The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-09-13
SERMON FOR SUNDAY
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Above all else this country needs a
nationwide revival of oldfashioned
rrayer-meeting religion
A religion that makes men realize
that if there is a heaven, there must
also of necessity be hell
A religion that makes man real
lie that every act is recorded on his
own conscience, and that though that
may slumber, if can never die
A religion that makes an employer
understand that if he is unfair to his
employees and pays them less than fair
wages, measured by his ability and
their efficiency and zeal, he is a rob-
Der
A religion that makes an employee
know that if he does not give full and
efficient service, he too is a robber-
A religion that makes a farmer,
who packs bad fruit at the bottom and
deceives the buyer by the good fruit
on the top, realize that he is thief
just as much as the one who robs a
hen roost at night
A religion that makes a man who
robs a railroad of it's fare, or its
freight bill, know that he robs him
self of all right to feel that he is an
honest man
A religion that makes man realize
that by driving too hard a bargain
with his servant, his employe. or his
merchant, he can be just as much a
profiteer as the seller Or producer who
swindles by false weight, false pack
ing or false charges
A religion that will teach church
members who fail to contribute to the
extent of their ability to the support
of religion, and that compels them to
recognize that if they are paying
their pastor less than a living salary,
they are robbing God and man alike
A religion that will make the labor
ing man, who by threats or by actual
violence against the non-union man,
strives to keep him out of employ
ment, realize that he is at heart q
murderer and is numbering the in
dividuality, and the liberty of his
fellow-man, and is displaying a hat
red which, if it has the opportunity
will commit physical murder
A religion that will make the poll
tician who yields principle for the
sake of party, who worships at the
feet of any class and sells his soul for
political preferment know that he is
rot only a coward and a poltroon. and
unworthy of the respect of any decent
man, but which will also make him
see that he is helping to murder hu.
man liberty. as great a crime as muir.
oering the individual man
In short, we need revival of that
religion which will make every man
and woman strive in every act of life
TO do that which, on the great Judge.
ment day, they will wish they hao
done, as with soul uncovered they
stand before the judgment seat of the
eternal.
Until the people of this nation &C.
cept and live this religion there will
be strife where there should be peace
there will be strikes and lockouts and
murder where there should be CO.
operation and harmony; there will be
hatred where there should be friend
ship and love.
In the Golden Rule, followed in the
fullness of the spirit of this kind OF
religion, there would be found a solu-
ton for every business trouble; there
would be created friendship between
employer and employe; capital and
labor would work in harmony and
with efficiency, efficiency for the cap
ital and efficiency for the labor, with
profit to both.
| Religion of this kind is not meas
ured by the hope of a Heaven here
after, but by the full fruition now of
peace on earth to men of good viii. "