The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-06-19
LIVE ISSUES.
Between Two Worlds.


spirit of the age demands a new
state of things, and it will be a rev.
olution 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 lifelong
labor by barbarous laws giving to
the husbands family the earnings
of his wife, the partner of his early
battle in life and long years of pri-
walton. You cannot confront one
proposition without confronting the
whole. Why? Because eternal
Justice links the whole together and
demands the change. The govern
ment must be the guardian of her
subjects. She must furnish labor
and money to pay for it. Money
in this emergency must come as it
did in the Civil War-scrip if you
please-the peoples pledge to pay.
Did they not pay willingly to free
the slave7 Will they not be equal
ly willing to pay to free themselves,
their children and their children's
children
From the old political factions
grew the Republican party,-the
Black Republican party as it was
called,-the Abolitionists; and from
out the decaying ruins of these old
parties shall grow new one that
shall free the white slaves; gov
eminent to teach her people, great,
fostering, loving guardian of the
nation; a government that shall no
longer license crime (iquor) and
hang the criminal; no longer cele-
brate her Independence Day in
vulgar display and waste of mil
lions of dollars in fireworks, but
call her children together and show
them that the annual expenditure
rightly, religiously employed,
would endow colleges, build homes,
buy farms, and bless them a thous-
and times in blessing others. Is it
seemly that a great nation should
do a little thingq
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 voice in this work.; man
is His vicegerent on the earth. The
people of America must havea new
government and must begin by
having new God.
A God of love and mercy, GOO
for the poor man such as Jesus fore
told, Comforter, the Spirit O.
Truth; a practical, common-senst
religion, preached by practical
common sense clergy. Not a thee
retical theology preached on Sun
days by students who have no prac
teal knowledge Of the world or O.
men or their daily needs. Tit
clergy have no sympathy with thu
people. They should understand
men. They should learn to do 81
in their capacity of teachers of thu
young; they should know more O
human needs than others. There
is no use in the clergy telling thu
people their trouble is brought
upon them by an avenging God
when they know it is brought upor
them by politicians bought by thu
plutocracy ofAmerica. They dom
believe in such a God. He is too
much like the clergy and the pol
itician of the day who hold up {
picture of themselves and call il
God; but the people recognize thu
likeness and will not have it az
their God.
The deeds of bravery and heroisn
that emblazoned America ON thu
worlds rolls of honor in the Civi
War shall be repeated in the grea
conflict that is to come;-a blood
less battle that shall be fought frs
in the spiritual world and ultimatet
in the natural world in the song o
peace. The everlasting God shall
breathe upon the people, an(
plenty shall bless them all; plenty
of money and plenty of bread
There is work to do; work requir
ing human eyes and human ears
human feet and human hands, will
ling to do what the Lord shows
them must be done.
The days of plutocracy are mum
bered. The hairs of their heads
have been counted; for, 10! thu
people shall move in concert. Bel
lamy sounded the first trumpet; hi
folt tho y1ulcatiOp of tho advanoint