The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, March 05, 1903, Image 6
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WOES OF FILIPINOS.
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IHsfortusss of tbe People of the
Island Enumerated.
SUBJECT OF A MESSAGE TO SENATE
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Congress Urged to GIva immediate
Attention to the Matter and Grant
the Relief Prayed For.
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Washington, Special.?The President
late has sent the following message 10
the Senate:
"I Ifava just received a cable from
Governor Taft which runs as follows:
* Necessity for passage of the House
tariff hlH fe most urgent. The conditions
of productive industry and business
are eoasiderably worse than in
November, the date of la3t report, and
are growing worse each month. There
Is some revival in sugar and tobacco
Viices doe to expectation of tariff law.
Tlie Interests of Filipinos in sugar and
tobacco is extensive and the failure of
the Ml wUl he a blow in face of those
Interests. A number of tobacco factforles
will have to close, and many
agar haeiendas will be put up for
afe at a sacrifice it the bill does not
pass. Customs receipts have fallen off
this month one-third, showing a de
P crease or purchasing power 01 ioe islands.
General business is stagnant. All
. political parties including labor unK?r
ions Are most strenuous in petition for
the tariff bill. The effect of Us failure
V woufd be very discouraging."
- The President endorsed all that Governor
Taft has said, land hopes for a
substantial reduction in the tariff levied
against Philippines goods coming
??* . into the United States.
"I very earnestly ask that this mat3
ter reeeive the immediate attention of
Congress and that the relief prayed for
be granted," he says. "As Congress
khova, a rieries of calamities have befallen
the Philippine people. Jnst as
they were emerging from years of a
devastating war, with tbe accompanying
dmtmetUm of property and breaking
up of the bonds of social order and
tbe habits of peaceful Industry, there
nocmrea an epidemic of rinderpest
vrfcleb deetioyed 90 per cent, of the
Caracas, the Filipino cattle, leaving
3. the people without draft animals to till
the lanla or to aid in the ordinary
work on the farm. At the same time a
peculiar Oriental horse disease became
epidemic farther crippling transportation!.
The riee crop, already reduced by
ark)us causes to but a fourth of its
3T. ordinary size, has been damaged by locosts,
so that the price of ricd has
nearly doubled.
1 "Under these circumstances, there is
j& Imminent danger of famine in the islands.
Congress is In course of generously
appropriating $3,000,000 to meet
the Immediate needs; but tbe induspensable
and pre-eminent need is the
Tesnrrectioa of productive industry
from the prostration into which it has
* aVkA iiitnwftrt QKAVO on.
j" ' W 0tXQ mrvWB UJ CUC uiuoco oi/vio vm
vmerated: I ask action In the tariff
natter, not merely from the standpoint
of wise governmental policy, but a9 a
g ? measure, of humanity in response to an
appeal to which this great people
' ah^ojd not dose its ears. We have asMined
responsibility towards the Philippine
Islands which we are in honor
Bowm to fulfill. We have the specific
duty of taking every measure in our
power to see to their prosperity.
The calamities which have befallen
i them as above enumerated could bare
"been averted by no human wisdom.
They cannot be completely repaired;
Bat the suffering can be greatly alevl&;
a ted and a permanent basis of future
prosperity assured if the economic re?
lations of the Islands with the United
8tates are put upon a satisfactory
R)r- ' Basis. (Signed)
THEODORE ROOSEVELT,
gv . "While House, Feb. 27, 1903."
| Officers Southern Ice Exchange.
t , Atlanta, Bpedal.?The Southern Ice
Exokange, ha convention here Friday,
cleehed the following offloers for the
easing term :_Presi dent W. H. Howe,
I of Maakvine, Tenn.; rice presiuem, u,
" D. IfcjiM, of Richmond, Va.; secretary
and treasurer, W. EL Worth, of
A censed ef Killing Three Wives.
Indiana pohs, Special. ? Albert A.
Knapp, formerly* of Hamilton, 0., was
taken by the police from the home of
Ida briob on a charge of murder. The
police ^ay that the wife at whose honse
Knapp wao arrested and whose maiden
name was- Anna Hay Gamble, is
Knappta fonrth wife, and that the
others have disappeared in a manner
which, warrants investigation. Knapp
later confessed.
5trit Against Vapderbilt.
AshenHle, N. C., Special.?Complaint
in the ease of Iff. C. Graham against
<L W. Vanderhllt was filed in ? the
clerk's offlee of the Superior Court
Km. Graham is suing the owner of
Blltmore Honse for $20,000 because of
Aa?+h nf h*>r hnshanri *n October, i
lSdO, while hi the employ of Vanderbilt
Graham was crossing the French
Broad rfrtr in a boat, which, it is
claimed, was defective. The boat wa.'attached
hy a sort of trolley to a:i
overhead eaWe and owing to the swollen
condition of the river the boat became
unmanageable and fiiied with
water and Graham was drowned.
Movement to Slop Emigration.
Vienna. By Cable.?With the object
of steaming the wholesale immigration
of young girls to America, which is
occasioning the Hungarian government
considerable concern. Premier DsSzell
has sect ?. circular letter to the local
autboritics-o! Hungary, calling their
attention to what be describes a3 "this
melancholy fart.'.' He directs that tiie
authorities only permit mines to emi
* grate tovhpu sanctioned to do so by
their parents or guardians, and when
tfcey travel in charge of adults.
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SlORfo AT GASTONIA. <
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Two Girls Seriously Hurt?A Cotton
Mill Wrecked. !
Gastonia, N. C.. Special.?As the recult
of a storm which swept over this
place Saturday morning a large section
of the wall of the Avon Cotton Mill
was blown down and four or five oi' the
operatives injured. Two cf these, girls
twelve and fifteen years of age. were
dangerously hurt and may not recover.
The mill was damaged to the extent
of about ?5,0(i0. Other less serious
damage also resulted.
The storm, in its greatest force,
struck the Avon Cotton Mill, in the
eastern part of the town. The operatives.
whose ears were- filled by the '
din of spindles and thunder of looms. '
were unaware of the storm that raged '<
without until it crushed the southern <
wall of the eastern half of the mill 1
and lifted one side of the roof and '
folded it over on the other half. The '
destruction came in a moment. One '
hundred and fifty feet of the wall en- '
closing the second story collapsed 1
without warning and fell inward upon
the operatives and machinery, as the
roof with its enormous rafters and i
beams, shafts, countershafts, belts and J
pulleys went flying off like so much
paper. The water connections with the <
tank in the tower were torn and twist- <
ed like green withes and torrents of
water pouring in from above were added
to the confusion of the awful
wreck, the darkness and the roaring
storm. i
Only four or five operatives were
hurt. Of these two little girls are dangerously
injured and may not recover.
One is Sadie, the twelve-year-old
daughter of Jeff Beatty. and the oth&r
is Bessie, the fifteen-year-old daughter
of John Lay. The little Beatty girl
worked on the day shift And had just
come in to clean up her spinning
frames. She was found crushed against
the frame by the falling wall. Her hair
was twisted on the spools and blood
was flowing in jets from her nose,
mouth and gashes on her head. Miss
Lay's jaw and one hand were broken
and the back of her head was crushed.
A little girl named Smith and other
operatives were hurt, but none so seriously
as the two named, whose chances
for life are painfully slender. The
reason more were not caught In that
fatal wall alley is that the mill was
Bhort of night hands.
The damage to the mill by wreck,
wind and water is about $.r>,0u0 and It
will likely be six weeks before it is
running to its full capacity.
A Great Flood at Pittsburg.
I Pittsburg, Special.?With every tributary
of the Allegheny and Monongahela
rivers emptying swirling torrents
into the banks of these two streams
| and rushing dowyn to the point where ,
they converge to form the Ohio, Pittsburg
was given a visitation Sunday
' which forced hundreds of families
cither to abondon their homes, or seek
escape from the water in the upper
stories, Vhile mud and water spread
discomfort below. Mills in the lowlying
levels throughout the county,
numbering between 50 and 60, were
flooded and 38,375 men are thrown out
of work for four or five days with a
less of wages of more than $326,700.
The flood was general throughout western
Pennsylvania. The streams everywhere
overflowed their banks, causing
more or less damage to houses ana
farms that lay in their course. Downtown
in Pittsburg, cellars and basements
of business houses which are in
the general flood belt, were inudated,
while in Allegheny two railroads were
temporarily paralyzed owing to the
water which covered their tracks. People
in the first and third wards of A1-.
legheny, had to adopt Venice methods .
of going to and from their homes.
I. Ample warning had been received by
most of the residents and business
firms threatened, in time for them to
make preparations to minimize losses.
The highest stage reached ' by the
swollen rivers at Pittsbdrg was I!9.4
feet at the government dam at. Herr's
Island. This was at 6 o'clock in the
evening. It became stationary at that
mark and gradually began to subside.
The cold weather which set in last
night served to check the flood and
prevented more serious proportions.
Gen. Gordon to Quit Lecturing.
Jackson, Miss., Special.?General
John B. Gordon, commander-in-chief
of the United Confederate Veterans,
whot suffered a severe attack of acute
indigestion, while en route to this city i
Thursday night, left for Texas. It is ,
reported that after General Gordon has
filled this season's lecture engagements '
he will retire from the platform.
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Body Recovered. ,
New Orleans, Special.?Missing for
six days, the body of Stephen Fitzger- 1
aid, agent of the American Cotton 1
Company, in this city, was taken i
from the oid basin canal. Mr. Fitzger- i
aid was last seen on Saturday night,
when he boarded a car to go home. His j
family suspected foul play ana nis
brother, John Fitzgerald, came from ?
St. Louis to assist in the search. There <
were no marks of violence on the body (
and no money had been taken from his .
pockets. It is probable that he fell in- (
to the canal by accident and was unable
to get out. Mr. Fitzgerald was
from Memphis, where his aged mother '
and sister live. '
Dr. Thomas Dead.
Thomasville, Ga? Special.?Dr. T.
Gaillard Thomas, of New York, a spe- i
cialist of note in women's diseases, s
died suddenly at the Pincy Woods Ho- i
tel. Saturday morning, of heart disease. ;
Dr. Thomas, with his wife, was spend- (
iDg the winter here. He was in apparently
vigorous health up to Friday ]
night. During the night he complain- ed
of feeling ill and two physicians i
were called. He continued to sink, and 1
this morning died. His body will be '
sent to New York. t
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SHOT BY TEACHER.!
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Sad and Fatal Occurrence That is
Much Deplored <
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RESULT OF A MUTINY AT IN MAN. j
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The Teacher Claims That the Killing
Was Purely Accidental ? C'on.:;m- <
nity fluch Wrought Up.
Spartanburg, S. C.. Special.?Eddy J
Foster, the lS-year-old son of Gabriel ,
Foster, was shot and dangerously \
wounded Tuesday afternoon by Reu- j
hen Pitts at Inman. Pias i3 a teacher (
it Inman and Foster is one of his students.
Several days ago the teacher (
Bogged one of the boys and won the
Bnmity of the scholars, who agreed to
resist any further efforts of the teach- 1
Br as to chastisement. Pitts heard of
the agreement and determined to quell
this rebellious spirit Being a physically
weak man he took a loaded revolver
with him to school and at the noon
recess hour called young Foster in to
administer a whipping. Foster, as
agreed, rebelled. Pitta drew his pistol,
only to frighten the boy, so he states,
The boy struck the pistol in an effort
to take the rod from the teacher,
when the revolver was exploded, the
ball entering the stomach and ranging
downward, making a very serious
wound.
The feeling is intense but both parties
have friends and the manner of
the discharge of the pistol is not doubted.
Pitt3 is a graduate of Furman University,
the son of Rev. J. D. I'itts, pastor
of the First Baptist church of Laurens.
The young man bears the highest
character and reputation. He is greaV
wrought up over the terrible affair.
Foster is a member of a prominent
family of Spartanburg.
Eoy Shoots Three Persons.
Frankfort, Ind., Special?Earl Woods
the 17-year-old son of a prominent
farmer, who lives seven miles west of
this city, Tuesday morning murdered
his father, shot and fatally wounded
his mother and sister and then com
raiupu suiciue. ine rnoinc lur int* iju.y ?
bloody crime i3 not known. After the
shooting, the young man went to the
home of a neighbor and said that robbers
had entered his home and killed
his father, mother and sister and that
he escaped after a running battle with
the desperadoes. He apparently was
greatly excited and said he was organizing
a posse to pursue his father's
slayers. He stopped at another house
and told the same story. When ho
was questioned concerning the shooting
he became confused and resented
the inqulsitlveness of the man to whom
he told the story. He started away and
disappeared behind the barn, when a
shot was heard. An investigation discovered
the youthful murderer dying,
with a bullet through his breast.
The Pope Dines Poor People.
Rome, By Cable.?Sunday was *a
great day for the poor of Rome, a
thousand of them being the guests of
the Pope at a dinner ih the Belevidere
Court of the Vatican in honor of the
Pontiff's jubilee. The tables were decorated
with flowers and miniature
papal flags. The guests were waited
upon by nuns and the Swiss Guards in
brilliant uniforms kept order, their
band playing during the repast. The
excellent menu included wine and dessert.
Great enthusiasm was displayed
and there were cries of "Long live the
Pope!" The Pope desired to personally
administer blessing on the gathering,
put although he was well, the doctors
Ma ft.ocim in n^dpr that he
might husband his strength for the
coming functions.
Kin; Bill Passed.
Little Rock, Ark., Special.?The Senate
passed the King anti-trust bill by
a vote of 27 to 3, and it now goes to
the House, which, on January 2T> last,
passed a similar measure. Governor
Davi3 declares that he wrote the King
bill and intended to exclude from Arkansas
corporations that are members
of combinations anywhere on earth.
Williamson's Slayer Caught.
Monroe, N. C.. Special.?Henry
Young, the man who shot and killed
J. H. Williamson at Hamlet Saturday
night, was caught Tuesday afternoon
about 5:30 o'clock, one mile from Marahville,
by Chief Howie. Policeman
Laney, Constable Bivins and Lee Williamson,
the brother of J. H. Williamson.
He was brought to Monroe and
placed in jail. Young offerea no resistance.f
He expressed regret ior his action
and begged pitifully to be protecho/1
Another Eruption.
Mexico City, Special?At 5:15 o'clock
Tuesday afternoon the most vidlent
ruption of Colima volcano which has
>ccurred in years took place. At 2:26
?. m. there was severe earthquake
shocks at Tuxapam and a heavy pall
)f smoke hangs over the entire vicini:y.
Both Cludad Cuzman and Tuxasam
are near the volcano.
Train Wrecked. %
Dixon. Mo., Special.?The St. Louis
fc San Francisco fast west-bound passenger
train was wrecked Monday
light, near the Gasonde river crossing
it Arlington. Win. Giffsrd, a Wells
F'argo Express messenger, of St. Louis,
vas killed, and Engineer Decker, of
N'ewburg, sustained broken ribs and
nternal injuries that may prove fatal. '
Pour of the crew were seriously hurt. !
s'one of the passengers were injured i
(xcept slightly. ]
A SINOaY SESSION. j
Congress too Lusy to "Remembet
the Sabbath D.tv."
The House held a four-hour session ;
Sunday and put the District of Colum- j'
5ia bill through its last parliamentary '
stage, in the face of the Democratic f
filibuster. The previous question cn ' ,
the conference report cn the Alaskan
itcmestcad bill v/as ordered and the |
rote on'its adoption will be taker. .
ivhen th? House .c-ccr.vanes at 1i
j eloci; tomorrow morning. That v.*a
he not result of the Punday session, i
Although it was Sunday oy the caiirdar.
it was still Thursday, Kebru- !
rry CUtb. according to parliaments:; ,
i uv: 1,/viiiuv.iaio put c* i.*w\ ?u
the legislative wheel at every oppoiLenity
and it tequircd six roll-calls to
accomplish what was dene. Large
crowds watched the proceedings from
the galleries.
When Speaker Henderson dropped
the gavel at noon, Mr. Richardscn. the
minority leader, was on his f let. He
announced that there was evidently
no quorum pre.Tcnt and that the House
could do no business on Sunday without
a quorum. Thereupon, on motion
of Mr. Payne, the majority loader, a
call of the House was ordered. The
floors were closed and the 3ergo*ut-at21
ns was instructed to bring in abscn
tees. At the conclusion of the call 41
members ban appeared, more than a
quorum, and Mr. MeCleary, of Minnesota.
called up the conference re
pert on the District of Columbia appropriation
bill. Mr. Underwood, of
Alabama, undertook to interpocc the
point of order that the bill had not
been eomnletc-d. but the speaker ruled
that a quorum having appeared, business
would proceed. The doors which
meantime had been opened, however. 1
wer? again closed by tho direction o?
the speaker on Mr. Underwood's point
ru order that further proceedings un
der the call had not been dispense!
with by the action of the House. After
a brief explanation of the report,
against the protests of various Democrats
who ues'rcd to be heard, it was .
adopted, 144 to 30. There was another
roll-call on ordering the previous
question on the Alaskan homestead
till, which was presented to Mr. ;
I.acey, Republican, of Iowa. A half
dozen points of order raif.ed by the
Democrats were ruled out and the ,
chair declined to entertain all ap- '
peals on the ground that they were ,,
dilatory. At 3:53 p. m.. the House rc- j
cessed until 11 o'clock tomorrow, with j
the motion to adopt the conference report
on the Alaskan bill.
The House committee on banking
and currency by a strict party vote. ,
authorized a favorable report on the
currency hill introduced by Representative
Fowler, chairman of the committee.
In reporting the bill the com- j
rcittee says: "In addition to provid- '
ing for the issus and circulation of na- !
tional bank notes the object of this '
measure is to immediately put back .
into circulation any money the govern- j
ment may collect through its customs ;
receipts as well as through its eoliee- !
tion from internal revenue. The avail- j
2ble cash balance now in the Treasury
is $022.607,S82. To this amount j
there is now in national bank de- !
positaries 5-17.755.300, leaving a net j
balance in the Treasury of $71,994.45-1.
If we deduct $50,000,000 as a '
necessary working balance for the j
Treasury, wo shall have only $21.- |
994,431 to meet the demand on the
Treasury growing out of the Panama ,
transacticn, which will call for $50,- '
000,000. It is evident that the government
will not have any additional
money to deposit with national banks j \
ior the next six or eignt raonms. me i,
effect of this will be to release the
total amount of bonds now deposited
to secure government deposits, vis:
$125,000,000 of government bonds and
$22,000,01)0 of State and other bonds,
now held by the Treasury In addition
thereto, as security for such deposits.
The bonds so released may then be
used by the banks ior further increas
Ing their bond-secured circulation,
which will undoubtedly be much !
needed during the coming fall i
months." :
The Senate spent three hours Sunday
in eulogies of four deceased members
of the House. Messrs. Martin, cf
Virginia: Gallinger. of New Hampshire;
Perkins of, California; Clay, of
Georgia, and Daniel, of Virginia,
spoke of the late Peter J. Otey, of Virginia.
Messrs. Pritchard, of North
Carolina, and Mallory, of Florida,
spoke of the late James Moody, of
North Carolina, uthers spoke of the
late James Tongue, of Oregon. At the
conclusion of the addresses the several
resolutions of regret wore adopted,
aud as a further mark of respect, the
Senate at 3 o'clock adjourned until tomorrow
at 11 o'clock. '
Bow-in's Proposition.
Washington. Special.?Mr. Bowcn.
the Venezuelan plenipotentiary, has
proposed to the allied powers that the
Czar of Russia be asked to name three
arbitrators who, as "The Hague" tribunal,
shall decide the question of
preferential treatment. The suggestion
has been approved by the State Department.
Mr. Bowcn submitted to the
allies the representatives the copies oi c
the proposed protocols submitting the. J
Venezuelan ease to The Hague triba- i
nal. '
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May Be Removed.
Richmond, Special.?The committee 1
of the General Assembly which has f
been investigating the charges against ^
Judge Campbell, of the Amherst Coun- J
ty Court, decided, it is understood, tc d
recommend the adoption cf a join J
resolution providing for the removal {
of the judge from the bench. The ma- B
jorjty of the committee will make ?. ^
report recommending censure. Th t
charges against Judge Campbell crrev s
out of the widely reported horse whip (
ping by the judge of Rev. Dr. Crav 1
ford of the Anti-Saloon League. f
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Immense Forests of Russia.
Forest covers 36 per cent of Rus- J,
sia's total area, or, in all, 464,500,000 ji
teres. In other words, there are four? v
teres of forest to every inhabitant ofIs
Russia. 11
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POVERTY AND PIETY.
THE GOSPEL TO THE POO?
riie PremrhHg of It Is An Evidenn
of the Prrgress of Christianity
' c?* m^n
r New York City.?"Poverty and Piety"
Vu the subject of this sermon delivered
by the Rev. James Alexander Jenkins,
pastor of Immanuel Congregational Church.
His text was chosen from Matthew xi: 5:
"The poor have the gospel preached to
them.
The words of onr text constitute part of
the reply of Jesus to John when He sent
two of His disciples with the anxious question,
"Art Thou He that should come or
do we look for another?" In this reply
the Master assumes that John is familiar
with the character of the work of the expected
One, so He sets before the messengers
His own work as meeting the requirements.
The blind see, the lame walk, the
lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead
are raised up, "the poor have the gospel
preached to them."
The preaching of the gospel to the poor
may be regarded as only an evidence of the
far reaching mercy of the great God, but
it may also oe regarded as testifying to the
preparation of the poor for receiving and
spreading the good news from God. It we
believe in the fitting of means to ends in
the world of nature, if we are upholders
of the great law of design, may we not
with reason insist that the Father through
the course of the ages prepared certain of
the sons of men for the reception of the
truth. It we concede this we behold in the
preaching of the gospel to the poor an arrangement
of providence, a far reaching
plan of God.
The pages of the gospels reveal Jesus as
the preacner to the poor. The rich He regarded
as being for some reason less fitted
to be chosen as pioneers in the work of establishing
His kingdom. Of the rich men
oi the tsew Testament, not uives, not tnc
rich fool, but the young man who came to
Jesus with eager inquiry, may be regarded
as typical in the mind of Jesus ox the
hosts of the rich and powerful. Thinking
of hint Jesus said: ' It is easier for a camel
to go through the eye of a needle than for
a rich man :o enter into the kingdom oi
God." From this statement we naturally
infer that the absence of wealth or poverty
is most favorable to the reception of saving
truth, to the entering of the kingdom.
Jesus Himself, coming as the founder oi
the kingdom of God, chose the material
unon which that kingdom Khali be bai't.
Me did not preach to the pour because others
would not hear Him. The influential
He could have commanded, strength ol
arms lie could have enin-led, wealth would
have served Him. But He chose, desired,
determined, to preirh the gosnel to tin;
poor. Says l)r. Bushntll. speaking of the
character of the ministry of Jesus: "He
adheres to the poor and makes them Ike
fibjcct of His ministry. And what is more
peculiar, He visibly has a kind of interest
in their society, which "is wanting in that
of the higher classes, perceiving, apparently,
that they have a certain aptitude for
receiving ri?ht impressions which the others
have not. They are not the wise and
prudent, filled with the conceit of learning
and station, but they are the ingenuous
babes of poverty, open to conviction, prepared
by their humble lot to receive
thoughts and doctrines in advance of their
age." With equal acumen does this great
writer rceogn'xe the fundamental and distinguishing
nature of the choiec of Jesus,
is contrasted with the teachings of the
statesmen and nhilosophers who had gone
before Him. Thcv began at 'he ton. Ho
of fka -iml or* His U'/inl* lui.
rause it was tnie to nature, was lasting,
ibiding, eternal. '
The twentieth century finds sboicty divided.
as it has always been divided, int.)
two clashes, the rich and the poor. Civilisation
has crept onward, changing many
things, hue it lias not removed the distinction
between wealth and poverty. The
distinction may be less brutal. less crude,
tout it still exists, and the very refinement
of the classification of men is often ihc
lause of added bitterness. So to-day the
student of men and events, whether ne be
sociologist, economist or preacher, is -.onfronted
by the difficulty of adjusting one
part of society to another. We are conitantly
asking certain questions and clamoring
for a reply. Can the poor man sc:ure
a just share of ihe good things of
;arth? Is it possible for him to get an education?
Will society receive him? Aud
low, it seems, another question presses
jpon us. What is the relation betweeu
joverty and piety?
It would stem that the world, in an
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iwcrmg IIII> iiucsuuii, /J3i. wt vi*w
:eaching and practice of Jesus, for the c<*ndusion
usually arrived at is that the poor
nan is at a disadvantage in his struggle
or the soul culture which every human
aeing should desire. Many, listening to
Ihe reasoning of the world, have, because
)f their poverty, surrendered their religion,
le3erttd the church and rejected the
Jhrist. To them the Christian worker l as
:ome to seem the advocate of impossibilities,
hut this attitude of mind is not conined
to the simple and unthinking, for we
ire reminded that even thoughtful writers
teem to assume the existence of a natural
lostility between poverty and piety.
Let us keep in mind the attitude of (he
Lord Jesus toward the poor as He delivered
His message, and let us. remembering
;hat. ask ourselves what that piety is. the
elation of which to poverty we are to deermine.
L>t us p.sk whether there is in
liety any -dement to the producing of
rhich poverty is hostile, ana let u.s tind,
>n the other hand, whether it may not be
jossiblc that poverty assists the soul in its
mdeavor to become the possessor ot true
>iety. i
Piety is not, primarily, something in the
itmosphere; it is the rather something in
he heart of inan. Among the elements
vhich enter into it. a few of the principal
mes may be mentioned: Sensitiveness of
hinga true, beautiful, good; receptivity,
?r the ability to appropriate the good that
ippeals to the soul; power to apply ihs
irinciples of truth; recognition of love as
he great animating, sustaining. Codmowing
principle. J^et us see whether
loverty may not be an aid to the sopl in
ts development along the lines indicated.
We may, I think, claim with justice that
loverty renders the soul supremely sr native
to the best things. Poverty is too fre
[uently regarded as synonymous witn pau>erism,
and pauperism is the embodiment
?f grim, unfeeling heedlessness. Paupcrsm
is cold, indifferent, dead, but poverty
s warm, alert, alive. Poverty needs its
ivery faculty, its every power. It must
ight battles and anticipate the onslaught
>F unseen foes. It must read the signs of
he morrow in the evening sky and adapt
tself to sun and shower and storm. "The
nan with the hoe" is not the poor man,
or poverty neither deadens nor bruiali7.es.
Vere I to choose m,v illustration of hon ?>t
>overty I should find it in the humble toilers
of "The Angelus." Clad in the rough
;arb of workers in the fields, holding in
heir hands thp cumbrous instruments of
heir daily toil, they are, nevertheless,
;eenly alive to the beauty, the poetry, the
uggestiveness of the sounds wafted upon
he gently stirring summer brace*. Truly
vpical are they, as with bowed heads they
tand, of the succeeding generations of
lod's poor. a<f. amid toil and tribulation,
hev seek t<. find the good, to know f?od.
The sensitiveness of hone-i noverly 1 I
oe it in the iittle chi'drea of the rabble r.<
hey followed Jesus through the street, of
erusalcm. and I see it in the children wi> i
o-day clutch the- {lowers carried i?^<> t*:
lomes of the poor bv sweet charity, i set
t in the zeal, tlie devotion of the slaves
rho first heard the (losp?l_ message, and 1
pe it in t^ic enthusiasm of the multitudes
rho caught the inspiration of the Renais?nee.
I see it iu the faces of the "eomuiou
1 ,
people" who "heard Him gladly," and I
see it in the faces of the lowly as they liaten
to a Chrysostum or a Moody.
Disguise it as we may, deny it il wo w:i!r
the soul of poverty has been the oae attuned
to catch the messages sent front
heaven out of the heart of God. Wei*?.
can do no more than furnish the material
for an Angelo; it can only create the. opportunity
for a Savonarola; it can but jprovide
Jesus with the stage for His sab ime
activity.
Again, is it not apparent that poverty
tends to the development of the power ot
receptivity? Rightiy understood poverty
is a wonderful aid to clear vision, enabling
man to distinguish between the esseiui.at
and the unnecessary. It enables its possess;
8or (not its victim 1 to develop self rather
than to collect "things." It enables hi *
to see the difference between "having** and
"being." Wealth shouts: "I have, but
poverty whispers, "I am." Poverty conies
to know that onlv spiritual appropriation
gives real ownership. This is one of themessages
of the old Eden story of Genes,.,
for God placed Adam in the garden as a
poor worker. He was to till and to kec*j- *
the place and only to enjoy so much of it
as he made his own. The supreme joy-oi
his position was that through toil he wa>
able to look upon God and the good and
make them his own. In his sin ha filled"
his heart with substitutes for God, and
thus shut Him out of bis soul. The return
to Eden is the return to simplicity and receptivity.
It is the becoming sensitive
once more to the good and the taking in ?.-?
truth, beauty, holiness.
It is a false theory which assumes that
the activity of poverty is due to recklessness.
that the poor may choose anv course
of action, disregard any existing orde?\ because
they have "nothing to lose." Even
for the poor it is true that "life is more
than meat and the body than raiment." Thetrue
cause for the activity of poverty is
found in the rugged strength developed by
adversity, in the constant need for adaptation
to the demands of the nassing days,
and. finally, in the undying belief cherished
that there is "a good time coming" in the.
go'dfcn future. *
It ?a the tendency of wealth to be satisfied
with things as they are, industrially,
sociallv, morallv. Truth's cartoon. "At*
English Board Meeting." is stnrtiinglv suggestive
when applied to morals,,as well a*
when applied to money. "Whv, the aged
and wealthy directors of the great railwayare
made io ask. "why must the public interfere
with our business? Whv monk inventors
suggest new devices? What'#, the ;
good of these innovations?"
The great labor saving ideas of '.he age
have come into the minds of the poor; they
have been developed amid suffering and
; stress, and thev have been forced upon a
reluctant world by men who cared wore
for progress than for ease. So it is withthe
men and women who, hungering tncS
. thirsting after righteousness, have become"
i po,-.A.?*c<l of great moral ideas. The gradi*
of these ideas upon their own souls renders
them ucrestingly eager to see therm
enthroned in the heart of the race. They
are willing to fight seemingly hopeleee battles.
to champion despieea principles, t?v
advocate unwelcome truths.^ They^ know
what they have neiievea, ana ineir xnow.edge
gives them willingness to utilize theiihard
earned strength for the education and
advancement of mankind, and these ehamtiions
of the principles of Diety have beer*
from the davs of Jesus and from the apostolic
times the sons of noverty. When in
"-the days of primitive Christianity the gos- *
nel unread from Jerusalem, it was carried"
by the poor; when it laid siege to hostile
lands, poverty fought for it; when it grew
corrupt tiirough the machinations of a.
wicked priesthood, poor men purified it..
when in these last days it has become
ready for world conquest, bumble servant*
of the King have been called to carry it.
But we have said that piety has as or.<of
its important elements the recognition
of love as the great animating and sustaining
principle: this recognition poverty glad?!v
accords. When we are told in the te.rt
that the poor had the gospel preached t?>
them, we have, as has been said, more than |o
a mere statement of fact that Jesus delivered
sermons to multitudes of the
needy: wo have the implied declaration pf
a condition of understanding of svoipatsy..
between His soul and theirs. Men wW
were dominated by selfish principle? aid
not understand Him, for they were incapa?
b'e of recognizing love as the supreme motive
of a soul. Action, for them, was !- ways
dictated by policy, and they suspected
a hidden motive behind the activity ?f
Jesus.
The Master declared that for a rich manto
enter the kingdom is difficult. /Whttt
did He mean? He doubtless considered the
increasing dancer of basing action upon
false motive. He knew that it is the tendency
of wealth to render action mechanical.
careless, and. too frequently, heartless,,
that the rich man may give bis gold< to
"charity," while his heart is as mm; toar
he mav snnport the gospel with his worthwhile
his heart feels no joy in it* messageBut
he knew that poverty rightly conceived
tends to keep the life normal andtrue
to the true spring* of action. Heknew
that the poor who heard Hira when
thcv gave their mites gave them heeanseof
love, for no other power could causethat
to be sacrificed which represented?
bread, shelter, life. He knew that they
were familiar with the ministry of
poverty to poverty, and that thejr
were able to grasp the significance
of a ministry based upon simple, unselfish
love. So He preached to them,,
unfolding His conceotion of the approaching
King lorn of God, the kingdom of love.
Calmly He revealed to them a life whiehneeded
for its realisation neither might
nor money. Sweetly He discoursed to them
of the inward nature of the kingdom, of
the hunger, the thirst, the meekness, thepoverty
necessary in order that men night
possess it, and they understood.
Serenity of Character.
Who docs not love a tranquil heart, ?
sweet-tempered, balanced life? It doea not
matter whether it rains or shines, or what
misfortunes come to these possessing these
blessings, for they are always *weet, aereneand
calm. That exquisite poise of character
which we call serenity is the last les- *
son of culture: it is the flowering of life,
the fruitage of the soul. It is nreeious as.
visdoru, mori to be desired than gold?
vea, than even line gold. How contemptible
mere money-wealth looks in comparison
with a serene life?a life which dweDa
in ihe ocean of truth, beneath the waves,.
l>evond the reach of tempts, in the eternal
calm! How many people we know who
sour their lives, who ruin all that ia sweet
* i 1 r 1 t.~ famnPN. TSrhfV
anu oeamnui uy cajhuji.v- ,
destroy their poise of character br bad
blood! In fact, it is a question whetherthe
great majority of people do not ruin
their lives .and mar their happiness bylack
of self-control. How few peorfe weme;i
in life who are well balanced, who
have that exquisite poise which is characteristic
of the finished character!
Righteousness Creates Happiness.
A life of unselfish devotion to God *n<F
to righteousness is the unfailing secret of*
happiness. He who lives for himself alonewill
dwindle into miserable and pet^yiasijmificance.
He who lives to glorify (Lid
and to make the world better and happier
is sure to be happy. No one can prevent
if. Usefulness is true greatness and true
gladness. If we wish this to be a happyyear
wo must love God and work His holjr
will.
Think Ttcfcre We Speak.
Let us thin!: before we speak, since thewords
we must -peak must enter into the
life of the- world and make it worea or
better, and if we err on either side, err
I in gentleness end tenderness and low.?
I The llcr. Dr. lavage.
Happiness Lasts.
Misery will not last?happiness will, if"
only in remembrance. Mo pure joy, bowever
fieetinjr, contains any real bitterness,..
t\?u wlieu it is gone by.?D. Af. Craik.
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