The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-09-10

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"Now, you pay US what we ask you for
getting you to shore or 60 to the bot
tomb If you can borrow So, 900, you
can keep from failing in business. Sup
ply and demand say, "Now, you pay
us exorbitant usury or you 60 into bank
ruptcy" This robber firm of Supply
and demand say to you: 1.-THE crops
are short We bought up all the wheat
and it is in our bin. Now, you pay our
price or starve." That is your magnifi-
cent law of supply and demand.
Supply and demand own the largest
mill on earth, and all the rivers roll
over their Wheel and into their hopper
they put all the men, women and chill
dren they can shovel out of the centu-
ries, and the blood and the bones redden
the valley while the mill grinds. That
diabolic law of supply and demand will
yet have to stand aside, and instead
thereof will come the law of love, the
law of cooperation, the law of kind
ness, the law of sympathy, the law of
Christ Have you no idea of the coming
of such time? Then you do not believe
the Bible. All the Bible is full of
promises on this subject, and as the ages
roll on the time will come when men
of fortune will be giving larger sums
to humanitarian and evangelistic pur-
poses, and there will be more James
Lenoxes and Peter Coopers and William
E. Dodges and George Peabodys. AS
that time comes there will be more
parks, more picture galleries, more gar
dens thrown open for the holiday peo-
pie and the working classes.
was reading in regard to charge
that had been made in England against
Lambeth palace that it was exclusive,
and that charge demonstrated the sub
lime fact that to the grounds of that
wealthy estate 800 poor families have
free passes and 40 croquet companies, and
on the half holidays 4, 900 poor people
recline on the grass, walk through the
paths and sit under the trees. That is
gospel-gospel on the wing, gospel out
of doors worth just as much as indoors.
That time is going to come. That is
only hint of what is going to be. The
time is going to come when, If you
have anything in your house worth
looking at-pictures, pieces of sculp-
ture-you are going to invite me to
come and see them, you are going to in
vite my friends to come and see them,
and you will say: "See what have
been blessed with God has given me
this, and, SO far as enjoying it, it is
yours also " That is gospel.
A Glance Ahead.
In crossing the Allegheny mountains
many years ago the stage halted, and
Henry Clay dismounted from the stage
and went out Oh rock at the very
verge of the cliff, and he stood there
with his cloak wrapped about him, and
he seemed to be listening for some
thing. Some one said to him, "What
are you listening for?" Standing there
on the top of the mountain, he said, II
am listening to the tramp Of the foot
steps of the coming millions of this con-
tinent" A sublime posture for an
American statesman! You and today
stand on the mountain top of privilege
and ON the rock of ages and we look
off and we hear coming from the future
the happy industries, and smiling popu
lations, and the consecrated fortunes,
and the innumerable properties of the
closing nineteenth and the opening
twentieth centuries.
The great patriot of France, Victor
Hugo, died. The $4,000 in his will
given to the poor of the city was only
hint of the work he did for all ma
lions and for all times. l wonder not
that they allowed IL days to pass be- .
tween his death and his burial, his
body meantime kept under triumphal
arch, for the world could hardly afford
to let go this man who for more than
eight decades had by his unparalleled
genius blessed it. His name shall be a
terror to all despots and an encourage
ment to the struggling. He made the
worlds burden lighter and its darkness
less dense and its chain less CALLING
and its tborns of iniquity less secure.
But Victor Hugo was not the over
towering friend of mankind. The great
est friend of capitalist and toiler and the
one who will yet bring them together
in complete accord was born one
Christmas night while the curtains of
heaven swung. stirred by the wings
angelic. Owner of all things-all the
all worlds and all the islands
of light. Capitalist of immensely, cross
ing over to our condition. Coming into
our world, not by gate of palace, but by
door of barn. Spending his first night
amid the shepherds Gathering after
ward around him the fishermen to be
his chief attendants. With adze and
saw and chisel and ak and in car
penter shop showing himself brother +
with the tradesmen. Owner of all
things, and yet on a hillock back of
Jerusalem one day resigning everything
for others, keeping not so much as
shekel to pay for his obsequies, by
charity buried in the suburbs of a city
that had cast him out. Before the cross
Of such capitalist and such carpen-
ter all men can afford to shake hands
and worship. Here is the every mans
Christ. None so high but he was high
9r. None so poor but he was poorer.
At his feet the hostile extremes will yet
renounoe their animosities. and counte-
1ances which have glowered with the
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