The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-04-15
"THE DAILY RREA = uvRsr,ON. /"
DR.. Taylor Of Chicago TAAu8s - Bread
Mans Spiritual Az: rS,nen,.

DIR. Taylor Of Chicago TAa0n - bread
Mans Spiritual A0,.. ss,oen,.
There is growing filling that
organized charity is failure. E" Thus
spoke the Rev. Dr. Taylor at the Oak
wood Boulevard Memorial church.
says the Integral Co.0perator 1t was
during his sermon on The Daily
Bread Question. the fifth sermon in
the series on exploration in the Lords
prayer. That said the speaker
'is the impression that is gradually
making itself felt among those who
have denoted especial attention to this
subject The case is similar TO that
OF leaking vessel at sea. Not only
must the pumps be kept going but the
leak must be stopped before the ship
Is safe, The cause of poverty must
be sought out before permanent relief
can be secured. II was only few
days ago that read in one of the city
papers of gathering of New York's
so-called aristocratic society many of
them descendants Of the early Knick-
erbocker families, where it was said
each guest consumed two quarts of
champagne. In another column of
the same paper | read of Il young man
fresh from the country who delibsr-
ately shot himself in one of the parks
because he had literally nothing to
eat.
Twenty-Five years ago the churches
began to realize that they must do
something besides expounding creeds.
They found that mental argument had
little force with hungry man. A
hungry philosopher thinks only of
bread and cheese. When he obtains
these he becomes again the philoso-
pher Men and women are beginning
to realize that spiritual life has II
physical basis The kind of food,
where we eat color raiment and sur
roandings have their influence on the
mind. The physical world affects our
thoughts and feelings in u measure
that we are just beginning to under
stand. National characteristics are
formed by the environments of man.
Here in this great cosmopolitan city
we are discovering that Christianity
has a bread basis. 1t used to be
thought that religion could be made
by arts similar to those employed by
cabinet makers. That in fact it was
sort of veneer that could be stuck
On with q sort OF glue that required
a six months probation before it was
firmly set. The experience OF our
time has taught us that this veneer
will come off. The good things of
God grow; they are not gained by
manipulation. Place man among
the slums and he will gradually as
sumo the nature OF his surroundings
You or | would become criminals il
compelled to live in some parts OF the
city.
Some months ago the newspapers
were full of congratulation over the
prospect that the failure OF crops in
foreign countries would immensely
benefit this country, where there was
plenty. What spectacle from u
Christian standpoint! The country is
only in the b OF Christianity that
eXults over the misfortune OF others.
The darkest feature of the times and
the greatest source of atheism OF the
present day is not the works of Vol
taire, Huxley and the efforts OF Inger-
soil, but the squalor that is eXhaled
on every breeze that passes over such
places as lower Clark street The
real anarchist is not the hopeless poor.
but the mighty corporation and the
combination of powerful interests.
The result OF these combinations is
that the small owners are forced Off
the train and beneath the wheels,
where they are ground to dirt"