Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-09-20

well being and happiness Of others, If
we live lives of greed and selfshness,
snatching riches and lustful pleasures
In way to bring tears and distress to
others, we prove ourselves unworthy
OF share in the happiness of future
life and cannot hope to partake thereof.
1t was to teach this and so save man.
kind from perdition that Christ gave
His life. He taught that the way t.
gain entrance into a future kingdom
where divine justice would rule, where
all men would be happy. was to live on
this earth such life as would, if lived
upon the earth by all. bring happiness
| to all men even as in Heaven. The men
who refuse to live such a life on earth
and so prevent the realization of happi-
ness on earth must be denied entrance
into the Kingdom of Heaven, ere their
entrance there should prevent the re-
alization of happiness in Heaven even
as their misspent lives of selfishness on
| earth prevent the realization of happi-
ness here. So taught Christ. He
taught, He suffered, He died to bring
men to realization of their duties on
| this earth, to lead them out of the lives
that were making the earth sphere of
tears and condemning them to an ever
lasting perdition. even as by their acts
they were making the lives of others
on earth.
And are we profiting from His teach
ing? Do unto others as you would
have them do unto you, He taught.
Trespass not upon the rights of others
if We would not be trespassed upon.
He proclaimed the doctrine of the
brotherhood of man. If thy neighbor
| is less endowed with this worlds goods
than thou, treat him not as thy serf,
but as thy equal; if he is more wealthy
grovel not before him. Trespass then
not upon others because you. have the
power, for the possession of power to
trespass does not give the right. Seek
not wealth by squeezing from others
the products of their toll. In the pur-
suit OF wealth ask yourself if the course
you are pursuing, the acts you are
about to take, will bring losses to 9TH
ers, bring sufferings, heartrendings,
| tears, and If the answer is yes, stop
short, for you are trespassing on the
! rights of others and let not thy thirst
for riches goad you into some sophis-
teal line of reasoning which may deny
the answer yelling up from your inner
| conscience.
By the light of divine law and justice
no man has a right to riches gained by
| trespassing on the rights of others, no
right to riches purchased at the cost of
tears. gained in way that may bring
unhappiness, distress to ones fellow
men. What man can gather without
despoiling his fellows, what he can by
his labor, labor of brain and muscle,
add to the wealth of the world he has
right to, for such wealth is gained at
the cost of no man, andi can be truth
fully said that such gain is no mans
loss. But where one mans gain is
another's loss there is injustice and the
building of fortunes on such gain is
in controversion of the law of God
as given to us for our guidance by
Christ. And fortunes built upon re-
bates on railroad freight rates and at
the expense of stockholders and those
producers and shippers not sharing in
such rebates, fortunes built upon stock
manipulations and the fleeing of the
investing public. fortunes built upon
dishonest trafficking in public fran
chises are fortunes of this latter kind
and the accumulators of such fortunes,
however it may please them to hide it
from themselves. or please them to
hire ministers to hide it from them by
plausible casiustry. are not leading
Christian lives or paving the way for
their entrance into the Kingdom of
| Heaven.
Liberty, equality, fraternity" the
brotherhood of man, is the doctrine
that Christ taught 1900 years ago. To-
day it is the doctrine of populism.-
Philadelphia American.