The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-09-10
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But you go with me and will show
you-not SO far off as Shelield, Eng
land-factories, banking houses, store
houses, and costly enterprises where
this Christ-like iniuLc.ion of my text
is fully kept, and you could no more
get the employer to practice an injus-
tice upon his men, or the men to con-
spire against the employer, than you
could get your right hand and your
left hand, your right eye and your left
eye, your right ear and your left ear,
into physiological antagonism. Now,
where is this to begin? In our homes,
in our stores, on our farms-not wait
Ing for other people to do their duty.
Is there a divergence now between the
parlor and the kitchen? Then there
is something wrong, either in the par
lor or the ki.cIen, perhaps in both.
Are the clerks in your store irate
against the firm? Then there Is some
thing wrong, either behind the c.unter,
or in the private Office, or perhaps in
beth.
4 he great want OF the world today
is the. fulflllment of this Christ-like
injunction. that which he promulgated
in his sermon Olivetc. All the polite
al economists under the archivault OF
the heavens in convention for thou
sand years cannot settle this contro-
versy between monopoly and hard
work. between capital and labor. Dur
ing the Revolutionary war there was a
heavy pi,ce Of timber TO be lifted. per-
haps for some fortress, and a corpora
was overseeing the work, and he was
giving commands to some soldiers as
they lifted: "Heave away, there! W
heave" Well, the timber was too
heavy; they could not get t up. There
was a gentleman riding by on a horse
and he stopped and said to this cor
poral. why don't you help them lift,
That timber is too heavy for them t,
lift" NO" he said, Il won't; | am a
corporal" The gentleman got off hi.
horse and CINE up to the place
Now" he SAID to the soldiers, ''all to-
gether-yo heavew and the timber
went to Its place. Now" said the
gentleman to the corporal when you
have a piece of timber too heavy foi
the men to lift. and you want help. you
send to your commander-ln /
was Washington. Now, that is about
all the Gospel | know-the Gospel OF
giving somebody a lift, a Eft out OF
darkness, a lift out of earth into
heaven. That is al the Gospel
krow-the Gospel of helping somebody
else to lift.
The greatest friend of capitalist and
toiler. and the one who VIII 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
AL the continents, all worlds, and al
the islands of light. Capitalist of i'm
mensity, crossing over to our condition.
Coming into our world, not by gate
of palace, but by door of barn. Spend
ing his first night amid the shepherds.
| Gathering afterward around him the
fishermen to be his chief attendants.
With adze, and saw, and chisel, and
axe, and in a carpenter shop showing
himself brother with the tradesmen.
Owner of all things, and yet on a hill
lock back of Jerusalem one day re-
signing everything for others. keeping
not SO much as shekel to pay for his
obsequies: by charity buried in the
suburbs Of city that had cast him
out Before the cross OF such a cap
ita.ist. and srca a carpenter, all men
can afford to shake hands and wor-
L., h.
None so high. but he was higher.
None so poor, but he was poorer. At
his feet the hostile extremes will yet
renounce their animosit.es, and coun-
tenances which have glowered with the
prejudices and revenge of centuries
shall brighten with the smile OF heaven
as he commands: Whatsoever ye would
that men should do to you, do you even
so to them"