The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-09-15

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cred up around Havana of the best
brand, and through clouds Of luxuriant
smoke reading about political economy
and the philosophy Of strikes? Oh, no!
BY finding out who in this city has
been living on gristle, and sending
than a tenderloin beefsteak. Seek out
some family, who through sickness or
conjunction of mfsfortunes, have not
enough to eat and do for them what
Christ did for the hungry multitudes
OF Asia Minor, multiplying the loaves
and fishes. Let US quit. the surfeiting
of ourselves until we cannot choke
down another crumb Of cake, and be-
gin the supply of others necessities.
So far from helping appease the worlds
hunger, are those whom Isaiah de-
scribes as grinding the faces of the
poor. You have seen farmer or a
mechanic put scythe or an ak on a
Grindstone, while someone was turn
Ing it round and round and the man
holding the ak bore on it harder and
harder, while the water dropped from
the grindstone, and the edge of the ak
from being round and dull, got keener
and keener. So I have seen men who
were put against the grindstone OF
hardship, and while one turned the
crank, another would press the unfor-
tunate harder down and harder down
until he was ground away thinner and
thinner-his comforts thinner, his
prospects thinner, and his face thinner.
And Isaiah shrieks out: What mean
We that We grind the faces of the
poor?"
But, alas! where are the good
clothes for three-fourths of the
human race? The other one-fourth
have appropriated them. The fact
is, there needs to be ~@ and
will be, a redistribution. Not by anar-
chistic violence. If outlawry had it's
way, it would rend and tear and dimin-
ish, until, instead of three-fourths of
the world not properly attired, four
fourths would be in rags. I will let
you know how the redistribution will
take place. By generosity on the part
of those who have surplus, and in
| creased industry on the part of those
suffering from deficit. Not all, but the
| large majority of cases of poverty in
this country are a result of idleness or
! drunkenness, either on the part of the
| present sufferers or their ancestors.
In most cases the rum jug is the mael-
strom that has swallowed down the
| livelihood of those who are in rags.
But things will change, and by gen
erosity on the part of the crowded
wardrobes, and industry and sobriety
on the part of the empty wardrobes,
there will be enough for all to wear.
God has done his part toward the
| dressing of the human race. He grows
a surplus of wool on the sleeps back,
| and flocks roam the mountains and
valleys with a burden of warmth in
tended for transference to human COM
fort, when the shuttles of the factories,
reaching all the way from Chatta-
hoochee to the Merrimac, shall have
spun and woven it. In white letters of
snowy fleece God has been writing for
a thousand years, his wish that there
might be warmth for all nations While
others are discussing the effect of high
or low tariff, or no tariff at all, on wool,
you and I had better see if in our
wardrobes we have nothing that we
can spare for the suffering, or pick out
some poor lad of the street and take
him down to a clothing store and fit
him out for the season. Gospel of
shoes! Gospel of hats! Gospel of
clothes for the naked!
Again, let us look around and see
What shortsighted mortals we would
be if we we're anxious to clothe and
feed only the most insignificant part
of man, namely, his body, while we
put forth no effort to clothe and feed
and save his soul. Time is a little
piece broken off a great eternity. What
are we doing for the souls of this pres
ent generation? Let me say it is gen.
Grafton worth saving. Most magnifi-
cent men and women are in it. We
make a great ado about the improve
ments in navigation, and in locomotion,
and in art and machinery. We re-
mark what wonders of telegraph and
telephone and the stethoscope. What
Improvement is electric light over a
tallow candle! But all these i'm
provements are insignificant compared
with the Improvement in the human
race. In olden times, once in a while,
a great and good man or woman would
come up, and the world has made a
great fuss about it ever since; but now
they are so numerous, we scarcely
speak about them. We put halo
about the people of the past, but ]
think if the times demanded them, it
would be found we have now living in
this year, 1898, fifty Martin Luthers
fifty George Washingtons, fifty Lady
Huntin gdons, fifty Elizabeth Frys
During our civil war more splendid
warriors in North and South were de-
veloped in four years than the whole
world developed in the previous TWEEN
ty years. challenge the 1000 years
before Christ and also the eighteen
centuries after Christ to show me the
! equal of charity on a large scale OF
George Peabody. This generation of
men and women is more worth saw