The Newtown bee., 1894-08-24
elamor of the idle and eovetous and

clam0r of the idle and c0ve5oua and vicious.
 It takes little wisdom to discern how futile would be the indiscriminate divi- sion of the worlds goods in response to the war-cry of the socialist and anarchist. The equal division of the wealth of the world would leave the whole world poor, with the certain prospect of its becoming speedily poorer. Man must labor or he | cannot eat. Man must toll or become naked and homeless and without an abid- ing place. So sure as men do labor there l will be wealth and means of comfort, and more than others, and of different kinds. Men were made to live together in rela- | tions of dependence and in mutual love as brethren. This is the divine law and eternal plan of society; and we must all | learn to live in harmony with the law of divine love. ssAnd he said unto him.
 Man, who made me judge, or oivider
 over you" Some think the church
 might, if it only would. settle all these | vexed questions of society. But what is
 the Church Militant but these same peo- pie, in the world, capitalists and laborers,
 rich and poor, good and bad, striving
 together as they are for life and liberty
 and in the pursuit of happiness! What
 more or better can the church do than
 to hold up the divine ideal which must
 be found in actual love to God and love
 to man in all lhe relations of life?
 Some think the state has only to make
 laws to regulate all the conflicting inter-
 est of the industrial world. But what is the state but these same people whose
 interests are to be adjusted, organized together for mutual protection and as in
 this country for mutual f-government.
 The state is
 WHAT THE CITIZENS OF THE STATE
 make it or permit it to be made. What more can the state do than to insist that each and all shall be obedient in mutual love to the natural law of life which gives to each man the largest liberty con- sistent with the highest welfare of all, each looking not on his own things alone but also upon the things of others as 3 sacred, the strong bearing the burdens of the weak and the weak showing defer ence for the strong. Law may do some. thing to restrain the selfish and teach the , ignorant and relieve the indigent; but I is that men shall learn to do all sucf l things of their own will, out of love tc ,. God and because they do love theil Q neighbor as themselves. The rich may l. be selfish but the poor may be even more - selfish. The capitalist may be tyranni g laborer may become equally, or ever f more tyrannical.
 '- The millionaire may be extravagant t and wasteful, the poor man may be evel r more prodigal and reckless. When mel D have learned to live by the spirit of tn d golden rule the great social aud indus d trial questions of the world will hay e beeL solved by the divine law of lov e which in the temporal affairs of life is co
 operation. And he said unto them ;s Take heed and beware of covetousness r. for a mans life consistest not in tn aDunuaucc OI thc euinSo "hioh II "a possesseth." Things we need; the Lor' -e knows that, and we have His promise o I'd the necessary things but when we hay y so degraded ourselves that we put th IS things of this life in place of the
 DIVINE LAW OF LOVE
 which is life itself, then we need and d.
 serve to suffer the consequences of ou
 blindness and folly. Let us heed tn D. solemn warning of the church, Mot t y covet nor desire other mems good; bt 1t to learn and labor truly to get mine ow n. living, and to do my duty in that stat pr of life unto which it shall please God er call me-"
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