The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-06

dIvIduaiity. II may destroy 70 some
extent the money making capacity of
the individual. but to destroy a man s
ability to exercise his financial in
stinct is not to destroy the man. In
dividuality is not a matter so much
of money as of mind, heart, and soul.
And any system which permits men
to enjoy larger opportunity for the
exercise of their intellectual, moral
and spiritual capacities, and which
enables humanity to realize in a
larger fashion the fulness of human
personality upon every side, must be
valuable to mankind. Righteous COM
bination will afford opportunity for
all the faculties The individualism
of to-day is an insult, in the last an
alysis, to personalities who are made
in the image of Almighty God.
About all that it emphasizes is our
capacity and desire 70 make money.
And however valuable money may
be and however much we may all
need 1t, this Is the eternal truth of
God, that that system which empha-
sizes this side of mans nature al
most to the stultifying of his mental,
ethical and spiritua! characteristics IS
thing OF sin.
The message of Christ to capital
And what is this gospel? If under
stand the truth of God unto men of
wealth as II has been revealed unto
us in Jesus Christ our Lord, it is this,
that money is a trust: that wealth is
a talent; that the possession of eX-
traordinary ability FOR nnanclal sue
cess and commercial leadership is a
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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 all. Men are not
to be treated as slaves. They are not
to be considered as machines. Bear
ing in mind the admonition of our
Lord. Whatsoever We would that
men should do unto you, do ye even
so to them. our men of financial and
commercial prominence should re-
member that even the humblest mau
is a personality and not a mechan-
ism; that even 'laborer is a child of
the living God. If there are any men
who should have patience, forbear-
auce, charity, loving kindness, ten
derness, compassion with and for the
men who toll they are the men who
in the providence of God are SUI
premely endowed with the fulness
and the fatness of the good things of
life. 1t is the business, as. under
God, it should be the happiness, of
our men of means and of commercial
prominence to study the comfort, to
enhance the Joy. to foster the educa-
tion, 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 labor and to increase wages
to the utmost limit that -hc economic
conditions which are existent will al.
low. They should see that the toileI
has free hours, sufficient and often
enough not only for rest but also for
honest recreation. Men do not ask
for aims, they simply desire a chance
aud an opportunity to do something
more than eXist-to live. In the
darkest days of African bondage
there were no worse. though there
We're different. conditions. than those
which characterize the inhuman white
slavery that is a feature of the eco
nomic system of to-day Multitudes
of men exc out but a bare and, at
best, a miserable existence, as the
fruit of honest, laborious and often,
time dangerous, toll: while those who
pay their wages live in splendor, af,
fiuence, and, many times. in super
cilious and arrogant indifference to
the needs of men. The message OF
Christ to the man of wealth is a call
for selfishness, self-sacrifce and hon.
est philanthropy.
The great need of capital to-day is
an installation In It's heart of the prln.
ciples and the personality, of the
character and the convictions OF
Jesus Christ. We cannot lope for 9
sound exercise of commercial au
thority; we cannot, wisely and sen.
sibly, expect a true development OF
our commercial life without the pres
ence of His truth as the guiding and
controlling factor in the hearts anc
the minds and the souls of our men Of
wealth. Filled with the spirit Of
Christ they will love men; and Low.
ing men, we shall have no fear.