The Progress., 1892-12-31

right to bruise the body Of that child
who lay in their power. Has man such
right? No, whether it be of money or
of flesh and blood.
A SOLEMN RESPONSIBILITY.
Third-Possession is power, and power
is always a trust. Power never was
right. Power in the religious world,
power in the commercial world is a
trust, always trust. You say money
means SO much power. Might is not
right, and the man who says that it is
has agreed that the scream of an eagle
as it swoops down on its prey or the
howl of a wolf or a jackal is among
the elements divine of righteousness
and truth. Is might right? No, but
obligations high as heaven come with
the exercise of power.
Suppose the same power had been ap-
piled to the man himself in the process
of disregarding the rights of others,
what would have happened? His own de
struction. When cholera ragged in Spain,
near BarcelOna-the people were very
| ignorant and supelstitious-a patient
died and his friends concealed the fact
of his death and received the doctor with
smiles. But when he found the patient
dead the doctor started to retreat, and
! all gathered around him with their smiles
turned into curses, and drawing near
one of them sprang upon him and told
him he had destroyed their loved one,
had poisoned and killed him. So they
gathered all the medicines he had or
dered, forced him on the floor and poured
them down his throat, and the poor man
died inside of one hour.
If TO man who accumulates property,
if that property has been accumulated
by the process of destroying others, if
might has been right in the process of
its development-if to such a man the
same process be applied, it must neces-
sarily follow that it would have pre-
vented the very existence of the man, and
therefore, that being true, the man him
self in that process is a curse to society,
and society could have lived thousand
times better without him. Any doctor
not willing to take his own pills is not
fit to prescribe. You stand before q man
and look over his life and say, Gould
you take the bitter draft you have
prescribed for others and live?" 1t is
question every Christian man must ask
himself when he enters on doubtful
transactions.
THE ovERwoRKED EMPLOYEE.
To be just and fair is the obligation
wealth brings. This great man may
have been just and fair, but know the
elevated railroad men work seven
days in week-on Sunday-and they
work on small wages SO long and
hard that most of them become brutes.
They cannot talk like men; they growl; |
they shrek. 1t is simply the rising
of the brutal, because all that is divine |
in life has been crushed out | do |
not stop to discuss these phases, but
1 say wealth has no right because Of |
mere possession. 1t is a trust, and that |
trust should be carried out.
A man has no right to do what he has |
the power to do. If he does, he is saw
age. The khedive of Egypt, walking in
his garden one day with visitor, drew |
near the magnificent African lions, and |
beside the cage of these lions stood a |
little girl, with her hands on the bars. |
The royal ruler said to the keeper, You
let that child come so near to the cage |
as that?' The man said, Eyes, the lions
are perfectly accustomed to her and will
not harm her." A curious, cruel smile
played around the rulers lips, and turn.
ing to the keeper he said, Thrust her
inside the cage then"
The poor dog did not dare reply, but
turning, that his own face would not
look on the cage, he seized the child and
thrust her in, and closing the bars turned
away that he might not see what would
happen. The visitor stood transfxed by
the scene. The biggest lion came up
toward the little one and thrust his great
head near her clothing, and then lay
down by her side and stroked the floor
of the cage with his great tail, and when
another hon started toward her he
growled.
The khedive stood and watched for
five long minutes, and then at last he
turned to the keeper and said, Now
thrust a lamb into the other side of the
cage" And hardly had the words es-
capped from the lips of the khedive when
he snatched the little one ont and pressed
her to his bosom. The Internal brute
had the power to do that. He sat on the
throne of Egypt, and men were dogs
about him. But say you because he
wore the royal purple of king and had
Ihe power of an army to back up his de-
you might is right? If you
say it, you are a savage. No man inside
The domain of the Christian world dare
say that might is right
THE HUMANE ENGINEER
Come, then, closer to some modern 5
in the commercial world :
md test it by that analysis. An engi-
leer in Pennsylvania came up to Father
Wards door one day grimy with SCOT,
;ap in hand. The distinguished preacher
lsked him to come in. No, he hadn't
ime. There had been an accident down 9
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