The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1892-02-11

/ the race who believed in such q GOSPEL.
The only reason we preserve the naEnes
Of men from the past is precisely because
they did not believe in this gospel Ever
martyr and hero IN the worlds history
has given the lie 70 this creed. The
reason why he became 4 martyr and a
hero was precisely because ne gave the
lie 70 such a creed. Every man who
died for the truth, chose death rather
than life. believed that there was q
higher gospel than the gospel Of good
clothes and beefsteak The man who
processes the gospel Of the kitchen Ger
tainly does rot balonG TO the procession
Of the martyrs.
TIL PIgEEEE.
The great pioneers who have blazed
the way through trackless wildernesses
for the hosts Of civilization to follow
were men who did not believe in such
gospel. If Columbus had believed in
this gospel the New World might have
been yet undiscovered. AS his pioneer
ship Tough: its way across unknown
seas the crew Of his ship did not live on
the best of pcTterhouse steak. In fact,
Columbus did not believe that the Cos
pei Of good victuals was the only gospel
worthy Of the serious attention Of man.
He did not believe in the gospel Of good
houses and warm clothes, as he bravely
fought through the waves and storms.
There were times when he not only did
not enjoy good victuals, but when star.
walton seemed to stare the little band in
the face. And yet, IN the PROV of his
pioneer ship he strains his eye across
the waters and endures. seeing that
which is yet invisible. Through hunger
and want, pr!vation, sacrifice, storm, he
presses on, and out of unknown seas
lifts a new world. Stanley, when he
pressed into the heart of Africa, in
trackless forests, left behind him the
gospel of good clothes, the gospel of
good houses, the gospel of good victuals.
Our forefathers who landed ON these
rocky shores and laid the foundations of
this nation laid them in hunger and
cold, in privction and want, and there
fore today we have abundance.
PATRIOTS AND HEROES.
Every patriot and hero in the history
Of this great nation was a man who did
not believe in such a gospel George
Washington and his army at Valley |
Forge! Whence these blood drops on
jagged ice that mark the track from hut
to hut? Footsore, half clothed, half
starved, his forlorn army shivers through !
those terrible winter days. They do not
ground their arms and apply to British
headquarters for warm clothes and good |
houses and good food. But in rags, halt |
fed, barefoot over frozen ice, yet with
FURNISHED lnuskets and cleaning bayo-
nets, through seven long and bloody |
years they carry through the wilderness
the ark OF worlds liberty! They carry
it in triumph and place it az last on the
mount. The heroes who lifted the dome
upon the Capitol at Washington, crowned
it with the statue Of liberty, flung the
stars and stripes to the breeze and in
vited the world to be free-these were
not men who believed in the gospel of
good clothes, Of good victuaIs and good
houses, and the gospel Of ease. They did
not take things easy. They went out of
their way to make this world more
worthy of man. They were not uneasy
about soiling their gloves or rumpling
their hair
THE STORY OF LOVE.
Every work Of love wrought for the
benefit Of man was accomplished by men
who repudiated such a gospel. There
never was built home for the aged,
refuge for weakness, a hospital for the
sick, a school for child, a charity for
the helpless, save by those who were
willing to sacrifice their ease to the needs
Of humanity. The man who establishes
q society to help even the weakest child,
as he stands in the courtroom and faces
the brutality of parents who know not
the name OF love and duty, has no easy
road to travel. There never was q waif
picked up in the cutters of the streets
and stripped of his rags and washed of
his dirt that it did not'cost money, sacri-
hce, ease. The men who do the work of
love tor the world are men who must
dlsarrange their gloves and soil their
clothes. The gospel of ease never soothed
heart, frightened home or dried
tear. The mother and father who toiled
and sacrificed, that you and | might
have Il better chance in life than ever
they had, did not believe in the gospel
OF case, the gospel of good clothes and
good food for themselves
INGERSOLL OR CHRIST?
Why, then, should the world give I'D
Christianity? Would the colonel seri-
ously ask mankind to give up Chris
tianity for such creed as this? What is
the programme of Christianity? Listen:
''Ihe Son Of man came not to be min
istered unto, but to minister, and to
give his life ransom for many"
1.-The spirit of the Lord is upon me-
because he anointed me to preach good
t1dlnSs to the poor; he hath sent me to
proclaim release to the captives, and re-
covering of sight to the blind, to set at
liberty them that are bruised, to pro-
claim the acceptable year of the Lord"
All that makes the civilization of this
century today worthier and nobler than
the barbarism and cruelty of pagan ages
IS Que to the influence Of this sublime
truth proclaimed by the man Of sorrows
ID esus Christ. Shall we surrender
Christianity, the gospel Of love, for this
gospel OF self, the gospel of the BODY,
the gospel Of good houses, of good
clothes, OF good victuals? Il believe in
the gospel Of the body" so does a brute. .
OeHeVe III the gospel of good houses"
SO does rat. Il believe in the gospel
OF good clothes:' so does a sheep. 81
Delleve IN the gospel of good victuals;"
SO does hog. The gospel of ease. It
smells Of the kitchen.
arraign, impeach, indict such
gospel IN the name of Christ, who came ,
not TO De mlnlstered unto, but to
came to lay down life fol-
otherS' that IN others he might take it
up again. | arraign it in the name Of
every pioneer who, in priyation and
want, IN suffering, in cold and HUNGER
wrought that his fellow men might rear
What he had sown. | arraign it in the
name OF every fallen man and woman
hfted from the ditch and clothed in
peace and joy through human love and
human sacrifice. IN the name of every
ragged wa1f rescued from the clutches