Christianity and Labor.
By Presbyterian Banner
Not only did Christianity honor labor, but it immediately set about building hospitals for the benefit of the sick and injured from among working and poor people and has continued to do so until now. Infidelity never erected a single hospital. Among the many men and women going through the narrow alleys and into the houses of the poor, in all our cities and large towns, to carry bread to the hungry, fuel to the cold and medicine to the sick, cannot be found a single follower of Thomas Paine. Herr Most, however, is right in regard to the power of Christianity and the church, though wickedly and meanly wrong in charging them with hostility to the laboring classes. Christianity and the church are the great preservative forces of good order and human well being. No other institutions approach them in their influence for good upon all classes and conditions of men. A victorious army can permit itself to be abused without feeling the least resentment. Christianity can allow little knots of “Liberal Leaguers” and an occasional agitator like Herr Most to heap epithets upon it and tell lies about it without being alarmed or enraged.—Presbyterian Banner.