Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1904-08-18

nav be imacii It is wen put by Dr..
Henry j.. Van &c:
| "Never in a dy palace did ! rest on
golden b
| Never IN a hat's cavern have I eaten
idle breal
| Born within a " stable, where the cat
tie round stood,
Trained a carter in Nazareth, I have
toiled antund it good.
| They who treahe path of labor follow
where Met have trOd;
| They who woMithout complaining do
the holy of God.
| Where the maIoil together, there am |
among MWn;
Where the tirVorkman sleepeth, there
am I within alone.
I, the peace thSasseth knowledge, dwell
amid the " strife.
], the bread of ven, m broken In the
sacrament life"
While there never any bitterness in
the Masters utance regarding wealth,
His views may readily gathered from
/ such parallels asat Of Dives and Lazarus
(Luke xvi:l9).
Again, we hay he same attitude in the
| passage on the hel and the needles eye
Matthew xix:2
Not only wane Lord poor, but His
apostles were albor men, who placed 40
value on wealtl Paul, the greatest Of
| apostolic preach, supported himself by
| manual labor, a taught ''They that will
be rich fall interpolation and a snare,
and into many plish and hurtful lusts,
which drown min destruction and per-
dition. For theFe of money is the root
Of all eviT' Ct. bothy vi:9-lO). On the
,uha7oM fhn otfifJ sc %ho Novy Ttoeforoo-+
is one of warningainst the seductions Of
| wealth.
The evangelicahurches stand upon the
word OF ScrlptJ and so IN sympathy
with labor. In t, of some 1000, 900 of
male members ihe evangelical churches
of our land, noess than 100000 are
| wage earners or nual laborers. So that
the claim that tlmodern church has de-
parted from the Isition occupied by the
apostolic church bot we'll founded.
What, then, fro the letter and spirit of
the Bible in conHion with the teachings
OF experience is tie suggested as a means
OF curing the quel between labor and
capital?
First, let theree closer personal rela-
tions between th6ch and the poor. Let
them meet togetr in the fellowship Of
Gods house andhe Divine Fa%therhood.
Out Of mutual acsintance will come mu-
tual respect, and recognition of a COM
| mon humanity.
You may remeIer Emerson's story of
the quarrel betwe the mountain and the
squirrel, where hey US:
"The mountain an the squirrel
Had a quarrel,
And the former lied the latter Little
prlg.
Bun replied,
You are doubtless terry big,
But ali sorts OF thgs and weather
Must be taken i n gether =
10 make up a veal
| And a sphere
And [ think it notsgrace
10 occupy my plad
Il I'm not as large; you,
You are not so SIN; as I;
And not half so spi
I'll not deny you me
A very pretty squill track.
Talents differ, all isell and wisely put;
Il cannot carry fosts on my back,
Neither can you cr$ a nut"
Then there shoul|be a deeper interest
taken by capital in e financial well-beine
OF labor. Such deNes as profit sharing,
Old age pensions sa{he like will give the
workman a sense ogreater security and
of partnership with pital.
InteieSt taken IN le proper housing OF
labor, although not abays appreciated, i
IN the right line. So, oO, the Introduction
OF the social secretar as an intermediary
between the corporate and the employee.
Another thing need, not sc. much II
the. interests Of fabopr capital, but in thu
interests of the innent non-combatants
is compulsory arbitraon, applied at .leas1
where the public suars intolerable incon
venlonce, as in the Gle of a railroad, tele
graph or coal strike Compulsory arbitra
t1on may not alwayste satisfactory to thu
combatants, but it Essential to the pcac
and comfort of thos not involved in thu
controversy. This rqedy, or military cor
troll, as In The reject railway strikes il
Holland and Austrj should be used t,
protect the public.
The sovereign remhy, however, must b
not by recourse to lsal means, but by tn
application Of the rtal law. James (ii:8j
after speaking of tn relations between tn
rich and the poor, eys: IF We fulfill tn
royal law ~accordingo the Scripture, tho
shalt love thy neigbor as thyself, We d
we'll" This is thdaqua regia, the roya
solvent, In which wjmay solve all the har,
asperities Of conflicting interests.
Only as men conn to know God throug
Christ, whom He hs sent, and so come t
love their fellow me, will it be possible t
solve these questios of controversy in
way rnat Will lnsue the permanent Pre-
gress of our ~civiliza ION.
What we need, afer all, is not measures
but men.
The world want men-large hearted
manly men;
Men who shall joinn chorus and prolone
The psalm of labor nd of love.
lhe. age wants kebes-heroes who sha
dare
Io struggle in The slid ranks of truth;
To clutch the mhster. error. by I'll
throat;
To bear opinion to loftier seat:
10 plot the error ofoppression out,
And lead a universal freedom i'm
Faces That Comfort One.
I wish some Rople knew just ho
much their faces can comfort one!" II
speaker was a YONG woman who ha
passed through deeI sorrows; she was tel
her, though they we're unconscious Of !
LIE. Epworth Herald tells the story. :
oIten ride down il the same street G;
| With VOur fathe1. dnd II b,a L.-.