The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-08-06
I AT CENTENARY. 2 s.s.
Dr.. Y Dung Speaks on Stealing in
III .f5 High Places.

II Before q large congrega ton, DR.. w. j..
Young, pastor Of Centenary Methodist
Church, spoke on what may be termed
the nicer forms of stealing; that is,
those forms that come within the pale
\ OF responsibility and yet are outside d.
very interesting and timely.
AZ The text was: "Let him that stole
steal no more. but rather let him la
Dor, working with his hands the thing
which Is good, that he may have to give
4 to him that eedeth."-Epfeslnn iv,2S.
DR.. Young spoke in part as follows:
I do not speak tonight Of those gruder
forms Of theft or OF dishonesty which
all recognize as wrong, and which are
admitted to be q violation, and a clear
violation, Of law. human and divine.
but Of those forms Of flnancial injustice
and unf fairness which come within the
csmpass Of responsibility and are OUT
side Of the regulations OF the state. In
deed, the nicer moral distinctions. the
higher moral life, cannot. be stated in
terms OF legal enactments. Only theilaw
4 of love will cause men to sustain the
proper relations one to another, and that
law Of love has to do with every de-
Epartment Of life. IT overshadoWs with
Its principles the bank and store, as
we'll as the church, the home and the
hospital. It decides our conduct not
only to the man by the wayside, wound
ed and bleeding. but also to the man
with whom we are having business trans
actions OF any sort. Now. from the
higher point OF View few Of us q have
been altogether guiltless in our deal
ings with our fellows. ri It is a question
whether we do not withhold that which
is the due Of those who toll for us,
when. for any reason. we are willing TO
have the work done for much less than
we know 1t deserves, Particularly IS this
likely to be the, case in our employment
OF the women who make the cheaper
garments. Of whose cheapness we some
times boast, forgetful OF what It cost
to produce them. Speculate ton OF q GER
tain sort is right, but there Is a specula-
ton which differs but little, II any, from
the gambling that Is carried on at the
faro bank or the roulette table. There
is also q speculation which brings ulti-
mately hurt to the poor. who must
pay the results OF 1t In their purchase
Of the necessities of life, It Is no more
right to use mental power ana ability as
a mere force than 1t is thus to use physi-
cal power. What shall be said Of adul-
terated foods sold rs pure, or Of bad
goods, sold rs frst-class? then there Is
the employees waste OF time and doing
OF shoddy work. But we may put In the
same class tho tendency OF corporation
particularly to steal from men the day
Of rest, their rIghtful due. What a tens
dency for many to hide their sins behind
tho corporation in which they may own
s,ock-the corporation which we say has
no soul, and so, we imagine. can COM
nit no sin. But there is stealing from
the corporation. or at any rate, dealing
dishonesty with tho corporation, when
we would not do so with the individual,
we seldom think It possible that, tho
rich should be dealt with in a way Sc
rlously unfair, but one does hear quite
often measures suggested by which 1t
would seem. on the face Of tbsmi some
one must have imagined that thus might
be brought about the wreck Of the ac-
foundations Of large ability, coupled With
years of toll. or the contlscatlons of
them for the public use,
In all Of these forms OF legal unfair
ness there arc the same sins rs charac-
|, terize that Which I'LL the world recog-
p!xes as stealing. There are the same