The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-12-16
Let All That Ye Do Be
Done in Love.
Relations Between Employer
and Employed.
Sunday Evening Address by Rev.
Wallace Nutting.

by Rev. Wallace Nutttng, st CIlon Con-
gregaiionol Church. Tho usual large
congregation filltd the nuaitorium TO
listen The text was John 2:10: "He
that loveth his brother ahideIh IN the
light Ths address follows:
The protlsm OF thls world was rro-
pounded by Cain hen be l.: ''Am
nv b. Others Keeper When that ques-
iioa l. answered the kingdom OF God VIII
lave come. Practical Cbristiani,y finds
it, comIl-te expression In br"theriintss.
There j, nothing beyond brother hood. Ii
il the first and the last sign II hglacttr.
a lacl, Of love fox our broth r i, poten-
tia mufder, ana ~ Is dontinualy and
everywhere becoming actual murder. IL
js not regarded a. particularly kind
thing TO Kill man by degrees. IA the
ola neihod OF slow torture IN eXecut ons
= more barbarous tLan execution ty elec-
tiicity, so, nlEo, In the ultimate analysis,
IL Is more lad IN humanity, 10 pat
iran sudden oct Of the Nor,d than to
turn the coli shoulder TO him through
lie. to rush him 10 the wall, 10 o5tia-
,ize him. or he three Kinds of murder,
ordinary, JUDICIAL shd social the last "a
lot Tie ielst crimitai. We have net yet
come 10 accept be Bible dt tilnition OF
homicide; "Whos0ever hateth bis brother
is a mUrdt rer.
Perhaps this stanea rd OF measurement,
st'icily applied, would amaze us with
oQIcSlNto. fuNN hHd HitU
noI sins, arc The entering wedge of n
hatred. that slsys character With the
sword of thu tonuge, and thus
TAXES AWAY THE VERY SOUL
ol a mans life No man Is n whole Chris
tisn while thers turks within i'm the
least FARO feeling against any othtr man.
u Jesus hated Caiphss, or Herod or
. ilate, or the soldiers who drove the nails
in His hands he as not he son of God.
Before lie rail-: 'Fatber, forgive them. -
Jesus Him eli had forgiven. For IL ye
forgive not men their trespasses, NJ ither
will your Father forgive your trespas.es.
IL is nece,sary, Therefore, IL your en-
ployer Is evil that you should not hate
hiu,. tie Is your erring nrother, ihough
ar employer IL IL compulsory on the part
of the employer IN love and wish well
those who work for him, for they are his
yodngcr, weaker or poorer brothers 10
ne a brother, without lacking any grace,
is TO attain unto the measure OF the stat
ure of the fullness OF Christ In His own
family lie was brother teiore He be-
came to the world a Savior, and we are
not sure that TO tie brother was the
easier OF the two. On the triumph OF his
brotherhood lie founded the triumph OF
salvation. No man can be q saving power
first, and brother sfterwsrd. That s
reversing the natural order. In this
world we
MUST BE BROTHERS TO MEN
before we eau save them.
The idea OF hostility must, OF course,
be uone awRy between workers before a
staple condition can result. We are horn
inio the wo,,s TO live nobly first and to
get our bread afterward, for we shs
not live by bread alone. Ave are here To
love each other, even IL we die poor.
This is the first law OF life. Success In
business Aust he contingent on mobility
OF chr tcter. Oar diet is secondary; we
must love. That is TO say, without any
option of our own the debt of love is cast
upon us. We are born in debt Cain 4
sa.d 81 have nothing 10 do with my
brot her. = But.Cain said what was not so.
He was born brother, and his 'ack OF
inclination TO he brother could not
change the fact. The trouble with us is
that we never folly find out the weight of
this holy debt, and we go bankrupt into |
the other world. Men rise up IA Cain
uid, ana exclsin, "By what right am ] !
coWmnnCei to love my brothei?' You |
are commanded 10 do so as son OF God.
The God-apDointed mark of sonship is I
brotheriy love. IL ia the unfailing sign !
of our divine paternity The very fact !
tnat men rise up and challenge the COM |
piand 10 love their trotner is tire rroof |
that the
DIVINE xATUBE fs nor ~ THEM.
parsimony and csrciessness and refusal |
TO own ctlesi ial duties these are the 1
things In lt mark iGleTnal origin.
Our aim must he he aim OF our hrut her 1
We lave Z he same life before us tnat he
- hs-.- 4t4t-t -tseettts-+4efA- 4-t he-eteH+tst !
years Will he his occupGt iCn. 4. Il there
fore our prlvi eye TO stand with him now.
There is no Kind OF oivinc lucg cry by
which we can be transmitted into sons
OF God The life and the dosth cf Jesus do
nothing for he man who depends upou
item to make a son of God OF him with
out further bother OF his part. Our treat
ment OF our broi her r-ihat - the way we
Judge Jesus. and lie sbiGoB by that rule.
We find ourselves then members OF a
society OF brethren 10 whom we owe II
TO lie fsitiful. even though we have /
never taken upon as he VOWS OF the So
c;eiy. a native born American Is not l
asked 10 take tie oath Oi allegiance 10 his 4
country. srd in cur courts nc could not I
plead IN extenuation Of treason tho fact |
that be was not under oath TO be a true 4
Citizen. lie Is bors into his oblieation. !
All the VOWS Of universal brotherhood 1
therefore are
BINDING UPoS ALL MEN.
Thst they nave never taken these vows /
makes no difference with tho oDcrat lens 4
Of the niyinc laws. Ia one case there ia |
brotherhood confsssco, and IN the other
case brotherhood oenied
The priest and the Leyiie who passed
by the wounccd traveller diI so because ne
was MOI their brother. according 20 their
view of Tho case. But tteir Wow did not
alter the eternal fact Their view did not
release them from tho lrcemasoury OF
which Jesus Christ Is Grand Master.
TIER view ui tho case proved. not that
the wOundei nan was no brother. bat
that they we're degenerate sOus. They
were the lcgiimste posterity of Cain,
and the W rks OF their 'athcr u was their \
VIII TO &c. These, then, are the laws OF
busincsf. brrausc they are tho laws OF
creation. No subsequent bargain that
yor and ] make can abrogate the laws
of creation. Toe various sorts OF bust
ness can he conducted on this psn or
they VIII be cCnductea into the ground
the pit. IL was my blessed fortune for |
some ycers TO BE- engaged in business
~ an cmol)yt. an1 ior littl5 as
email proprieior, end I saw enough
20 make re b.litvc that TO LORD
IL God 90 The cities and stores. /
The Philistinos thught he was a
God OF tie \ ne only Goa mace the
Hvft ii I