Carey. ] 204 [Nov. 17, 
cite another passage from the ‘‘ New Themes,” as follows: “ The doc- 
trine that property, real and personal, must under all circumstances re- 
main inviolate, always under the ever-watchful vigilance of the law, and 
its invaders subject to the severest penalties of dungeon and damages, 
may be very essential to the maintenance of our present social system, 
but it totally disregards the consideration that Labor, the poor man’s 
capital, his only property, should, as his only means of securing a com- 
fortable subsistence, be also under the special care and safeguard of the 
law. The doctrine that trade should be entirely free—that is, that mer- 
chants should be perfectly at liberty, throughout the world, to manage 
their business in that way which best promotes their interests—may suit 
very well for merchants, making them masters of the industry of the world; 
but it will be giving a small body of men a power over the bones and 
sinews of their fellow-men, which it would be contrary to all our knowl- 
edge of human nature if they do not fatally abuse, because they are in- 
terested to reduce the avails of labor to the lowest attainable point, as the 
best means of enlarging their business and increasing their gains. That 
philosophy,”’ he continues, “ which teaches that men should always be 
left to the care of themselves—that labor is a merely marketable commo- 
dity which should be left, like others, to find its own market value with- 
out reference to the welfare of the man, may appear plausible to those 
who forget the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of men, but is ut- 
terly at variance with the precepts of Him who taught that those who 
stood idle in the market-place because no man had hired them, and were 
sent to work at the eleventh hour, should receive the same as those who 
had borne the burden and heat of the day.” 
It is not my business here and now either to commend or to impeach, 
but simply to state the attitude assumed by Mr. Jolwell in reference to 
questions so much exposed to debate as these, and by him so sharply and 
earnestly treated. The great sensation produced in our religious world 
by their publication has given way to much more moderate feelings, and 
evidently enough to a better appreciation of their spirit and design. One 
of the representative papers of the church of whieh he was a life-long 
member, thus speaks of the controversy which his publications had aroused 
ten years since : ‘‘In one or two of his own books on this engrossing and 
all-important theme [Christian charity], he used language in regard to the 
apathy and criminality of modern professors of faith in Christ and his 
salvation, which was so severe as to arouse bitter hostility to his faithful 
and well-meant efforts. Would that now, when the mutual wounds have 
ceased to smart, in the case of most of those engaged in them, alas! by a 
departure from all the conflicts of the church militant, earnest men could 
be roused to examine their lessons and suggestions, forgetful of the occa- 
sional sharpness of the form in which they were conveyed.’’ The most 
aggrieved having thus now come to acknowledge that ‘faithful are the 
wounds of a friend,”’ they may also recollect that only once, and that in a 
strikingly pertinent instance, the founder of their faith is reported to have 
