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Dr. Ramsay And Poverty

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26
Month
July
Year
1888
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Public Domain
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To the Editor of The Register :- gIR: - Attracted by the fame of D Ramsay's elcqueaoe and by his subject, I went to the M. E. church last Sunday evening. I was much astonished to hear him use Jesua' saying : "The poor ye have always wilh you," as though it were "The poor ye shall always have with you." Thia is ealirely unwarrantable, for one of the mato promises of the Messiata to the anoient Jews was that he would abolish poverty, Iss. 61: 1-3 ; and Jesus' first public utterance in his own town was to announcethisashÍ8missiorj: "Tne spirit of the Lird God is upon me, for he hath annointed me to preach the go?pel to (he poor; this day is this saying falfilled in your ears." lias Mr. Ramsay not lived enoiigh in the world to see that the result of a poverty, abject and helpless, euch as is conspicuous in our large cities, is immorality ? To say that such poverty is God-ordaiaed libela Jesús, condemns the bible, makes the woild heil and the devil good. But the Mormons, with all their fault?, know this part of the bible betier than the rest of Ohristian governments, for there is no poverty, as Mr. Ramsay defines it, within their borders. He was partioularly eloquent in describing Jesús' sympathy for the poor; but I wonder what effect it would have had on the unemployed million, who wander through this country, as they would contrast His kindness with the positive brutali-y of monopolista who are high-paying church members, such as Rockafeller, Gould, Astors, and hordes of minor ones, through whose greed they are shut out of even an opportunity to satisfy tbeir wants by laboring on the earth,- God's gift to the race. If Mr. Ramsay wants to help answer his daily prayer"Thy Kingdom come," let him advocate, instead of poverty, the taxing of land to its f uil rental value. That will abolish involuntary poverty, rob monopoly of ita fangs, give every man a chance for an honest living, and advance the Kingdom of God on earth by a gigantic stride. Ann Arbor, July 23, '88.

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