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attendants who take turns in giving their time to the benevolentwork of serving these stalls, wagons, etc. Doubtless some whohold stock in the Dock Company, and who draw their dividends,use a portion in this or in some other "sweet charity," and thusshow the noble side of their hearts. But, such should realize thatthe proper thing to do is, to so right and reconstruct society andits laws that such men as are industrious should be enabled towork, and that at such a moderate compensation as would enablethem to have enough to eat without appealing to charity. Therewill be much less need for "sweet charity" (though still plenty ofroom for it) when sweet justice comes to be rightly seen andpracticed.In this land, though justice is not yet quite even-handed, andthough the laws have not yet been fully arranged to thwartmonopolies and trusts, there is certainly much less room forcomplaint of injustice as well as much less opportunity forcharity. It is in the old world that the greatest changes must beexpected. Nor is it in England alone, or even specially, that theforetold "trouble" is brewing, as a result of growing intelligenceand the effort of the masses to secure a fuller share of thebounties and blessings of our day: our readers saw recently inthe secular press accounts of the greatest strike of coal-minersever known in Germany. So intense was the feeling, and sowidespread the strike, that a revolution was feared, if the poorerclasses got to see their strength, and the Emperor of Germanycondescended to assist in compromising the difficulty. Thefollowing, clipped from the New York Tribune, gives a pictureof the condition of things in another part of Europe:--"Standing in one of the ante-rooms leading to the office of theMayor of the city of Amsterdam on a January morning fouryears ago, a spectacle was presented which seems to anAmerican citizen a proof that the Millennium has not yetarrived. The previous afternoon a meeting of the unemployedlaboring men had been held in Vondel's Park, and the crowd wasso immense that the city authorities became alarmed with thethought that a bread riot might take place at the close of themeeting, so the Burgomeester issued a proclamation informingthe people that his office would be open for audience on thefollowing day. Never before in the history of that city had aninterview of the working-men with the Chief Magistrate beenallowed; a certain proof of the somber political atmosphereoverhanging Amsterdam. The City Hall was overflowing with acrowd of pale, emaciated-looking men, holding in their handscertificates signed by the Prefects of Police that the bearer wasactually in sore need of bread. According to the official list,signed by the Mayor's secretary, 2,243 certificates of thisdescription were handed in that day. "The streets leading to theCity Hall were crowded with women and children, and when at4 o'clock in the afternoon the city fathers gave orders todistribute 1,500 loaves of bread, the scenes enacted defy
description. Men and women fought like ravenous beasts toobtain a loaf of bread, and in fifteen minutes the supply wasexhausted. In the Leydsche Straat, an American lady inquiredthe cause of the multitude of men, women and children rushingas if demented toward a common center of the city. Beinginformed that the amount of bread given out at the City Hall hadnot half supplied the hungry ones, she entered a bake shop andbought out the stock on hand. Seven hundred and three loaves ofbread were passed out the door to the people, who by theirinstant sampling of the gift, proved that dry bread was anabsolute necessity to them."The city press in general deplored the situation of affairs, butbeing under the strict surveillance of the Government, were verycareful to express their thoughts in guarded language. It wasstated that a woman with three little children was found in asmall room actually starved to death, her husband being unableto procure bread by labor and being too proud to beg for hisdying family. Below this statement in the same newspapercolumn was a notice that the Foreign Missionary Society at theirmeeting the night previous had raised 25,000 gulden ($10,000)to supply the foreign field. To give the starving workmen ofAmsterdam something to do seemed not so necessary as tosupply the inhabitants of Africa with Bibles and missionaries,and yet Americans wonder that European workmen becomesocialists."***How often the generous and the selfish elements of fallen menare thus displayed side by side. The $10,000 raised for theheathen, to help keep some of them, as the donors doubtlesssupposed, out of an eternity of torment, speak of a sympathywhich we must commend; while the hungry thousands at theirown doors speak of unjust social regulations and laws, and of aselfishness on the part of the wealthy class which, seeing this,refuses or neglects to rectify those laws, lest its own march togreater wealth and perhaps further subscriptions for foreignmissions should be interfered with.In our next issue we may point out briefly some of the defects ofpresent social laws and customs, but suffice it now that we havepointed out that the trouble now gathering, described by Danielas "a time of trouble such as was not since there was a nation,"is coming just as he, under divine guidance, foretold--as theresult of interchange among men and the consequent increase ofknowledge, as we are now witnessing it on every hand.Just a word of exhortation: To the few brethren who havemeans, and to all according to ability, we would say--Rememberfirst of all to practice justice in all your conduct; then be ascharitable as the Master's funds in your hands will in yourjudgment permit of. Remember that you are merely a steward
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description. Men and women fought like ravenous beasts toobtain a loaf of bread, and in fifteen minutes the supply wasexhausted. In the Leydsche Straat, an American lady inquiredthe cause of the multitude of men, women and children rushingas if demented toward a common center of the city. Beinginformed that the amount of bread given out at the City Hall hadnot half supplied the hungry ones, she entered a bake shop andbought out the stock on hand. Seven hundred and three loaves ofbread were passed out the door to the people, who by theirinstant sampling of the gift, proved that dry bread was anabsolute necessity to them."The city press in general deplored the situation of affairs, butbeing under the strict surveillance of the Government, were verycareful to express their thoughts in guarded language. It wasstated that a woman with three little children was found in asmall room actually starved to death, her husband being unableto procure bread by labor and being too proud to beg for hisdying family. Below this statement in the same newspapercolumn was a notice that the Foreign Missionary Society at theirmeeting the night previous had raised 25,000 gulden ($10,000)to supply the foreign field. To give the starving workmen ofAmsterdam something to do seemed not so necessary as tosupply the inhabitants of Africa with Bibles and missionaries,and yet Americans wonder that European workmen becomesocialists."***How often the generous and the selfish elements of fallen menare thus displayed side by side. The $10,000 raised for theheathen, to help keep some of them, as the donors doubtlesssupposed, out of an eternity of torment, speak of a sympathywhich we must commend; while the hungry thousands at theirown doors speak of unjust social regulations and laws, and of aselfishness on the part of the wealthy class which, seeing this,refuses or neglects to rectify those laws, lest its own march togreater wealth and perhaps further subscriptions for foreignmissions should be interfered with.In our next issue we may point out briefly some of the defects ofpresent social laws and customs, but suffice it now that we havepointed out that the trouble now gathering, described by Danielas "a time of trouble such as was not since there was a nation,"is coming just as he, under divine guidance, foretold--as theresult of interchange among men and the consequent increase ofknowledge, as we are now witnessing it on every hand.Just a word of exhortation: To the few brethren who havemeans, and to all according to ability, we would say--Rememberfirst of all to practice justice in all your conduct; then be ascharitable as the Master's funds in your hands will in yourjudgment permit of. Remember that you are merely a steward
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