Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-01-25
SOCIALISM,
A Sermon In North Salem
BY the Minister Of the CoIored
Methodist Church.

A1dt WODuf u. lf.f vi OhuuoJ
at st. Paul A. NJ E. church, Nortt
Salem. Among many authentic as
sertions the learned divine said:
The Almighty in his providcntia
bestOwments upon man, endowed hin
with three lofty faculties, viz: free
will, reason and inspiration These
three faculties in the order that !
have named them, we're TO be sue
cessively brought TO bear on the three
social divisions to work out their de-
velopment and application, viz: In
religion or dOgInatic theology in gov
eminent, or political Jurisprudence,
10 industry, or economical distribu-
tion. By the application Of free will
TO dOgmatics, mankind, in the most
advanced countries, has worked out
liberty OF conscience In matters Of re-
ligiOn. BY its application to political
Jurisprudence the most advanced
communities have reached the right
of suffrage or the elective franchise
on he part OF the governed, in chos-
ing their governors. But no where
yet has the application of free will to
economics achieved the much desired
liberty OF labor. 1t is therefore, this
third and last point, developed In our
analysis, which forms the part Of the
social problem now at the order Of the
day; seeking assolntion which, il it.
does not or cannot come by fair
means, must come through the foul
disorders with which the gospel dis
pensatiOn is TO close; to be followed
by the Inauguration OF the reign Of
righteousness by the returning Prince
of Peace. We go back, therefore, to
the creation to study the problem on
the economical or industrial, as set
forth in the Bible. The point now
up for solution and to which we wish
to arrive, is that Of liberty Of labor
in our economical relations, as we
have already reached liberty OF
conscience in religion. and suffrage in
politics by the force OF mans
free will. What then are the Bible
conditions 10y which the liberty of
the laborer is to be guaranteed 4? /
answer that at the very dawn OF cre-
alton of man, the basis OF social
economies was laid by God, according
to the scriptures, inseperable from
the family. the fd,niiy homestead |
aud the personal supply OF the indis-
pc nsable necessities OF daily susten- /
ance. Adam and Eve were united in |
holy marriage with a nuptual bene-
1iction containing "A command to |
raise up a household of children, aud
Eden was the family homestead pre-
pared for them, ready furnished with |
The supply Of all the neceSsaries Of
life. This being done, and they being
placed beyond the want of
my good thing, and above penurious
misery were henceforth To engage in
-he industrial occupation OF dressing
aud keeping the garden. These pre-
iminary conditions being secured to
hem they were thereby assured the
liberty Of labor. They were not driven
% the work by the dire necessity OF
hunger and other physical wants.
This arrangement was not an excep-
ional one, incident on the very begin
ling Of the human race. More than
90 years afterwards, when God inter- /
cred actively again in calling a spec
al people 10 be the model OF all other
'eoples and the medium OF their bene-
Lotions, he established the same con-
itions in favor OF that chosen people
y his commandments given TO their
eaders, Moses and Joshua. A land
lready planted and cultivated, from {
'hich a rebel and apostate race was
xpelled, was given TO Othe elect nation. q
Ihich was settled there, and a home 9
tead' forever inalieDable, secured by :
he law OF Jubilee, was given TO each
imily. Moreover, the slavish drudg.
~ OF unremitting labor was provided
gainst by its being limited 10 he.
"een sunrise and sunset Psalms IO4 |
3 thus securing each night for re-
ose, 10 which was added. for the
lme purpose; the whole OF the seventh {
ay 10 each week, and the whole az :
lch succeeding seventh year after
atrance into the possession Of Ca
aah. THUS did God give Us a practi.
a example OF MS intention that every
IAN should sit under his own vine =
% hg Tree, with none 10 molest
In or make him afraid Micah 4;ul
nike our own times, where the
asses u the population, Of each ma. m
on' are without family homesteads a
an inalienable heritage; labor h
'oloosed into the late hours Of The
.sht' the day Of weekly rest Is in vs
oaehed upoa by drudging oocup,. IL, z.
ons OF ignored entirely; unprioelnied AZ
10 n'onopollsts are grabbing uptbe diS
na oy millions OF acres, aided in g
'elf tnieving By political admins y
A.ess, sho are accessory % TIE theu
uoa1s domain, given by Him ID ~
ittAse ~ The whole human -. = AZ