The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-04-30
A PLEA FOR RIeHTlNe WRONGS
To the Editor ocala Banner:


To the Editor Ocala Banner:
Truly, this is d strange world to
many of US, and the most incompre-
hensible mystery is the persecution of
the good-thGt which benefits-and
sometimes the seeming triumph of the
prosecutors over central truths. that is
for uplifting a nation, and not lowering
it. We, you and /, see some of these
things from different points of view.
Human love is poor and selfish; divine
love is unselfsh and long suffering.
The love thy neighbor as myself"
would long ago have solved these
mOoted questions; have built homes
for the aged-some rich, but all alone;
some poor, and all alone; (Oh, the mis-
cry Of that lOneliness); helping the
undeserving for fear of not helping
the deserving. 1t seems to me il is
vice versa now. Some people work
from the time the sun is up until far
outward show, but to save for old age,
and freezes" or something unexpect-
ed takes their all and leaves them
stranded on the shores of time, wreck
ed and alone. For such the United
States laws should provide, not poor
houses, but homes as for honest citi-
zens, that you or l would like to live
in. When life's sunset shall dawn the
sweetest happiness then will be to re-
done in love for some needy ones. So
now, grasp this golden opportunity:
use your God-given power for AMI not
against a law providing homes in ev-
cry state and county for the aged
Walk by the light of a SaviOrs love
and rapidly the darkness of seIfshness
will be dispelled. in good deeds each |
day. Is life such a little thing that |
human suffering cannot reach us, and !
every reform movement be fought? !
How l wish we could make the world |
the better for our atom Of life in it,
Hank. From the tombs Cprisons) a
doleful sound! Human brothers and
sisters crying out against slavery that |
puts christendOm To shame. One Won |
1ers sometimes what living means 4
he scheming, cheating. trusting, Il
building, loving, hoping, mar Il
wing and raising children-walking Il
along the same old road i'm the same II
I'D way. time bred in sin. created at
'reatiOn's dawn. What a retrospect! i
}, that men would awaken to their
mighty power and take the lead in
eal religion. as they have so long "a
elfish politics, instead of just the mo-
lotOny of living and dying selfshly.
'ull of golden dreams in youth. sunk
n in despair in depraved old age, no
lope anywhere but in the Divine
Ian, prosecuted and crucified afresh
y them in youth by such laws as
rOtect the VETS" and all that leads
hereto. Jesus claimed all humanity,
nd said that to love was to live. How.
hen, loving our neighbors as We are
can we rest in our own
homes, knowing that
ONE of them are homeless and in
eed? Knowing that our loved Cnes,
ur brothers, though erring, are being
old into slavery, bartered for at so
luch head? None can despise their
ms or condemn them more than a
lst law, but in condemning them do
OF let US, who represent the law, sink
'wer than the erring ones by commit
ng the awful sin of inhuman treat
tent TO them. Shame.
Until we lawmakers right these
rongs, l think it will take Faith.
-Ope and Charity" to settle these
nd the tariff. Come out determined
right the wrongs and they will flee
; the mist before the rising sun.