud lost sight of in few
years, and the reverend gentleman
could have boosted of ONE good act
performed by this 'pretentious Phar-
isee,' not far from Atlanta.
In regard to making money
panics, wrecking great indus
tries, multiplying hardships and woes
OF the poor, these are mere chimeras
of the reverend gentleman's brain
for every business man knows that in
scenes and times of this sort, you can
not make money.
And now for The reverend gentle
man, so far as his lecture or sermon
goes, | have been able to see nothing
but denuncistions of a quiet American
citizen-and not single word in his
favor. He says he is minister of
Christ, and THAT Christ has said: He
that seeth his brother have need, and
shutteth up his bowels of compassion
against him, how dwelleth the love of
God in that man. If he had only
said word in poor Mr.. Gould's favor,
how much more Christ-like it would
have seemed" j. NJ. PILKINGToN.