The Penn's Grove record., 1912-08-23
The Messiah Of
Toll
Doctrine Of Equality, a Common Father
hood, a Common Brotherhood, Is
on the Way.
HE promised Messiah came to q

VIM HE promised Messiah came to a
sin-weary and toil-worn world.
There vas Joy on high and
there a Joy on earth. The
wise men of the east saw the new
born star of the west, and came to
see the wonder. The carpenters son
grew up unknown to his people. Con-
secrated for his work, his miracles
and works no more than his person
al1ty and words gained for him a
hearing and a following. His people
were sore oppressed by bondage, po-
litical and spiritual. Singly he fought
the latter and gained for US, as for
them, freedom. 1t cost him his life,
but he rose again on the third day
and he and his teachings as centered
in his personality have survived the
storms Of succeeding ages and today
strike a deeper root than ever in the
institutions, religious, political and in
dustrial. of the people of the west.
Sin and toll were the two fruits Of
the fall. Without spiritual freedom.
no true happiness may be possible.
We must seek that first, then the 9TH
er will be given us. And the means
OF 1t has been given us. The bondage
of ~unrequited toll is being loosened.
Long enough has 1t held the great
mass of humanity In shackles. Gen
erations after generations of hoemen
have populated this earth, their best
life crushed by excessive toll, sup
porting at times a luxury justifiable,
at times a luxury as meaningless as
their W wretchedness. Greece and
Rome shone, but behind the glitter,
and behind that of all ancient and
medieval times, we see a dark back
ground Of slavery and serfdom. AS
a political entity the slave is no more.
but so long as the amount of human
labor needed to provide living for all
is such that the many must toll, so
long will systems be devised to make
them do so.
Institutions Founded on Equality.
This has been difficult here. Our
political institutions are founded on
the Messiah's doctrine Of equality, a
common fa%therhood, a Common broth
erhood. Human labor has become ex-
pensive, we have been looking for sub
stitutes. Science, unwilling at first,
has been called in. The powers Of ma
ture have been ~harnessed, tools and
machines vastly improved so as to
make individual labor more produc-
tive, and much has been realized. Man
as a producer of the physical neces-
saries Of life is today twice If not ten
times more powerful than was his an
cestor working one hundred years ago.
Investigations prove 1t and the evil
dences we see on every hand.
This has been the history of mod
ern industry and this its mission, to
emancipate the toiler. The vast prob
lens involving distribution of benefits
have not been solved, but are being
solved. A very large amount is al
ready widely distributed. The Christ
mas star shines forth on a world of
life which, If more complex, Is yet es-
sentially more rich than any preced,
ing. The west, the first to see the
true meaning of the Messiah's mission,
is the first step to reap the benefits
from a social organization whose ideal
Is universal love. The course Of this
influence widening will extend ever
westward until the circle of the lands
is complete. Even now the wise men
Of the east, seeing the new star, have
accepted its guidance, while, deep
from the lives of the millions doubly
freed rise the strains of the Nativity
hymn.