St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-12-08

same spirit of the Hebrew prophets
and with their vision, once said, 'sWheI
L behold the growth of slavery,
tremble for my country, remembering
that God is just" Thomas Carlyle
the stern prophet of righteousness
said, Foolish men imagine that be-
cause Judgment for an evil thing is
delayed. there is not justice, but ar
accidental one, here below. Judg-
ment for an evil thing is many times
delayed some day or two. some cen
fury or two, but it is sure as life, it is
sure as death. In the center of the
world whirlwind, verify now as in the
oldest days, dwells and speaks a God
The great soul of the world is just
! Forget that, thou hast forgotten all
Success will never more attend thee;
how can it now? Thou hast the
whole Universe against thee" Our
i faith in the triumph of Righteousness
is not dependent upon the words OF
the prophets. 1t is illustrated in
every generation of human history.
The Hebrew nation did crumble and
fall as many other nations have done
because they were trying to stand on
a foundation of injustice and upright
eousness. Great organizations of our
own day, political, business, social.
have crumbled and fallen for no other
reason than the simple fact that they
were founded upon injustice and I'M
righteousness. This is one of the
surest proofs we have of the existence
of God. There is great deal of prac-
ticed atheism in the world. There
are not many men who will say that
| they do not believe in God; but there
are many men and women who live
and act as though there were no God
of Truth, Righteousness and Love. If
men really believed in the existence of
a God of Truth and Righteousness
such as the Hebrew prophets and
Jesus Christ have told US about, they
would not dare to build up a business
or political party or a corporation
of any kind on a foundation of in
justice and unrighteousness. They
would know that by so doing they
were building on the sand because such
an institution must come to grief just
as sure as there is a God in Heaven.
If a railroad should gain power and
influence by corrupting Legislature and
defying the courts of justice a man
of faith would know that the railroad
system must come to grief. We have
an illustration of building up business
by oppression and injustice. There is
a man in our land who is the en-
bodiment of that sort of business
method. He has attained great
wealth and great power; but his name
is synonymous with injustice and
cruelty and oppression and his life is
labeled forever as a colossal example
of miserable failure. One of the most
pathetic cartoons is that of this man
in death-like figure sitting upon an
Immense mountain of gold, looking
down upon hundreds of his fellow
men in strife and battle flying at one
another's threats because of the in
dustrial methods of this one powerful
man. This cartoon was sarcastically
labeled, Success He might have
gone down in history as one of the
great benefactors of the race. In
reality his name will be held in the
minds of many of his country-men as
anonymous with unrighteousness
cruelty and oppression. There are
many others who denounce his bust
ness methods but have sympathy for
the man who was simply the embodi-
ment of the spirit of his time. Why
could he not have learned his lesson
from Micah; 1.-The Lord is not pleased
with thousands of rams, nor with ten
thousands of rivers of oil. He hath
showed thee, o man, what is good and
what doth the Lord require of thee
but to do justly, to love mercy and to
walk humbly with thy God"
We need not go back of our own
day to find the lesson writ large that
injustice and oppression are false
foundations upon which to build a
life.
There still remains much to be
righted, even in our own land, and so
clear call to everyone who bears the
name of Christ to enlist in the fight
for righteousness. So long as there
are two millions of little children in
this land working necessarily in mines
and glass factories and cotton mills
there is a burden upon the heart of
Gods people to right this wrong. We
can imagine Thomas Jefferson saying
when L behold the awful injustice
of men and women living in luxury
from the life-blood of two millions OF
little children, 1 tremble for my coun-
try, remem boring that God is just"
All honor to the work of the National
Child Labor Committee of which Owen
r. Lovejoy is the efficient secretary
in the great work they are doing to
right this wrong. He should have the
support of every Christian.
The liquor traffic is one of the
great evils and injustices that is still
abroad in OR land. Remove the
curse of intemperance and you remove
from one-fourth to one-half of the
social evils which mar our land. It |
is a cause for thanksgiving and great
rejoicing that this awful evil is at last
being overcome. We wonder that it |
has been tolerated until this day. It |
he ~
tan, every loyal patriotic citizen that
the labor shall not cease until this |
great evil is rooted out of the nation.
There is still industrial warfare |
which affects life and the foundations
Of this nation. Great gain has been
made toward industrial justice. We
look with faith and hope to see the
day when this warfare shall cease and
employer and employee shall live and
work together, as brothers. Jesus
Christ gave his life that every child of
God might have an opportunity to de-
yelop the infinite capacities of his
soul We should be ready to give our 4