The Portland daily press., 1896-11-07

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been invited here.'
The lecturer then described how this
tramp turned out to be man who ao
years before had been respected Chr,s-
tian in England with happy family
He ran away in disgrace, and for 20
years had besn tramp. His reform a.
ton was complete, and now he ~ a
prosperous business man In New Eng
land city, with a happy home, where he
has gathered together his family.
The lecturer next proceeded to make
some recommendations as to the hast
ways of living life.of loving kindness.
In the first place, speaking generally.
men should get married. The prisons
in this country are filled up.with single
men. This means that the men need
the women to take care of them. But
people should be very areful how they
marry. This recalled the story of the
young mani and woman who appeared
before minister to be married. The
man was Intoxicated and the minister
sent them away and told them to come
again. When they did come, the man
was drunk again. "You must come
when this man is not drunk. said the
minister to the woman. "But he won't
come when he is SOBER" said the wom-
an.
Men and women should marry because
they love humanity as well as one an
other, and mean to make their homes
centres of good influences. The lecturer
condemned extravaganza in living and
furniture, and recommended that when
receptions and parties were given, those
invited should not be relatives OF as,
sociates in the Same 'tset, but the peo-
pie of the slums and the criminal class
the people who could not recompense
their entertainers.
In the-perfeot human society there will
be nothing that binds people together,
but love, and nothing to separate them
but the lack of it. There should be
more service instead of theory In the
ohurchs; more charity between de-
nominations. With the proper spirit of
loving kindness in the world there
wo uld be A. p. "A. hospitals for Catholics,
and Catholic Hospitals for Protestants.
1.-The lecturer said that he should next
advocate the extension of the principle
of loving kindness to the business world.
1t has been said that business il an orQa-
nized warfare. There were men who
duringathese hard times had revelled in
luxury while the employees had starved.
There were other heroes who had sold
their securities and mortgaged their
property in order to keep their men en-
ployed. Applause We do not admire
the captain who steps first into the life
boat and leaves the women and children
TO perish. II anybody is to be cast out
in the family, 1t is not the baby VINO
goes first. But in the business world the
baby ia the frst..to suffer. The strong
man succeeds in the business world, and
no enc helps the weaker.
We think in this election that some
thing has been settled. The issue of this
campaign has been but q feather futter-
ing down from an approaching bird. The
great questions of Christian production
aud Christian distribution will never be
settled until it is settled right.
The last sphere of activity in which
loving Kindness should be practiced, was
politics. The nation should be the sa-
vior OF other nations; the distillery
should go; monopoly should be destroyed,
etc.
Mr.. Mills closed with glowing Pic
ture of the millennium which would COME
when there should kbe.. more of the milk
of human kindness in ths world.