Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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General Armstrong explained that by educating the Indian, he meant not only educating his mind, but his hand and heart as well; everything, in fact, that would enable him to compete with his white neighbor, in the struggle for existence. The trouble had been that the government had never understood the Indian. They had provided him with food and clothing, thereby enabling him to live in idleness, and it is no wonder that now he is unable to support himself. Instead of giving him rations, he should have been given land and farming implements and obliged to earn...
...particular truth does not seem to have yet entered his head. "Abstinence in the economic sense is never thought of by Christ." And why? "Because it is plain that self sacrifice was considered admirable only in relation to a particular ideal, viz.: "Love of God and one's neighbor." Is then economic abstinence contrary to the love of your neighbor? Does the love of your neighbor preclude the love of yourself? If so, for what have Butler and Hartley and Mill lived? Again, "Saving is not a virtue at all in the Bible." No, and we did not know that...
...opened with a short prayer, which was followed by the reading of the Seventy-second Psalm. The long prayer was a petition for unity and peace among all people. After a hymn sung by the congregation, Prof. Harris gave out the text from St. Matthew, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." This was humanitarianism. A comparison of unreligious and Christian humanitarianism would be the subject of the sermon. Humanitarianism not based on religion claimed for itself a higher usefulness than that which was based on religion. For it tolerated no waste in worship, a priesthood and other religious forms...
...Love thy neighbor as thyself" is not a ruling maxim in the kingdom of exchange. Men say, indeed, that self-interest is king in this domain of business and the Christian law does not apply to the factory and the counting-room. Business is business. This common sentiment of the street takes its rise from Adam Smith and his school, whose false a priori assumption that self-interest is supreme over benevolence dominated economic theories for 100 years and whose bitter fruits we are still reaping, since such doctrine finds congenial soil in the natural heart. Smith and his contemporaries...
...giving her boys pocket-money, that she doesn't give some of them enough to eat and that although she has plenty of money, she won't build an addition to the house, but allows the boys to be crowded out, to sleep in the shed or at the neighbor...