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TIIE MORNING OREGONIAN. MONDAY, JULY 15, 1907.
KING LEOPOLD 1
NHUMAN
BUTCHER
Member of Congo Reform As
sociation Declares He Is
a Monster.
AWFUL ATROCITIES EXIST
Rev. Herbert S. Johnson, at- the
White Temple, Says Ruler of Con
goese Sanctions IVIost Shocking
and . Revolting of Crimea.
Rev. Herbert S. Johnson, pastor of
the Warren-Avenue Baptlat Church of
Boston, Mass., told yesterday morning,
at the White Temple, of the atrocities
perpetrated against the negroes of the
Congo Free State under the rule and
with the consent of King: Leopold. Rev.
Mr. Johnson had with him a small
chlcotte, or hippotamus hide whip, with
which the natives of Africa are often
lashed by the authorities until the
flesh Is a mass of bruises. The whip
which Mr. Johnson brought with him
Is about 2 1-2 feet long, but those used
by the officers are often much larger
and heavier. It is said that 25 strokes
will render a man unconscious, as each
cut of the whip goes -to the bone of
the victim. It Is not uncommon, how
ever, says Mr. Johnson, for a native
to receive 90 .tshes.
He declared positively yesterday that
King; Leopold Is p scoundrel and a
blackguard, that the terrible stories
. of the horrible conditions on the Congo
River are for the most part true, and
that lately Leopold has taken measures
to keep the missionaries from testifying
to what la really happening there.
. Rev. Mr. Johnson took for his text the
story of the Good Samaritan, and read
the words of Christ at the conclusion of
the parable, "Go thou and do likewise."
He said in part:
I spent six weeks in traveling over the
United States with some missionaries who
had returned from the Congo Free State.
During tbls time the word was passed
about that Mrs. Harris, one of the mission
aries, was traveling about with a reformed
cannibal. I am the man. This shows what
gossip is; but what 1 will tell you this
mocnlng Is truth, for I have heard It from
the mouths of those w'.ic have been on the
Congo and know of the conditions existing
there.
Baptism and church membership are not
the essentials of the Christian religion. The
first essential is compassion for the op
pressed. The Christian religion Is some
times the halter with which to hang a
tyrant. Formal religion is but a sham,
painted white. Christian religion is the es
sence of love and compassion.
Blackest Crime In History.
I want you to feel that this subjeot is
personal to you and your church, and your
community. I am talking to you today
about the blackest crime that has ever
stained the pages of history. It is a
crime perpetrated by a professed Christian,
yet who is a demontacal scoundrel, sacri
ficing cur fellow-men by thousands to sat
isfy his lust and greed, that he may In
crease his harem and his American and for
eign investments.
A little more than 20 years ago an Amer
ican citizen (Henry M. Stanley) discov
ered the Congo Basin. England then lm
medltely entered Into a treaty with Portu
gal for holding the Congo Free State. About
the same time Leopold, desiring to enrich
himself, made representations to the United
8tates that If our Government would
recognize his flag. he, as a true
hearted philanthropist, without' thought
of ' dividends, would .reign over
the country nor the " sake of the
moral and material welfare and improve
ment of the condition of the natives. The
United States performed that dlplomatio
act and 'recognized the flag of Leopold.
Other nations followed suit, and the upshot
of the whole matter was that Leopold,
through our Influence, became the sov
ereign of the Congo Free State.
'How has he fulfilled his solemn pledge?
He has robbed those people by taking from
them nearly 1.O00.0UO square miles of their
native land, and he now claims practically
everything that grows or exists there. It
1 sail his private plantation, to be exploited
as you would a sheep ranch or cherry
orchard. Everything is his the native has
a right to nothing. Even the wages paid
to the black man are a pure gratuity.
The sound of the shots on the fields of
Gettysburg have scarcely died away. We
are now citizens of a free country. Those
people on the Congo have as much right
to their native land as we have to ours,
unless you believe, as some men do,
that the black men have no souls.
Has) Enslaved Xatlves.
. In addition to these things Leopold has
enslaved the people, 30,000,000 strong. How
much in taxes, think you, does he demand
of these people, especially of therubber
gatherers? Every year they are taxed
300 days labor. If you are a laboring man
perhaps you can realize what that means.
James Gustavus Whitely, consul-general
of the Congo Free State, an American
citizen oh, I am ashamed of that
says that Leopold is justified in taking
the taxes from the poor slaves, as he
pays them good wages. An average of
5 cents for two weeks work Is what he
calls good wages. On this amount the
native must find himself the necessities
of life. If you want to get rich fast I
will show you how to do it. Pay little
wages and extort big taxes. .
Perhaps you will not believe the state
ments I am about to make In regard to
conditions in Africa. Perhaps you will
believe the word of the Belgian minister
who says all those interested in the
Congo Reform Association are agents of
the British government.
Under pressure of publlo opinion,
Leopold sent a delegation of three men
down to the Congo Free State to make
an investigation of conditions. Thetr re
port was made in French, and Professor
James H. Gore made the only English
translation extant. He is a member of
our church, by the way, but he ought to
be excommunicated for making such a
diabolical mistranslation, and thus seek
ing to influence public opinion in favor of
the dastardly work of Leopold. If I did
not tell the truth about this I would
have been in state prison long ago, but
friends. It Is the truth. We fought Mr.
James Gustavus Whitely in the Senate
at Washington, and at last, after months
and months of weary waiting, the Senate
unanimously passed the resolution that
this country co-operate with any other
nation In ameliorating the terrible abuses
of the Congo. The cause of King Leopold
is no longer in court. The case has been
tried and the sentence passed. The only
thing needed is to execute it.
King Leopold has 30,000 cannibal soldi
ers. They are armed, it Is said, with
rifles, but really with rapid fire guns.
In addition they use the chlcotte, a
whip of. hippopotamus hide, several feet
long. The hide is cut in strips and
twisted so that when the whip is used
its sharp edges cut the flesh to the hone.
John H. Harris, for seven years a
missionary in the heart of the A. B. I.
R. rubber district, told me that he had
seen 60 of these poor slaves brought out
to be whipped because they did not bring
In enough rubber to satisfy ttut greed J
of the King. It takes six men to whip
the victim. Two seize him by the arms
and two by the limbs, and throw him
upon his face In the dust. Two more
men stand by, each with a chlcotte, with
which the negro Is given 90 lashes. After
25 strokes, Mr. Harris said the victim
was unconscious, and after 90 the flesh
on tho thigh was laid open to the bone,
but i would drive you all away If I
should tell you one half what I have
heard from eye witnesses. The only crime
of these men was that they were short in
their rubber.
Butcheries of Soldiery.
I have heard the returned missionaries
tell of seeing a fire burning in the woods,
and upon going nearer have seen
hundreds of human hands hanging by
drying large hands of men, hands of
women and. the hands of little children.
There is an unwritten law In the Congo
Free State that for every cartridge ex
pended there must be a human hand to
show. When the natives are short on
their rubber these cannibal soldiers are
sent out and shoot down men, women
and little children. It makes no difference
whether or not the particular people shot
are the ones who were short in their
rubbsr, and so invited the animosity of
the authorities." Theirs is a process of
Intimidation. For every man, woman and
child shot, a hand must be brought in
to show that the bullet was not wasted.
In one month 6000 dried human hands
were brought in, and the missionaries
have told of taking the covering from
boats at the river side and finding them
filled with the hands of black people of
all ages. G. Stanley ' Hall, president of
Clark University of Worcester, Mass., is
the author of a book which contains the
statement that under this regime at one
cannibal feast the soldiers ate six tons
of human cutlets roasted.
These things are hard to tell and hard
to hear but profitable, I had almost for
gotten that. The profits to Leopold in the
last ten years amount to $35,000,000. This
money he can invest In gilt-edge securi
ties, American railroads for Instance. He
Is building his new palace of the blood of
his victims.
In the last 15 years Leopold has slaugh
tered, according to the report of the Eng
lish Congo Reform Association. 3.000,000
black people, Mark Twain puts the figure
at 15.000,000. which I think is more nearly
correct. All these things are done by a
fellow Christian. At least he professes to
be a Christian. England has said that
under certain conditions she will do
something toward the betterment of the
conditions of the' natives, and we have
said that we would back her up. How
ever, nothing has been done to this end.
It has been said that King Leopold, hav
ing been informed in regard to the state
of affairs on the Congo, which he already
knew very well, will himself reform his
soldiers. There was a German soldier
who took his cannibal band into a village
and there gave them orders, or at least
permitted them, to kill the people right
and left and then to cut the bodies of
little children in half and stick them up
on poles here and there over the village
as a warning to rubber gatherers who do
not reach the mark. He was lately pro
moted for his work.
Intimidation of Witnesses.
Leopold has passed a law that whoever
hereafter shall make a statement against
the king or about the situation,' unless he
can prove that statement by witnesses in
open court, shall be sentenced to five
years In prison, which under prison con
ditions In that country means death. It
Is exceedingly difficult to secure witnesses
In court to testify to these atrocities for
they are often arrested or made away
with long before they reach court.
Why are we doing nothing? Why are
we content to hold our prayer meetings
and our Sunday schools and talk of
heaven? "The kingdom of God is within
you," says Christ, and its principles are
mercy, justice and brotherhood. King
Leopold of Belgium Is on trial before the
Judgment seat of God for murder. This
church and all churches of the civilized
world stand on trial with him, as do all
the citizens of America. You ask what
can I do? Write to Secretary Root and
ask him to do all In his power to save the
Congoese. Tell him what you think about
our connection with this affair. Then
Join the Congo Reform Association and
get its literature. G. Stanley Hall is
president, and it has for vice-presidents
such nlen as Mary Twain, Lyman Abbott,
Henry Van Dyke, ravid Starr Jordan and
Booker T. Washington. I believe the
slaughter can be stopped withput the use
of an armed force, simply by a little
diplomacy on the part of the United
States and England.
Bishop Thoburn Slay Retire.
Bishop Thoburn, the famous mis
sionary bishop of India, is living quiet
ly at his home on the East Side, and
by order of his physician takes no part
in public affairs. He says that he
may never again see India, the field
where he spent more than 40 years of
his life, as his active work is now over.
He went to India as a young mission
ary and returned a bishop. On ac
count of the condition of his health
he has not spoken in public since he
arrived in Portland, but spends his
time with his grandchildren and in
writing.
Hold Annual Mission Festival.
The annual mission festival of the
St. Paul German Lutheran Evangelical
Church was held yesterday in Haw
thorne Park, under the direction of
Rev. August Krause, the pastor. Serv
ices begun at 10:30. At noon luncheon
was enjoyed in the park. In the after
noon services were conducted at 2 and
3 P. M. Mr. Krause was assisted by
Rev. Mr. Flatman, of Aurora, and Rev.
Mr. Relnhard, of the Swedish Church.
The object of the meeting is to promote
an interest in missions, and similar
gatherings are held annually by all
German Lutheran Churches.
Y. M.- C. A. at Mount Tabor.
The meeting for. men, held every Sun
day afternoon In the Y. M. C. A., was
transferred yesterday afternoon to a
point on the eastern slope of Mount Ta
bor, near ' the end of the carllne. A
considerable number attended. Rev. B.
Wallace Shepherd, ' the Bible teacher
from' Michigan, delivered an address on
"Infidels' Objections to the Bible." The
music was under the direction of Pro
fessor W. M. Wilder.
An Appreciation of Mrs. Duniway.
PORTLAND, July 13. To the" Editor: Al
low me an explanation in regard to the ad
dress delivered by Mrs. Abigail Scott Duni
way last Wednesday at the quarterly meet
ing of the State Nurses' Association.
Mrs. Duniway's arduous duties connected
with the equal suffrage petitions, now en
grossing her entire time, had not given her
time in which to prepare a paper for pub
lication, but, at the request of the chair
man, she made the notes furnished the
Oregonian while the business session of the
Nurses' Association was in progress, thus
showing the versatility of her gifts both as
a ready writer and speaker.
It Is said that it takes a million men to
make the poet of a nation. Mrs. Dunlway,
with a prophet's snul, is voicing the needs
of the million women living and the mil
lions yet unborn, who will live to see the
fruition of the seed she is sowing in season
and out of season. She has a work none
other can do. Her life is an inspiration, as
are her Impromptu speeches, fitted to every
occasion. Bhowlng always the master hand.
And I am sure 1 only voice the sentiments
of those who had the good fortune to hear
her last Wednesday, when I make this ex
planation, as one who has seen behind the
scenes of a life of wonderful activity and
devotion to what to her is a sacred cause.
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teething. It soothes the child.' eoftena the
sums, allays pain, collo and diarrhoea.
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Cause Is Often Poor Wages
Paid in City Stores.
SOME EMPLOYERS GUILTY
Lacking Money Sufficient for Food
and Clothes, Many Girls Fall
Under Bad Influences and
' ' Are lied Astray.
"The Young Woman With a Past"
was the subject chosen for the sermon
last night at the Taylor-Street Metho
dist Church by Rev. E. M. Hill, acting
pastor. He told of the causes which
lead to the fall of young women, tak
ing for his text Luke 7:37. He said
i- part:
"We are sadly conscious of the fact that
there is In the twentieth century, as there
was in the first century, th& young woman
with a past. The expression of the text,
"A woman who was a sinner.' means but one
thing. We are not speaking -tonight of the
young man with a past, for society recog
nizes no such man. .For the same sin for
which the young woman is condemned to te
forever held up to scorn and the contempt
of the world, the young man is forgiven,
even while he continues In his course.
"A beautiful young girl leaves the old
farm with the prayers of her parents fol
lowing her. After weary seeking she at
last finds a place to work In a store at a
few dollars a week. Now the problem la to
find board and lodging that will not cost
more than her weekly stipend. At last a
place In found in an undesirable part of the
city. She realizes now that she needs money
for clothes The clerks Jest at her home
made garments. It Is very trying, but there
is not a penny from her meager salary that
can go for anything but board and lodging.
"One night as she walks home, more
discouraged than usuaj, a young man walks
with her. 8ome trivial thing has happened,
giving him an opportunity to introduce him
self. She is homesick for a kind word and
he says it. A ride follows on the next even
ing, and some times he takes her to a rest
aurant where there are boxes and wine is
served.
Drink the Lure to Ruin.'
She has compunctions of conscience as
she remembers the temperate habits of the
dear old home folks, but he laughs at her
'prudlshness,' as he calls it, and tells her
that the old-fashioned ideas about drinking
wine In moderation are all gone among cul
tured people. Then she sips the wine, for uo
girl likes to be called a prude.
"One day he brings her the most beauti
ful garments and tells her a plausible tale
of how his mother was so pleased with his
description of her that she sent these
clothes as a present. At first she refuses
to accept them, but he urges her to Just
try them on, which she feels she cannot re
fuse to do. She goes to her roof and looks
so pretty In the new garments that she Is
Induced to accept them. As the days go
by she is more and more under obligations
to her . false friend. He presses his suit
and promises to marry her, but in an evil
day she realizes that she has been betrayed
and that all is lost. She haa stepped beyond
the pale and is now a young woman with a
past. There are but three ways open to
her now, to return home and tell-all; to en
ter the ranks of the lost women of the
great city, or to commit suicide. The ad
record is that the great majority take one
or the other of the last two methods.
"Under the first condition which I have
named the commercial Nimrod la slaughter
ing his game for market, coining gold from
blood, while under the other the gaily be
decked huntsman is pursuing his victim to
the death for the mere pleasure of the
chase. All employers are not guilty of this
crime, but many are. Many an employer Is
murdering just as much as if he used the
knife. He does it by demanding that his
employes work for a wage smaller than
they can live upon In a self-respecting way.
Employers know what it costs to live, and
they also know that their young lady clerks
cannot come to wait upon their customers
dressed in Calico.
Such Employers Are Thieves.
"It is the duty of such employers to per
form a simply sum In arithmetic. Let them
add board and lodging to the cost of cloth
ing and then an amount above that for in
cidentals and pay their girls at least this
much salary. They will get better service
and their consciences will be clear. It is
putting it mildly to say that an employer
Is a dishonest man when he pays less than
enough for his help to support themselves
upon with self-respect. If he pays less
than this he takes what belongs to the em
ploye as much as if the money . was em
bezzled from the bank. Such' an employer
is far worse than the embezzler, however,
for he places the girls In such a condition
of helplessness that an accomplice may
steal that which Is of more value to them
than their lives. The slave trader must
reckon with God, and for slaving employers
the next world will have no comforts and
hell will be a cool place compared with the
amltings of their consciences.
"It is with cool deliberation that the
ravisher of the young girl works. He
schemes and plans as though his prey were
of the lower animals. He gives no thought
of the ruin to which his victim will come.
He makes no bones of telling nla boon
companions how he has a pretty young
thing on the string. They laugh with him
at the Intended exploitation of a soul as
though it were a fine Joke. Without any
compunctions of conscience he entraps this
creature who seems the very incarnation of
God's best thought for the race, and uses
her as a mere tool. Having accomplished his
purpose, he casts her aside as a man casts
away a broken cup from which he has
quenched his thirst."
The subject next Sunday night will be
"The .Young Woman and the Square DeaL"
SPEAKS OF FALSE SHEPHERDS
Church of Forms Merely Is Bound to
Lose Influence.
Rev Gilman Parker, pastor of Grace
Baptist Church, Montavilla, preached
yesterday morning on "The Good Shep
erd." His text was from John x:14. "I
am the Good Shepherd." Rev. Parker
said in part:
"It was ecclesiastical oppression that
called forth this declaration from the
Christ. With the mercy and compassion
which characterizes a true shepherd of a
long suffering people, he had healed a
poor blind man on the Jewish Sabbath.
The self-exaited officials ,of the dead,
effete church, had persecuted and ex
communicated this same man for accept
ing this help and for publicly confessing
the healer.
"When Jesus came on earth he found the
world full of officious, dogmatical, and
tyrannizing priests, who claimed to have
the exclusive power over the religious
faith and spiritual destiny of man; and
from the present aspect of the religious
world, it is very apparent that at the
second appearing of the Lord that he
will find the same religious conditions.
Men who have the forms of true religion
and are without its life and power, are
dictating the faith, doctrine and conduct
of the religious world in a marked de
gree. Men wearing the sacerdotal robes
of church officialism are dictating laws
for the moral and religious direction of
men who should be free from all human
constraint and left to follow the dictates
of a conscience enlightened by divine
truth and vitalized by the Holy Spirit.
Men who are exalted above other men by
an assumed religious dignity, are saying
who shall be saved and who shall be
damned.
"Over against this condition of things
Jesus declares that he is the true and
only shepherd; the only one commanding
the entrances into the kingdom of God.
That he is at once the only all sufficient
deliverer of mankind from sin. and from
ecclesiastical oppression and persecution.
That all who assume tho prerogative of
fixing the destiny of men and command
ing their lives religiously, are 'thieves
woman w in a as
and robbers.' He came to free men not
only of the substance and effects of sin,
but to emancipate them from religious
slavery; and that he has the exclusive
authority and power In matters of re
ligious faith and practice.
"Assumed ecclesiastical judgment over
the lives and soul-destiny of men, by any
man or combination of men. Is the hih
culminating point of plasphemy, and the
strongest force of the Devil in damnlag
men for time and for eternity that ex
ists in the world. .
"Jesus Is the good shepherd, having all
authority and power to give eternal life
to men; having exclusively the right to
rule in and reign over the spiritual realm
and destiny of human kind. All else is
a fraud and a snare."
Union Vesper Services.
Union vesper services were conduct
ed yesterday afternoon at 5:30 o'clock
under the auspices of Central Chris
tian Church. Dr. Ghormley delivered
an able sermon. The young people
held a short service before the sermon.
Next Sunday evening John Wooley, the
temperance apostle. Is expected to ad
dress the union meeting. -
TOUXG WOMEX ACT AS USHERS
Will Serve During the Summer at
the White Temple.
'One hundred young women acted as
ushers at the White Temple last night.
They were appointed yesterday morning
to take the place of the men for the
next two months, and they handled the
large crowd last night creditably. Two
women were stationed at each aisle, one
to act as usher and the other to welcome
members of the church as they came in.
The singing by Fred Butler of "The
Ninety and Nine" was a feature of the
evening.
Rev. J. Whltcomb Brougher spoke on
"Mismated or an Unfortunate Marriage."
He took for his text I Sam. 25:3, and
painted a picture of Abigail, sensible.
Industrious, virtuous and religious, mated
to Nabal, rich but llltempered. Intem
perate and irreligious. She did not seek
a divorce, -however, but remained faith
ful to her husband until God delivered
her.
MUST ELEVATE THE NEGRO
DR. FOULKES SHOWS RESPONSI
BILITY OF UNITED STATES.
Higher Life Economically and Spirit
ually Is Said to Offer Solution
of Vexing Problem.
Dr. William Hiram Foulkes spoke at
the First Presbyterian Church yester
day morning on the question, "Am I
my Brother's Keeper?" He took up the
negro problem from the point of our re
sponsibility. There is considerable race
prejudice against the negro, he said, but
it is much harder for the American to
realize where his own feelings leaa him
than it is for him to see the awful re
sults of the feeling of the Turk against
the Armenian, the Russian against the
Jew or the Belgian against the Negro.
He said there are only four ways of
dealing with the Negro. We can deport
him; we can exterminate him, but in do
ing so lose a great many of our own
men; we can absorb him by intermar
riage, which is against all the feelings
In the heart of the American; or we can
elevate him. The latter, said Dr.
Foulkes, is the only solution to the prob
lem. The Negro must be taught a higher
life economically and spiritually.
For his sermon at night Dr. Foulkes
took the subject, "Broken Cisterns and
the Living Fountain." Many, he said,
have forsaken the gospel of Christ to
follow the teachings of a Mrs. Eddy or
a John Alexander Dowie. "It was but
a few years ago," said Dr. Foulkes,
"that I was In .Chicago and heard many
ask, 'How do you account for the great
claims of Dowie and the fact that peo
ple of means and good education and
Judgment apparently, are ' following
him?' Ten short years have seen the
bursting of the great bubble, have
painted for us the scene of an old man,
senile and despoiled, dying in the midst
of his departed power, and of Zlon City
In the hands of receivers. It is but an
example of a great cistern broken."
This is the last sermon of Dr. Foulkes'
before leaving for the East on his Sum
mer vacation. Next Sunday Rev. Ira W.
Landrith, D. D., L. L. D., of Nashville,
Tenn., will preach in the morning and
evening. He was moderator of the Cum
berland Presbyterian General Assembly,
and is now prominent in the United Pres
byterian Church.
On July 28 and August 4 and II Rev.
William Foulkes, D. D., of Kansas City,
Kan., will preach at the First Presbyter
ian Church, and on August 18 Rev,
Charles Gorman Richards, of Sterling,
111., will preach.
Dr. Foulkes will preach ait the House
of Hope Church in St. Paul, Minn., July
28. On August 11 he will preach at the
Forty-first-street Presbyterian Church of
Chicago. From there he will go to at
tend the Winona Bible Conference at
Winona, Ind., and will preach at the
First Presbyterian Church of Detroit
August 18 and 25. He will return home
September 5 or 6 and will preach again in
his own pulpit September 8. Dr. Foulkes
goes to the East on his vacation partly
as a matter of choice and also because
church business calls him.
Judge Samuel R. Artman, of Lebanon,
Ind., will speak at the First Presbyter
ian Church Saturday night at 8 o'clock
on the "Unconstitutionality of the Saloon
License." '
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PLEA FOB THE PARENTS
REV. J. D. CORBY PREACHES ON
FIFTH COMMANDMENT.
Deplores Tendency of Present Day to
Sacrifice All to the Welfare
of the Young.
Taking up the subject of "The Rights
of Parents," which Is being discussed on
the platform and in the press. Rev. James
D. Corby, of the Universalist Church of
Good Tidings, yesterday morning delivered
an effective sermon on this topic. It was
a strong appear for "old age" with a
look into the teachings of the fifth, com
mandment. His texts were: "Honor thy
father and thy mother," and "Children
obey your parents in the Lord, for this is
right." Mr. Corby said:
The fifth commandment sanctifies social
life, and teaches that man is meant to live
In families. The lova of parents for their
children is far more intense and permanent
than that of children for their parents.
Wherever home life begins to crumble you
will find sons and daughters who have
ceased to love and reverence father and
mother. No lesson of scripture is needed
more than that of the deep and lasting love
of the Jews for their parents, and the ten
der regard with which they treat the aged.
Think of Jacob's wall over his lost son
Joseph. And Joseph's love for his father
and ministry to his old age Is a beautiful
example for all time. How David sobs
forth : 0 Absalom, my son, would God 1
had died for thee!" It was from the Hps
of Mary that Jesus gained his first great
spiritual truths, and from the cross He
commits his mother to the care of the be
loved declple. All through the Bible the
lesson Is that a child shall be the restorer
of thy life and a nourisber of thine old
age.
Literature gives its strongest scenes to
teaching the same lesson. Shakespeare's
tragedy of King Lear turns mainly on the
foul ingratude of his children; it is filial
untenderness which wrings from the heart
broken old King the agonizing cry: "How
sharper than a serpent's tooth It is to have
a thankless child !"
Times have changed, and signs are not
wanting that the fifth commandment has
become obscured. This is distinctively the
young people's age they are catered to,
have their own papers and amusements and
pleasures. Youth is called for in school, busi
ness and professional life.
Parents the aged have certain rights.
They are not to be crowded out of life nor
happiness. You and I are going to live
to be Just as old as we can. "We will doctor
every pain so as to piece out life to its
farthest limit. The spirit of the age is put.
ting the man and woman of 40 on the shelf.
Homes for the aged are crowded and have a
long waiting list. Few homes today have
an aged one In them, and the heartlessness
of some children is shown by parents In
voking the aid of the courts to compel their
children to keep thc from starving.
I plead for the divine rights of old age
and obedience to the fifth commandment.
It Is sad, but true, that some parents have
invited this condition by failing to exact
that reverence that is their due. Those
who demand most of their children receive
the most. Parental authority appears to be
at a discount, and fathers shrink from con
trolling children even of T years.
Parents have a right to the companion
ship of the young. We have fallen into the
bad habit of separating the children from
their parents, in school, church and society.
It is pathetic to' see a son or daughter go
from home day and night and give no
thought to the father or mother who would
enjoy the same company. Happy the youth
whose father Is his companion and chum,
and thrice happy the daughter whose
mother revives her life In the career of her
child. If you are fortunate enough to have
your parents living, cherish are care for
them; write them as often as possible. Sit
down today and write to the loved ones in
the old home. When the postmaster of
England visited home and asked his sister
what his mother enjoyed the most, she re
plied, "Your letter every week," he took
care that instead of one, two letters came
to his mother every week, thus doubling her
pleasure.
Parents have a right to honor and love.
Many' forget all that has been done for
them, and are cruel and unthankful to
their parents. Bitter the regret of those
who neglect the wishes of their parents.
When James the Fourth of Scotland was
young he stood in rebellion against his
father. All his manhood was a penance for
that sin. In memory of It he wore under
his robe an Iron belt, and to that belt every
year he added a new link an ounce in
weight, that his repentance might be
heavier, every year of his life.
Parents have a right to religious co
operation. The fashton changes in re
ligion ; education and marriage draw dif
ferent temperaments to various places of
worship at least we should hold fast to
th faith and labor earnestly to extend the
righteousness for which our elders con
tended. It saddens parents to see their
children come to the West and drop the
habits of worship and turn Sunday into a
day that smothers the finer feelings.
Parents have a right to work. It is
downright cruel to prevent the mature and
aged from helping on the world's work. To
force those who have tolled all up the years
to sit In the corner with folded hands Is a
hardship.
Young men cannot plume themselves as
the only men of achievement. Men at DO
do with ease what was difficult at 35 and
impossible at 25. Youth only gains 20 per
cent of the prizes. . Savages kill the aged,
and this is kinder than to let them exist
and force them to be idle. If the aged
work slow, remember how patient they had
to be with your bungling fingers while you
were learning how. It is better to wear out
than to rust out.
Parents have a right to care and protec
tion in old age if need come. As they would
share their last crust with a child, far more
should the young deny themselves, if need
be. that their parents should not want. What
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good wages, can see the mother drag her
heart out with hard work, yet selfishly put
every dollar on their back or on their own
pleasure ? The f urnished-room-and-to-mouth
existence followed by so many makes
an excuse for the neglect of the aged. They
have no room, no conveniences; but, what
is worse, they have no heart to share the
best they have with the father and mothor
who ministered to their helpless need.
I am heartily In favor of old age pen
sions. Men and women who have tolled
long and honorably till they are 65 deserve
better frm society than a ride over the
hills to the poorhouse. Cultivate the sanc
tity of the home. Stay home more make
that the place of amusement, instruction
and love. Build a home where old and
young may live together, loving and being
loved, revealing the blessed truth that we
are one family in earth and heaven chil
dren of the Alt Father, who is love.
MORALITY 0F SOCIALISM
Speaker to Believers Says New Order
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At the Socialist meeting held last night
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"If morality is, as the dictionaries define
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If it is a sentiment implanted in the
mind of men, then the idea of morality
should' be similar in the minds of all
men. But this la not so. The Hottentot
would not consider it immoral to kill his
own children, while we would consider it
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have read that the Japanese would rather
commit suicide than be taken prisoners,
and we know that suicide is not moral,
for it is against the laws of God. And
there are mapy other examples to show
that morality is not defined by all men
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evolved entirely through the mode of life).
Through all time, everything that was
for the benefit of the Individual was
moral. "What was once considered moral
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The speaker said that Just now the
capitalistic class established the moral
law, and everything is in the interest of
that class. Socialism, on the other hand,
is for the benefit of the entire world. The
capitalists want their interests advanced.
They wish to be honored for their wealth
or position or power, said he, while under
Socialism a man would wish to be hon
ored only for the good he could do his
fellowmen.
Morality, which the speaker maintained
is so largely determined by wealth and
the power and station wealth gives, under
Socialism, which does not recognize selfish
Interests, would be brought to a higher
plane In representing the standard of all
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