The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1911-09-05
TRUE DIGNITY OF TOLL
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hands In his own image, and every
day man is becoming more and more
axe God, and as he more and more
takes on this infnity. the world be
comes more beautiful. the subject OF
speech and action is freer and more
tolerant, mans relation to man sweet
er, and the creation OF God is seen to
be more sublime. boundIess, unfath-
enable and more glorious.
We find in this simple and sublime
story that God gave man dominion
over the fishes of the sea, the fowls
of the air, and the beasts of the
field. yet in this almost universally
accepted story of creation We no
| where find that God gave man domin-
ion over man.
God didn't say to Cain. Thou shalt
have dominion over Abel" or to Abel.
Thou shalt have dominion over
CAIN" nor did he say to Cain. The
earth and the fullness thereof is be-
queathed to you and your descend
| ants as an Inheritance forever, to
the exclusion of Abel and his des-
cendants," but the earth was given
| to all for the use of all, and if the
command to labor were literally
| obeyed, and every man had his share
| Of the earth on which TO labor, it
would be found that Gods gift were
creature under Gods green footstool
| would suffer for want or the ever
present and haunting fear of want
This appalling shadow hides the
beauties of Gods muniflcence to more
| than nine-tenths of the population OF
| the earth because Gods laws are in
tervened and contravened by mans
| laws which are superinduced by his
| avarice
| But there will come a time when
| .od's laws will be correctly interpret
| ed and understood and religiously
obeyed.
| Having made man out of the dust
of the ground" it were not unreason
able nor impious to suppose that in
the doing of which Gods hands were
soiled, because it is the province OF
labor to soil and harden the hands, SO
of honor, and as a passport into all
circles of society should be more
readily accepted than the soft white
hands incased in Isle and kid that
are strangers to toll, and, therefore
out of harmony with Gods holy laws
and disobedient to his imperative
commands.
I'VE are the common people, the
| hewers of wood and stone,
The jewellers in common places
| mighty of Drawn and bone.
Bearing the common burden thai
only the shirkers shun,
And doing the common duty that 9th
ers have left undone.
Dubbed by the few, plebian, rabble o.
proletaire,
Ours is the hand that feeds them
ours is the prize they share.
And ours is the common blessing
free to the toilers all,
To win from the lOwly valley unto
the SUBMITS tall.
Common, and only common
This by the hight of birth
Yet the world in its need leans on US
We are the kings of the earth.
I've are the common people, ant
ours is the common clay
That God deemed fit for using, when
in the olden day,
He took the dust of the garden, thu
dust that his will obeyed,
Fashioned and formed and shaped it
and man in his image made:
And. seeing that God selected sucl
clay for the human test,
And deeming his wisdom suffices tt
choose but the surely best.
We, who are common people, ant
| made of the common clay,
Leave to the proud uncommon to i'm
prove on the Makers way.
Common, and only common
Tattered, sometimes, and frayed-
|
That God in his wisdom made
I'VE are the common people. yet on
of our might is wrought,
Ever, by Gods own fiat, masters o
mighty thought,
Men of that grand republic who's
rulers walk alone,
Piercing the future shadows, knowing
what seers have known:
And measured by these. the unco' ar
petty. wee and small.
Playing with gilded baubels, chatter
. ing, voluble all
And these. our sons, surpaSs them a
the hills o'ertop the glen,
For their great hearts throb to tn
worlds long sob, and they ar
; the saviors of men.
Common and only common.
Hopelessly commonplace.
Yet out of our loins still issue
The sayiors of the race
time subject itself 10 is five thousan
dollars tS5.000).