The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-01-04

who are striving for modest compe-
tence and in whose hearts the greed Of
gold has not burnt out al traces OF
humanity and fair dealing and OF that
divinity which should be within as.
But not many mighty nor many rich
shall be called It was soof old. They who
form great syndicates and trusts to
rob the people and they who gather
where others have sown, would be
foremost among those who would
cruelty Him. For it was He who said
it and We know that His saying is true
that q rich man can no more enter
into heaven than q camlecan pass
through the eye of a needle. This say
ing may offend some. His sayings did
in His day and many left of follow.
ing after Him."
The great evil Of this day is the wor-
ship of wealth, and it makes no matter
TO its worshippers that we know that
every vast estate is necessarily c
mulated by robbery Of the people-for
there is q moderate limit in the nature
Of things to the Accommodations which
can be made by diligence and thrift
and economy and honest industry. The
free opportunity for honest accumula-
tions is the glory Of institutions,
but these vast estates are not made in
that way. They r made by processes
which should consign their holders
rather to Jul p~enitentiaries. Their
very size proves they are not honest
accommodations. Was Christ the Son
of God3 He said that such rich men
could in no wise enter the kingdom OF
God. If it was true when he said it,
it is true TO day. The 80 called minis
ters Of God who pardon such offenses
because of the gift of a small part of
the sums stolen to colleges, to churches
and sometimes to the ministers them
selves, r no whit better than the
sellers of indulgences whom Luther
scourged out Of Germany.
Our people are being robbed by
Wholesale. They do not receive the
just rewards of their laboFs. They are
being pauperizsd and kept in want
while q few men by trick and Combina
tons are gathering TO themselves the
earnings of q continent. Yet how many
ministers, how many leading church
members, how many church papers
are dsnoupCing the robbers and the
wrong a. the Master did, and &c it ID
still written in His Word3 How many
indeed are pursuinga an opposite courseI
I condemn no man. Lst each ones
conscience answer him.
Search all history and you will find
no age when the robbery Of the just
earnings of the masses was more sys
tematic, more shameless and less re
sisted than to day. There was never 6
time when the worship of great riches,
however badly acquired. was more
open than how. While the pure in
heart are communing with the invisible
God on the summit, amid clouds and
darkness that are round about Him,
vast numbers, and among them, as OF
old, many Levites, are bowling down
to the calf of Gold, and they say to US,
These be thy Gods, o Israel" When
Noses and Joshua reproached Aarop
with his conduct. he laid the fault on
the people and said that to please them
he had thrown the gold ornaments into
the fire and ''there had come out this
calf" implying that it was accidental
(shough he did not dare to say Eo), and
that he was in no wise responsible. So
in this country, in which the public
opinion of to day can become the law
TO morrow, they who like Aaron do not
enlighten il, but on the contrary, with
out resistance to the robbery of the
lpeople, bow down to those who have
taken away their earnings, in effect
say with the idOlaters of old, I'VE did
not do it; we merely cast the gold into
the fire" or permitted it to be done,
and there came out this calf " hence
we are not to blame for worshipping It.
For my part, l believe that something
more is required, and that resistance TO
wrong is obedience to God.-NeW
Time.
ASHRVuLLR TRAGEDY.