San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-10-13

feaste, and the broadcast phylac'
teries, are still sought after, and
the outside OF the platter is made
clean at the expense OF the inner
whiteness. There is the same dis.
position of the Pharisee to pass by
on the other side when the man
who falls among thieves cries out
by the wayside. The church member
is in as much greedy haste to secure
a corner lot in heaven on Sunday as
he is to secure a corner in real es.
tate or provisions or corn on the
weekday. 1t Is the same spirit,
the spirit of selfishness that only
regards himself and elbows his
weaker brother out of the way in
the struggle for some of the corner
lots.
AS it is in the church so is it in
the secular benevolences. The rule
is the same. II you utter not their
shibboleth there Is not much in
the treasury for you. The law is
that OF seclusion. A fundamental
principle Of the organization is that
it provides for its own. There is
nothing Of the universal in its
operations. Not only so, its own
must lay life to the line and OBJ
servance to the plummet. II this
is not done the doors are closed
and the offender shut out. Not
only so, even those who have paid
their tithes Of anise, mint and cum.
min, If they have neglected the
least formality are liable to be shut
out, and their wives and little ones
cheated of the provision supposed
to have been made for them in the
fraternal home OF their bread pro-
wider.
This is the evil under the sun
which is so apparent to the LIGHT
preacher, and yet it is not clear If
there is any remedy for it, save in
those slow processes out OF which
so little has been evolved during
the historic centuries. Mans in
humanity, his disregard of his fell
lows, is not the result of cruel in.
stincts, or Of perverted nature, but
of his natural disinclination to
help any one but himself, and those
so closely connected with him that
they are in practical life part of
him. Man does not care what be.
comes Of the rest OF the race, so
long as he is cared for. 1t is as
natural for him to pray, "God bless
me and MY wife, my son, John, and
his wife, us four, II no more" as it
is for him to breathe. He was born
that way. His ancestors were born
that way, and generations uf them
have flooded all the tides Of his be.
ing with this instructive care OF
himself first.
True, some positive brutishness,
some absolute hatred Of men, some
destructiveness of tendency, may
be observed all over the world in
spots, but when the bed rock facts
are reached there will be a reason
found for this condition. The man
in his place does not like to be in
terfered with, and the cruelties
that are complained Of in our
arraignment Of so-called bar
barous peoples, is almost al
ways traceable to some interior
ence with what he considers his
rights. 1t is not in the case for
him to see things as we see them,
and seeing them as he does he acts
accordingly. When the passions
Of a man are reused, then he is an.
other creature and his Indifference
gives place to positive antagonism
and the destruction that he is COM
petent to wreck is not slow in COM
ing.
The terrible brutalities and in
humanities Of the Sepoy war arose
from an idea on the part OF the
native Indian soldiery that they
were being betrayed into a desecra-
ton Of their religion by the Brit
ish officers, hence the revolt, and
fanaticism of religion was added
to the natural savagery Of dis
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