St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-28


the taxes he pays or the bank account
he has. If he is a man of large and
varied powers, which can be made to
bring grist to the mill. he is looked to
pretty much as a profitable machine,
and in many instances treated as such.
In sharp and strong opposition to all
this stand the plain, simple, yet ma
jestic teachings of Jesus of Nazareth,
who said that men are not separate
units, but members of one common fam
lily, made in the image of God; that
their interests are inseparable; that
each has duties to the whole: that the
well-to-dO. the people who are strong,
are to help the poor and the weak. This
is lesson which at all times is needful
to be taught, for it is one which the eX-
perience of all historic ages has shown
to be needed; because it is evident that
it has in numberlesS cases been neg
lected, to the irreparable damage alike
of the rich and the poor.
"The gospel does not deal in abstract
propositions, dry rules and precise reg
ulationS of conduct, which will no more
make human action what it ought to be
than written instructions fastened to
the face of clock would make it keep
accurate time if the works were out CT
order. The gospel says to men, con-
duct is the register Of that which is TAX
ing place within; so it breaches the
need of q regeneration which will do
away with the Wickedness of life and
proclaim brotherhood of man which
will be clear as the sunshine and use
ful as its glow. From all this it is
shown that the system propounded by
Jesus is not anarchy, discord or con-
fusion, but law, order, service. 10
the carpenters son spent his days In
parable, miracle and speech; set 1t
forth i'll the most striking way con-
ceivable. No man can read the gospels
and fail to see this, for the doctrine
laid down is to life what flour is to
bread, or what Hamlet is to The play
which bears his name. The man who
does not recognize the brotherhood of
man, no matter what his profession,
does not understand the first principles
of the gospel of Christ.
1t is well known that this is in theory
accepted by all the churches, and, to
man, the members would be ready to
say, any one who said it was not gave
false witness against the brethren.
Alas, it is possible for any church, sect,
school or party to receive, in words,
principles which, in deeds, they fatty
perception of this great and obvious
truth is very ill informed in regard
to the great events which have
changed the face of the moral and po-
litical world in the last 1880 years. Yet
il must have been because of these facts
that the Master in so many ways put
the truth in such picturesque, graphic,
living light before the men of his own
and of all time. Similar conditions have
existed in all ages to those with which
he had to deal. Is it not fact that to-
day, as in Samaria, when Jesus talked
with the woman at Jacobs we'll, and
the disciples wondered that he talked
with her. there are those who have
forsaken the guide of their youth, who
have known and who know the un-
Speakable degradation, humiliation,
pain and shame of life of sin, who
church either knows or cares, as far
from Christian influence as if they
lived in Central Africa; yet. if
in any real manner effort is
made to reach them? if any true fellow
ship is shown to them, men now won
der that respectable persons talk with
such people. Alack! This all goes to
show plainly that we do not Alright know
the gospel! A celebrated Englishman
says in book, / recently read. i have
known but one or two men who acted
as if they believed that men are broth
ers." What strange testimony is this
to be given by distinguished son of
the most famous Christian university III
the world! Yet, as we know life as it
is, and see men as they are, others could
speak in like manner. AT the root of
all true, useful, noble change in society
must lie this great seminal and funda-
mental truth; truth which has for all
the ages been set at naught and trampled
under foot by tyrantS of every name,
both in church and in state, in social,
in domestic and Ill commercial life, in
life in all it's phases and moods-the
great fact that mankind is one brother
hood. If you can get this knowledge to
imbed itself in the deepest conscious
ness of man, the ills which now affict
us will rapidly, one by one, disappear;
for in proportion as the love, which is
the natural growth from such arelation
ship. makes its power felt, will Oppres-
sion, lust and wrong be abolished. Men
have tried all kinds of plans; they
have placed upon their books of law
statutes which they said would meet
every want; they have taken thousands
of years, under all sorts of conditions,
TO GeSC Cne WOfKlnR lneTeOI, Tie IHOSG
gifted of the children of men, with the |
best helps, have spent the highest DOW
ers they had teaching the people how
to be virtuous and consequently happy. |
| say if any one thing under the sun
may be taken as proved, proved past
doubt, it is that the salvation of the
race is not to come Oh those lines, for
the life of man will never rise above his
imaginations. He is what he thinks; as
he thinks so he is. In its plan to re-
deem, elevate and make noble, the
vilest, the most degraded Of our race,
the gospelshows its power to elevate
the whole human family. When we
look at the best specimen of mankind
we ever knew or ever heard of, in song
or in story, he is not as good as the
religion Of Christ, followed out to its
perfect fruition, would make the race.
If the gospel is not the workingman's
best help, his case is helpless, and his
lot sad to the last degree, for 1t makes
men religious by making them right
eous, and righteousness is the rectifier
of all wrongs. 1t may be misunder-
stood now, but eternity is its heritage.
When oppression has been cast out, and
is absolutely forgotten, it Will sing the
glad songs of its youth, making glad
the heart of man, and music in the ears
of God"