The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-02-03

boringman with a family dependent
upon me, am willing to work, but can
get no work to do. There are hun
dreds Of such men in the city of Min
neapOlis tonight. Now he is told to
get converted. We didn't hear aEy
such talk before election last Novem-
Der, and ii we had the result would
have been different. Then you talked
of laws to modify the existing condi-
tion." Mr.. Keller was cool but his
words were incisive. DR.. T. J. Gray,
paper had got somewhat mixed be-
tween religious salvation and saliva
ton from social conditions. 81 claim
the right to object to condition that
Expresses me and depreNseS me in the
social scale. differ materially in the
conclusions of the paper as to the
part to be played by the state in this
manner" ~
That's right. II the clergymen
would talk a little more that kind Of
horse-sense they would not have to
complain Of empty benches on Sun
days. II they do nothing for the peo-
pie but live off them, they are mere
parasites, and the sooner they are rub
bed off the better.
We have hope for the churches
when they can squelch such shallow
and hypocriticalr advocates Of the
devils gospeljas this man Parsons.
There seems 20 be revival OF good
sense all over. We read:
New York, Jan. 27.-Dwight L..
Moody, the evangelist, was found by a
reporter at the Murray Hill Hotel.
DR.. RainSfOrd'S arraiynment OF the
extravagant rich contained nothing
that was novel to him, as he had ham
| mered necessarily on the same sub
ject at Cooper Union. But he was
glad, he said, that the esta blshed
minister of fashionable church had
the grit to talk out in meeting and
tell the pl ain truth to his parishon-
ers
"Things look bad" said the revival
ist. "All these great fortunes have
been accumulated in the last thirty
or forty years and the world has never
known anything like it. The poor
ana helpless seem to be increasing all
the time. The moderately we'll off
| are falling among the poor and the
very rich are growing richer every
day. Something is wrong. and it is
what it is and to apply the remedies.
The churches Of this country have
the numbers and the wealth to do it,
but the trouble seems to be that
| religion is dominated by the wealth
| instead Of the wealth by the reli-
giOn.'
The author of that famous book,
"Our Country" the Rev. DR.. Josia h
| Strong, said that he was disappointed
| that DR.. Rainsford did not give a
wider scope to his denunciation. ut
is the height OF folly for anyone to
say that the extravaganza of the rich
is good for the poor, said DR.. Strong.
GAS Ruskin has said, so long as there
are cold and nakednesS in the land
around you, SO long there can be no
| question that splcndor OF dress is a
crime. And this passage from Rusk-
ms True ana Beautiful expresses
the entire thought as no other has ex-
pressed it: DO not cheat yourself in
to thinking that all the finery you can
| wear is SO much put into the hungry
| mouths of those beneath you. 1t is
what you yourselves, whether you will
! or not, must some time inStinctively
! feel it to Lett is what those who
| stand shivering in the streets, form
| ing line to watch you as you step out
| Of your carriageS-knOW it to be-
| These fine dresses do not mean that
| so much has been put into their
| mouths. but that so much has been
taken out OF their mouths"
Prof. Charles Sumner Smith said
the other day in New York:
II am not speaking as theorist,
but from the standpoint Of one vino
| has been out in the battle Of life, who
| is there still, and who, from work wit h
! the people, has learned the teacher
| craft. We here, in A merica, stand, as
all the world stands today, uncertain,
! halffearing. before that swift, on
coming future which is to usher in
the rule Of the many, Of the masses,
! no longer subject to the will Of the
more favored but Self-obeyng and
settled. l would say to these: L am
| going to study with you the progress
Of the human mind as it is expressed
ia literature; we shall hear the peo-
pie and the generations telling us
through the recorded words of their
writers what life has taught them,
and what they have discovered OF
| truth.''
We do not think that Prof. Smith
will learn anything from the past but
injustice and oppression. Let them
| look into the eyes of the present and
! see what is right to be done to save
mankind. The past has been cruel
and bloody; the future must be wise
and just or it will end in flame and
| CONFUSION.
CJNNINGLI CONIRIJ.ED.
! We find the following in the papers:
| Cincinnati O., Jan. 25.-The follow
ing correspondence is published by
the TimesStar tonight:
Hon. John S. Sherman, Washington,
| D C-Uear Sir: am graIitied to see