The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-12

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teaches people of the faith that leads
| to happiness in the family circle,
stimulates men to laudable ambl-
ton to help his brother man, to feed
the hungry and to train the children
| to lives of christianity and usefulness.
People are hurrying along now in
endeavors to make money, feeling
| that the church has no interest in
them and they have no interest in the
church There is parting of the
ways. If this proposition is truth,
must the people save themselves?
The church .must work for the re-
demption of man, the saving Of souls.
We must so live that by example We
show that We have something to live
! io..
He referred eloquently and touch
ingly to the life and teachings of
Christ, his meeting with Martha and
Mary, the miracle of the loayes and
fishes and that other miracle at the
marriage of Cana, adding Joy to the
occasion. Christ's acts upon earth
taught goodness and virtue. His mis-
Z sion was to help man materially and
socially as well as spiritually. Charity
and sympathy we're necessary in help
ing the needy as the good Samaritan
did: in helping little children to walk
in the ways they should go, and to
warn the people to guard the lives OF
= the humble and the helpless and point
them to the good and the beautiful.
I Several wrongs were referred to
and he declared there was quicken
ling of the public conscience on the
J social conditions. He pointed out
! with emphasis the wrong of accumu-
lating by capitalists of wealth and
employing it in way ever to the
! oppression of the poor. Corporations
conducted according to law are not
4 wrong. To accumulate wealth is not
: wrong. but to use the power which
: wealth may bestow in inflicting a
wrong on a weaker member is wrong
The grouping together of two or thres
: factories and then using the power OF
: this combination to force others tc
join or be forced out of existence Oh
for other wrong purposes was a grey
ious wrong. Monopoly strews the
country with dead bodies of theil
opponents. They violate the Grimm
al law. The commandments declare,
Thou shalt not kill. 1t makes no diff
ference how the deed is committed
I whether by permitting unsanitary con
: ditions in factory or what not, 1t i:
violation of the commandment.
: crime is crime.
4 These are some of our social ILL
;. against which the church and al
: christian people should attempt re
e form. by instilling the idea into thu
S minds of the people to stand for TIL,
D right. for love, for God, for child an,
e for country. II the christian peopl
+ do not. enter the field for social re
0 form, there are others to take on
s places, not for social reform, but TO
b revolution. Fifteen or twenty year
b ago socialist was like a travelling
menagerie or a rare bird They ar
now governing some of our cities an
our labor unions. Now my dea
; friends, the church should make n
concealments. The socialists MAX
no concealments of their undying hos
y tility to the Catholic church. Socia
ism means comradeship. Christianit
has higher ideal than that AS Chris
l. adored his mother, SO does cnristia
1 man. and he is son of God and
l. brother of Christ Comrades may
5 no better than the beasts of the fiel(
$ Christianity glories in one family, on
0 hope. one Lord and one God above
That is the church's faith. Brothe
y seek one another Let christianit
e join in a brotherhood created
6 Christ, our Lord. The church is oil
posed to socialism. 1t follows tn
/? methods of the irresponsible. When
p man is hungry, under the teaching
q of socialism, he becomes a beas
IL Workingmen are taught that if the
it want anything to take it. even
e necessary to kill in order to obtain
Referring to conditions in a cit
n where hundreds and thousands wer
y hungry. Thrcngs, like ants crowdin
s. into their hills move these workin
d people going into the nIckleodeon,
Capital has made them slaves an