RICHES AND POVERTY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VI, Issue 1869, 19 December 1884, Page 2

RICHES AND POVERTY.

' ;.!Rw?ti{ly ; St Manchester a olergyman: asked' very solemnly jo his sermon .what' the: astounding.' p6vertjr ;-p|il«j ■'l9 ceiu, tury ' meM:-- He' •• '^kedl'hu' hewefa' wjiereihe ■problew''coniroenced,....a!id. -.whether;their- pwh position. :w„eroaltogelhorbased on a just foundation.' Ho wen t, bU toTsay i-^—. ".'•', .-- "• ."'• ■..

. "Yoitliave paid for your piece of land, and by your own efforts yon have built your house and made'it snug for the rest of your life, laV'ua "suppose. It isyoiire, of 'l)o : iioji misjudge; ::ibeVif 7 :t";say that ■' until a "man is" willing, to- ask. that question,' over again, ask , solemnly •to himself,-is it indeed mine—my own to do with as exactly as.l wish? be can new understand- the problem which become so vivid in these later days. That .is, indeed,' jutt where poverty begins—when a man possesses himself of anything which God has made, and says 'it is my own,' beoause.then some other person is bdtihd to stand aside from the use of it,- and take bold of something els 3 in self-defence, while eveiy portion thus claimed becomes a deprivation to the rest of the-world; You have only to imagine (though it isnoUn imagination, but is the exact historical raothod through which the world has come to be what ,it is), you have only to conceive others doing "the same, until practically, all available things-are nrivately possessed, and i ben half the world may feast like Dives, and the other half must wait to catch the crumbs, like-Lazarus, unless some new law -begins to operate in their favour. .■.--. If L seem-to bring ,any impeachment against-the means by, 'which wealth is being passed, it is not that lam -blind to.'the.'fatlha .of the J dosjfadejd- poor, many, of' whom have aggravated their misery, by vioiousabuse. contrary .1 have read Ht. George's book, and a good deal of cMaliamj ■ffle<:'feel%ithat,it' does not-lay any .guffioient.empbasis en the'improyidence; at}d'drim'kennesß^-which iare.ptf.pote&t' y, of ;Btaryaticj l W' are'looking,' and, | think, must? look much lower dota'thaii-that in order to. see'theprinJary law of rich and poorjl the'^iclj rije : .higher :tb*! poor to'sink' further into mira: )■

JJy. tii&ay. people;" be (July horrified at tbifrutterance of socialism and communism, in the pulpit, this' clergyman will he at once denounced as; utterly forgetful of his position and' unworthy of its privileges... Others will say of him that he has simply looked'a' little mora deeply" and earnestly into .the pressing and irresistabletendencies of the day and hour,—Exchange,