The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-11-20
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HUMBUGs OF GREATNESS.
ToLERATIoN AND THE DEACoNs
ARGUMENT.
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mo doubt" says Tolsration- but II
you spoke the truth. Said just what you
thought. you'd say just what Squire
Howard would say II was up before his
court to answer for This kind Of a charge.
You know what that would be. You know
he'd say In his blunt kind OF a way. Will
berforce. you're a mean cussr And II I
was honest I'd agree he spoke the truth.
and would admit I ought 10 be sent to Jail
if got my Just deserts, because I'd rob-
bed them OF part of the price that they
ought TO have had for their possessions
and taken away their buiness because 4
had forced them to 1t. OF course they
couldn't send me- there because the law
protects me. But, after all. how much bet
ter am than highway robber? OF
course he'd possibly take mans life.
while I'd spare him that but that's about
all the real difference"
There may be some truth" says the
Deacon, "in what you are saying There's
always two sides TO an argument and I
guess I haven't looked 10 the other side
very much"
"Why. Deacon" says federation. 'if
you had always planted the same kind OF
seed, and kept the same strain OF stock
all these years that have passed, and let
them all run out so that today they
wouldn't be worth the planting or the
keeping, because you'd got TO be so
erasping for money that you'd lose sight
OF the necessity OF doing something be-
sides money making, you wouldn't
amount to so much as the cowhide on the
bottom or your boots You would have got
some money together. perhaps. but you
would not have accomplished a thing that
could be put down as within the shadow
OF greatness.
Maybe so; maybe so.' says the Dea-
con.
"The great hnanciers and the great
manufacturers will never become great
men in my opinion until they begin to
use their smartncss In trying to see how
perfect they can make their productions.
and how much more money they can pay
their wprkmen for a days labor. and at
the same time accumulate enough for all
OF their temporal wants. When they re-
ceive their share Of the profits that they
are helping as workmen TO earn, they will
have few extra dollars at the end OF
each month to help build libraries,
churches and institutions OF learning with.
which will make such institutions far
more valuable because they were built by
the money contributed by the people, and
thousands OF them being interested In
them they will be better supported and
better patronized because the objection
able feature OF charity does not enter into
the matter at all
Some OF these kings OF finance have
became really great In so far as they
have created new inventions, thereby
blessing the people. but the money that
they have earned doesn't enter into that
greatness I'm any particular. How much
oil did Mr. Rockefeller ever create? See
the point? You may say he refncs IL.
and. therefore. improves H. OF course he
does and the person who invented the re-
flnng process was great man but twas
another fellow who did that The stand
ard oil company makes use OF IL, and
that's all the credit they're entitled to.
why" says federation. and here he
raised his voice to a tremendous high
pitch. aud gestured TO beat all, ''you talk
about big men Of finance, men who accu-
mulate great wealth being the really
great representatives OF the universe, did
YOU ever think Of it, Take the Jews.
Greatest money makers In the world.
Keen, bright. always on the alert for an
other dollar: get-it-no-matter-how, but
set II. Admitted leaders OF finance But
] would like TO see you pick out a really
great man In the whole lot today; great
the sense that doesn't consider money
matters at all. Point to one. You can't DO
It, unless II bc an occasional one down
through tho centuries. Jesus Christ was
about the only really great Jew that /
know of. snd they crucified Him because
he was really great Great I'm the highest
sense OF greatness, who said to them and
TO all tho people OF the universe What
shall IL profit n man. X he shall gain the
whole world. and lose his own soulf'
Now there's the idea You can't be great
except by the soul. III the inner man In
great he'll never try under the law, or
outside the law. to take his neighbor's
business away from him just for the sake
OF trying to get another thousand or an
other million dollars and after he's got
~, then try 20 be recognized as one OF the
worlds great bencfactors and leaders by
donating a few millions here md there.
and by bowing very low 10 the aristoc-
racy. They may get the name for a time,
hut t'll be nothing but shoddy that will
get threadbare pretty soon 80 that you
cnn recognize ana separate IL from the
real article without any trouble And then
I've come TO the conclusion that n you
don't lose your soul and still gain the
whole world, the gain doesn't amount 70
much
What can you DO with IT. Too much on
your hands. Better be satisfied with lit
tie
Talk about greatness, Deacon. John
Wesley described worldly greatness in n
mighty true sense when he WAS I'm the
robe-chamber adjoining the house OF
lords I'm England. When King George III
put on his robes. ne was constrained
60 say to himself. as he noticed how his
brow was much furrowed with age and
quite clouded with care. And is this all
the world can give. even TO king7 All
the grandeur II can aord? A blanket OF
erminc around his shoulders. 20 heavy
and cumbersome he scarce can move
under 81. huge heap OF borrowed hair.
With n fnw plates OF gold and glittering
stones upon his head. Alas, what n bau-
BILE is human greatness! Now that came
from the Wesleys. and you know they
were a mighty sound-mnded lot
must say 7 wanted 10 enter into the
argument myself. but Toera tion wsS talk
In so FAR beyond my expectations IN de-
fence of what 7 thought was right and
Justice. 7 kept still and followed my knit
tin work so't T-wouidnf drop any stitcnes
q rcekitn. hack And fnr.h a In M chair all