The Cairo bulletin., 1908-05-11
WANT LAWS To
SAVE CHILDREN
NATIONAL CONFERENCE or
CHARITIES DEGREES EVILS or
FACTORY WORK.
VALUE OF HUMAN LIFE
Set Forth in Annual Sermon By Re-
Ashby Jones--WeIfare of All to
Be Welfare of One and
Vice Versa. He Says.

| VICE versa re says.
Richmond, Va, May 10. Dealing
with the worldwide topic OF children.
their education, their training and evil
Iof driving them under steam pressure
lat the wheel when their frail limbs
and bodies were too weak to stand
the terrible punishment ana strain, tha
general session OF the National Con.
| ference Of Charities and Corrections
to night aroused the public to the i'm.
portance Of more adequate laws to
portect them from evils OF factory
work
The Rev. NJ Ashby Jones. pastor OF
the First Baptist Church, Columbus.
Ga, preached tho annual conference
| sermon.
Re said in part: One must indeed
a insensible who could live within
the atmosphere Of this Conference for
a day and not have his heart beat
faster with human sympathy and hn
man hope. For here Is vantage point
from which every tone OF human
plant may be heard The inartoeulate
| cry of the half nourished babe. the
moan Of the victim of disease. the NUT.
tered menace OF poverty, the petition
of the imprisoned soul of the defective
the challenge of the drug and drink
devil possessed the sullen protest Of
the criminal, the plea OF the ever
worked mother, and the ceaseless call
OF the unprotected child. all mingie
their minor tones in medley Of an.
Ipeal whose pathos Is irresistible But
here, too, above II all. can be heard
the answering cry Of hope and help.
Value of human Life.
He that was come Is revealed In the
spirit and work Of this conference.
That presence seems to me to be man
| Tested in the tremendous emphasis
which Is here placed upon the valme OF
a human life. And It is this valuation
| of human life which is the funan.
mental tenet In the teaching Of Jesus.
| We can only understand his sayings
concerning wealth when we remember
| he was talking about 1t, in comparison
with the value OF life itself And his
severe condemnation of riches was
when they were to be the purchase
price of a person. Then he threw
down the gauntlet to the whole mater.
ial universe; What Will ii profit
man II he gain the whole world ami
lose his own life?" When It becomes
question between the value Of man
and religious observance, let the oh
seryance perish Which Is better. hn
asked, with singing satire, TO do good
to man or keep a religious law? Tho
whole religious scheme Is made for
man. and not man for the religious
scheme, is the teaching of Jesus. The
| high potential value which Jesus was
seeking was social value which was
the value of a man to another man
Society and Individual
Society Itself must not be thought
OF as a perfect organization needing
only the adjustment OF certain individ.
uals to its unity Society is incom
pete so long as there is an incom
plete individual Just as the individ.
ual must find himself in society. so.
ciety must find itself in the individual.
Society also must have It's new birth.
coming into consciousness Of its kin
ship to ever man II must grow be
yond its present conception OF "tha
greatest good to the greatest number, .
and recognize its own highest welfare
| IN service 10 the least of the weak
and helpless of every descrintion
while It threatens with the depth of
the sea every form Of greedy individ
ualism which would place stumbling
blocks In the pathway az its childre4
in their progress toward the light
We must be careful not TO iden-
| tify our principle with any form Of
government or code Of conduct how
ever earnest we may strive 10 realize
| IL through these forms. Society is
larger than government and greater
than conduct Society is q common
consciousness and our ideal the con
sciousness Of kiuship There is 10 b.
an identity of interests so vital that
the welfare Of one is the welfare ef all
and the welfare of all Is the welfare of
one Its prophetic voice comes 20 rs
todavs In the words. "Tnasmuch as V
Ibid It unto one of the least Of II
brethren. We did It unto me
ousTED FROM PARIS.