he economic and social gospel preached by Jesus
Christ, and every act and utterance which may properly be ascribed to
him conclusively affirms it. Private property was to his elevated mind
and exalted soul a sacrilege and a horror; an insult to God and a crime
against man.

The economic basis of his doctrine of brotherhood, and love is clearly
demonstrated in the fact that under his leadership and teaching all his
disciples "sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men,
_as every man had need_," and that they "had all things in common."

"And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking
bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and
singleness of heart."

This was the beginning of the mighty movement Jesus had launched for
the overthrow of the empire of the Caesars and the emancipation of the
crushed and miserable masses from the bestial misrule of the Roman
tyrants.

It was above all a working class movement and was conceived and brought
forth for no other purpose than to destroy class rule and set up the
common people as the sole and rightful inheritors of the earth.

"Happy are the lowly for they shall inherit the earth."

Three short years of agitation by the incomparable Jesus was sufficient
to stamp the proletarian movement he had inaugurated as the most
formidable and portentous revolution in the annals of time. The
ill-fated author could not long survive his stupendous mischief. The aim
and inevitable outcome of this madman's teaching and agitation was too
clearly manifest to longer admit of doubt.

The sodden lords of misrule trembled in their stolen finery, and then
the word went forth that they must "get" the vagabond who had stirred up
the people against them. The prototypes of Peabody, McPartland, Harry
Orchard, et. al., were all ready for their base and treacherous
performance and their thirty pieces of blood-stained silver. The priest
of the Mammon worshipers gave it out that the Nazarene was spreading a
false religion and that his pernicious teachings would corrupt the
people, destroy the church, uproot the old faith, disrupt the family,
break up the home, and overthrow society.

The lineal descendants of Caiaphas and Judas and the pharisees and
money-changers of old are still parroting the same miserable falsehood
to serve the same miserable ends, the only difference being that the
brood of pious perverts now practice their degeneracy in th