The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-03
GREAT GATHERING OF
 RAILROAD WORKERS
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in every walk and avocation of life. DO as we may, we are stilI dependent upon each other; though seas divide us ana barriers of all kinds may seem to blot out this principle. yet it lives and wtll continue to live as long as the human heart shall continue to beat.
 "A cry is heard, "A man overboa rd@ y and the ponderous engines Of the mighty ocean greyhound are instantly stoppea: Like a thing of life this monster vessel obeys her rddder. and turning in her course awaits the lowering of the life boat that goes to the rescue of the drown ing man. He is rescued and the exulta nt shout goes up that the man is saved Why stop this mighty ship7 Why risk the lives of the life-boat crew amidst the terrible pillows of the sea for only one man1 Why, because he is q brother; nothing more. nothing less. It was Tn answer to the old cry of Help: help" that has been heard ever since the hrst morning stars sang for joy oF since the world began.
 Charleston. South Carolina. was wreck cd ny an earthauake. Again humanity terrpr-stricken city, The telegraph wires, quick as thought flashed their words of assistance and sympathy from out the length and breadth of the continent in which we live, and this historic city rose of the land---all through the munincenee of q common brotherhood. We might go on indefinitely drawing lessons From ev- cry condition of mankind, both Of the past and present to illustrate the pfin- cIpIe involved in our subject
 An Important Question.
 "In connection with this theme. I inn aRine that there ie a vast number of peo- pie who never stop to think of the maG- f1ltude and vital importance of this quee ton For every advancing step of civih- zation only increases our dependence one upon the other. To some this may ap- pear to be an absurdity, but the greater the civilization the greater becomes our need ot asslstancs at the hands of our fellow men For a moment let us go back to days when no locomotive exist ed before teleGraphy had been diseoV- cred the telephone invented or a steam sick and die in some distant part of the land, and when you received the news of death or sickness hy the old methods ef communication. it was too late to ar- late to take the long journey to see the sick. for before one could reach the bed side of the sick they had either recovered or gone to that home from which no traveller returns.
 when some one 10 sick or death occurs or an accident happens? In our eHgerhess to dlsratch the news to some distant place we rush to the telegraph. and we want 1t auiek-every moment is valuable. With hated breath and trembling hand we N rite the dispatch that 1t may travel with lightning speed on fts mission. The very minute 1t is sent and received, so accu- rate is the dependence that is placed upon thie branch Of a common brotherhood.
 Even the telegraph with it's marvellous facilities does not fulfill all the require ments of thought and action in this line. Hence in our desperation. SO to speak, we fiy to the telephone and call for some one. though he be in a village. town oI city hundreds of miles away, and we sy- rect aft instant response te eur request ef what ever nature it may bs. And there