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Subject: The Message of Christ to
Capital.
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Brooklyn, X. y.?Speaking at the j
} Irving square jrre?uyieiictu uiuiui |
on the theme. "The Message of Christ
to Capital," the Rev. I. W. Henderson,
pastor, took as his text Matthew
7:12, "Therefore, all things whatsoever
ye would that men should do to
you, do ye even so to them." He
- said:
Labor and capital. The great corf
related facts of the economic life of
' to-day, as throughout all ages they
s. have been, are labor and capital.
But though they are correlated, capital
is of secondary importance. In
a simple society labor is central. In
a complex society labor and capital
may with reason be allowed to possess
an almost equal position of iin\
\ portance in the economic system.
But no matter how influential and
how powerful capital may become it
can never usurp the central, primal,
i fundamental, ultimate position of
labor in the economic affairs of man.
The economic tendency of to-day
upon the side of capital is toward
centralization, toward combination,
toward concentration. With this ten
dency toward centralization we nave
' , . the spectacle of immense corporai
^ tipns gifted with a chartered power
.at the hands of a sovereign people,
v And these corporations are engaged,
many of them, in the exercise of this
v power in endeavors to control the
- output of the necessities of life; direct
and govern the markets of the
world, and dictate prices for the
, necessaries of life without due re(?%.,>
gard to fairness or to the universal
\ laws, very largely, of supply and dev
' mand. There are good and there are
evil results to be expected and to be
r found in the economic trend of our
tiay.
The dangers of this economic ten^
dency so far as capital is concerned
are many fold; and the first danger
t is, that in the centralization of wealth
and the increase of capital beyond
the bounds of safety, we shall have
two different and distinct classes in
"the social life of our land. The dan%.
ger is, that* with a society in which
f there shall be, in effect, but two
classes of men, we shall have a re.
turn., in an economic way, to the pnhealthy
conditions of the feudal reT
- gime. The danger is that, upon the
one hand, we shall have the employer,
on the other hand, the employe;
on the one hand, the men of
money and, on the other, the salaried,
it**' The danger is that, on the one hand,
we shall have a class of independent
wealthy men and, on the other, a
mass of dependent retainers; on the
one hand, the wealth holders and, on
t'': . the other, the wage workers.
The- second danger is from cor
. porate concentration. By virtue of
?r ' Governmental enactments a corpora
jf ^ tioa, though composed of personaliw"
ties, is itself an impersonality before
v' the law: The sense of individual responsibility
is lessened and men are
released, by the law itself, from that
'0 lively sense of personal duty which is
Incumbent and felt upon the part of
? the individual man with a. personal
relation to the law and to trade. Men
v, become the engineers of a huge
mechanism. Humanity is lost in the
gg machinery of commercial life. .
Another danger of the economic
tendency on the part of capital to-day
is that, by virtue of its immense powers,
it shall grow up as a State within
> a ?tate. With the numberless and
increasing ramifications and alliances
E{?|:?- of our larger corporations there has
grown up an alarming situation.
& v Take, for instance, the most noted
corporation in the land. However
' valuable tbe p^lblic services of this
corporation may have been; however
important its contributions to society,
as a leader in the march of trade, j
may be admitted to be: however
much we may praise it for the many
^ excellencies which it possesses, we
cannot escape the fact that it stands
to-day, as do many other corporav
tions, as a daager to the public welfare
and as a possible enemy to the i
common weal. The ramifications, the
business alliances, the political coalitions
of this one corporation are so
diverse, so Nation wide, so stupendous
as to be almost past belief. All
this is wise from the standpoint of a
pure commercial life. There is nothing
Inherently wrong in such a condition
of affairs if the correlative power
which it brings be exercised with an
eye single toward the light of righteousness.
But if ever this enormous
influence and capacity for good or for
ill should become vested in the hands
of unscrupulous men the danger to
* our civil liberty would be very real.
If, in the course of time, the power
of such corporations should become
the property of unjust and un'godly
men, whose creed should be selfishness
and whose commercial aim
should be directed toward the satisfaction
of unbridled self-interest, immediate
and intense iniquity would,
of'sequence, result. The danger to
these American people lies not in the
strength of military force; not in an
unselfish imperialism which strives
for the amelioration of the peoples
of the islands of the sea; but in the
unholy use of dishonest power by immoral
and conscienceless men of
wealth. Then will be realized the
prophecy of the State within the
State. Then will come the test of
capital, maae arrogant wun weaun,
in the lists against the Governmental
authority.
It does not necessarily follow,
> whatever may be our fears, that combination
per se is evil. Combination
is a natural and a logical result of
the conditions under which we live.
Anything, whatever its name, which
lightens labor, enlarges efficiency, and
increases the impetus of commercial
life, is of value to humanity at large.
Impersonality before the lav* is not
in itself an unmitigated evil if so be '
the men who manage corporations do !
not forget humanity and God. Com- !
binations and corporations are bene- '
flcial so long as they are good.
It also does not follow, nt?2:t?.rily,
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BY THE: REV~J||
5A W- H&NDERS'Q%
HE: PAHO0S-DIVINE
that the possession of great wealth
is a crime. Wealth is a sin only when
it is unrighteously acquired or inand
used. The
u u main j ^aj[/v**v*v>.
rqnn who becomes rich in righteousness
is an honor to the Commonwealth.
The man who spends his
substance in a decent way with due
regard for the public good is a credit
to the State. But bad men whose
wealth is the result of malicious
depredations upon the public, and
whose moneys are expended in unclean
ways, are public criminals and
disgraces to humanity, it also does
not follow necessarily that a system
of corporate combination destroys individuality.
It may destroy to some
extent the money making capacity of
the individual; but to destroy a man's
ability to exercise his financial instinct
is not to destroy the man. Individuality
is not a matter so much
of money as of mind, heart, and soul.
And any system which permits men
to enjoy a larger opportunity for the
exercise of their intellectual, moral
and spiritual capacities, and which
enables humanity to realize in a
larger fashion the fulness of human
personality upon every side, must be
valuable to mankind. Righieous combination
will afford opportunity for
all the faculties. The individualism
cf to-day is an insult, in the last analysis,
to personalities who are made
in the image of Almighty God.
About all that it emphasizes is our
capacity and desire to make raoVey.
And however valuable money may
be and however much we may all
need it, this is the eternal truth of
Gcd, that that system which empha
sizes this side of man's nature almost
to the stultifying of his mental,
ethical and spiritual characteristics is
a thing of sin.
The message of Christ to capita!.
And what is this gospel? If I understand
the truth of God unto men of
wealth as it has been revealed unto
us in Jesus Christ our Lord, it is this,
that money is a trust; that wealth is
a talent; that the p'ossession of extraordinary
ability for financial success
and commercial leadership is a
gift of God compelling inescapable
duties upon those so blessed and enforcing
tremendous obligations. A
man's money is to be used not unto
the satisfaction of his selfish desires,
but for the good of all. Men aire not
to be treated as slaves. They are not
to be considered as machines. Bearing
in mind the admonition of our
Lord, "'Whatsoever ye would that
men should do unto you, do ye even
so to them," our men of financial and
-commercial prominence should remember
that even the humblest man
is a personality and not a mechanism;
that even a laborer is a child of
the living God. If there are any men
who should have patience, forbearance,
charity, loving kindness, tenderness,
compassion with and for the
men who toil, they are the men who
in the providence of God are supremely
endowed with the fulness
and the fatness of the good things of
life. It is the business, as. under
God, it should be the happiness, of
nur mon nf m?ans and of nnmmfircial
prominence to study the comfort, to
enhance the joy, to foster the education,
to assist the mora! and spiritual
upliftment of the man "who is working
for a wage. Their delight it
should be, as it is their duty, to
lighten labor and to increase wages
to the utmost limit that ;he economic
conditions which are existent will allow.
They should see that the toiler
has free hours, sufficient and often
enough not only for rest, but also for
honest recreation. Men do not ask
for alms, they simply desire a chance
and an opportunity to do something
more than exist?to live. In the
darkest days of African bondage
there were no worse, though there
were different, conditions, than those
which characterize the inhuman white
slavery that is a feature of the economic
system of to-day. Multitudes
of men eke out but a bare and, at
best, a miserable existence, as the
fruit of honest, laborious and oftentime
dangerous, toil; while those who
pay their wages live in splendor, affluence,
and, many times, in supercilious
and arrogant indifference to
the needs of men. The message of
Christ to the man of wealth is a call
for selfishness, self-sacrifice and honest
philanthropy.
The great need of capital to-day is
an instillation in its heart of the principles
and the personality, of the
character v. and the convictions of
Jesus Christ. We cannot uope for a
sound e:ercise of commercial authority;
we cannot, wisely and sensibly,
expect a true development of
our commercial life without the presence
of His truth as the guiding and
controlling factor in the hearts and
. the minds and'the souls of our men of
vroalfh lrni/rr' snirit nf
Christ they will love men; and loving
men, v,e shall have no fear.
A Mistake Frequently Made.
Professor P. Brouardel in an address
on the measures adopted by
different nations for the prevention
of consumption, calls attention to a
mistake made in the different countries
by ministers who have the
charge of the financial department
of the State. He says they like to
calculate the sum the State gets from
the duty on alcohol, but they should
deduct from it the cost to the community
of the family of the ruined
drunkard, his degenerate, infirm,
scrofulous and epileptic children, who
must have shelter. This invasion of
alcoholism ought to be regarded by
everyone as a public danger, and this
principle, the truth of which is incontestable.
should be inculcated into
the masses, that the future of the
world will be in the hands of the
temperate.
Response to Prayer.
There is no true prayer without
some response. Invisible wires from
heaven to earth are ever vibrating
with divine blessings, and when
prayer touches them the electric
stream of love enters the soul.?
Newman Hall.
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According to an official report there ! V J
has been only one case of coporal pun- j A A
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FITS, St. Vitus'Dance :Nervous Diseases per- *_w m
manently cured by Dr. Kline's Great Nerve jnj n
Restorer. S3 trial bottle and treatise free. JL Jl A
Dr. H. R. Kline, Ld.,931 Arch St., Phila., Pa. CiTtdL 'C
If we all had our just deserts, it Mannwi
would be fashionable to go to jail. Th^
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TERRIBLE ITCHING SCALP, j
Eczema Broke Out Also on Hands and : ^ jAxtt
Limbs? Ail Oltl S;?HT.* I>il?ri;. I '? y
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willing to testify to the merits of Cuti- }Wl
cura. It saved me from worse coan the WflfElvL '
torture of hades', about the year 1900, with
itching on my scalp and temples, 5nd afterwards
it commenced to break out on
ray bands. Ihen it broke out on my limbs. ^AHESB3B9
1' then went to a surgeon, whose treat- .
ment did me no good, but rather aggravated
the disease. 1 then told bim 1
would go and see a physician in Erie. The I u P
reply was that i could go anywhere, but I y fjlj L
a case of eczema like mine could not be I I UU I
I cured; that J was too old (80). I went to .
! an eminent doctor in the city of Erie and I care?of t
treated with him for six months, with B
like results. 1 had read of the (Juticura fl
Remedies, and so i 6ent for the (Juticura B w" /f I \|
Soap, Ointment and Resolvent, aud con- g
tinued taking the Resolvent until 1 had H aid digestion,
taken six bottles, stopping it to take the I autevi!l^in *!
Pills. 1 was now getting better. 1 took I nc 1 at
two baths a day, and at night 1 let the I UP
lather of the Soap dry on, 1 used the j 5j Price 25 Cei
Ointment with great effect after washing J B I- S. JOMJtSW
in warm water, to stop the itching at |
once. 1 am now cured. The (Juticura j
treatment is a blessing, and should be m a
used by every one who has itching of the A If Q Til jft
skin. 1 can't say any more, and thank riV Ul V 01
' God that He has given the world such a ?
curative. Win. H. Gray, 3303 Alt. Vernon ./nnv
' St., Philadelphia. Pa.. August 2, 1905." AVERY <
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A trip rbroad is the surest way to ?all
teach people to appreciate home. MAC!
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Citable fo Do Even Housework Ec- ttjltwiiW
cause of Kidney Troubles. flH
Mrs. Margaret Emmerich, of Clin- gjfsLnHji
ton St., Napoleon, O., says: "For
fifteen years 1 was a great sufferer
* paius- My c>*esiSbt Reliable Frlck
was pcor, dark spots Sizes. W
appeared before me,
spells. For ten years I
I could not do housework, and for lJ86gSBg3K
two years did not get out of the
house. The kidney secretions were
irregular, and doctors were not helping
me. Doan's Kidney Pills brought g?$J IMPROVED
me quick relie., and finally cured me. , _ .
They saved my life." Earfl? En9'nel
Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. ?. mf "
Foster-Mi lb urn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. ?! a' Saws'Si
oteam Governor
If i( wasin t so hard to be a real Supplies. S<
man, it would be worth while. (/
, Oecauee of those ugly, grizzly.
Laxative *^ !j
own Quality]
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re are two classes of remedies: those of known qualwhich
are permanently beneficial in effect, acting /
in harmony with nature, when nature needs assist-and
another class, composed of preparations of (
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)wn, uncertain ana mierior cu&nictcr, acuug ucmFvr,
bat injuriously, as a result of forcing the natural
ons unnecessarily. One of the most exceptional of
cmedies of known quality and excellence is the ever
>ant Syrup of Figs, manufactured by the California 8]
yrup Co., which represents the active principles of
aown to act most beneficially, in a pleasant syrup, t
the wholesome Californian blue figs are used to conir
rich, yet delicate, fruity flavor. It is the remedy I
ledies to sweeten and refresh and cleanse the system I h
naturally, and to assist one in overcoming consti- I %
the many ills resulting therefrom. Its active princi- 1 ^
[uality are known to physicians generally, and the v
s therefore met with their approval, as well as with
if many millions of well informed persons who know ; d
m personal knowledge and from actual experience |
Qost excellent laxative remedy. We do not claim that j J
til manner of Ills, but recommend it for what it really j j
laxative remedy of known quality and excellence,
thing of an objectionable or injurious character. j two
classes of purchasers; those who are informed f
y of what they buy and the reasons for the excellence j
ceptional merit, and who do not lack courage to go 1
a dealer offers an imitation of any well known I
jrtnnately, there are some people who do not know. ?
hemselves to he imposed upon. They cannot expect |
cts if they do not get the genuine remedy. fi
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of the druggists of the United states oe it saia gn ;
of them value their reputation for professional jj
good will of their customers too highly to offer |
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tine?Syrup of Figs S
mine article and to get its beneficial effects, one has I
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rice, 50c. per bottle. One size only. U
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DI Tp| There was a man in our town > \
Bk And he was wondrous wise,
rstrs eirt&Y* He "ran into a bramble bush
JSmlSSmISSmm And put out both his eyes.
!E POMMEL Then, when he found what he hai
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With all his might an<t main
He ran to a bank and got a job as
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Kisses' 6c Children's Shoes, $2.20 to $1.00.
ry W. L. DongiiL. Women's, Misses and Y,
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ou how carefully W.L. Douglas shoes
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Fast Color Eyelets used; they utill not wear brassy
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!an now furnish all kinds of cabbageBSSg^H'
nl wUl stand (treat cold, drown from
aen. We use the suns plants on oarBUQH|M
s cars fully counted and properly pack* aKa-.TCW
^ettuoe, union and Beet plaur*. sameS^HrcBH
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