ear the forward step. He is forced to a new
habit of idleness, which, like a canker, consumes the mind
and destroys its faculties.

Memory confronts him with his lighted past. Amid the
tangible ruins of his life as it promised to be he gropes
his pitiful way.

Richard Watson Gilder wrote for this occasion a poem, which was printed on
the programs.

"Pity the Blind!" Yes, pity those
Whom day and night enclose
In equal dark; to whom the sun's keen flame
And pitchy night-time are the same;
But pity most the blind
Who cannot see
That to be kind
Is life's felicity.

THE WEALTH OF ONE IS THE ASSET OF ALL.

The Man Who Taps the Common Treasury
for His Own Pocket Is a Judas,
Says Dr. Parkhurst.

Many expressions of socialistic or quasi-socialistic opinion have lately
been written and spoken by men and women whose opinions are worth reading
and hearing. From among these expressions the following letter by the Rev.
Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst may be selected as typical of American
socialistic idealism. It accepts a principle; it proposes no method. It
was written to Charles Sprague Smith, director of the People's Institute,
at Cooper Union, New York, to be read before the institute in lieu of an
address.

The one doctrine I would specialize (meaning one to be dwelt
on in the institute work) is that of the solidarity of the
race, or, to revert to your own more usual way of stating
it, the brotherhood of man.

You stand for a great truth every time you put it before
your people that we are not our own, but that we belong to
each other; that we are all children of one household; that
we belong to the family and the family belongs to us; that
the assets of the family are the joint property of all the
children; and that any man, rich or poor, who treats his
particular holdings, large or small, as though they were not
in the truest sense a part of the common holdings of the
entire household is a renegade and a traitor to the
household.

If it is charged upon me that this smacks of socialism, all
I can say is that I do not care what you call it; it is the
doctrine that I preach in the Madison Square Presbyterian
Church, and if it is good for Madison Square it is good for
Cooper Union; anyhow, it is biblical, and contains in it a
good deal of the genius of the teaching of Jesus Ch