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40 to visit the fatherless and the widows, and to keep one's self unspotted from the world.'

'Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother.' 'Take thou no usury of him, or increase, but fear thy God, that thy brother may live with thee.' 'I pray you let us leave oft this usury.' 'He that hath not given forth upon usury, hath executed true judgment between man and man.' 'Thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbors by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord,'

The whole burden of the teachings of the prophets and apostles, and the precepts and inculcations of Jesus, are on the side of the oppressed, and against the oppressor. Their sympathies were with the poor and heavy-laden, while the rich and powerful are held responsible for the sorrows and wrongs that afflict humanity.

But the Golden rule, and the precepts and teachings I have quoted are a dead letter. They no where find any practical exemplification in our modern society.

Now the injuctionsinjunctions [sic] of the Bible are observed, by practicing the exact reverse of what they teach—as, for instance, "Labor not to be rich," and yet nearly every body is striving with might and main, by day and by night, to become rich.

So, of almost every other precept or command. 'Bear ye one another's burdens,' is practically exemplified in the world's popular motto, "Every fellow for himself." 'Let every one study not his own, but his neighbor's wealth,' by the other motto, "I care not who sinks, so that I swim."