Milford chronicle., 1906-01-12

/ the factory or upon the plantation
Hear II, We capitalists. Ye are your
brothers keepers. Blood money can
stick to your hands as we'll as to those
of Judas A mark of Gods condemna-
tion for financial sins can be upon your
brow as well as upon Gains for kill
ing his brother with a club.
Not only are we our brothers keeper
in a financial or in a merceaary sense,
but also in a physical sense and in a
mental. Aye. we walk in wonderment
among the beautiful columns of Ath-
/ ems. We can think of the charioteers
/ driving their flashing eyed chargers
over those hillsides. We can see the
runners, with the speed of the winds,
coming back to that capital telling Of
victories won. We can picture the al
tars Of gold and silver. We can see the
palaces filed with the richest art treas
ures and see the vast amounts of mon
eys squandered for the worship of the
god Of wine called DiOnysus. But right
under the shadow of the prison in
which Socrates was compelled to quan
the poisonous hemlock ignorance and
filth were everywhere And when the
poor became sick they were not cared
for as we care for our sick; but they
were left alone to starve and die. Or
they were driven out upon the noun
tain sides as the Hebrews drove their
lepers to the tombs of the dead, cry
ing: .The leper, the leper! Room for the
leper! Rooml Roomr All, yes, the
Greeks in a social sense had a duty to-
ward their poor fellow men. Have we
not as great if not a greater duty?
'ThOu art thy brothers. keeper" Thou
art his keeper in a financial way-you
must give him work; in mental way
you must build for him schools; in a
physical way-you must care for him
when he is sick and helpless. Are you
doing it? "And the times of this ignO-
rance God winked at, but now COM
mandeth all men everywhere to re
pent."
But God has borne with our past mis- /
siOnary ignorance as well as our past
social ignorance. We have a duty to i
fulfill in reference to the kind of homes
IN which our brethren sleep and eat. !
We must see that they have the right
Kind of schools in which to be taught. /;
But above all we must see that they /
ire made acquainted with the gospel Of =.
Christ and the mercy of the true God.
And yet some people who are members /,
f Christian churches profess to believe :
hat they are not responsible for the
lind of God their heather brethren !.
Worship. By their actions they practi- :,
ally say: "Christ did not mean any =
hing when he said, Go We therefore
nd teach all nations, baptizing them \,
! the name of the Father and Of the =
on and of the Holy Ghost But he does y
lean for us simply to go and teach our =
riends and our own families and our .
wn kith and kim" t'
All, my brother, when a man is indif- u
srent to the missionary effort to D.
reach Christ unto all men and send a
hrists missionaries into the farther a
ost parts of the earth he resembles y
his religious selfshness the sultan a.
Turkey. Tourists who have been to u
tell us that the "sick az
an Of Europe" is living in daily ter D'
r Of his life His bloody hand has
zen against all his enemies. Murder pi
Id rapine have gone wherever his rule
IS gone. He dethroned his elder 10
other and shut him up in prison for e@l @
any years. He is said to have slain %
70 Of his nearest relatives, either one Ia
whom would have become sultan MT
d he died. He has killed scores and an
ndreds and thousands of his subjects -,
the hope that their deaths might ~
Ike his life more assured, and yet I'M
ere he trembles in his palace, year in
d year out, afraid Of his foreign foes
d fearful of his enemies, skulking sm
thin his own capital. Va