The Grenada sentinel., 1902-10-18

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INSTRUMENTATION Of wealth. no COM
bines to force up the cost Of living and
make life burden, no selfishHess and
greed to take the bread out OF the
mouths, Of widows and orphan chill
dren, no low-lfved passions to tester
and rot and spread the disease OF per-
verted desires. and appetites, no cor
ruption in public Office, no oppression
by those in power, no inconsistencies
and unreas oning passions OF working
men, no hasty, nl-considered strikes,
no mad mobs to destroy life and prop
erty, no anarchy, no socialism, no any
thing that would work evil or wrong
to anyone. Don't you want to go to
Heaven where the perfect will OF God
is done do. Don't you want to stand
with God and try to bring as much Of
the will OF God to pass in the earth as
you can? I do. Do you want your
prayer, "Thy<will be done In earth, as
it is in Heaven" to count for some-
thing? Then strive to learn what the
will Of God is, and begin to live it out
in your life as practical demonstra-
t1on, as David did. There is more pow.
er In the living, practical demonstra-
tion of Gods will than all the precepts
you can crowd in between earth and
the blue of Heaven.
We know it is not Gods will that
over $4,000 miners should be idle for
over tive months, bringing untold hard
ships upon over 100000 women and
nearly 100000 children, and driving the
miners into habits of conduct which
are demoralizing to home and destruc-
tive of the welfare of the state and ma
tion. We know that it is not Gods will
that an army of soldiery should be
obliged to guard the property of tho
capitalists because the workingman,
groaning under burdens, is driven to
desperation in his efforts to secure
what he considers his rights. We know
it is not Gods will that over $27, ,o0o, 900
in wages should have been lost by the
miners and that the operators should
see their losses mounting up towards
the $70,O00,O0O mark. We know that it
is not Gods will that merchants should
suffer and in some cases be bankrupt
and that mills and factories in many
cases should be obliged to shut down,
entailing hardships on the workmen
and their families by the enforced idle
ness. We know that tits not Gods will
that the employer and employe should
have each other by the throat striving
to strangle the liberty and even the life
which they are entitled to. What
dreadful spectacle it is! The interests
of capital and labor so inseparably
linked and yet in so many cases at
such bitter strife. To those who are
not party to the strife that is now
shaking the state of Pennsylvania to
it's very foundations and disturbing the
entire nation and creating comment
and concern abroad, what a terrible
spectacle it is! And if earth is sh ocked
by the struggle, what must it be in the
light of Heaven? AS God looks down
upon the scene He knows, but earth
forgets, that a reckoning day is COM
ing, and that the capitalist and the
workingman must give an account of
the deeds done in the body. That if
capital sows greed and hellish selfish
ness and labor sows unreasoning pas
sion and bitter hatred, they will both
reap the whirlwind of destructive con-
ditions. And as God looks down upon
the strife what does He hear?
Prayers! Prayers that Gods will ma y
be done in earth, as it is in Heaven.
Prayers from lips that are stained
with the bitterest acrimony towards a
fellow man or towards capital or labor.
Prayers by men whose hands clutch
the glittering gold that has been
ground from the helpless laborer, and
prayers by men whose hands are
stained with the violent deed and even
with blood, as the property of the
employer has been attacked and the
lives of the men anxious to work have
been imperiled. What blasphemy!
That we should pray: "Thy will be
done in earth as it is in Heaven" and
that we should go on living and doing
our own will and preventing God from
! doing His.
! Gods will on earth! What is it?
| Man cannot determine it for God, but
| God reveals it to man through His Son,
| Jesus Christ, Who came into the world
to do His Fathers will and show men
how to do the same. The world has
| been plunged into sin and iniquity, and
i it is Gods will that man should be lift.
| ed out of that condition. And Christ
/ came into the world to do. that very
| thing. He did not come into the world
to be great reformer as some SO glibly
claim. He did not come into the world
| to try to patch up the miserable wreck
| and failure of human nature, but he
came into the world to give man Gods
| nature, to make Him new creature
| He knew that the natural man could
| not do the will Of Cod, Had not man
kind been trying the experiment from
it's creation, and how miserably it had
failed is set forth in human annals and
in Gods Word. But Christ came into
/ the. world and did Gods will. God,
| will is that righteousness shall tri
umph, and on the cross sin was pun