The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1897-12-24

pride Of life. and instead Of reprovlng
you. rs Christ would have done. have
taken refuge In generalities, and have
not dared 10 drnounce your individual
sins All this time there has be- n going
on around me, in this huge city and
thorough the land, the surglng, toiling
life Of humanity sorrow. the suffer
ing. the poverty. the disease. the sin and
the shame which realize but dimly as
something altogether apart from my own
existence, but for which. / at last see
clearly You and have been up to the
p,csent time mostly To blame. We and
our class have kept back by fraud the
hire of the l.borcrs who have reaped our
fields; we have lived in pleasure on the
earth and been wantOn; we nave nourlsh-
ed our hearts while we have starved the
bodies Of those 20 whom we owe the very
bread we eat and the clothes we wear.
and now we are containing aud killing
M 9ur own very gates the people whose
inarticulnte cry is entering into the ears
Of the Lord, whose faithful servants we
pretend to b..
My fellow citizens.I know not how il
may be with you, but for me this care
less. selfish life is ended. Little by little
have awakened TO the fact that ali my
days have entirely neglected my real
duty to my fellow-man, and at last
have come to know that my proper place
is not here Ms well paid-bishop of a
church which In its present condition is
utterly opposed to every thing which
Christ taught but among the poor To
whom he declared that the gospel should
BE- preached the laborers whos'
hire we have kept back by fraud.
Too long have neglected the miserable
social facts Of our socalled christian CIV
ilization Too long have spoken to yol
smooth things and cried peace wher
there was no peace. have spoken by
rcpute that there was misery among oui
people, starvation IN our midst and pros
tilution on our streets. But hitherto
have taken these as something for which
YOU aud | were not responsible, bu
which were really due to the inheren
wickedness of nature.
But now have learned that our pleas
ares aud our wantoleSs have been bnil
upon this hideous foundation, and hav
ing learned this-as you may also learI
II YOU will have resolved that from
this Christmas day my new life shall be-
gin Today lay down nv robes
give up my bishopric, my8place and m,
income, give zap my seat IN the house O
lords; ! give up my pleasures Of societ,
and Of the world and at last | take m.
place as a man among men.
1t is. know. bold step that hay
taken, but have fully counted the cost
Resolved no longer to live on the labor
OF others. | shall probably have to ioi
the great army of the unemployed II,
morrow shall attempt to preach m
first sermon 40 ;hen in Trafalgar squar
from the same text that have used her
today. aud II is likely that | shall pas
tomorrow night IN police cell. Blu
there shall be no worse OIL than Jesn
Christ would be II he attempted to enle
this abbey (Westminster) now for h
would be arrested and locked up ms
vagabond without visible means Of sui
sisiencc To YOU and your class h
would simply be a laborer whose subsi'
tence you have kept back by fraud. 4
the abolition Of that fraud aud of tn
misery and degradation which rcsu
from IL, shall henccforth devote m
life. 1t will be no easy task, not near S
easy MS being bishop of London, but III
reward of good conscience aud af nob
work well done is better far Chan palac
and 10000 year.
In this place | shall probably ueve
speak again. But when freedom shallha>
opened her arms and gathered all men il
to her wide embrace. when justice an
truth shall have taken the place Of oI
preston aud fraud, some man of the PEE
pie shall stand in this temple of the dra'
and inspired by The best traditions a
the-past, the noble traditions of the pre-
ent and che ideal hopes of the futur
shall send ringing through these lofi
aislrs the ringing Christmas mesSal
that ull then can never havs its full sii
nifcance: peace on earth. good wi
to mch. Farmers sentinel
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