The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-03-13

and Cypress the infant colonies, n
her clergy had to leave them or take
shelter under the armies of the crown,
while all other religious bodies in the
colonies CO operated with the oppressed
subjects or were con combatants.
High churchism never defends the
oppressed, but always co operates with
the o~ppressors. And sad as it may
appear we now have in this young Re
public, this asylum for the oppressed,
very many high churchmen In the
larger and stronger Christian bodies
who seem to feel it to be their especial
duty to defend the oppressors of the
helpless and needy. Many ~professedly
pious Christian ministers and editors
are now subordinating their high posi-
tions to wealth and honorsI Cypress.
ors always try to subsidize the religious
press and pulpit in order that they
may the more efectually control and
absorb the wealth and honors Of the
nation or the world. If both our poll
tics and religion are to be handed over
to the selfish, centralizing and grasp
ing monopolies Of the age, it is only a
question Of time when free America
will be a monarchal, despotic nation;
and high churchism or a subsidized
pulpit and press will be the chief in
struments to bring about the sad re-
suit. The preaching and example of
Christ and eleven of the apostles were
always with the pooe and oppressed;
and His church must follow in their
footsteps or die with a fallen nation.
As a church grows rich and inhuen.
tial her leading minds are apt to be-
come political partisans and desire a
union of Church and State or to be on
the strong side, though it be oppressive
and dictatorial.
What is to be our futurei Are we
to give up all our civil and religious
liberties for the privilege Of becoming
serfs or slaves for monopolistic greedi
God Forbid If causes produce effects,
as we know they do, every voter (as
well as every Officially who aids by vOt-
ing or otherwise helping to put in office
men who p~erpetuate the liquor traffic
becomes a party to the crime of send
ing annually one hundred thousand of
our citizens to drunkards' graves, their
souls to eternal perditiOn, and poverty
and disgrace upon their p~osterity,
ubTlof I1t11ro oporoNTOOo o,7Fow poo0tol
ly physically, financially, socially and
morally by those acts perpetrated in
ages past, and unknown to many of the
sufferers. Man sins but the punishment
comes from the violation of law. If
this is true in regard to the drink traffic
it is also true in regard to tariff, CUR
rency, educatiOna and religion. Effects
are not produced without causes and
men are responsible for both; though
wealth, official position and learning
may enable some to delude their fell
.low-creatures for a time, thereby
seeming to shift the responsibility of
their sins upon others; but their sins
will eventually overtake them and be
shared by their immediate friends and
remote posterity. The DR.. and Or. ac-
count of every individual is kept in a
court than any we hold and is
kept more correctly than we keep &C
counts. Whatsoever ye SOW that
shall ye also reap" A part in this
world for ourselves and associates, and
the remainder in the world 10 come.
And the higher III positions here as
teachers and workers greater will be
the responsibility hereafter.
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