Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-06-19

Continued from last week
horizontal line. If one hand goes up
to. God the other must go out to our
brother and it can go out to our
brother only as the other goes up to
God.
There are two words which we
ought to keep in mind. They are
piety and philanthrophy. Love to
God is piety and the science which
deals with that part of the gospel
is called theology. Love to our fell
lowmen is philanthrophy and the
science which deals. with that part of
the gospel is called sociology. These
two are, inseparable. Piety without
philanthrophy is a sham and the
worst kind of sham is that of a
pretended piety. Philanthrophy is
the dynamics of christianity. It is
christianity in action and the highest
type of christianity is that which
feeds the hungry, clothes the naked
and visits the sick. l am an optimist.
l believe we are living in the best
day and the best year and the best
century the world has ever known.
The progress of the world has been
upward and onward. That progress
is seen in all departments of life. This
progress is not only along material
lines but along intellectual and moral
lines. The great movements of his
tory have been moral movements
The great ideas that have moved men
and nations onward have been relig-
ious ideas. We are the inheritors of
the great ideas of the past. l know
that at times can be heard the .mur-
murs of unrest and discomfort, of pol
itical corruption, of commercial dis
honesty, of unfairness and injustice
in the industrial world. But in spite
of all this | have profound faith ir
the permanence and ultimate right.
eousness of American institutions
faith in the ultimate glory of ou,
country. All wrongs that vex anc
annoy will be solved. You tell me
that the rich are defiantly .extrava.
CANT and that the poverty of the pool
is appalling and / will tell you thai
there never was time in the histor,
of the world when the money of the
rich was SO readily at the service Of
people as it is today. You tell mt
the condition of the submerged class
es and l will tell you there never ha,
been time when the middle class
was as well off as it is today. Their,
are gigantic evils in our political, so
cial and commercial life but a gigan
tic battle is being waged agains
them. The struggle is bitter but it il
not fruitless. The throes of toda,
are the birth pangs of better to
morrow. The light of that tomor
row begins to dawn. It's sun i
| piercing the darkness. The East i
aglow. The CLEANS of a new radi
ance begins to illumine the horizon
We have religion that has in it
power to solve all the problems o
human society. Its sole mission i
not to prepare men for heaven whel
this life is over. Christianity is pre-
eminently for this life and teache
men to act justly and honestly an
lloyally with their fellow men.
| believe in these societies becaus
they stand for human brotherhood
That is modern idea. 1t is the corn
er stone of society. It is the offspr
ing of christianity. 1t was who'll
unknown in the Roman Empire. i
first found expression when Jesu
Christ declared "Thou shalt love TIL
neighbor as thyself." 1t was the de
velopment of Gods thought when h
said "God has made all nations of on
blood" The world into which Chris
came was world without love. Lac
tantius lay great stress upon the diff
ference between Christianity an
heathenism in these words, "Gompas
sion and humanity are virtues pecu
liar to the righteous and to the wor
shippers of God. Philosophy .teache
US nothing of them" What did tn
charities of the early church signify
This. That a religion had arise
among men that was a religion o
brotherhood and mutual helpfulnes.
What do modern missions signify
This. That the most cultivated an
high blooded peoples on earth re.
ognize their kinship to the most say
age and debased.
That men of all races, classes an
conditions are brother men, equs
children of one household who's
father is Ged is theory of societ
which in its fullness has bee
the growth of the last two cen
turies. That poor man carried on
stretcher to the hospital is you
brother. That poor outcast fal!e
woman Of the street is my sister.
was that spirit that led the Earl o
Shaftesbury, the man of culture
wealth and refinement to devote him
self and his wealh to the saving 0
the homeless and outcast of London;
poor. Lord Salisbury said of him i
the House of Lords my lords the re
forms of this century are due to tn
presence here of one man the Ear
OF Shaftesbury. The genius of hi
life was expressed when he last ad
dressed you. He said "When fee
age creeping upon me / cannot bea
to leave the world with so much mis-
cry in it." At his funeral the ora
tor of the day said" This man goetl
down to his grave amid the benedic
tion of the poor and the admirin.
love of the rich" And Gladston
said, "The safety of our country i
not in law or legislators but in chris
tan gentlemen like unto Lor,
Shaftesbury." It was this spirit tha
animated Peter Cooper to give up hi
wealth to establish an institution fo
the education of the poor bows an,
girls of America. tell YOU saw
Talmage when we have men lii,
Lord Shaftesbury and Peter Coope-
and George Peabody reaching ou
their hands of helpfulness to tn,
laboring classes the age of dynamit,
will cease and the last torch of in
cendiarism will be extinguished AM
the last knife of assassination will
go to slicing bread for. poor .childrel
and the last pound of dynamite will
go to work in the quarries to bias
foundation stones for churches ant
universities and asylums.
1t is grand thing to be nobly borl
but it is grander thing to be nobl,
remembered. We all want to be re
membered. Build your monument OF
the heart of one whom you have help
ed. That Sabbath School teacher
builds her monument in the heavenl,
thrones and palaces of her converted
class. George Muller builds hi
monument in the orphans houses o.
Bristol. George Peabody builds hi,
monument in the library of his native
village and the school houses which
he established for aducat;no tb.