The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-10-12

to lay down our lives for the breth.
ren." And men have, in the spirit of
Christ, done this-as we shall see in
a moment.
In the meantime, here are some
lines that fall in with, and clinch this
part of our subject:
..For truth and right we plead, and light for
crying human need;
For wingless angels herei in sight. and famlsned
earth we plead:
Columbia, not Jerusalem; for life this side the
grave
We kneel to touch the garments hem of him
who came to save.
ring out. ring out, the fervent cry. mans
needs are Gods commands
And putting strife forever by, unite with hearts
and hands
To free to-days slaves and released, the Eden
usher in.
| Where each true heart is holy priest, and each
true man is king"
ii. This is all the legitimate work
of Christianity. "Life," says Mr..
Bosanquet, "must not be split up in
to present of endurance and future
of enjoyment. Injustice must be re-
dressed, beauty enjoyed, knowledge
won, and goodness attained, here on
this earth of ours" That THE WORK
[ HAVE DESCRIBED is THE WORK OF
CHRISTIANITY, THE FOLLOWING coNsID-
ERATIoNs WILL Show
1. Ihave Just explained that 1t IS
IN harmony ,Uith the principles and
animated By the spirit of him achose
life made Christianity.
2. The acorld's social and indust-
rial euils stand IN the acay of the spir-
itual urorE of Christianity.
Do you tell me it is the mission of
Christianity to reach the heart and
transform it? Granted. But how is
the heart to be reached? Not by
simply preaching resignation to the
will of an unscrutable providence, to
those who sit by tireless hearths,
staring at empty cupboards, while
fever preys upon those they love. Not
by proclaiming the employment OF
picking upon the strings of heaven
ly harp to the man who has lost his
job here below. Not by picturing
the banquets of Paradise to those
who have lived upon crumbs and
husks and bones for weeks. The
Church must learn that the way to
heaven lies through clean streets,
through perfect sanitation, through
steady work, through honest employ
ment that fosters self-respect and not
through an indiscriminate charity
that destroys it. These are the high
ways over which the truth of Chris
tianity must march to the central
citadel of human nature. The pierced
hand must throw open the gates of
outward circumstances; nay, must
pull down the walls of evil conditions
before the soul can be reached
8. Christianity Is concerned Nth
these things, because its progress as
hindered by all acto profess to 6elieue
1T, and aUho- get ignore its precepts IN
practical life.
Those who labor with their hands
often say that they do not feel that
it is necessarily better to work for a
Christian man than one who denies
the obligations of Christianity-the
outcome of experience has taught
them that such is the case; they do
not believe that church membership
on the part of their landlord insures
just and considerate treatment for his
tenants; they do not flock to the mer-
chants who acknowledge Christ as
their master, in the conviction that
merely on that account they will re-
ceive of them honest goods for fair
price; they do not rejoice when they
learn that a railroad magnate in
whose employ thousands of their
number stand, is regularly attending
church; they do not anticipate, in
consequence, removal of the truck
stores which rob them, nor the short
ening of working day inhumanly
long, dangerous alike to patrons and
employees"
4. said, a fe,c moments ago, that
men haze, an the spirit of Christ,
qiren their Ices for others. If they
haze not literally died, they haze
constantly used their hUes an deeds
of loUing service.
Wherever this has been done, the
cause of Christianity has been mar
velously helped. Of such was the
great Earl of SALISBURY, who proba-
bly, did more for the wage earners of
England than any other man of the
present century. The factory acts
and those regulating the employment
of children are among the movements
he has made. OF such were Octavia
Hill and Dorothea Dix. Of such were