antagonism.  Now, where is this to begin?  In our homes, in our stores, on our farms—­not waiting for other people to do their duty.  Is there a divergence now between the parlor and the kitchen?  Then there is something wrong, either in the parlor or the kitchen, perhaps in both.  Are the clerks in your store irate against the firm?  Then there is something wrong, either behind the counter, or in the private office, or perhaps in both.

The great want of the world to-day is the fulfillment of this Christ-like injunction, that which He promulgated in His sermon Olivetic.  All the political economists under the arch or vault of the heavens in convention for a thousand years can not settle this controversy between monopoly and hard work, between capital and labor.  During the Revolutionary War there was a heavy piece of timber to be lifted, perhaps for some fortress, and a corporal was overseeing the work, and he was giving commands to some soldiers as they lifted:  “Heave away, there! yo heave!” Well, the timber was too heavy; they could not get it up.  There was a gentleman riding by on a horse, and he stopped and said to this corporal, “Why don’t you help them lift?  That timber is too heavy for them to lift.”  “No,” he said, “I won’t; I am a corporal.”  The gentleman got off his horse and came up to the place.  “Now,” he said to the soldiers, “all together—­yo heave!” and the timber went to its place.  “Now,” said the gentleman to the corporal, “when you have a piece of timber too heavy for the men to lift, and you want help, you send to your commander-in-chief.”  It was Washington.  Now, that is about all the Gospel I know—­the Gospel of giving somebody a lift, a lift out of darkness, a lift out of earth into heaven.  That is all the Gospel I know—­the Gospel of helping somebody else to lift.

“Oh,” says some wiseacre, “talk as you will, the law of demand and supply will regulate these things until the end of time.”  No, they will not, unless God dies and the batteries of the Judgment Day are spiked, and Pluto and Proserpine, king and queen of the infernal regions, take full possession of this world.  Do you know who Supply and Demand are?  They have gone into partnership, and they propose to swindle this earth and are swindling it.  You are drowning.  Supply and Demand stand on the shore, one on one side, the other on the other side, of the life-boat, and they cry out to you, “Now, you pay us what we ask you for getting you to shore, or go to the bottom!” If you can borrow $5000 you can keep from failing in business.  Supply and Demand say, “Now, you pay us exorbitant usury, or you go into bankruptcy.”  This robber firm of Supply and Demand say to you:  “The crops are short.  We bought up all the wheat and it is in our bin.  Now, you pay our price or starve.”  That is your magnificent law of supply and demand.

Supply and Demand own the largest mill on earth, and all the rivers roll over their wheel, and into their hopper they put all the men, women, and children they can shovel out of the centuries, and the blood and the bones redden the valley while the mill grinds.  That diabolic law of supply and demand will yet have to stand aside, and instead thereof will come the law of love, the law of cooperation, the law of kindness, the law of sympathy, the law of Christ.