Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-08-13

has 1gnOred-the brotherhood or man. his
phase of socalistc thought is, strictly speak
ing, a re-awakening of the religious ethusiasn1,
a revival and consequent application of the
priceless tenets of Christianity.
1t has been argued that Christianity and So
cialism are at variance, because Christ made
no effort to change conditions, but sought to
make the world better primarily through a
change of heart i'll the individual. He taught
that the reform must flow from the within, out
ward that the way to have clean society was to
have clean men. But the golden thread which
ran through and through the wondrous warp
and woof of all Christ's every word and deed
was love.
The law of His lite was minstiation through
love. He taught no creed. He built no church.
He was never converted. He annuled all So
cia imperialism, all class and caste, and taught,
in theory and practice, common brotherhood.
1t is dawning upon the hearts of men thet
Christianity is the living of a life; that the
practice of the law of ministration in our COM
mon everyday affairs will prove, without creed
or dogmas, sufficient unto salvation. Socialism,
while many sided, and used with great vari-
ETY. of meaning according to the capacity of
the Individual to behold the truth, is, in its
last and best analysis Christianity applied,
whether to the condition that involves the in
dividual or the individual that, as a cell in the
social organism, makes up the sum of human
condition.
And this socialism is not merely moral. Were
it only moral, the hope for ultimate success
would be essened materially for the number of
those who do right because it is right who
love their fellow men as they love themselves,
is comparatively small. Love of neighbor has
too weak sentiment to move any but the
choicest spirits. Socialism, therefore, is not
only moral, but strictly scientific. 1t consti
tutes the broad highway of radical progress.
Humanity is so interviewer and interbound that
to enslave or degrade one member of society is
to enslave and degrade all. We cannot advance
individually, for the race is unit. The inno-
cent must suffer with the guilty. Injury to one
is the concern of all. The fundamental law
of the universe is "diversity in unity" Un-
derneath is the law of God, "Unity in divers
ity." Thus forever:
"Through the ages one unceasing purpose runs,
And the thoughts of men are wdened by the
progress of the suns"
Thus, socialism numbers in its ranks the
brain, the wealth and culture of the day, who
are uniting human impulse, generous philan-
thropy, toward the overwhelming stream of
aspiration and endeavor, that shall sweep away
the last vestige Of an unjust social condition
that makes travesty of the gospel of Christ,
and renders life for so many brute struggle
for existence, thus menacing the progress of
the race.
With the advent of socialism will ring the
death knel of theological chickering's and de-
nominational barriers. Ordinances, rituals and
sacraments shall disappear before the recogni-
tion of the intrinsic indwelling Christ in hui
manity, Thus shall be brought about the final
unity Of God and man; the welding of divin-
ity and humanity, ultimating in the universal
soul. ~
CAN'T BE A CHRISTIAN WITHOUT REING A
SOCIALIST
Ex-senator John Martin does not believe the
county. He gives expression to his opinions as
follows, in The Topeka State Journal:
1t will never come because men are too ava
ricious and greedy. This is condition which, in
my opinion, will never be removed, and so long
as it exists, the doctrine and principle of h,,z
manitarianism will never be put in practice.
People denounce socialism nowadays for the
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them to reflect upon man by calling him an
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