The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1899-11-02
THE PRINCETON UNION. THURsDA4 NovEMBnR 4, 1899.

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All this and morsdid Henry Maxwell
ponder. All the othrrs were thinking in
the same way. The bishop sat there
with a look so stern and sad that it was
not hard to tell how the question moved
him. DR.. Bruce had his head bowed
The human problem had never seemed
to him so tragic as since he had taken
the pledge and left his church to enter
the settlement. What would Jesus do?
1t was a terrible question, and still the
man stood there, tall and gaunt and al;
most terrible, with his arm stretched
out in an appeal which grew every sec
Ond in meaning. ri
At length Mr.. Maxwell spoke
is there any man in the room who
is Christian disciple who has been in
this condition and has tried to do as
Jesus would do? If so, such man can
answer his question better than can. =
There was a moments hush over the
room, and then man near the front Of
the hall slowly rose. He was an old
man, and the hand he laid on the back
Of the bench in front of him trembled
as he spoke: '.e- ....~ .
II think can safely say that have
many times been in just such condi-
ton and have always tried to be a
Christian under all conditions. I don't
know that I have always asked this
question, What would Jesus do?' when
I have been out Of work, but do know
I have tried to be his disciple. at all
times. Yes the man went on, with a
sad smile that was more pathetic to the
bishop and Mr.. Maxwell than the young
mans grim despair-''yes, I have beg
ged, and have been to the charity or
PLANTATIONS. and I have done every
thing when out of job, except steal
and lie, in order to get food and fuel !
don't know that Jesus would have done
some Of the things have been obliged
to do for living, hut I know have
never knowingly done wrong when out
of work Sometimes I think maybe he
would have starved sooner than beg.
don't know"
The old mans voice trembled, and he
looked around the room timidly A ST.
lence followed, broken by fierce voice
from a large, black haired, heavily
bearded man who sat three seats from
the bishop. The minute he spoke nearly
every man in the hall leaned forward
eagerly: The man who had asked the
question, ''What would Jesus do in my
case?' slowly sat down and asked the
man next to him, "Who's that?"
"That's Carlson, the socialistic lead
er. Now you'll II hear something"
''This is all bosh, to my mind" be-
gan Carlson, while his great. bristling
beard shook with the deep, inward
anger of the man. 1.-The whole of our
system is at fault What we call civil
lization is rotten to the core. There is
no use trying to hide it OF cover it up.
We live in an age Of trusts and COM
bines and capitalistic greed that means
simply death to thousands of innocent
men, women and children. l thank
God, if there is a God, which I very
much doubt, that I, for one, have never
dared to marry and try to have home.
Homel Talk Of hell Is there any big
ger than the one this man with his
three children has On his hands right
this minute? And he's only one out OF
thousands, and yet this city and every
other big city in this country has its
thousands of professed Christians who
have all the luxuries and comforts anG
who go to church Sundays and sing
their hymns about giving all to Jesus
and bearing the cross and following hin
all the way and being savedl I dom
say that there aren't some good me1
and women among them, but let thu
minister who has spoken to US here to
night go into any one of a dozen arts
tocratic churches could name and pro
pose to the members to take any sucl
pledge as the one he's proposed here ant
see how quick the people would laugl
at him for a fool or crank or fanatic
Oh, no! That's not the remedy. Tha
can't ever amount to anything. View
got to have a new start in the way o
government. The whole thing needs re
constructing don't look for any re
form worth anything to come out o
the churches. They are not with tn
people. They are with the aristocrats
with the men Of money The trusts an
monopolies have their greatest men il
the churches. The ministers as elias
are their slaves What we need is
system that shall start from the com
mon basis Of socialism founded on tn
rights of the common people,
Garrison had evidently forgotten a.
} about the three minute rule and wa
launching himself into regular ora
ton that meant, in his usual surround
ings, before his usual audience, an hou
, at least, when the man just behind hi1
/ pulled him down unceremoniously an
rose. Carlson was angry at first an
7 threatened little disturbance, but tn
bishop reminded him of the rule, an
he subsidized, with several muttering
3 in his beard while the next speaker b.
gan with a very strong eulogy on til
) value Of the single tax as genuin
!. remedy for all the social ills. He wa
followed by man who made bite
: attack on the churches and minister
! and declared that the two great obsts
/ cles in the way of all true reform WEI
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