Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-11
COD MAKES RICH AND POOR
Rev Audsr- on Says They Should Dwell as
One Family,
JEALOUSY THE DANGEROUS TENDENCY
Baptist Divine Moved 10 n Plain Dis
cussion of Envy by Hearing
street Orators Dangerous
HaranEue.

Rev. Thomas Anderson Of Calvary Bap-
fist church preached yesterday morning
from the text, Proverbs, twenty-second
chapter and second verse, The rich and
poor shall meet together. God Is the maker
OF them all" lie said in part:
1.-THE temptation is strong to overlook or
minimize the one thousand gins
signs OF the present time We talk Of the
good old times The inference is that tine
present is bad. 1 will admit that things are
not all perfect. The tendency is to fall
down and worship wealth rather than man
hood. Yet never was there 4 time when
the right Of the poorest was better pro-
tected and conceded. the rich are called
era sping. Yet never was there a time
when the rich more regarded their wealth
as a stewardship than a. present. Labor
IS not the degrading mental thinE II once
was. Machinery has done more TO benefit
the poor than the rich. L. has put more
into the pockets and heads OF the lowly
than TO the rich. 1t has taken away ply
steal drudgery. The poorest Is almost
equal in opportunity to the rich. The poor
man may now enjoy the luxuries of liter
allure and art. through the wonderful evo-
luton OF the printing press and photog-
raphy. They have brought the master
pieces of literature and art to the homes
OF the lowly. The poor and the rich have
advanced. Some Of the tendencies of the
times should be checked. Yet mankind
has advanced, both rich and poor, for mu-
tual good and helpfulness. The poor are
as essential to human life and society as
are the rich. All men are equal before
God. Yet all men were not created equal.
II all the wealth OF the world were placed
right here and distributed pro rata, some
body would in a few days legitimatoly
have my share. The poor we shall have
always with you. God made no mistake
when he made the difference in classes.
These things we're necessary TO keep up the
stream Of life, of helpful relationship be-
tween the rich and the poor. the high and
the low. God made them all.
Jealousy the Danger.
THE dangerous tendency Of the times is
jealousy. Those less favored than others
envy their more fortunate and prudent
~neighbors. / heard a speech the other day
I'm this city on one OF the streets. 1t was
full Of all manner of abuse, and II its
doctrines were put to a practical test we
would have a Paris commune here with all
its attendant horrors. 1t was the effect
Of such a speech that sent a bullet into
the breast of Mckinley. And yet there are
some Christians who, for motives of policy,
would endorse such a speech. If these
HtlllllltllAo #WtIb " DItNhll ulCleCkeQ II
would result in the death of not you alone,
but Of all classes.
The Paris revolution grew from the tree
of hatred and envy. Woe betide the day
when one forgets that as blue blood courses
in the veins of the poor as of the rich. We
are all one common family. The leaders
of literature, art and craftsmanship come
from the huts of the lowly.
Christ the Example.
THE greatest of these was Christ, and
he never hesltated to acknowledge the
debt he owed to the rich. Among some the
idea prevails that the rich are murderers
robbers and thieves. There are honest ricl
men as there are honest poor men. w,
have no business to condemn a man OF
hand because he is rich. There are thos,
whose riches are founded in blood ant
bankruptcy. 1 am not speaking of them
Nor of the aristocracy of wealth or pov
erty. Let us seek for the man behind tho
wealth or poverty. There are miseries ant
p~erplexities in all classes Of life. Let u.
all, rich and poor, recognize that there 1,
but one common God. and He is over all
Let us come to believe in and love NOR,
and more one another. Man may toll witt
his brains or his hands. Let us pray 10,
the coming day when 1t shall be A man,
a man for "A that"