Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1906-10-22

the factory or upon ue pldHIdlloA.
Hear it. We capitalists. Ye are your
brothers keepers. Blood money can
stick to your hands as well as to those
Of Judas. A mark of Gods condemna-
ton for financial sins can be upon your
as well as upon Gains for kill
his brother with a club.
Not only are we brothers keeper
in a financial or in a merce1ary 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 characters
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 quaf
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 n 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 leperAthe leper! Room Cor the
leperI Room. ROOM All, yes, the
Greeks in a social sense had a duty to-
ward their poor fellow men. Have we
not. as great f not a greater duty?
Thou art thy brothers keeper" Thou
art his keeper in a financial way-yOu
must give him work; in a 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-
anc God winked at, but now com
.mandeth all men everywhere to re-
pent."
But God has borne with our past mis-
sionary ignorance as we'll as our past
social ignorance. We have a duty to
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
are made acquainted with the gospel of
Christ and the mercy of the true God.
And yet some people who are members
of Christian churches profess to believe
that they are. not responsible for the
kind of God their heather brethren
worship. Byttheir actions they practi-
cally say: Christ did not mean any
thing when he said, Go We therefore
and teach all nations, baptizing them
in the name of the Father and of the
Son and of the Holy Ghost But he does
mean for US simply to go and teach our
friends and our owr. families and our
own kith and kim"
All, my brother, when a man is indif-
ferent to the missionary effort to
preach Christ unto ali men and send
shrist's missionaries ifto the farther
most parts of the earth he resembles
IN his religious selfshness the sultan
yof Turkey. Tourists who have been to
:Constantinople tell US that the sick
sman,of Europe" is living in daily ter
<sor of his life. His bloody hand has
Been against all his enemies. Murder
) and rapine have gone wherever his rule
has gone. He dethroned his elder
brother and shut him up ineprison for
many years. He is said to have. slain.
two Of his nearest relatives, either one
Of whom would have become sultan
had he died. He has killed scores and
hundreds and thousands Of his subjects
in the hope that their deaths might
make his life more assured, and yet
there he trenbles in his palace, year in
and year out, afraid of his foreign foes
and fearful of his enemies, ,skulking
within his own capital.
The s~uItan's Fears.
But one a week the sultan, even in
spite of his own fears, goes regularly
to the mosque to prayer. He goes there
with II motiye-to insure his OWL sal
walton. 1t is of himself, his eternal safe
ty, that he thinks and not of the well
fare of his people. Can it be possible
that any Christian resembles him in
this? Are there Christians whose sole
desire in worship is their own salvation
and who care nothing for others?
The broader conceptions of the COS
pei never seem to enter their lives.
! That because Christ is their Saviour
they should try to present him to those
who know him not, alb, this indeed has
never beer the purpose Of their hearts.
Now, all this narrow conception of
Christianity must stop: We must be
eyes to the blind and ears to the deaf
and crutches to the lame and food for
the hungry. But We must be more
than that-we must be the means.
through the missionaries, of bringing
Christ to a dying world.
: Thus in closing [ would point you
to Mars hill, the most glorious pulpit
in the world with the exception of
Calvary. And then l would point out
for your exemplar the mightiest Cos
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