The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-08-10

am I with him alone.
/, the peace that passeth knowledge, dwell
amid the daily strife.
L, the bread of heaven, am broken in the
sacrament of life
While there is never any bitterness in
the Masters utterance regarding wealth,
His views may be readily gathered from
such parallels as that oil Dives and Lazarus
(Luke xvil9).
Again, we have the same attitude in the
passage on the camel and the needles eye
Matthew xix:23).
Not only was the Lord poor, but His
apostles were all poor men, who paced no
value on wealth. Paul, the greatest of
apostolic preachers, supported himself by
manual labor, and taught They that will
be rich fall into temptation and snare,
and into many foolish and hurtful lusts,
which drown men in destruction and per-
dition. For the lcye of money is the root
of all evip' Il. Timothy vi:9-l0). On the
whole, the attitude of the New Testament
rs one Of warning against the seductions of
wealth.
The evangelical churches stand upon the
word of Scripture, and so IN sympatny
with labor. In fact, of some 1000 900 of
male members in the evangelical churches
of our land, not less than 60CO,O0 are
wage earners or manual !aborers So that
the claim that the modern church mas de.
parted from the position occupied by the
apostolic church is not well founded.
= What, then, from the letter and spirit of
the Blbe in connection with the teachings
of experience is to be suggested as a means
OF curing the quarrel between labor and
capitaly
First, let there be closer personal rela.
tions between the rich and the poor. Let
them meet together in the fellowship of
Gods house and the Divine Fatherhood.
Out OF mutual acquaintance will come mu-
tual respect, and recognition OF a COM
mon humanity.
You may remember Emerson's story of
the quarrel between the mountain and tae
squirrel, where he says:
the mountain and the squirrel
Had quarrel,
And the former called the latter Little
prg.
Bun replied,
You are doubtless very b'g
but all sorts OF things ana weather
Must be taken in togethe~
10 make up year
And a sphere
And | think it no disgrace
10 occupy my place.
II m not as large as you,
ou are not so small as /;
And not half so spry.
I'll not deny YOU make
a very pretty squirrel track.
Talents differ, all is well and wisely put;
II ! cannot carry forests on my back,
Neither can you crack a nut"
Then there should be a deeper interest
taken by capital in the financial wel.being
OF labor. Such devices as profit sharing
o.d age pensions and the like will give the
workman sense of greater security and
OF partnership with capital
Interest taken in the proper housing of
lajor, although not always appreciated, is
IN the right line. So, too, the introduction
OF the social secretary as an intermediary
between the corporation and the employe.
Another thing needed not so much in
the interests or labor or capital, bat in the
interests OF the innocent non.combatants,
Is compulsory arbitration, applied at least
where the public suffers intoierable incon-
VenlCnc", as in the case of 4 raili Dad, te'e-
graph or coal strlie. Compulsory arbitra-
ton may not always be satisfactory to the
combaLants, Lut it is essential to the peace
and comfort OF those not involved in the
controversy. This remedy, or military cor
troll, as IN the recent railway strikes in
Holland and Austria, should be used to
protect the public.
lhe sovereign remedy, however, must be
not by recourse to legal means, but by the
Application OF the royal law. James (ii:S),
after speaking OF the relations between the
rich and the poor, says: IF yc fulfill the
royal law according to the Scripture, thou
wv Ihs HelSHDOl DIS lNSelI, ye 90
well This is the aqua regia, the royal
solvent, in which we may solve all the hard
asperities OF conflicting interests.
Only as men come to know God through
Christ, whom TIe has sent, and so come to
love their fellow men, will it be possible to
solve these questions OF controversy in a
way tnat will insure the permanent pro-
gress of our civilization
What we need, after all, is not measures,
but men.
Tine world wants men-large hearted
mar.ly men;
Men who shall Join in chorus and prolong
The psalm Of labor and of l-re
The age wants heroes-heroes who shall
dare
To struggle in the solid ranks of truth;
10 Clutch the monster, error, by the
throat;
To bear opinion to a loftier seat;
10 blot the error of oppression out,
And lead universal freedom in