Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1900-07-05

uoueA Is root OF all KINDS of evil.
1t is the curse Of our civilization. the
greatest god of the human race today.
"'Our civilization is only partly
Christian. for Christian civilization
means more comforts; ours means
more wants.
O. II mans pocketbook is not con-
verted with his soul, the man will not
get into heaven with It.
There are certain things that mon
ey alone can secure, but among those
things it cannot buy is character
All wealth from the Christian
standpoint is in the nature of trust
funds, 10 be so used as the admins
traitor, God, shall direct No man owns
the money for himself. The gold is
Gods; the silver is Gods. That is the
plain and repeated teaching of the BIZ
BILE.
" 1t is not wrong for a man to make
money. 1t is wrong for him to use il
seliishly or foOlishly.
1.-THE consecrated wealth of the
men Of Milton could provide work for
every idle man In town. The Christian
use Of the wealth of the world would
make impossible the cry FOR bread.
Most of the evils of our present
condition flow out of the love of mon
ey. The almighty dollar is the god Of
Protestant America.
IF men loved men as eagerly as
they love money, the millennium would
be just around the corner
Wealth is a curse unless the owner
Of it blesses the world with it.
"'"If any man hath the worlds
goods and sceth his brother have need,
and shutteth up his compassion from
him, how dwelleth the love of God in
him.
"'Christlan socialism teaches a man
to bear other peoples burdens. The
very first principle of Christian social
ism is unseltishness.
1--WE shall never see a better condl-
ton Of affairs in this country until the
men of wealth realize their RESPONSE
bility and privilege.
"'Christ never said anything against
the poor. He did speak some tremen-
dous warnings in the face Of the selfish
rich.
1.-THE only safe thing for a man of
wealth to do is TO ask himself, What
would Christ do with my money If he
had itF
1T would be impossible to describe
the effect of the Rev Mr.. Strongs talk
upon the audience. once the applause
was so long continued that 1t was a
full minute before he could 90 on.
When he finally closed with a tremen-
dous appeal to the wealth Of Milton to
use its power for the good of the place,
for the tearing down and remodeling
of the tenements, for the solution Of
the problem Of no work for thousands
of desperate men, the audience rose TO
It's feet and cheered agan and again.
AT the close Of the meeting the min
lister was surrounded by a crowd of
men. and an after meeting was held, at
which steps were taken to form a COM
mittee composed Of prominent church
people and labor leaders TO work, If
possible, together toward a common
end
1T was rumored yesterday that sew
eral of the leading members of Cal
vary church are very much dissatisfied
with the way things have been going
during these Sunday evening meetings
and are likely to withdraw IL they
continue. They say that Mr.. Strong's
utterances are socialistic and tend TO
indame the minds of the people to
acts of violence. Since the attack on
Mr.. Winter nearly every mill owner
In town goes armed and takes extra
precautions. Mr.. Strong was much
pleased with the result Of the Sunday
night meetings and said they had done
much 10 bridge the gulf between the
church and the people. He refused 10
credit the talk about disatfection in
Calvary church"
In another column OF this same pa
per were five separate accounts Of the
desperate condition Of affairs in the
town. The midnight hold up attacks
were growing in frequency and N
boldness. Along with all the rest the
sickness in the tenement district had
assumed the nature Of an epidemic Of
fever. clearly caused by the lack Of
sanitary regulations. imperfect drain
age and crowding of families. Clearly
the condition Of matters was growing
serious.
At this time the ministers of differ
ent churches I'm Milton held meeting
TO determine on a course Of action that
would relieve some of the distress.
Various plans were submitted. Some
proposed distrlcting the town to ascer-
tain the number Of needy families.
Others proposed a union Of benevolent
offerings TO be given the poor. Anoth-
ey group suggested something else. To
Philips mind not one Of the plans sub
mitted went TO the root Of the matter.
He was not popular with the other
ministers. Most Of them thought he
was sensational However, he made
a plea for his own plan, which was
radical aud as he believed went TO the
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