Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1903-09-12

A Dublin missionary said that once ne
found five different families all living
within the same four walls or one
room-one husband and wife for each
corner and one family for the center or
the room-and zone Of those families
was taking in boarders." 1t means
that no criminals as q class shall be
allowed to collect in one region. Those
haunts If necessary shall be razed TO
the ground and turned into parks, as
New York city Is now constructing
small parks at street corners which
were once famous for their infamies.
The Uncrowned King.
But some one again interrupts me:
"In these charges against the city ten
ements, are you not slandering our la
boring classes? You surely do not COM
pare the American army Of labor with
those wild, desperate crowds of fren-
zied men who, emerging from the cell
lars and foul haunts Of Paris, started
on their famous journey to Versailles,
which ended I'm the death of Louis
l..
naughty daughter of the Austrian war
queen, Maria Theresa? Do you charge
| the laboring classes with being the
physical and spiritual menace Of the
worldY Oh, no, my brother. am In
no way slandering the laboring classes.
[ believe that some Of the most cleanly
and moral and refined homes Of the
world are found among the laborers as
well as among the capitalists. But this
is what l do assert: The laboring man
is the uncrowned king Of the American
ballot box. What he votes is law. 1t
rests upon his shoulders, to great ex-
tent how our cities and counties are
TO be ruled 1t rests with him whether
the sewers shall be clean, whether the
tenements shall be made sanitary and
not oyercrowded, whether the million
immigrants who landed In the country
last year, some of whom come as the
most degraded and ignorant Of Euro
pean inhabitants, shall be made to OBJ
serve decencies, and whether sin itseir
shall skulk and hide in the darkness.
How the laboring man spends his even
ings is decided to great extent by the
question whether the laboring man
shall license sin and let leering eyed
temptation stalk through our cities and
towns, like the Indian juggernaut
which crushed its victims at every turn
Of the fatal wheels.
Rely on Divine Strength.
But, ye laboring men, how are we to
win In these three great movements
which we have been developing? How
are we to get the Holy Spirit inspired
institutional church, and the Christian
Sabbath as a day for rest and worship,
and a gospel ballot box to care for our
depraved? Shall we ultimately or
ever triumph in these three great
movements for the publication OF the
. laborers evenings? Not In our OWN
; strength, but In the strength OF Jesus
} Christ. we shall, and we can do every
thing if we will only trust him and
, work for him.
, One day, so goes the story, an old
| | Scotch preacher arose and nrst gave
, out as his text the following words
. from Philippians iv, 13: IL can do all
. things" Then he stopped. A look OF
, surprise went around the congregation,
for this minister was a humble man.
, But after a pause the preacher SAID:
I "Ah, I did not read the text Alright. IL
p any man says to me L can do all
, things I know he is liar. But II he
e reads my whole text and says 4 can DO
g all things through Christ which
1 strengtheneth me- then I say he tells
. the truth Christ is omnipotent, and
n Christ will always give us his promised
Y aid" So, laboring men, L beg ana
n plead with you to throw yourself upon
o the divine strength. l plead with you,
@ by the power of Jesus Christ, TO go
n with me into the battle Of trying 10
!. save the lower as well as the socially
f higher classes. l plead with you 10
II helm solve the question how the Ia
c boring man shall spend his evenings
- by appealing for help to Saviour
- who was once laboring man. He was
J. Jesus. the carpenter. He was Jesus
the worker for daily bread. He was
Jesus. whose companions were for the
10 most part men of knotted muscles and
5. swarthy limbs and furrowed cheeks
" and coarse hands. He Is Jesus, who
y is ready to be your colaborer for tho
,s emancipation of a sinful world-Jesus
a who perhaps is your colaborer now.
)r Copyright 1903, by Louis Klopschl