Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-06-19

light the way to dusty death; but
death is not all. The religion of
Christ has thrown its halo around
all human effort. She has come to
reasons rescue, and fixed with alb
solute certainty the knowledge of
those eternal laws by which human
conduct in every department of life
is to be regulated. There is not one
law for the subject and another for
the ruler; one for the rich and an
other for the poor. Reason declares
and revelation sanctions the sacred
ness of pr~operty-that man should
never steal. This precept weighs
with equal weight pom him who tills
the soil and upon him who shapes a
nations politics. This commandment
permeates into the very deepest re-
cesses of commercial enterprise;
wages incessant war against all
those who use the office of state to
defraud and cheat the weak and un-
suspecting.
at has been said, and woe to the
tongue that said 1t. that religion has
no right to interfere with politics
or with business, as If there was one
| code for morality for men of the
world, another for commerce, and
another for legislation. But there
stands these august and majestic
principles of the natural law. just as
universal as is humanity itself, weigh
ing and pressing on every human
will, on every human act, nc matter
how many varying circumstances
may arise. Wherever the capitalist
may look, wherever the artisan may
turn his eye, each must ever face
that i~nexorabfe, Interchangeable pro-
hibition, Thou shalt not steal Gus
tom cannot alter it, time cannot make
it urge one bit the less.
"And yet what signifies the great
est unrest in human society as it is
today? One class of men, by Selling
upon every opportunity, whether
good or bad, has wrested from the
other class much of that which is
tightfully theirs; so that by the cold
logic of ~retribution a social revolu-
ton seems to have its grasp upon the
world. The great fundamental princi-
pies of the moral law having been
sidetracked quietly, first by the rich
in their mad endeavor to augment
their riches, justly, If possible. but
by intrigue and deals, If necessary,
these same principles are not openly
denied by the proletarians in their
sincere but false desire to obtain
redress.
Man is an animal, with all the in
stincts of an animal, but he is a
rational animal, and he should be
ruled by fixed and unvarying prin-
ciples. The human mind must be
trammeled by dogmas, because 1t is
a finite mind. When man, therefore,
is free to sift out for himself what
he shall believe and what not to be-
lieve, when he is allowed to be the
author of his own creed, which he
makes to suit his fancy or his pas
sion's whim, is there any wonder,
then, that We find men casting aside
every Vestige of principles, setting
up all arbitrary systems of life, pull
ing down the time-honored struc-
lures that stand as bulwarks of moral
purity and righteousness? Is there
any wonder, then, that society should
crumble?
IT have referred to this condition
of society precisely to emphasize the
necessity of holding fast to the
sound principles of your faith and re-
liglon. You cannot succeed rightfully
in any career unless you r Cod
fearing, virtuous and loyal sons of the
church. And to do this you must
first be thoroughly imbued with those
correct principles of morality which
she teaches. You must not question
her authority, you must not ignore
her prohibitions. She is the infallible
witness of what is true. What you
ought to be, therefore, and most es-
pecially in this materialistic age, Is
men of principle; not merely the So
called natural men, for God never
intended such a thing, but true SUI
pernatural men, who not only know
what Is right, but who are dominated
by the right consciousness of what
life means, Of what Is its purpose,
what its end. Luther knew the true
principles. Voltaire knew them. But
you should be men who live up to
those principles, not men who would
betray that tender mother, the
| church, for the sake Of some pecuni-
airy advantage in politics or bust
ness"