The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1900-07-26

second duty is to go and do 1t after
hearing the answer.
"If the money owned by church
members were all spent to the glory
Of God, there would be fewer hun
dred thousand dollar churches built
and more model tenements.
"'If Christ had been n millionaire,
he would have used his money to build
up character in other people rather
than build magnificent brownstone
palace for himself. But we cannot
imagine Christ as millionaire.
"lt Is as true now as when Paul said
It nearly 20 centuries ago. "The love Of
money is a 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.
"Tf a mans pocketbook is not con-
verted with his soul, the man will not
get into heaven with 1t.
.'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, to 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 Bi-
bic.
1T is not wrong for man to make
money. 1t is wrong for him to use it
selfishly or foolishly.
"'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
cy. The almighty dollar is the god of
Protestant America.
"'lf men loved men as eagerly as
they love money, the millennium would
be just around the corner.
"'Wcalth is a curse unless the owner
Of 1t blesscs the world with it.
"'"lf any man hath the worlds
goods and scclh his brother have need,
and shuttcth up his compassion from
him. how dwcllcth the love of God in
him."
"'Chrstian socialism teaches Il man
IN ,tI,
very first principle of Christian social
ism is unscliishncss.
1--WE shall never see n better conli-
ton of affairs in this country until the
men Of wealth realize their RESPONSE
blity and privilege.
"'Christ never said anything against
the poor He did speak some trcmen-
dous warnings in the face of the selfish
rich.
1.-The only safe thing for man of
wealth to do is to ask himself. What
would Christ do with my money if he
had it"
1T would be impossible to describe
the effect of the Rev. Mr.. Strong's talk
upon the audience. Once the applause
was so long continued that it was a
full minute before he could go on.
When he finally closed with trcmen-
dous appeal to the wealth of Milton to
use its power for the good of the place,
for the tearing down and rcmoinlng |
Of the tencmcnts. for THE solution of |
the problem of no work for thousands |
OF desperate men. the audience rose to |
its feet and chccrcd again and again.
AT the close of the meeting the min |
lister was surrounded by crowd of |
men, and an after meeting was held. at |
mittec composed of prominent church |
people and labor leaders to work, If |
possible, together toward n common
end.
ut 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 if they
continue. They say that Mr. StrOng's
uttcrances are socialistic and tend to
inilame 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
Mr.. Strong was much
pleased with the result of the Sunday
night meetings and said they had done
much to bridge the gulf between the
church and the people. He refused to
credit the talk about disaffcction in
Calvary church"
In another column of this same pa
per were five separate accounts of the
desperate condition of affairs in the
own. The midnight hold up attacks
were growing in frequency and I'm
)oldness. Along with all the rest the
sickness in the tenement district had
assumed the nature of an epidemic of
ever, clearly caused by the lack of
sanitary regulations, imperfect drain
lge and crowding of families. Clearly
he condition Of matters was growing
serious.
At this time the ministers of differ