The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-12-26

extent tho money making capacity OF
the Individual: but to destroy a mans
ability to exercise his financial IN
! sIinct is rot to destroy the man. In
]dividuality is not a matter so :nuch
Of money as of mind, heart, and soul.
And any system which permits men
TO enjoy a larger opportunity Tor the
exercise Of their intellectual, moral
! and spiritual capacities, and which
| enables humanity to realize in a
| larger fashion the fitness Of human
personality upon every side, must be
mankind. Righteousco COM
bination will afford opportunity for
all the faculties. The indivlduallsm
of to-day is an insult, in the last an
alysis, to personalities WHO are made
in the image of Almighty GOO.
| About all that it emphasizes is our
| CAPACITY and desire to make morey.
And however valuable money may
be and however much We may all
| need It, this is the eternal truth Of
God, that that system whicA empha-
sizes this side of mans nature al
| most to the stuitifying OF his mental,
ethical and spiritual characteristics IS
4 thing of sin.
The message of Christ to capital.
| And what is this gospel? Ii I under
stand the truth Of God unto men OF
wealth as it has been revealed unto
US il Jesus Christ u Lord, it is this. A
that money is 4 trust; that wealth IN
a talent: that the possession OF 1"
t%rao-dinary ability for financial sue
! cess ard commercial leadership is a
gift of God compelling unacceptable
duties upon those so blessed and en-
forcing tremendous obligations. A
| mans money is TO be used not unto
the satisfaction OF his selfish desires,
but for the good OF ell. Men are not
10 he treated as slaves. They arc not
TO be considered as machines. Bear
ing in mind the admonition Of Jul
Lord, whatsoever ye would that
men should do unto You. do ye even
so to them our men Cf financial and
commercial prominence should re-
member that oven the hum3lest nal
is 4 personality and not q mechan-
ism: that even a laborer is a child of
the living God. If there are any men
who should have patience, fornear-
a@ce, charity, loving kindness, ten
d~erness, COMPASSION with and for the
men who toll, they are the men who
in the providence OF God are su-
pTemeiy endowed with the fulness
and the fatness of the good things of
life. 1t is the business, as, under
Cod. it sh )uij be the happiness, OF
Our men o. means and of commercial
prominence to study the comfort, to
enhance the Joy, 10 foster the educa-
ton. to assist the moral and spiritual
upliftment of the man who is work.
ing for a wage. Their delight II
should be, as it Is their duty, to
tighten laba: and to increase wages
10 the utmost limit that The economic
conditions which are existent will al
low. They should see that the toiler
has free hours. sufficient and often
CROUCH not only for rest, but also for
honest recreation. Men do not ask
GoC aims, they simply desire a chance l
ari an opportunity to 90 something
more than eXist-to live. In the
darkest days Of African bQd
there were no worse, thoSSi Fe
were different, conditions, t. BE
which characteristic inhumaM lite
slavery that is a feature OF the co-
monte system OF to-day. Multiti1des
OF men exc out but q bare and, at
best, q miserable existence, as the
fruit of honest, laborious and often
time dangerous, toll; while those who
pay their wages live in s%plendor, af-
f~lUence, and, many times, in SUPER
ciiious and arrogant Indifference to
the needs OF men. The message of
Christ to the E2a of wealth is a call
for s~elishness, self-sacrifice and hon
est philanthropy.
The great need of capital to-day is
AZ Installation in its heart of the prin-
cirles and the personality. II M
character ard the convictions OF
Jesus Christ. We cannot nope for q
sound exercise OF commercial au-
thority: We cannot, wisely and SEN
sibly, expect a true development Of
Our commercial life without the pres
Cncc Of His truth rs the guiding and
controlling factor in the hearts and
the minds and tie souls OF u men Of
wealth. Filled with the spirit OF
Christ they will love men; AID low
irg ncn, We Shall have no fear.