The Monitor-register., 1896-07-03
Gleanings From Between Two
Worlds"

remedies, and from it have sprung the
Christian Scientists. The charlatanism of
priest and pastor has given birth to dis
belief and infidelity, agnosticism and
theosophy. Charlatanism in the political
parties has created national dissatisfaction
and given birth to anarchism among the
lower classes and pOpulism and socialism
among the truly benevolent people, the
patriots, the thinkers, the doors; and their
great minds have sent out waves of
opposition to the present system of
government that are rising into a tide,
which, taken at its flood, must sweep
away not only the frame work, but the
very foundation of the present condition
of things in the American government.
"The first thirg that astonishes the
foreigner is the plutocracy of this great
Republic, the power of gold, the power
of money. Wall street of America is
parallel with Lombard street in London.
The nations bread is a game to be played
against the poor; the money of the
country a question for a few to decide, a
commodity too precious for the common
folk to handle and the plutocrat cries it's
basis must be gold. Gold not for the
people, but for the banker, the broker.
Aud what do We witness? The emblem
of Lombardy, the sign of three golden
balls, on every business street in the
cities, and these grow in palaces on the
boulevards, banks in the most valuable
places, and railroads all over the land.
"The spirit abroad is the spirit of
revolution. The whole framework of
society is shaken to the foundation by
the revolution in thought. 1t is spiritual
! in it's origin. God speaks to every think
ing man and woman in America. His
voice must be heard. His priests and
prophets are awaiting the voice and
ready to answer his call. His warriors
are buckling on their armor. The spirit
is abroad, the spirit of the angel mes
senger that brings good tidings of great
joy. A wave of truth against f.lsity, Of
right against wrong. The sword is two
eyed and is supreme-the sword of ever
lasting truth.
ut took nearly a century to show
Americans the sin of slavery. Once seen,
they struck the shackles from the sla We.
Show them the wrong of the present
| system of government, only let them see
it, and they will right it. The error was
with part of the nation, the lesser part.
Had they seen the evil they would have
shared the glory of The liberation of the
slaves instead of the shame of defeat.
The wrong to-day is a national wrong,
and the people, the whole people are con-
cerned. Put the question before them,
show them the wrong, help them to see
the right and they will do it.
"We are approaching a new era and in
a new spirit. The very spirit of the age
demands a new state of things, and
it will be a revolution in church and
State. Churchmen can no longer build
churches and starve the poor. The State
can no longer see honest women deprived
of their lifetime labor by barbarous laws
giving to the husbands family the earn
ings of his wife, the partner of his early
battle in life and long years of privations.
You cannot confront one proposition
without confronting the whole. Why ?
Because eternal justice links the whole
together and demands the change. The
government must be the guardian of her
subj cots. She must furnish money and
labor to pay for it. Money in this
emergency must com as it did in the
Civil War-scrip if you ~please-the
peoples pledge to pay. Did they not
pay willingly to free the slave? Will
they not be equally willing TO free them
selves, their children and their ohildren's
children ?
From the old political factions grew
the Republican party-the Black Repub-
lican party it was ealled-the Adolf |
tionists; and from out the decaying ruins |
of these old parties shall grow a new one /
that shall free the white slaves; a govern
ment to teach her people; a great, |
fostering, loving guardian of the nation:
a government that shall no longer license
crime Ciqaor)and hang the criminal; no
longer celebrate her Independence Day in |
vulgar display and waste in millions of |
dollars in fireworks, but call her children |
together and show them hat the annual |
expenditure rightly, religiously employed, |
would endow colleges, build homes. buv
farms, and bless them a thousand times
in blessing others. Is it seemly that a
great nation should do a little thing ?
Every force is a telling power straight
from the throne of God. A Moses shall
be found. No need to ask God to do the
work of feet and hands and oosce in this
world. Man is His vicegerent on the
earth. The people of America must
have a new government and must begin 5y
having a new God.
"a God of love and mercy, a God for
the poor man suoh as Jesus foretold, a
comforter, the spirit of truth; a practical,
ommon-sen religion, preached by a
practical, commensurate clergy. Not a
theology preached on Sundays
by students who have no practical
knowledge of the world or of men or
their daily needs. The clergy have no
sympathy with the people. They should
understand men. They should learn to
do so in their capacity of teachers of the
young; they sh2ald kneR more of human
needs than others. There is no use in
the clergy telling the people their trouble
is brought upon them by an avenging
God, when they know it is brought upon
them by politicians bought by the plutoc-
racy of America. They don't believe in
such a God. He is too much like the clergy
and the politician of the day who hold upa
picture of themselves and call it God;
but the people recognize the likeness and
will not have it as their God.
1.-THE deeds of bravery and heroism
that emblazoned America on the worlds
rolls of honor in the Civil War shall be
repeated in the great conflict that is to