Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1900-03-29

'The men who own these tenements--
and members of other churches be-
sides Calvary are among the owners
are guilty In the sight of God for al
lowing human beings made in his inn
| age TO grow up in such horrible sur
roundings when IL is In the power OF
! money TO stop II. Therefore they shall
receive greater condemnation at the
| last. when Christ sits on the throne OF
the universe to judge the world. For
will he not say. as he said long years
| ago. 4 was an hungered and We gave
me no meat, naked and We clothed me
! not, sick and in miserable dwellings
reeking with filth and disease and ye
drew the hire of these places and vis-
| tied me notY For are these men and
women and children not our brethren7
| Verify God will require II at our
hands, oh. men Of Milton, IL, having the
power to use Gods property so as to
make the world happier and better.
we refuse to do so and 60 our ways
careless Of our responsibility and self
ish in our use of Gods money"
Philip closed his sermon with an ac-
count of facts concerning the condition
! Of some of the people he himself had
visited. When the service closed, more
than one property owner went away
| secretly enraged at the minister's bold
| and, as most of them said and thought,
"impertinent meddling In their busi-
ness" Was he wise? And yet he had
been TO more than one Of these men
In private with the same message. Did
| he not have the right to speak in pub
lie? Did not Christ do SO? Would he
not do so If he were here on earth
! again? And Philip, seeing the great
need, seeing the mighty power OF mon
| ey, seeing the Indifference Of these men
to the whole matter, seeing their de-
! termination to conduct their business
4 for the gain Of 1t without regard 10 the
condition of life, with his heart sore
! and his soul indignant at the suffering
he had witnessed, came into the church
and flung his sword of wrath out Of its
scabbard, shifting at the very thing
dearest of all things to thousands Of
1 church members today-the money, the
property, the gain of acquisition-and
he smote perhaps with somewhat un-
wise energy of denunciation, yet with
his heart crying out for wisdom with
every blow he struck. would Christ
say IL? Would he say itY And his
sensitive. keenly suffering spirit heard
the answer, "Yes, believe he would"
Back of that answer he did not go in
those days so rapidly drawing to their
tremendous close. He bowed the soul
of him to his Master and said. THY
will be done"
The week following this Sunday was
one of the busiest Philip had known.
With the approach of warmer weather.
q great deal Of sickness came on. he
was going early and late on errands OF
! mercy to the poor souls all about his
own house. The people knew him now
and loved him. He comforted his spir-
1t with that knowledge as he prayed
and worked.
He was going through one of the mar
row courts one night on his way home.
with his head bent down and his
| thoughts on some scene Of suffering,
when he was suddenly confronted by
young man who stepped quickly out
from a shadowed corner, threw ono
arm about Philips neck and placed his
| other hand over his mouth and at
tempted to throw him oyer backward
| 1t was very late, and there was no
| one In sight. Philip said to himself,
''This Is the attack or which was
warned" He was taken altogether by
surprise; but, being active and self pos
sessed, he sharply threw himself for
| ward. repelling his assailant's attack,
and succeeded In pulling the mans
hand away from his mouth. His first
seconds instinct was to cry out for
help; his next was to keep still He
| suddenly felt the other giving way.
| The strength seemed to be leaving him.
| Philip, calling up some Of his knowl-
edge of wrestling gained while In c0l-
| lege, threw his entire weight upon him
| and. to his surprise, the man offered no
resistance. They both fell heavily up
on the ground, the man underneath.
He had not spoken, and no one had yet
appeared. As the man lay there motion
less Philip rose and stood over him.
BY the dim light that partly illumi-
mated the court from a street lamp
farther on he saw that his assailant
was stunned, There was a pump not
far away. Philip went over and
brought some water. After few mo-
ments the man recovered conscious
ness He sat up and looked about In q
confused manner. Philip stood near
by, looking at him thoughtfully.
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