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OCTOBER IS, 1905
The Commoner.
15
A Reminder of Whittier and 1835
A Rokeby, Neb.,, reader writes:
When I read that the clergy of
Cleveland attended the recent meet
ing at Rockefeller's residence to show
their appreciation of him I was re
minded of Whittier's poem, 'Clerical
Oppressors The clergy of all de
nominations attended in a body, lend
ing their sanction to the proceedings
of a pro-slavery meeting at Charles
ton, S. C, in 1835, The action of the
clergy inspired the poem. Please
publish entire poem."
CLERICAL OPPRESSORS
(In the report of the celebrated pro
slavery meeting in Charleston, S. C,
on the 4th of the ninth month, 1835,
published in the Courier of that city,
it is stated: "The CLERGY of all
denominations attended in a body,
LENDING THEIR SANCTION TO
THE PROCEEDINGS, and adding by
their presence to the impressive char
acter of the scene!")
Just God! and these are they
Who minister at Thine altar, God of
Right!
Men who their hands with prayer and
blessing lay
On Israel's Ark of light!
What! preach and kidnap men?
Give thanks and rob Thy own af
flicted poor?
Talk of Thy glorious liberty, and
then
Bolt hard the captive's door?
What! servants of Thy own
Merciful Son, who came to seek and
save
The homeless and the outcast, fetter
ing down ' - . ?
The task'd 'and plunder.'cT slave!
Pilate and Herod, friends!
Chief priests and rulers, as of old,
combine!
Just God and holy! is that church
which lends
Strength to the spoiler Thine?
Paid hypocrites, who turn
Judgment aside,, and rob . the Holy
tJOOK
Of those high "words of truth which
search and burn
In warning and reoufte.
Feed fat, ye locusts, feed!
And, in your tassl'd pulpits, thank
the Lord
That, from the toiling bondman's ut
ter need,
Ye pile your own full board.
How long, O Lord, how long
Shall such a Priesthood barter truth
away,
And, in Thy name, for robbery and
wrong
At Thy own altars pray?
Is not Thy hand stretch'd forth
Visibly in the heavens, to awe and
smite?
Shall not the living God of all the
And Heaven above, do right?
Woe, then to all wno grind
Their brethern of a. Common Father
down !
To all who plunder from th' immortal
mind
Its bright and glorious crown!
Woe to the Priesthood! woe
o those whose hire Is with the price
of blood-
Perverting, darkening, changing as
they go,
The searching truths of God!
Their glory and their might
Shall perish; and their very names
shall be
Vile before all the people, in the
light
Of A WORLD'S LIBERTY.
Oh, speed the moment on
When Wrong shall cease and Lib
erty, and Love,
And Truth, and Right, throughout
the earth be known
As in their home above.
SOME VAGRANT THOUGHTS
(Continued from Page 12)
ing and rubbing down as they did
that afternoon. Ana they got an ex
tra quart of oats, too.
The chores were done up a little
earlier than usual that Sunday even
ing, and long before rather leisurely
walked out to hitch up the old plow
horses you had hitcned up the young
colts they were fifteen years old
last spring, but still the colts because
they were the youngest horses on the
place you had hitcned up the colts,
I say, and had started off towards
Kate Murphy's home, wondering all
the way over what you were going
to talk about when you got then.
Then the ride to church, the lusty
singing, the long sermon, the neigh
borly conversation and the long,
slow ride home in the moonlight
O, it makes me sick to think about
these so-called "modern ways!"
That was a long, long time ago,
wasn't it? Well, it's been fun to even
think about those good old times,
but it's nearly 8 o'clock and we've
got to shave and get ready to go to
Mrs. Richley's reception. O, dear!
Say, Dot; where'n the world Is my
dress shirt? Confound the luck, I
can't find my shirt studs. I left 'em
right here In this tray. This dress
suit is getting a little shiny. That
menus sixty plunks Tor a new one.
Well, well! We wore jeans in those
old days, 'and we had more fun in
'em than we ever had in a swallowtail
coat, too.
Allen's Lung Balsam
wll'Psmtfe!y break up docp. racking I
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Brain Leaks
True love never drags down.
The poor shot usually kicks the
dog.
Those who have suffered know
how to, sympathize.
Doubtless you have a policy on
your life, but how about your soul In
surance? Some women count their jars of
canned fruit like a miser counts his
gold pieces.
It is far better to do little things
well than to be always dreaming of
doing big things.
Is a man entitled to credit for btr
ing liberal when he freely spends
other people's money?
'"iffS so easy to make a child happy
that it must bean awfully mean man
who will not when he can.
The man who is loudest in his de
nunciations of hypocrites in the
church is usually outside of the
church.
It is said that "Opportunityjmocks
once at every man's door." The
trouble is that so many men are
"knocking" that they do not hear
Opportunity.
There are" people who express a
willingness to die at the stake for
their faith, but who always sift the
money in their pockets to get the
pennies when the collection box
comes around.
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