Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-01-12
An Omission.

G. Ingersoll in Baltimore last Sunday,
were hero and achievements worth
noting.
Not since Judge Blacks sledge-
hammer analysis of Ingersoll's pro-
fessei antagonism to christianity has
the chief of self confessed Know
Nothingism encountered a critique at
once so liberal, so able and so logical.
AS printed in the Baltimore SIN the
Cardinals sermon could have been APP
propriately delivered in any de-
nominatlonal edifice in Christendom,
so free was it from the slightest tlnge
of ''churchism."
Had he omitted the paragraph with
which the sermon closes ii would have
been an ethical brochure worthy of
universal diffusion and perpetual
memorial:
The christian religion has now, as it ever
has, message for the capitalist and workman.
1t admonishes the employer to compensate
the laborer by fair and just wages, and, what
sderate treatment and to keep in view the
golden maxim of Christ-"Whatsoever We
would that men should do to you, do We to
them"
Assuming that the paragraph is
complete, does it not seem that the
message for the capitalist and work
man" was delivered by the Cardinal
only to the capitalist? Does 1t not
seem that the benefcent Office of the
Golden Rule is interpreted only for the
capitalist and not for the workman
Hence, there must be an omission at
this point by the Sun. The Cardinal
never could have meant to declare
that the capitalist is admonished to do
this and that good thing for the work
man under the inspiration, perhaps
duress of the Golden Rule, while the
workman is dowererd by the same law
of compensation with franchise to
do as he pleases about rendering
equivalent service for "fair and just
wages
The JOURNAL regrets that the
Cardinals sermon fails also to apply
':the golden maxim" to the relations
which should exist between laborers
who want to work and laborers who
don't want to work. Why should not
the latter class be admonished to ''do
as they would be done by ?" Why
should they not be enJoined with all
the binding force of Divine authority
to seek no idle unanimity' outside
Of peaceful methods? Why should
they not be told with final decisive
ness that the right to work is so sacred
that it cannot even be questioned, es-
pecially by any man who assumes to
exercise with bumptious independence
the equal right not to work
This doctrine of individual right in
our political system is the exact
counterpart of our individual respon-
sibility In the religious sphere. In the
latter the Cardinal states the case with
epigrammatic clearness and beauty:
Every one Of you is world to yourself.
Every one of you has a separate existence and
special destiny. Each Of you was created
alone. You have separate growth, a sep
arate sanctification, separate death. You
are judged alone, you are punished alone,
you are rewarded alone. There is no such
thing as vcarious birth, a vicarious growth,
vcarious sanctity a vicarious death and
judgment. Each of you stands on his own
foundation. What a man soweth, that shall
he also reap.
In the Noble Order of North Amer
lea. however, there are no units. The
mass either wins or loses-the wicked
with the righteous, or the good 90
down into the dust of defeat and the
sorrows of the suffering along with the
bad. There are no separate growths
nor deaths:
While they live they live in clover;
When they die they die all over.
There is no Nervousness except to
create mischief, and no sowing except
to make sure a harvest which vicari-
BUSINESS will not reap.
Indeed, all the law and gospel, afore-
time epitomized in the Golden Rule, is
condensed in the propaganda of the
Noble Order--render unto the assembly
the things that belong to yourselves;
unto the walking delegate the things
that belong to Caesar, and unto the
master workman the things that be-
long to God.
PrOViSO.