The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-09-08

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their wares or the winning OF their
cause righteous or unrighteous. Big
ntercstSare spending millions IN such
way Us, i'm not q few cases, to de-
ceive even the elect. Hirelings are
selling even Their souls for SO much
as column, r. fI ..,
On the other hand, not few are the
Victims ofsan economic pressure that
.exacts rnore than they have. Special
ization Is driving still others into
grooves that soon become their graves.
Fcverish excitation is whipping our
nerves into premature exhaustion.
Neither religion nor industry can view
with indifference tho muffling of our
heart songs, the drying up OF our soul
springs, the drowning off of our
sources OF power, by whatever cause,
till we have little left when the day
us done. Let Jesus give us the remedy:
"But thou, when thou prayest, enter
into thy closet. and having shut the
door, pray to thy Father, who is in
secret" How lelsurely the scene when
a soul retreats into the silence for the
chture of the reserve self!
The scale of values TO be cultured in
the secret place is given III the little
poem We cali the Lords prayer which
Eets forth in perfect perspective and
proportion the things necessary for the
Individual In Il world community.
! Living under the sway of this value
sense, We. are ready ..to he used in
| full for complete social redemption.
In order that we may come to an
adequate appreciation OF the sacred
ness and worth of the one, In order
that sacrifidial socialinindedness may
have a fair chance among men, in or
der that an ample reserve self shall be
Within reach OF all, religion and indus
try unite with Jesus In urging: Seek
We first His Kingdom and His right
eousness, and all these things shall be
added unto you" Aim to make the
whole. world a commonwealth of CO.
! operative effort, in which the social
ideal Of Jesus shall prevail, and you
shall not go hungry, you shall not go
naked, you shnll not live the divided
life, and you shall not be without in
vestment in the riches Of the spirit
but, care-free. you may live the life
OF appreciation under the spell Of the
J gospel of the lilies and the birds.
IL will profit little to have destroyed
hutoCracy in European stateCraft and
lett II free in America to rule by edict
millions of unrepresented human be
ings on the one hand, or millions Ot
| unrepresented capital on the other,
The four parties at interest--Capital,
labor, the manager. the publiC-must
now share proportlOnatcly In the dem
ocratic control OF every enterprise in
which human beings invest their
| lives.
The new democracy requires that we
change our social attitudes and spirit
! I'm the Intimate affairs Of life as well as
in the control OF economic enterprises
, Our feelings toward each other are
wrong I'm many cases because OF the
way we trade and work. We need "a
now Gcfinitiou OF Justice, so applied
that the sun will rise no more upon a
world bisecte1 by line that leaves
/ on one side ten Per cent Of the people
with all the leisure. luxury and free
dnm from care. with all the civic, So
cial and economic power; and on the
/ other, ninety per cent Of the people
win all the wcariness, poverty ana
misery, with all the civic, social and