Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-08-18

Divide up your estates or portions OF
them for the relief of the world before
you leave ii. Do not go out of the
world like that man who died in New
York, leaving in his will $4,000. 900,
yet giving how much for the church of
God; how much for the alienation OF
human suffering? He gave some mon
ey little while before he died. That
was well, but in all this will of S4O,-
100000 how much? One million? No
Five hundred thousand? No. One
hundred dollars? No. Two cents?
No. One cent? No. These great
cities groaning in anguish. nations cry
ing out for the bread of everlasting
life. \ man in will giving forty
millions of dollars and not one cent to
God. 1t is disgrace to our civiliZa-
ton. Or. as illustrated in a letter
which l have concerning a man who
departed this life, leaving between
five and eight millions of dollars. Not
one dollar was left, this writer says, TO
comfort the aged wOrkmen and work
women, not one dollar to elevate and
instruct the hundreds of pale children
who stified their childish growth in
the heat and clamor of his factory. Is
it strange that the curse of the chill
dren Of toll follows such ingratitude?
How well could one of his many mil
lions have been disbursed for the pres
ent and the future benefit of those
whose hands had woven literally the
fabric of the dead mans princely for.
tune. Oh, capitalists of the United
States, be your own executors. Be
George Peabody. if need be, on a small
scale. God has made you a steward
Discharge your responsibility.
A Word to Labor.
My word is to all laboring men in
this country; l congratulate you at
your Frightening prospects. con-
gratulate you on the fact that you are
getting your representatives at AL
bany, at Harrisburg and at Washing
ton. | have only to mention such a
man of the past as Henry Wilson, the
shoemaker: as Andrew Johnson, the
tailor; as Abraham Lincoln, the boat !
man. The living illustrations easily |
occur to you. This will go on until
you will have representatives at all
the headquarters, and you will have |
full justice.
l congratulate you also on yohr Op- |
portunities of information. Plato paid |
81 800 for two books. Jerome ruined |
himself financially by buying one vol
ume of Origen. What vast opportuni-
ties for intelligence for you and your
children. 4 working man goes along
by the show window of some great |
publishing house. and he sees a book
that costs 81. He says:'l wish | could
have that information. | wish | could
raise So for that costly and beautiful
book" A few months pass on, and he
gets the value of that book for %
cents in pamphlet. There never was
such a day for the workingmen of
America as this day and the day that
Is coming.
dISO yOu bCtaucO .Oui
work is only predatory and introducto-
~. You want the grace of Jesus
Christ, the carpenter OF Nazareth. He
toiled himself, and he knows how to
sympathize with all who toll. Get his
grace in your heart, and you can sing
Dn the scaffolding amid the storm, in
the shop showing the plane in the mine
plunging the crowbar. on shipboard
the ratlines. He will make
The drops of sweat on your brow gilt
tering pearls for the eternal coronet.
Are you tired, he will rest you. Are
you sick, he will give you help. Are
you cold, he will wrap you in the man.
lie of his love. Who are they before
he throne? "Ah," you say, their
hands were never calloused with TOLL
Yes, they were. You say, Their feet
we're never blistered with the long
Journey" Yes, they were, but Christ
-aised them to that high eminence.
Who are these? These are they that
.ame out of great tribulation and had
heir robes washed and made white
n the blood of the Lamb" That for
very Christian workingman and for
very Christian workingwoman will be
he beginning of eternal holiday.