The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-07-20

a IT., ,hvsic,an's 10 keep il In health.
/ .Tl,. LAWYERS to enforce justice.
,Tl,s merchants to provide for II
( .ra tb. duty of all these men Is on due
occasion to die for IL
I IN, due ,,cca<ion-uameiy:
The soldier. rather than to leave ms
post in battle.
The physician. rather than TO leave
/ his post in plague.
Tb. Master. rather than To teach false
hood.
The LAWYER. rather than TO counte-
! nance injustice
The nerrhant-what Is his due ooca-
sion Of death: Well does Ruskln say II
= tho main question for the merchant rs
fnr all of Us, for truly the man who does
not know when To die does not kn"~'
how TO live. The difficulty in our world
.f commerce has been that men have not
lnnvn how to lie. They have fought
one another to the death. They have
tonight the wounded as well as the strong.
They have fought one another instead 81
fighting their common enemies-hunger
and colt--and the forces of nature that
would destroy man. He that would
save his life shall lose it" is the message
which Jesus brings to the world. Ii Is
the message which should I've written in
letters of fire across every Stock Exchange
III the hour of its panic.
Is il utterly impossible today 10 he a
practical Christian aud successful bust
ness man: Is the basis of business anti
Christian? SO much the worse for bust
ness. We shall certainly not give up
Christianity. We must simply recreate
the business world and make it possible
for Christian To live in it. And until
it is thus recreated the curse Of God, the
God of truth and righteousness, will
wither and blast and strike with destruc-
ton. The God of the widow and of the
orphan will have his days of reckoning.
The God Of the homeless and of the
friendless and Of the wrotched and help
less will have his day of reckoning and
of wrath. Ii must come because his laws
have been violated in the course of the
daily life Of our business world. The
business that clashes with Christianity
must 90 down. 1t clashes with the very
stars of heaven.
Hear the prophetic voice Of John Rms
kin again:
ANY given accumulation OF CONNER
cial wealth may be indicative on the one
kand Of faithful industries, progressive
energies and productive ingenuities. or
On the other it may be indicative of NOR
tai luxury, merciless tyranny, ruinous
chicane. Some treasures are heavy rith
human tears, as iii stored harvest with
untimelY gain, and some gold is brighter
in sunshine than it is in substance.
And these are not, observe. merely
moral or pathetic attributes of riches
which the seeker of riches may, if lie
chooses, despise. They are literally and
steluly material attributes Of riches, de-
preciating and 4xalting intellectually the
monetary Specification Of the sum in
question. One mass Of money is the out
come of action which has created-an-
other Of action which has annihilated-
ten times as much in the gathering of it,
Such and such strong hands have been
paralyzed, as if they had been pumbed by
nightshade; so many strong mems cour-
age broken; so many productive opera
atoms hindered--this and the other false
direction given to labor and lying image
at prosperity set up on Dura plains dug
into seven times heated furnaces,
THAT which seems to he wealth may
in verify be only the gilded index of far
reaching ruin, a wrecker's handful of
coin CLEANED from the beach to which
he has beguiled al argosy; a camp fol-
lowers bundle of rags unwrapped from
the breasts of goodly soldiers dead; the
purchase pieces of potter's fields, Whete.
IN shall be buried together tne citizen
and the stranger.