The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-02-03

and effective than the one insisted upon
by Soclailsts /. o, cooperation and q
practical application Of the golden rule
and the ethics of the Nazarepe, let hin
announce il and put 1t in operation as
soon as possible, and we will gladly turn
in and help.
Mir. Thomson adds:
No cure OF social injustice can originate IL
the violation of any law OF nature. In the
earth aud in the heavens we see distinctions
differences orders. The earth is not nat. 1
has mountains aud valleys, and the sea has 1T
waves One star dlffereth f.om another sta
in glory The universe has one supreme head
and there are angels, arehaugels and cheru
him in the governments of the worlds
Amen, Brother Thompson; we shall
not dispute the first proposition. III
truthfulness is forcsd upon the public
mind nearly every day. Nothing can be
more stupidity in defiance of natures
laws than some OF the unjust penalties
inflicted upon innocent and honest toll
Sra by our federal courts.
Nevertheless. Mr.. Thomson is very
uuwiae in calling upon the earth snd
ocean to bear witness in favor Of the
outrageous and arbitrary social and
legal boundary lines that are sustained
and perpetuated by Gespotism and the
influence OF money in the present con-
dition of Things.
All nature is generally democratic
the universe a republic. The stars move
in perfect harmony and without friction
she corporation between the low and
high places of the earth ia perfect. The
mountains enrich the valleys with their
treasures of rock and water and mines
instead OF cornering natural products
and then debating the laws both of sup
ply and demand-and the valleys in
turn supply humanity with food and
clothing. Hills and deles vie together
indieGriminately. The tall trees ssaoci-
ate unreservedly with the little ones,
inatead Of standing apart from them in
separate, digni6ed 'orders" and rows,
and the ''waves" OF the sea are con.
stantly changing places with each other
on the bosom of q common mother.
AS regards the supreme head Of the
universe" and the celestial oIders and
dynastics with their ''angels, archangels
and cherubim," etc, it is doubtful il
the learned pastor of Unity church has
any peculiar facilities for securing data
on those subjects. And we learn from
the highest authority how "a certain
rich man" discovered too late thst the
social orders and distinctions which Mr.
Thomson defends, are liable to be moi
only ignored, but reversed at the other
end of the line.
The following passage in Mr.. Thorn
sons sermon ia slight DETECTION from
the spirit of the sermon on the
Mount"
Socialism would reduce the millions OF the
earth to a dead level in opposition to the laws
of nature Nature has grand ideals, and works
toward them by destroying worthless and in
ferior races OF animals and men, ard we see
that tile earth is gradually passing into the
hands OF the ittest.
This BIAS always been the plea with
defenders of civil, social and ecclssiaati-
cal tyrants in every age.
DEGENERATE NATIONS.
Pharaoh in Egypt, Belshazzar in Baby
lon and Nero in Rome no doubt juetified
themselves with the same comfortable
logic, and believed that in working Out
their grand ends"-for what could
in their day, have been grsnder than
those three kingdoms Pit was proper
and right to destroy the worthless and
inferior races" Yet today the descend.
anita of the inferior races which those
great rulers persecuted, enslaved and,
az they supposed, destroyed, are using
the mumnies of Pharaoh's aristocrats
to kindls railroad engine fires, and Jews
and Christians alike are still hunting
for the "last site of Babylon" and writ
ing histories of the rise and fall of the
great republic, which died of the same
disease that has broken out on every
member of the American body polite.
Whether or not, as nation, we are to
perish in like manner depends altogeth-
or upon whether we, like the three great
nations referred to. continue to degen-
crate, precisely as they did, into @ gov
eminent of physical force, ouch as pu-
tocracy necessarily demands and re-
quires as protection" against the
outraged instinct of equity and democ-
racy, which sis not dead, but sleeping"
in the hearts of robbed and impover-
ished millions. When Mr.. Thomson,
further on in his discourse, labels as
"beggars and lazy cranks" men who, for
no fault of their own, unless it may have
been undue faith in their lawmakers,
have been betrayed through conspir-
acy between rich and powerful com bines
and depraved creature at Washington
called government" he ia apti-Chrs-
tian.
1t is certain that government rest
ing on force and federal court prostitu-
ton cannot long exist ON the North
American continent. The following
quotation from Mr.. Thomson'a dis
course contains mingled truth and per~
version:
In the human heart God has written the law
which demands that every man should pos
sess his honest earnings and savings and that
he has the right to use them as he deems right.
In the parable of the laborers, Christ shows
that the owner of the vineyard should do as
he likes with his own.
The preacher does not say what
should be done with illgot wealth and
plumber wrung from the necessities and
mislortunes of his fellows by the
"wrecker," the stock dilutsr and usurer.
But it is this, and not "honest earnings
and savings," with which Socialism pro-
poses to deal. No honest, fair dealing
man has anything to fear from the
golden rule, as applied by modern So
ciainm. 1t is pity. however, that our
expounders of individuslism in. their
anxiety to convert the parallels of Christ
into business cards with which to decor.
ate the ears and tail of the golden calf,
should magnify and emphssize she mere
frame work or letters of those parallels
and entirely ignore their spiritual aig-
nifcsnce.
The object of Jesus, in the parable OF
the laborers, was evidently TO fore
shadow the ethics of ideal human So