Chinese Labor and the Lord’s Work
By Editor
RECENTLY there was a wood-drive of 1,200 cords reached the Eureka mill near Carson, Nevada. The superintendent of the mill went to Carson to hire men to take the wood out of the stream. He offered $3.25 a day for white men. There were plenty of them, but they wanted more. The offer was raised to $4.00 a day, but still they did not want to work. Then the superintendent went and hired Chinamen at $1.75 a day, and saved his wood. And thus it is that the Chinese are degrading white labor! These are the men who form "workingmen's" associations to boycott the Chinese. Says the Carson Appeal: "These are the men who howl about the streets and say there is a conspiracy to keep white men out of work." This is how the Chinese work for wages upon which a white man cannot live. If there were, among white men, the readiness to work for good wages that there is among the Chinese, there would be no complaints about the degradation of labor. A CORRESPONDENT of the Independent, writing of Yale College, says: "A great deal has been sometimes said about the necessity of having a president who is a good beggar. It is far more necessary to have one who is a good spender. Men will give when they see that their money will be used efficiently." This may be applied to the Lord's work. Too often the work of the Lord is hindered because those having the responsibility on them have feared to move out into an opening field lest they should run out of means. So they wait for the people to give, while the people wait for them to spend. We must not always expect to see our way clear through to the end. The waters of the Jordan didn't divide until the priests had marched into the river.