The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-11-18

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the worker or hurts the public, you will
throw no small share OF workers out OF
business.
The question then arises, granting the
Disadvantages OF work, how are It's adj
vantages to be attained? The curse OF
toll having fallen upon mankind, 1t can
be never alleviated and transmitted into
a blessing until every human creature
bows his shoulders for a share. Because
toll is a curse, let no man think he
will be blessed in seeking to dodge 1t.
All things become TO US very much what
we make them. The evident reason for
the overlooking OF some persons is the
undertaking of others God has not so
constituted the world that men should
have no favorable hour In which TO APP
proach him. 30 long as the edict OF
work Is enforced the idier Is twice ac-
cursed. Working
ACCORDING TO THE SPIRIT OF JESUS
CHRIST
will never stunt the life OF the world. A
man can hardly do too much provided
he la Dor in this spirit. You remember
that the apostles were called apart by the
Savior to rest awhile, but when the peo-
pie followed them He returned though
weary to spend Himself for His broth hers.
In Other words, 1t Is by toll that the werld
Is 10 be redeemed from the curse of toll,
and the service OF Jesus made all work
that is done in His name a glory. This
being SO We are prepared to say how q
man should regulate his occupations:
i. As soon as ones business begins to
produce more than q living, one should
take more time for services that are
purely beneficent. Because a business
produces more II must not therefore be-
come, as II tends TO DO, more demanding.
There is only one thing that will save a
man from ruin by such business and
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benevolence. Work as illuminated by
the Spirit of Christ is not Intended to
kill the soul. lie who seeks financial pros
perity with an unselhsh purpose will not
consume the leisure, afforded by success,
upon himself. He will seek out those
hospital patients who have no friends,
and Will minister to the woes OF the
world wherever he inds them. There
comes to the door of a well-to-do man
some one soliciting aims and meeting
with q ebuff because the well-to-do man
is fearful Of assisting the ard
perhaps unworthy. But the benevolence
of such a man, in fact the benevolence
that will reign in an unselfsh world, will
consist in seeking the persons who are to
be helped. 1t Is q disgrace not to know
OF persons
MORE NEEDY AND AS DESERVING,
as ourselves. tor there are multjtudes In
every city. AS soon az my work produces
more than 4 consume / must find that
numerous individual who is underfed and
under-clothed.
2. The possession of property does
not excuse US from work. A young man
Inherited in our neighboring state several
large cotton mills. He had lived wildly.
One day he said to some OF his compan-
ions: ''I'm going 10 visit those mills.
And so he passed through them, for the
first time in his life, aud coming out COW
araA xuftA AHA ~ aAttDx hA an . Int hn
would never go within them again. This
is the spirit that brings anarchy into the
world; a spirit that fails to understand
the obligation of the wealthy TO serve. So
long as . wealthy man presides over his
business like a beneficent prov idence
few grudge him his wealth. A shirk Is
one OF the most miserable OF all Gods
creatures, and his case is the same whether
he il clothed ~fashionably or wanders in
rags. Work 10 a divine institution tor the
whole race, for the whole race needs IT.. A
shirk usually endures twice az much mis-
cry as he avoids. IL God makes a law
man cannot dodge 1t. The people Of
this country tried to dodge the slavery
question. III could not be lodged. The
Kings of France saw the grim and shad-
owy form OF the Revolution arising TO
assail them. 1t was OF God and they
could not put il down. Thus also the
law of work. No man in the world can
llNe tAlIuNhkdullN NikuOut iuahihk Ill
other man hungry. No king can do q
single injustice TO the most obscure citi-
izen without shaking his throne. One
canno keep his sin In one hand and hold
the hand OF Jesus in the other.
MANY TRY; L FAIL
The world is SD constructed that the
car or the emperor cannot he perfectly
happy so long as there rema ms in a cor
ner of the world one miserable soul.
Nay, the time will come when no man OF
us can escape an uneasy feeling IL he
knows that there is a solitary soul on
some distant star who is not ~reconciled
TO God, ard enjoying His glory.
We owe it to the world, whatever our
own condition, to do a part OF its work.
Ii is a debt and only blind men fail to
see il. Not to act on this principle Is to
live on an animal plane. In a summer
among the mountains my friend and l
used several oonkeys to facilitate our
tours. One OF these beasts never knew
when,h he was tired, and on one occasion
he started full tilt TO run away. The
tether stump and the rope were large,
and the donkey was small, though he had
a large disposition. At the end OF the
rope he was Strengthened out like a
whip-snapper. The Lord does not wish
to bring any man up short, but IL the
man does not see his bonds 10 humanity
he must feel them. The Lord is a success
full collector o. debts Egypt sought to
make the Israelites work for nothing.
The Lord collected their wages and Egypt
is a distant province of England. Baby
Ion made the nations work for 1t. No
man works for it today, and
I IT'S TREASURES HAVE GONE
elsewhere. The Athenian slave was
chained to his car; the Roman population
was bound to the soil or trained to the
arena. The Lord has collected the debt.
And in the case of individuals it will be
the same. Every day there are duties,
that may be privileges for every man.
Nc state OF life delivers him from them.
The little arms of your daughter clasped
about your neck are implorings.that have
to be needed. There ore superlative
things that require the attention OF men
ans not to give 1t Is TO rush toward the
end of the tel her rope. There will not
be q large and true leisure while so much
help Is needed in the world to make 1t
healthy. Until the death rate Is greatly
lessened here, the wretched are taught to
be clean, the tenements are all provided
with Uood liuhf tho yamnires who fatteu