Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-12-05

things are set in order. For one thing.
this quarrel between labor and capital.
The nineteenth century inherited it from
the eighteenth century, but do not let
this nineteenth century bequeath 1t to
the twentieth "What we want" says
labor, ito set us right is more strikes
and more vigorous work with torch and
dynamite. "Whnt we want" says
capital. sis tighter grip on the work
ing classes and compulsion to take what
wages we choose to pay without refer
ence to their needs" Both wrong as sin.
Both defiant. Until the day of Judgment
no settlement Of the quarrel, If you
leave it to British, Russian or American
politics. The religion of Jesus Christ
ought to come in within the next four
years and take the hand Of capital and
employee and say: "You have tried
everything else and failed. Now try the
gospel of kindness. No more oppres-
sion and no more strikes. The gospel OF
Jesus Christ will sweeten this acerbity,
or it will go Oh to the end of time, and
the fires that burn the world up will
crackle in the ears of wrnthful prosper
ity and indignant toll while their hands
are still clutching at eaoh'other g throats.
Before this century signs its last breath
l would that swarthy labor and easy
opulence would come up and let the
Carpenter of Nazareth join their hands
in pledge of everlasting kindness and
peace. When men and women are dy-
ing they are apt to divide among their
children mementos, and one is given a
watch, and another vase, and another
a picture, and another robe. Let this
veteran century, before it dies, hand
over to the human race, with an i'm
pressiveness that shall last forever, that
old family keepsake, the golden keep
sake which nearly 1900 years ago was
handed down from the black rock of the
mount of bcatitudes, Therefore all
things whatsoever ye would that men
should do to you, do sc even so to them,
for this is the law and the prophets. y
Saving the World.
Another thing that needs to be set IN
order kofore the veteran century quits
us is a moro thorough and all embracing
plan for the world gardenization. We
have been trying to save the world from
the top, and it cannot be done that way.
1t has got to be saved from the bottom.
The church ought to be only West
Point to drill soldiers for outside battle.
What if a military academy should keep
its students from age to age IN the mess
room and the barracks? No, mol They
arc wanted at Montezuma and Chapul-
tepeo and South Mountain and Mission
airy Ridge, and the church is no place
for Christian to stay very long. He is
wanted at tho front. He Is needed in
the desperate charge Of taking the para
pets. The last great battle for God IS
not to be fought on the campus of col
lego or tie lawn of a church. 1t Is to be
fought at Missionary Ridge. Before this
ccntary quits us lot US establish the hab-
it OF giving the forenoon Of the Sabbath
to the churches and the afternoon and
the evening of the Sabbath to gospel
work in the halls and theaters and
streets and fields and slums and wilder
nesses of sin and sorrow. Why do Chris
tians who have stuffed themselves with
"the strong meat of the word" and all
gospelyiands on Sabbath forenoons want
to come up to a second service and stuff
themselves again? These old gormand-
izers at the gospel feast need to get
into outdoor work with the outdoor Cos
pei that was preached Oh the banks of
the Jordan and Oh the fishing smacks Of
Lake Galilee and in the bleak air Of AS
syrian mountains. l am told that
throughout all our American cities the
second Sabbath service in the majority
Of churches is sparsely-yea, disgrace
fully-attended and is the distress OF the
oonsecrated and eloquent pastors who
bring their learning and piety before
spews CHASTITY for their inocoupanoy.
What is the providential meaning7 The
greatest of all evangelists since Bible
times recently suggested that the even
ing services in all the churches be turned
into the most popular style OF evangel-
istio meetings for Outsiders Surely that
is an experiment worth making. If that
does not succeed, then 1t does seem to
me all the churches which cannot secure
sufficient evening audiences ought to
shut up their buildings at night and go
where the people are and Invite them to
come to the gospel banquet
Help One Another.
Let tho Christian souls, bountifully
fed in the morning, go forth in the aft
ernoon and evening to feed the multi
tudes of outsiders starving for the bread
of which if man eat he shall never
again hunger. Among those clear down
the gospel would make ,lore rapid con-
quest than among those who know so
much and have SO much that God can
not teach or help them. In those lower
depths splendid fellows in the. rough,