Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-05-02

CHuiCu tHdG hfoIuS us discussion on
Sunday denies its Lord and Master as
much as Peter did. II we do not
ChrstianiZe human relations in bust
ness, trade and industry, substituting
the law of associated and fraternal
justice for the internal principle of COM
petition, our civilization will 90 down
III ruin, we will go down with it and
we will deserve our fate. While our
preachers are talking about 1.-The ever
lasting bliss of heaven" the hell of in
justice, Of social inequality, of trampled
outraged labor, is opening right under
their feet. The churches annually
collect millions of dollars and send ont
hundreds of funny people called mis-
sionarieS to convert the pagan nations
to the same unconscious hypocrisy that
we practice ourselves. All the while
there are more heather and worse
heather right here at home than we
can find abroad, and there is crying
need in every one Of our large cities for
more Of any kind OF religion, Pagan,
Mohamedan or Christian. that will
make people more humane and more
ready to help others.
God does not need either our prayers
or our help, but man needs both
Christ came into the world to save
man from man. not from God. Instead
of sending missionaries TO China and
India 10 convert the natives-whodon't
stay converted long enough for the
missionary to get around the first
corner-the churches should begin to
| teach little humanity to our own rich
heather at home. Our civilization is
fast following in the foot steps of de.
cadcnt Rome where only the shell of a
republic remained, and a self. absorbed.
patrlcian oligarchy, gorged with the
wealth obtained by special privileges,
| legal brigandism and class laws, ruled
over Frustrated and ruined people
The other day in New York a few
members of the -four hundred gave
! dinner to fifty guests. Ten thousand
| dollars worth OF dollhouse flowers dec
! GRATED the tables, and the dinner cost
two hundred dollars a plate! At the
! time Of this brutal waste of wealth.
! gained by parasites and idlers with the
| loaded dice of wall STREET.-THE, 900 men
were vainly seeking work in that city.
! and thousands OF women and children
were sitting by cold hcarthstones,
shiyering with the winter, hunger
| gnaWing at their vitalS, despair settling
on their hearts. Meanwhile the
churches in New York are busy sending
missionaries to Japan. needless or the
words ofChrist Numbered from the sky
Woe unto you, pharisees and
! hl pocrites, for yR compass sea and land
to make pr0selyte and when We have
! pr0selyted him, he becomes more of a
child Of hell, if possible, than We are
| yourselves" It was such crimes as
this, a century ago, that called down
upon France the Reign of Terror, made
the feast Of the guillotine follow on the
heels OF the banquetS of heartIeSs luxury,
and caused the monied class and the
church to swim in sea of their own
blood. 1t is the anarchy of the idle,
heather and heartless rich that
America has to fear.
If the Lord should appear in New
York, in His second coming, and del
egatiOn of famished wage earners
should come before Him, saying, 1--WE
are starving, and our little ones cry for
bread. work miracle for US; help and
save u.s." the Lord could only reply:
Il have helped you with an open hand.
l gave you the richest treasure that
even Infinite Bounty could devise. l
handed to you this fair planet for you
and yours to have and to hold for all
time. gave you all the land OH the
face of the earth, and all the wealth of
the world to use and enjoy. 1t was all
yours. What have you done with It'll
Who has picked your pocketsp To
whom did you surrender your title
deeds? You have blindly allowed My
great gifts Of wealth, freedom, pros
Perity and happiness to be flched out
of your hands, and now you come to
Me TO help you by miracle. A miracle
meyer yet cured fools of their foolish
ness. | might make another planet
fair as the Garden of Eden, and place
you there, and freely give it all to you
but what good would my gift be? In a
little while a handful of smart ones
among you would capture the owner
ship of that planet, as they have of this
you would be toiliDg all day like two
| n fo, . ,
of your masters, and calling Oh
Me tor another miracle! The
school of want, sorrow and suffer
ing seems TO be the right school fol
you, because you will learn in no other
You are now in that school-ttere t.
stay till you have learned, by its SHARP
lessons, how to work your own mira
, cies. Do not call upon Jupiter, but
, put your shoulder to the wheel. Whel
you become tired Of starving. retakC
peaceable possession of your Owl
through the ballot box. That is th,
, only miracle needed, and it is at any
moment in your power to accomplish
If you do not yet know enough TO d,
this, remain in the sOIcOwtul school o
. industrial slavery until you have gaineC
a glimmering of sense. The tuition
comes high, but there is no such schoo
III the universe for the instruction O
D fools as The school Of experience. Thi
! is the case in a nutshell.
S a hundred years ago this nation
] rested on substantial equality of fire.,
= aud happy homes; there was not
/ millionaire on the continent, nor ;
pauper class. The basis has nov
e shifted and rests on the quicksands o
4 a gilded class Of landlords, money lords