The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1904-08-11
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Henry J. Van Dyke:
Never in a costly palace did I rest on
golden bed,
Never in heriEit's cavern nave l eaten
idle bread.
Born within low!y stable, where the cat
! tie round Me stood.
! Trained 4 carpenter in Nazareth. l have
! toi.ed and iourd It good.
! They who tread the path OF labor follow
| where Ny feet have trod;
| TaeE who work without complaining do
; the holy will OF God.
| Y mere the many toll together, there am 1
among My own:
| Where the tired workman s:ecpeth, there
am with him a.one.
| I, the peace that rassett knowledge, dwell
amid the daily STRIFE.
I, the bread OF heaven. am broken in the
sacrament o. life
| While there is never any bitterness in
| the Masters utterance regarding wealth,
His views may he readily gathered from
such parallels as that OF Dives and Lazarus
Luke yvi:l9l.
Again, We have the same attitude in the
| passage on the camel and the needles eye
(HiatUnew SiN:2Sl.
Not only was the Lord poor, but His
apostles were all poor men, who placed no
! value on wealth. Pau, the. greatest cf
apostolic preachers, supported himself by
manual labor, and taught They that viii
be rich fall into temptation and snare,
and into many foolish ard hurtful lusts,
which drown men in destruction and per-
dision. For the love OF money is the root
Of all evil Il. Timothy vi:9-la).. Or tie
Whole. the attitude or the New Testament
- oS :ha ce,,ntIn-,c n
wealth.
The evangelical churches stand rpon the
word of Scripture, and so II sympathy
with labor. In iact, OF some 100000 OF
male members in the evangelical churches
of Our land. not less than 100000 ere
wage earners c" manual laoorers. So that
the claim that the modern church has de-
parted from the position occupied by the
apostolic church is no. we'll founded.
What. then, from the etter and spirit Ct
the Bible in connection with the Teachings
OF experience is to be suggested as a means
OF curing the Quarr'l between Labor and
capital!
First, let there &c closer personal rela-
tons between the rlci, an6 the poor. Let
them meet together in the fellowship ef
Gods house and the Divine Fatherhooc.
Out Ct mutual acquaintance will come mu-
tual respect, and recognition Of COM
mon humanity.
You may remember Emerson's story OF
the quarrel between the mountain anG the
squirrel, where he says:
"The mountain and the squirrel
Had a quarrel,
And the former called the latter Little
prig.
Bun replied,
'Iou are doubtless very biz,
But all SORTS Of things and weather
Must be taken in together
To make up year
And a sphere
And I think it no disgrace
To occupy my place.
If I'm not as large as yo,',
You are not so small Ss |;
And not half so spry.
III not deny you make
A very pretty squirrel track.
Talents differ, all is well and wisely put;
If cannot carry forests on my Lack,
Neither can You crack nut
Then there should be deeper interest
taken by capital in the financial well-being
of labor. Such devices as profit sharing,
old age pensions and the like will give the
workman a sense OF greater security and
of partnership with capital.
Interest taken in the proper housing Of
labor, although not always appreciated, is
in the right line. So, too, the introduction
OF the social secretary as all Intermediary
between the corporation and the employe..
Another thing needed, not so much in
the interests OF labor or capital, but in the
interests Of the innocent non-combatants,
is compulsory arbitration, applied at least
where the public suffers intoserabie incon.
venlinc", as in taG case OF raili Dad. tete-
graph CT ccal strike. Compulsory arDitra-
~ ha %N hA
combatants, tut it is essential to the peace
and comfort OF those not involved in the
controversy. This remedy, or military coi.-
troll, as in tne recent railway strikes in
Holland and Austria, should be used to
protect the public.
The sovereign remedy, however, must be
not by recourse to legal means, but by The
application OF the royal law. James Gi:Sj,
after speaking OF the relations between the
rich and the poor, says: If We fulfill the
roya! law according to the Scripture, thou
shalt love tny neighcor as thyself, ye Go
we'll This is the aQta regia, the royal
solvent, in which we may solve ali the hard
ssperities OF conflicting interests.
Only as men come to know God through
Christ, whom He has sent, and so come to
love their fellow men, will it be possible to
solve these questions of controversy in a
wGy that Will insure the permanent pro-
greSs OF our civilization.
What We need, after all, is lct measures,
but men.
The world wants men-larse hearted,
maI.ly men;
Men who shall join in chorus and prolong
The psalm Of labor and OF love.
The age wants heroes-hcross Who shall
dare
To struggle in the solid ranks CT truth;
To c;utcn the monster, c.cor, by the
throat;
To bear opinion to loftier seat;
10 blot the error of oppression out,
And lead a universal freedom in
Faces That Comfort One.
"I wish some people knew just how
much their faces can comfort one" The
speaker was Young woman who had
passed through deep sorrows; she was tell
ins a friend how many people comforted
her, though they were unconscious Of it: