Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1906-01-13

Hear H. ye capitalists. Ye are your
brothers keepers. Blood money can
stick to your hands as well as to those
9f Judas. \ mark Of Gods condemna-
iiDn 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 financial or in merceaary sense.
but also in 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 hil.sides 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 filled with the richest art treas
urcs and see the vast amounts OF mon
eys squaiIdered for the worship of the
god of wine called DlonySus But right
under the shadow Of the prison In
which socrates was compelled 10 quaff
the poiSomou. hemluck ignorance and
9th were everywhere. Aud when the
poor became sick they were not cared
FOR aS we car" for our Sick but they
were lcft alone 10 starvc aud die Or
they were driven out upon the noun.
tain sides n the Hebrews drove their
iepers 10 the tombs VI the dead, cry
Ing The lcpcr. the lcpcr, Room for the
lcpcr Room. Room" All. yes the
Greeks IN u social sense had duty to-
not a. great II not greater duty
Thou art Thy brothers keeper" Thou
art his keeper IN financial way-you
must give him work: In n mental way
you must build for him schools: In Il
phy>icui 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
mandrth all men everywhere to re-
pent"
But God has borne with our past mis-
siOnary ignorance as we'll ms our past
social ignorance We have duty to
fulfill IN reference Co the kind OF homes
ia 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 mace acquainted with the gospel of
Christ and the mercy of the true God
And yet som" people who are members
OF Christian churches profess to believe
that they are not responsible for the
kind of God their heather brethren
worship. By their actions they practi.
cally say: christ did not mean any,
thing when he said. Go We therefore
ana teach all nations, baptizing them
in the name of the Father ana of the
Son and of the Holy Ghost But he does
mean for us simply TO go aud teach our
friends and our own families and our
own kith and kin"
All. NY brother when man Is indif.
fercnt Ia the missionary effort TO
preach Christ unto all men and send
Christ's missionaries into the farther
most parts of the earth he resembles
N his religious sellishness the sultan
of Turkey. Tourists who have been to
Constantinoplc tell us that the sick
man of Europe" Is living In daily ter
ror Of his life. Ills bloody hand has
been against AL his enemies Murder
and rapinc have gone wherever his rule
has gone. He dcthroncd his elder
brother and shut him up in prison for
many years. lie 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 lie trelnhles in his palace. year IN
AMI year out. afraid of his foreign foes
and fearful of his enemies. skulking
within his own capital
Th. suNs..,,s E..-.