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Violence is of no avail save in self-defense. It is the law of the sword that he who lives by it shall die by it. It carries death in its scabbard and death in its hilt. The government that can not sustain Unjust Stewards. 153 itself save on the bayonet ceases to be for the com- mon good. It is only the instrument of the unjust steward. Every man is an unjust steward who wrongs in any way his fellow-men. In this God made stewards of us all, and lie is the master to whom we must ren- der our acc...ounts. And who among us, when we look into ourself before asking the help of God, can say, "this day I have wronged no man?" And what a mockery is the prayer if one has been the unjust steward, and seeks to deceive God as he de- ceives himself and his fellow-men. It is not that we have been charitable, patient, kind, and forgiving, but have we been just? and not being just, what is there left upon which to base divine mercy? Ah ! fools, what are the few years of troubled wealth, with their anxieties and hearts filled with anguish of hidden wrong, to the peaceful content Christ's teachings and example give to the lost oppor- tunity that made earth a foretaste of heaven, and heaven a continuation of all that was good and happy on earth ?
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