The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-12-16

laDOr trOuDles. ana Ictce iuust icsk" ih
our hearts before II can ever reign permn-
nently letween brothers and between
gcverpments.
When Europe was conquered by Naro.
leon IL might reasonably have expected
peace. Bat II aid no1 get peace Its
conqueror lad not conquered hlmseif.
There was tyranny ruling him, and the
world outside could not re allowed 10
rest because he was not at rest.
Caesar slew n million Gauls, and held
down the remainder under military
yoke In terror OF their lives, Then ne
wrote TO Rome that Gaul was paciteo
Yes, YOU can paclfy a man with club
bat that is not the Kind OF peace that
will 10 him any good or us any good.
Men have been experimenting some
time, 10 enc knows now long, with
THE QUESTION or TOLL
Cain envied his brothers success. ue
tried TO settle ii. Until employer and
employed learn TO btlieve in the princi-
pie OF unsel liishntss as a successful solu-
iiou of labor difficulties they will not
have pCace. The ou mediator between
man aud man. and the only mediator
between God and man, IN Jesus Christ.
There is no very great differences In the
positions OF men. We are nearly on a
level, Il we were only humble enough TO
believe it The average employer is
neither better nor worse than his men. II
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should noe do yry differently from
what they have done. There is n so iidar-
iiy OF the race. il rises together, ana Il
therefore rises slowly.
My friends, the political economists may
talk till they are black III he face, hui
The only = ay- of keeping that psaco when
shall cventCate in justice IL 10 follow
that tnat old, oisc Irdei, but mighty
commandment: "Let all that We do be
done in love" i he man wno pays out
and tins man who receives a dollar
stamped with the legend ''ln Gcd We
Trust" ought TO believe in Jesus as AN
arbitrator.
IL makes little Gifferenc. in the ult innate
conclusion OF all these things whether
Jesus is chosen arb traitor or not. BY and
by he assumes tho arbitration. And a
voice sounds into the ears of every man
who is willing TO telieve that
GOD UNDERSTANDS BUSINESS
and that voice IL. "Behold ] come
quickly, TO reader not every man accord
ing a. his work Is. There Is no quick
solution OF the lnbor question, because
men are afraid OF the quick ways OF God.
IL my employer believes in the teach ing
OF Jesus OF Nazareth, he will pay me
what he can offord. n believe in those
teachings shat not harm or hate him
because he crucifies me. We must learn
to pray ior the men who chea US, and
God will make them better. Christ's
words are coming true: there is no
power without n coil except the power
OF constrsining love--loye that IS wide
enough TO consider all the people whom
God has made, and not merely a class OF
hem.
IL is already true that no schedule that
men may agree uron will meet the ap-
provai o. tue people, except schedule
based upon the divine compromise OF the
golden rule. The love that stops with
my family IL deformed. Suppose the love
Of Jesus had stopped with HIS family?
a man VINO died rated at fifteen millions,
quoteJ, TO excuse his penuriousness, this
text ..He that provideth not for his
own IL worse than an intdeI." This IL
man who bought an old church edifice
10 help out the church of which he was
a prominent supporter, sold part Of the
land for much more than he paid for the
whole, ana then rented the old church for
a saloon.
The love OF family is
OFTEN ONLY AN EXCUSE
for the narrower seltishness that hides
behind it. The love OF circle OF friends
a church, lodge. school or trades
partial love il always un. .Chris,like.
Jesus was greater than others because his
love was greater, IL took in { he world,
and II made Hun, therefore, the cosmo-
politan man. Love saves as far as IT
goes; and IL II wraps the world in Its
mighty embrace il saves the world.
Jesus stand in the m last OF all other ar
bitrators, and between the iaborer, weary
OF hiss labor, and the employer, heavy
laden with the cares OF his mighty re-
sponsibilities toward his workmen, and
lie says, "Come unto me" Dear friends,
the gun will not bring peace. Gcd is the
only peace for high and low. God will
bring this world to believe In his kind OF
mediation. When employers and en-
pioyed become Christian men they Will
become peaceful men, and no Utopian
theory that ever was invented is worth
the paper u is written on unless anger
and malice and cvil-speak ing and envy
and hatred are burned out and obliterated
by the love OF God which is In Christ
Jesus our Lord. Ii tells you that il the
ship masters OF the Clyde We're this Cay
TO kneel down and pray with their men
they could afterward rice and work with
them. Tenderness as n unifying force is
forgotten grievorsly by men who handle
the iron and the dollars. IL you could
make men weep together, and
MAKE THEN TOUCH JESUS TOGETHER
they would max :. tue earth q temple of
everlasting peace. That which has been
Passed by ss the foolishness OF Christian
ity il the only power that has ever accom-
thing. Institute today the condition of
society sketched by Bellamy, set in full
force glL the suggesIions OF Henry George
and YOU would not keen TO either condi-
tion OF society for twenty-four hours.
Inere would he murder and adultery to-
night, and every commandment would
be broken in every city OF the world.
Justice is too narrow word TO govern
this world. Justice speaks In conscience;
II spoke from Sinai; II SPEAKS In human
law. But In the maelstrom OF riots, and
lynchiDgs and robberies, yea, in puzzled.
wrecked human souls stands an eternal
reality OF justice transfused with love
and whosoever toucheth Him hat n rest.
Men are slowly seeing this. They are
admitting one another into the profits
ana I he responsibilities of tteir vsrious
occupa, ions. They are remembering that
Jesus took the humble place and the
humble work and passed through all
grades OF service. They are feeling a
greater ,unity In Him. We have labored
nearly 2000 years to reach His standard,
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