GOD THE LANDLORD—MAN THE STEWARD.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 2182, 11 July 1890, Page 1

GOD THE LANDLORD— MAN THE STEWARD.

What there is of this round globe, from tho crust to its centre, in its bowels or on its skin, or gold or grass oil or water, iron, wood and stone, belongs to man by virtue of a lease, and not by ownership. There is but one owner aud but one landlord. This may scorn to be somewhat old fashioned and antique, aud not very hopeful iv this practical age, when a sheriff's writ strikes more terror than the Teu Comraaudments, aud a letter of Powdcrley's has more gospel than the ancient parchments of Peter, Paul and the exile of Patmos.

This may be. Such a spirit exists. We have got away from the first cause and are ou our marrow bones in the worship of sub-agencies. It is a question of mistaking a spindle for % iiy wheel. The spiudle has its place and purpose, but there is a giant wheel in the basement, without which a thousand spindles are as useless as a kuitting needle in the hand of a dead won? an.

The motor force that made this globe a fact still holds the little star in volition, regulates, governs and hay jurisdiction over it and the human swarm ou ita surface. We believe this world was made for a purpose — that it was projected into space on an errand, aud that the men and women cradled ou its surface and sepulcuered in its dust arc under a government of. law, in the keeping of which is life, and the forfeiture thereof is judgment, aud it applies to the right uso ot! a spadeful of earth as to the moral use- of intellect aud conscience. We can be iv> morally damned as landlords as -\\ c can by stealing sheep or sandiug sugar. As before said, we are occupants of this globe, and not owners. Man is the steward, (loci is the landlord. — American paper.

Gerouituo, the Apache chieftain, onco tho terror of South western settlers, is now teachiug a, class in tho Sundayschool at his new residenco in Alabama.

tn a couversatiou at the Board of Eihmition the other day respecting the dtitifs and privileges of school committees' " visitors," Mr Barclay told of a " visitor " in a district he did not name, who was a, great nuisance to the lady tenclicr ia charge. He was a blackHUiiih, and seemed to delight in doing his duty as a visitor. He would go to the school with his apron on, and with hands fresh from the forge, and idle away half an hour in talking to the leacher, looking over the cbildreas* copybooks, putting his thumb-brand ou the pages as ho did so. And the teacher dared not complain, for fear of risk> ing her position. — ' Timaru Herald.'