The Progress., 1892-12-17

men happy.
End. That all the happiness in th
world is due TO them, imperfectly ob
served as they are.
3rd. No other system of truth a,
tempting to produce such results, i
offered to tbs world.
For the purposes of the occasion
let Us consider the Bible as 1t has eff
fected workingmen-all classes, bu
especially at this time those engaged
an the trades and common forms O
toll.
First, ip their legal and socia
rights and conditions We combine
the two because practically laws arr
but instruments for preserving the
social conditions ana happiness ot
pen. In these the effects nave been
universal that Is affect all men.
But the fact that they are universal,
viii as VT proceed, render more ap-
parent tne superiority OF "a system
That includes Ill its provisions and
benefits AL men, and has estab-
lished the principle OF The "prother-
hood of meA-'
Slavery. In this nineteenth cen
tury it is difficult to conceive The cup-
ditlon of what has been called the
laboring classes in past ages, and, on
the simple statement, ibe vast differ
epce existing between tner JLdltion
before and until some time after the
coming of Christ, and nov. 10 de-
hne II as slavery sesms to freemen
TOO .preposterous to bo Justified, but
that Is the only way ia which it can
be stated. 1he anc,ents regarded
the classification of mankind as mas
ter and slave, bond and Tree, man and
IA thingl, as uost natural,
and due as they vaguely phrased it,
to the fact that they Were formed of
different kinds of clay" lau express
sIon which has-xith various lnodln-
cations III meaningy-come down Jo
modern times
1t must be remembered that this
X nditiOn existed la nations III which
pOrtlOns of the same race were sI-
laved by the rest, oar ancestors: and |
hat 1t continued from before and |
lfter the great word empires of
ireece aud Rome, to G comparatively
modern times. The slavery of an
iq0ity had its counterpart among
he Teutons, Celts, SsIuns, Angles
nd Britous, from whom the bulk OF
he English sLeaking world is de-
cended, we amorg item.
As 10 the cOndltIoLs of this slavery.
ven since Cnriet's Coming. it need
nly be said. that they embraced all
hose features repugnan5 10 Eeemen
nd inimical 10 virGue. The1e was :,
,e absolute controI OF pers0L and |,
fe of the slav' ; they might I'D tor
ir, d or viola ed III secree. or entered
/ giadiatoliai combats, or to fight I.
lid beasts for the amusement OF .
leir owners and the public. Prison !;
y of war or iRsolvent debtors were :,
'garded as the natural spoils of their =
lptors and creditors Children We're ),
I'D by their parents, and even a. !
te As the Eleventh Century the !,
ritons engaged in the more horrible = :,
'actice OF slavs-breeding. They had :,
rights to property-these ancest- n n
s OF ours they were property :.
emselves; nc privileges save such h
were granted by their masters
zen after freed from some of the >;
ost inhuman, degrading All l brtth " "
atures of boLdage, aud grsn ed ~
me rights, they We're still regarded " "
fixtures-beionginY to tie ground, 70
the fruits OF their labor belonged u,I
him who held the land in f~e. tn
Christianity first furnished rem S. S.
Y, and the followers of the lowly a,
zarene were the first to declare as 40 No.
+, holding another human being in m an
ldage. True, Christ did not leave ap ap
ees teaching on this subject, but W. We
ther did he on any specifi, lines, h;I h;iI
Q marriage and divorce, and, pos -. -"
ly, the right of government in His ;,s inv
,oIs statement, Render unto y ywa
'sar the things that are Caesars" os ne
He gave to the world principles q O
ch strike at the root Of all forms as
lavery, aad oppression, as all oihe, tbs
. liv,
lere we have text for thi, ps.-t Of
'ur talk: God, hath made Of one wa
ID, all nations of the EARTH" and !
in, God created man in His own enc
sc; in the image of God created ma
him." The influence of this doe the
9 OF the origin and relationship of live
men, is clearly seen in the forms OOO
pied by Christianized masters in me
rating their slaves. Count Valois. all
other OF Philip of France, said in hel,
ing his surfs, ''as the human crea- tar,
who has been formed in the i'm solo
OF our Lor1, ought to be free by hur
lral right; let these seel
and women go free" Again it 25O
this form, mo man should be in eacl
taee to another, since all are ons
iren of God," and "joint-heirs bee
Jesus Christ" So the spirit OF tiou
great truth gradually permeatei tion
sty. spreading wider even than riol