The Worcester spy., 1899-07-03
Can Be Made the
Worst Curse of the
Country.
SEES GOOD IN THEM, HOWEVER.
A Acknowledgment of Recent
Cablegram to the Hague
Read in Grace Church.

Rev. James Boyd Brady, D. d.,
preached before large congregation
at Grace church last night. The pre-
iude to his sermon was How trusts
5 can be heralds of millennium.
At the opening of the service DR..
Brady read the following letter from
The Hague:
THE Hague, June, 1899,
conference of peace
Key James Boyd Brady, pastor of
Grace church, Worcester, Mass,
Z. S. A.:
Ine International conference of
peace in session at The Hague, hav-
ing received your telegram, has the
noaor TO request you to accept its
sincere thanks for your wishes and
your evidences of sympathy for the
work Of the conference
(SlSned), The Secretary General"
Ut Brady then spoke in part:
competition may be the life of trade,
Dut it is often the death of trader.
ne life of the trader is more valuable
Ahan the life of trade. Health. happi-
ness and life are the proper objects of
LABOR. Trade is to promote the well
1are OF the people. When business be-
comes so tense. sharp and irritating
that 1t taps the nerves. fevers the BRAIN
Dreaks the heart and mows down our
pest men in the prime of life, then it
mas ceased to be a servant and has be-
come despot, has ceased to be a pur-
Veying vassal and becomes an extor-
uonate tyrant. Providence has not
given trade that position. Men make
1t a despot by desperate ambition.
When the competitive rivalres are
50 conflicting and eXasperating that
n Nr wtaAs,
coinSion, then ii is time to consider
whether there be no better system.
business is to build men up, not to
break them down. Our asylums and
cemeteries are crowded with broken
down men. In this country business is
more murderous than in any
other. Men come here to get
rich. They intemperately strive and
strain to accomplish their purpose.
They live victims to avarice. They die
victims of money. Mammon sways his
sceptre over more victims than drunk
enness. The establishment of trusts is
In the main an effort to break away
from the risky rasping abrasions of
breakdown business.
The trust by its monopolistic inhu-
man combinations can be made the
worst curse this country yet has known.
But the trust also If founded and con-
Quoted on gospel principles can be made
the herald of the millennium.
The possibilities for evil or good in
the trusts are superlative
If organized and operated on the
purse serving plan, they are the har-
bingers Of damnation. If organized and
operated on the gospel plan, they are
the forerunners of salvation. For good
they have limitless possibilities They
can put crispness into business life
without the despair of torture, or pros
pective failure. They can establish a
brotherhood Of business in place of the
slaughter houses of competitive COM
meree They can with their vast capi-
tai. commence and carry on and COM
plete huge enterprises, needed by this
commonwealth at such a pivotal time
as this.
They can be so worked as to give good
wages to the hand toilers, cheap pro-
ducts to the consumers ard fair profits
TO the producers. They can be so man
aged that the hand workers shall have
shorter hours in the factory and longer
hours in the study, and so the elevating
power of education and the inspiring
strength of salvation can be let down
among the submerged masses. The
amicable blessings Of brotherhood flow
ing from humanitarian system of CO.
operative business would solve the
knotty problems that vex capital and
-e-NVt. i tAC ilCH WOulQ lGti the neeQS OF
the poor, and the poor would feel the
Kindness of the rich. the bitterness of
socialists, nihilists and anarchists
would be buried. The beauties of phil
anthropists. educationalists and inspir-
ationists would be enthrcned.
The unity which pervades the natural
world would polish and strengthen the
human, Man would cease to be slave
and become seraph. Love would be the
boundless ocean that would with car
essing arms take daily, mankind to its
breasts. Mutual helpfulness would be
he law and mutual strife the excep-
tion. The social structure of the race
would emerge from its sinister selfish
ness and build on.
In such cooperative system no man
except few foolish rascals, and those
could be easily controlled by law, would
be disposed to oppress his brother. Ring
out the bells of this patriotic week for
the new era. Let the flag float for the
incoming effort. Let the clarions cry
and the drums beat for business eman-
cipation.