The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-12-07

rest; the msn-servaEt and the maid
servant may rest; all may rest-must
rest. Not only one day in seven, but
one year in seven. Even the land must
rest and enjoy its Sabbath; no fields
are titled, no Vineyards are dressed, no
harvests are reaped. It may produce
in happy, joyous profusion, in enforced
exuberance of pristine fruitfulness.
But who may eat Of what grows Of it.
self, of natures glad exuberance? The
poor, the stranger, the sojournsr, the
servant, the maid. the cattle aud ths
beasts of the field. A communism ao-
knowledging only the bounty Of Godl
A communism embracing even the ami
nal creation!
Here is the eminent domain Of God.
Where is the the asanctity of vested
rights?" Where is monopoly" in this
economy? Where is the muIto-milli-
onaiFe and the tramp? Whers is the
aristocFat and the pariahi On CON-
mon level of dependence upon the
bounty of ''the Father of Mercies."
Bit notice the provision for leisure
not only, but for mental, moral and
spiritual education and uplift; for as
thetic, social and religious improve
ment. The Sabbaths, the New Moons,
the Three Great Feasts, Passover, Pen
tacost and Tabernaeles; and later the
Feast Of Dedication, all furnished both
the means and opportunity for such
education and improvement.
These great symposiunls of the "ps-
culiar people, had an educative force
that is difficult for US to appreciate.
Jerusalem, the garden was joy not
only of the Jew, but also "of the whole
earth" We need not wonder that they
we're a literary, musical and cultured
people; that they excelled; that they
produced a David and Christ.
A still later dispensation gives Us the
Christ. He exalted, advanced and
amplifed. HE msgnifsd the Law and
made it honorable" st. Luke informs
us that the lawyer, whose query brought
out from the lips of Christ the words
Of our text, sought excuse in the in
quiry, "Who is my neighbory" The
parable Of the "Good Smaritan" fur
nished the answer. Any man Of any
race. that needs suCcOr and assistance.
In Christ's commonwealth there is
neither Greek nor Jew, Barbarian OF
OF Sythian, bond OF free, male or 70
male" All are one.
Christ was an icOnoclast; a shackle
breaker, bringing liberty to the cap
tives and the opening of prison doors
to them that are bound" He was a
jubilee bFinger and a communist. All
men are not only neighbors but bro
theirs. The world has always asked,
sam I my brothers keeper?" YES!
"After this manner pray ye: Our
Father which art in heaven" What is
the inference? The fatherhood of God
and the brotherhood of man. Oh, what
antithesisi What contrasts a Cain,
a Christ! A murderer and a man who
meekiy submits to be murdered for the
good of man.,
It is not amazing that men have
sought justification for the 'sum of all
villanies," human slavery, from such
character.
But the god of this world is and al
ways has been avarice. Avarice caused
the war Of rebellion and heaped the
battle fields with the millions slain. it
was holocaust to that fell spirit of
human greed. Talk about Juggernant
Baal and Moloch! Avarice is diaboiism
But 1 hear some one say, ''the war is
over" What was that war? Only a
preliminary struggle between capital
and labor-slaVe labor against free la
Dor. It was. most assuFedly q labor
trouble, labor conflict. It was not the
first, neither will it be the last. Is
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