The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-05-12

one per cent on inheritance of five
thousand, four per cent on inherit
! ances of twenty thousand. over fifteen
per cent on one hundred thousand,
! over twenty-five per cent on a mil
lion, to over ninety-nine per cent on
eighty million inheritance and over.
But the half of Congress may not
be fired with the Holy Spirit before
! the Fourth of July; possibly never,
and while we wait for an outburst of
| splendid patriotism at Washington,
let the rich and well-to-do greatly in
crease their gifts for public work.
Christ said at is harder for a rich
man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven
| than for camel to pass through the
eye of needle" If a rich man gives
enough away he will no longer be rich
/ and one impeachment to his entering
/ the Heavenly Kingdom will be re-
moved, if he HIMSELF carried comfort
to a house of sorrow and saw the
widows tears of joy because of his
, kindness to her sick child, he might
taste the joys of Heaven that very
! day. To give his children a better
chance for Heavenly joy here and
hereafter, he might give them enough
so they would not have to pay rent or
interest, but not so much but what
they would have to work for food and
raiment.
Of course if all the milHonaires de-
cided on the same day to love their
neighbors Jas themselves and give
away, mainly for public work, all but
their homes and furniture and few
thousand dollars worth of other pro-
perty, there might be either a great
slump in the value of property or
enough property given away by the
rich to furnish employment for over
! twenty years, perhaps over forty.
with God all things are possible, -
Suppose he gave all the rich at once
! religion that could not be destroyed
/ by fire. 1 suppose Socialists would
tell them to turn over all productive
property to the state they lived in, in
each country of the World.
If all the poor and middle class
people of the World had highly en-
lightened freproof Christianity, this
might be the best industrial solution
and it might not.
Suppose the rich all became fire
! y,rOOf CbriStiaDS 1rybila tho yo0O,- ~,
middle class were good, bad and in
different like today. think it would
be better for the rich to give the bulk
of their surplus wealth to hire the
poor to do public work that would
help them all to be good, than to give
them the property without money and
without price.
AS there seems to be no likelihood
of all the rich becoming golden rule
Christians during spring revival
the few who may so become might
well give a large proportion of their
wealth for public work and let their
Christian fire shine forth to rich and
poor alike wneh there is such an aw-
full need of witnesses for Christ.
According to Roman history. Sc
called, as it used to be written. 3
crevice opened in the heart of the
city and as it spread wider and wider
houses on either side tumbled into
the cavity. Naturally the people were
greatly alarmed and leading citizen:
went to a soothsayer and asked hin
what they would have to do to aver
the destruction of their city. He tolC
them that not until Rome cast in hel
most valuable possession would the
chasm close. So they threw in golC
and silver and jewels and fine raimen
and still the chasm spread wider anC
wider. Finally a Roman soldie,
grasped the Oracle's meaning. He
went to his home and dressed himself
: in complete armor and mounting hi
horse rode sword in hand to the place
. of danger. Rome's most valuabl,
possession is. her citizen who is read!
, to die for her. Saying this he pu
spurs to his horse and the two disap
peared into the abyss and it closet
over them
; Some may have thought the hors
need not have been killed and per
hans the chasm would have closes
lust as soon as if the man had leapet