The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-04-09
: EGGS AND A BIT OF cHEEsEi 1
! A MOTHER AND A NEW BABY )
! POWERFUL EASTER SERMON :

From the Pittsburgh Leader.

FOL a long UHlS he WuSA
work. Seven weeks ago this BABY was
born. we had no money to pay any
one to take are Of me. He coulon =
go away. Last Monday the dlphtherla
sign was taken from h door. ! haVent
a bite to eat in the house: l maven
any money. We can't stay in the house
longer than the first or the mohIh-
the rent isn't paid"
This was the plea Of a wife to ave
her husband from going to prison and
leaving herself and baby to starVe
alone.
The signs Of the sorrows Of the
motherhood of poverty were upon ner;
The baby of seven weeks, snatcneo
from the clutches of death, was IN nor
arms, upon her bosom.
The man for whom she pleaded TO
the Judge had stolen a few eggs ana
some cheese from a store.
He didn't loot the place, as some men
would have done for that hungry wire
and baby. He took only what Would
keep off starvation until he could go
out to get work.
Just a few eggs, and some cheese.
Could any man have taken less? Would
n man have taken less? Wouldn't
you, or I, have taken more?
You will say that this tear washed
plea saved that husband and father
from going to prison. You will be
wrong II you DO.
For the next six months that man
must stay in prison, and that hungry
wife must take care of herself the best
she can.
She must find some way to keep the
fountain from going dry that her baby
does not perish from hunger. 49,
After 1000 years Of Christianity, this
Is as far as we have Travelled.
A man who steals a few eggs ana a
piece of cheese to save his hungry wife
and baby Just born into hardship and
poverty from starvation, is sent to
prison for six months, leaving a help
less woman, barely recovered from the
Of maternity among the pow
erty smitten to starve or live as she
pleases.
Property must be protected. 1t Is
sacred. That human life, Of the lowly
which Christ loved SO much. and
preached about and was crucihed Tor,
Is nothing when balanced against
sacred property.
Here is a sermon OF Easter that ourns
the eyes, and ears. and makes the heart
sick.
What would that Man of Sorrows
have said to the wner Of a few eggs
and some cheese who would come to Him
demanding punishment Of the husband
and father who took that bit that the
mother Of his babe be not too hungry?
Can you imagine the scorn with
which He would have whipped the cry
for Justice" to cast back into that end
less flame of privation a woman and
her baby because a man had IKE q
few eggs and some cheese? Is 1t hard
to think what he would have said?
The life Of a woman and baby thrown
Into the scales against a few eggs and
O. little bit Of cheese. Not much. Just
enough that the wife n mother need
not be too hungry. Not enough to
stop her hunger, but just enough to
fence off starvation for a few days.
This is as far as we have gone after
1000 years of teaching the Gospel or
Love spread over the earth by the Car
penter OF Nazareth.
How many thousand more years Will
have passed before all the world mas
learned the lesson Jesus taught?
Were that Man Of Galilee on earth to-
day He would either be under bonds to
keen the peace or under the restraining
provisions of an injunction.
II would smite that Justice" that ex-
changes the life of a mother and her
babe for a few eggs and a bit of cheese.
He would challenge h law that says
two Auman lives are worth less than a
few eggs and a bit of cheese.
His burning words would shrivel that
| law which places a few eGgs and a piece
| of cheese above human lives.
His tongue would help to drive from
existence hat system which would
punish a husband and a father for TAX
ing the only means left to him to ward
off starvation from his wife and child.
Had q John Wiseman, a sick man,
with a hungry wife, and sick baby,
been delivered to The Master by the
man who had lost those few eggs and
that piece Of cheese, and hE friends.