The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1906-10-18

Zen and the pen WIS still a. god - |
new. Cardinal de Rotz ccme = he eo1- }
clusien that his brother eaf4i. ~
man of very small mental CALI ~
friends, In your mental iife live Tor
something higher than tie pyi.t Of .
pen Struggle. strive, push. TURF, II !
necessary, your study into n very bed
lam of confusion BY thy upbeaTa!s
seek for new mental c3sel5g. Re
member the broad sweep Of The Sole
monte proverb. Where no oxen are, the |
crib is clean. but much increase is by
/ the strength OF the OK
/ 1t is only the ignorant. tie stupid
the slothfui. the stagnating mind, that
is satisfied with its present conditions. (
Progress is not ike Il swamp. with
/ fetid air and surface of slime. There
everything is still and quiet. True men- {
tai progress is like the commotion and
disordered waters Of a brook There
| the waters are pure and sweet, because
one moment they are tumbiing over a
cascade. the next they are seing dash
ed into foam against some b0wlder,
and the next they are as a waterfall
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still They are always moving. always
readiusting themselves to new conGi-
TONS
AS / note the restless connections OF
| the individual mind, SO ! note also the
restless conditions Of the social world
and the conflict of the classes against
! fo1i esffC lc
of the present time are not sign that
| our present governmental life is to be
destroyed They are sign, and sure
sign, that out of these upheayals there
shall come forth better truth, bet
ter honesty, a purer social life. How
many wrongs there are to be righted
on both sides, Capital, with its vast
resources and machinery, frequently
has more mercy upon its iron and steel
bars and its leather bands and its huge
4 pile drivers than upon the bone and
sinew and muscle of its T0rkmen.
| Capital does not say to itself, How
much can / make these goods for and
sell them, at fair rate of profit, that
the people may buy them the cheapest
and yet / get a fair return for my
! money! oaCapital does not say that
Capital says. How can l make these
goods the cheapest and sell them the
dearest? How can 1 decrease my ex-
Fpenses at home and yet sell at the
maximum price the needy people viii
paw" All, there is something CONNER
cially wrong about such condition as
that. Capital, by her own actions,
stands as a confessed usurer and extor-
toner. Her motto often is Squeeze
the last drop Of blood out of the people.
Do not run a business for a fair com
petence, but run it to get every cent
Of profit out of the human race that we
can
Sins of Capital and Labor.
Ont the other hand, Labor is just as
crueliand selfish an extortioner as Cap
itaI when she gets the chance. In ia
nous bookstore of Chicago there was
one coxner which went by the name of
"Saints and Sinners" Books of all
creeds were placed there side by side.
There tinfideI and atheist and minister
would sometimes meet for quiet chat
In Monday symposium. But IN the
social world, taken as a whole there
are no saints Too often we find
bothN Capital and Labor robed in the
h1ackA garments Of selfshness instead
of he\white robes of altruism. Their
motto becomes, not Live and let live,
but eI.iyesourselves and get all we can
at the other mans expense" OF course
/ I am not now talking of the capitalist
: and the laborer as individuals
Yes. Capital today cannot be proud
of hertpast record. She has heart of
! stone. Neither has labor today any
thing to be proud of in her past ac-
lions. SHE has an adamantine heart Of
selfislrntsss and greed. But when look
upon the struggles of these two mighty
social factors l am not pessimist for
in the. social storms, in the strikes and
/ racriusinations, In the blows, which are
now falling thick and fast, in the wars
and rumors of wars, in the universal
! social disorder, | see a bright day COM
ing. Peace and prosperity and univer-
sal brotherhood shall yet be evolved
out of the present social chaos. No
designating social cosmos is here. All
these social upheavals are only rain
bow signs in the heavens that the so
cial wars shall soon cease. Where nc
{ oxen are, the crib is clean, but much
increase is by the strength of the OK.
What is true of the mental, physical
[ and social realms is emphatically true
of the spiritual life. 1t is not by q
/ life of spiritual ease that we are going
TO receive Gods true messages 1t Is
4 only by struggle, only by prayer, only
10y agony, only by wrestling, as Jaeot
wrestJed with the angelic messenger
through the long. dark night, thai
Christ reveals his face to us in the
'-beauty of holiness" We must do as
Jesus did We must spend forty Ions
daFs in the wilderness before we car
come to our true spiritual cosmos ant
{. walk hand in hand with God.
was never more impressed with TINS
thought than some time ago When
was reading 1.-THE History of a Preach
er's Life" by DR.. Rainsford, late rector
of ST Georges Episcopal church el