The record-union., 1899-05-08

repudiate the fundamental laws Of the
kingdom. Jesus refuses to be a Savior
where He is not received as Lord and
Master. Why call We Me Lord, Lord,
and do not the things that 1 say? The
throne of Christ as well as the cross
of Christ must be emphasized He is
our crowned King as well as our cruci-
| fed Redeemer. He is to rule our lives
as well as save our souls.
| Men in their civic and corporate re-
lations are as truly bound by the laws
of Christ as in their personal, indi-
vidual life. A corporation is as bound
| to do justly. love mercy and walk
humbly with God as is an Individual
A manufacturing or mercantile cor
poration has no more right to set aside
law of Christ than an individual has
Thou shalt not steal is a law of God
for the corporation as we'll as for the
individual Every man who is a mem
Der or shareholder of a corporation
that steals is in Gods sight a thief,
and will be dealt with as a thief when
he stands before the judgment seat of
| Christ. The sin We do by two and
| two, We must pay for one by one
Corporations and combinations of men
must learn that though hand join in
hand, the wicked shall not go unpun-
ished. They may evade the laws of the
-land and by corrupting courts escape
human punishment, but God they can
not evade, and the judgment seat Of
Christ they cannot corrupt or escape.
At that judgment bar
There is no shutting; there the action lies
In its true nature and we ourselves COM
PEELED,
Even to the teeth and forehead of our
faults
To give in evidence
He who breaches righteousness in
the great congregation to-day must
lift up his voice and say to corpora
lions as well as to Individuals: Better
is a little with righteousness than great
revenues without right The great
revenues that some modern combina-
tons and corporations are receiving
are gained by a contempt and subver-
sion of the principles enunciated by
Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount
And as truly as Jesus is the Son of
God and the judge of men, so surely
Will these men receive punishment.
Go to, ye rich men; weep and howl
for your mlSer1eS that shall come up
on you. Your riches are corrupted
and your garments motheaten. Your
gold and silver is cankered, and the
rust of them shall be witness, against
you, and shall. eat your flesh as if
were fire" Woe unto him that build
eth his house by unrighteousness and
his chambers by wrong; that useth
his neighbours service without wages
and giveth him not for his work.
This is the word of the Lord to many
modern monopoly, to many a modern
millionaire:
Your boards are great your walls are
strong, but Gcd is Just
The gilded chambers built by wrong, in
vite the rust.
The revival that is coming is a re-
vival of the idea of the Kingdom of
God on earth The vision John saw
in Patmos men are seeing to-day: the
kingdoms of this world, the kingdom
of science and art, of industry and
politics are to become the Kingdom Of
Christ. Jesus is to rule the factory
and the Legislature. The industries
and commerce and politics of the
world are to be brought in harmony
with the Sermon on the Mount
Christianity cannot be called a fail
ure, because it has never yet been
tried. There is not nation to-day
that makes a pretense of being gov
erned by the principles of Jesus There
is much in our commerce and in our
civilization that is contrary to His
teachings. The laws that control the
production and distribution of wealth
are more pagan than Christian. Jesus
IS despised and rejected" by our po-
ht1cal economy; that competition is the
law and life of trade; that supply and
demand should determine the wages
of those who do the worlds hard work:
that the employer is under no obliga-
ton to consider the moral or physical
welfare of those he EMPLOYS: that
men and women are to be considered
merely as so much producing power,
hands, and not souls; that it Is
right to form monopoly by which a
few men for their own profit will keen
down production and keep up prices
these and many other trade laws are
d1rect reversal of the laws of Jesus
They contradict the whole teaching.
spirit and example of His life. They
are practical atheism They deny the
right of divine laws to control human
industries. He who conducts his sbon
on these principles denies the faith and
crucifies the Son Of God afresh. in the
subJugatfon and degradation of men
and women who do the worlds hard
work We need a revival of religion
that will Christianize the worlds com
merce and gospelize its industries We
need a revival of Christian ethics.