The Newtown bee., 1898-02-11

yet the governments of the leading
 Christian nations look on complacently and will not interfere, lest the selfish de
 sire of each for greater power and added territory be thw8Ited by war. 1 believe that if those governments, already noml- nally Christian, were actually inspired by Christ's spirit of unself shness on the one
 hand and by the love for suffering bu-
 manity on the other, the Armenian ques-
 tion would be settled speedily.
 And more recent developments in the
 farther east present the humiliating l spectacle of the same leading nations jealousIy watching the manoeuvers of each other and each waiting for favor able opportunity to secure the most de. sirabla pcr5ion in the possible division of a mighty empire, instead of actirg ac- c0rdiDg to the eternal principles of Divine justice in all their dealings with one another. And more closely concern ing ourselves an oppressed and suffering people at cur very doors, are strug. gling for freeeom, if not auton- omous, at l 'ast more tolerable than their past experience, and the national heart goes out in sympathy for them and whi e enc nation ih true Christian spirit is trying to min $ CT to their crying needs, the other under the name of Government continues the awful process of extermi- nation. The sense of an outraged hu- manity is crying out against the cruel policy which ia being pursued by a na- .ion nominaly Christian, though it's Christianity, let it be noted, d, is of the most corrupt form, and if we mistake not, the plaintive cry of the sufferers and the sympathetic re- 9pOnse of those truly interested in the cause of humanity, will soon become so general and so JC udy resoundipg that i must be needed.
 INTERNAL AFFAIRS IN OUR OWN NATION also show similar faults. In our be- loved land of freedom and universal suffrage we have put ourselves under the control of professional politicians and instead of governing ourselves and proving to be our own masters we are ruled by corrupt men and are enslaved under the dictation of self-appointed leaders irresponsible and demagagical. The votes of christian men sra largely purchasable, financial corruption, and dishonesty in methods, and general favoritism, and personal aggrandize- ment are substituted for those high and noble aims and purposes which are known to be the requirements of 8 pure Christianity. And we see in public office the usurper of power trampling on the rights of others instead of being the ser want of the people. And heather selfish ness Is set up in the place of that un- selfishness taught and revealed by Christ. These conditions with which we have grown familiar painfully familiar in late years are very far short of the ideal of the Christ whose kingdom of was to extend throughout all nations. And they show in the department of government the crying need of the Christian world for Christ.
 Look next at the industrial world with it's present conditions and pressing problems. We are familiar with the mutual jealousies, the reciprocal sus picions, the opposttions between labor and capital. We see the combination of capital in syndicates and trusts against organized labor, and we witness the of labor against capital. Tn re is constant friction between both and repeated warning of selfish interests against each other. The advantage of one is sought involving the ruin of the other.
 Unrestricted competition founded on selfishness is grinding down the weaker members of society and the time for CO.,
 E operation of both sides for mutual ad- vantage 5 is ushered in. Examples of these evils, these serious problems, are found in most factory towns and large