The Progress., 1893-11-04

councils the criminal wretches whose
ready tongues cry for violence and blood
shed. Your revolution must be blood
less one to be successful one. Anarchy
is an insanity. 1t was born i'll the
wrongs Of our social order. but it can
never cure them.
NOT WITH FLAME AND SWORD.
1t is the delusion of the dethrOncd rea-
son. twill destroy friend and foe alike
if allowed the opportunity, and over the
wreck cut its own throat.
In proportion as violent councils have
prevailed among the leading movements
of the masses their cause has been set
back and the day of emancipation post
poned. You are now endowed for the
first time with the ballot and the free
use of your brains. Use these resistless
powers.
The battles of the twentieth century
will not be fought with flame and sword.
They will be fought with pen and press.
They will be battles of giant ideas and
antagonistic ideals.
The bullets used Will not be made of
lead, but of white paper. .
Let workingmen know this and know
once for all. Let them at their first OPP
portunity cast from them the anarchistic
fools who today are so many millstoneS
about their necks. Such criminal trash
as John Most, and the Goldman woman,
and all their breed have no more in COM
mon with the cause of the masses of the
people than the penal colony at Sing
Sing have III common with the daily
life and cause of Typographical union
No. 6 of New York. They are poor,
yes. But there is poverty which is it.
self crime and just as much a crime
as the riches of some of the rich.
Fourth-The hour is a summons to
the church to the Judgment bar of God
to give an account of its existence. The
social movement of this country has
now swallowed all other movements and
has become resistless flood. 1t has
been so far directed principally by pro-
fessed infidels. Why?
Simply because the church has left the
study of the science of society to un-
believers. Most of the great teachers
and leaders of the past generation who
have sought to reorganize society on a
more human and fraternal basis have
either been out of sympathy with the
church or its avowed enemies. Among
these leaders are such illustrious names
as Saint-Simon, Fourier, COmte, Proud
hon. Marx, Lassalle and John Stuart
Mill. Among the men who are active
today as the leaders of the organic
movements of the masses | do not know
but one or two who are professed Chris
tians. Who is responsible for this anom-
ally? The common people heard him
gladly" If they do not hear his minis
ters and followers today, it is because
they are not his ministers and not his
followers. For he is the same yester-
day, today. forever. He has not changed.
APATHY OF THE CHURCH.
! The church has stood still among the
ashes of the past and left to other hands
/ the vitally Christian work of the age.
/ She has left the work of philanthropy to
outside organizations. She has left the
/ work of practical brotherhood TO secret
/ societies She has been busy keeping
the faith, and Cainlike, has asked: Am
! to establish brotherhood? Am my
brothers keeper? And for an answer
God has raised up benevolent orders and
societies to take her place to her shame
and humiliation. Here are the figures
for lodges and churches in eight cities:
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