The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-03

petrified by avarice or trodden down
by oppression.
Man" says Lalnartine, never yet
fastened one end of a chain around the
neck of his brother that Gods own
hand did not fasten the other end round
the neck of his oppressor" 1t will be
hard to find any social dislocation not
durable by the New Testament rule
Let no man seek Exclusively his
own, but every man (also) another's
wealth. Call it Utopianism, call it
altruism, call it impractical theory, it
is at any rate Christianity. We chal-
lenge the objector to find a spot on the
earth where it has been tried without
the harmonizing of discort, the abate-
ment of crime, the increase of thrift,
contentment, economy and every vir-
tue, the royal growth of individual
freedom and public peace, and what
are these but the coming of the new
democracy, grander than any Utopia
or New Atlantis, in these later days on
these western shores?
Garry up all your dealing with this
large question to that highest height
where your Lord lifted it, and hold ii
there. MY father worketh, and /
work" After ALL and at the last, the
capital-and-lab question is not of
property, but of character, on both it's
sides; not of money, but of manhood.
1t is the old question between money
and right; and it never was and never
can be solved by a faithiess material
ism, but only by something greater in
man which makes him one of the sons
of God Strive and hope for the time
to come when, by school and church
citizens will be trained who are fit to
be capitalists, fit to organize and lead
industry, manly enough to respect their
workmen and deal honorably with their
imperfections. The masters of indus
tries must be masters of themselves, Of
Ideas, and of human sympathies. Till
the worlds business is done with gen
uine manliness and lofty spirit 1t will
be done with bitches and botches,
strikes, panics, reactions, failures,
Strikes and boycotts are symptoms
Behind the disorder is disease Empir-
ical treatment may deal with specific
eruptions, but for social health in the
body Of the commonwealth nothing can
avail in the long run but personal
character strong with those three ele-
ments that are familiar as pledges to
your ips-"temperance reverence,
purity" You know the satire of the
socialist. christianity has nothing to
say to the modern world with all its
injustices inequalities and wrongs its
unpaid seamstresses, overworked la
porers, oYerfed Notwithstanding but
two commonplace lmsgiving for the
rich, resignation for the poor, Yes,
one kind of Christianity possibly; but
not the Christianity embodied and
alive in him who is the Master Work
man Of mankind, proclaiming, My
father worketh hitherto, and l work."
or in his legitimate followers who say
by word and deed, mo man liveth -
himself"
Would you have capital what capital
ought to be, Christianize 1t! It is vain
for employers to beg the policeman's
club or pistol to quel riots and guard
their houses if they build those houses
on unrighteous profits on skeletons ami
tears. Two prosperous and active mer-
chants were sitting at dinner, why
one asked of the other do you keep.
on at work in your business? You have
enough" Yes" was the answer, but
I have costly tastes more and more
costly. which want to indulge. But