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DR. TALMADGE’S SERMON,
shall we have anarchy and
REBELION IN AMERICA?
Tf-xt; “Tho rorth was without form ar.d
rod. rid darknos was up in tli ■ face of tie
and th- spirit of (iod , IKiV .-.l upoa the
* of tno waterx. ffeuosls i. •_>.
< t ,u spare there linn- a p-r.-it chunk of
r ; , k ytinnyl and san l and shell, thousand,
' 1 ■’• l ‘ , “ m diameter, more tbousand,of mi
<n cirenniferen e. a great mass of ugliness,
' .mux on. distortion, uselessness. gha>Uin*ss
' ,n h ' rr,jr . *-*••! like smie great com
v u ns on whi-h mad, ,1 „p worlds had Lem
dumi*d. Poetry and re. s,-,e„t st and
tiiim y.n, nil agr**} iri falling it rhnos. That
e ngly, uu,h:t| ely egg out. of which
->ui 1 eautitul world was hatched. (.ml
..ent . <er that auger and turmoil of elements
I,osaid: “Atlanta o.ean, vou go away
: ! *down there I'., iflc < iceant you g<
an.l -l>ep there Mount Washington vou
stand icntinel her*. Mont Blanc vou put
on your coronet of crystal there. Mississippi.
■\ ou there. ami Missouri, you marrv it
, here. God t jok up in Hi, almighty arms
the ro k and the mud and the sand and the
•■hell and He heave 1 it and He rolle 1 it and
He indented it and lie divided it. and ID
-1 om pressed it into shape, and then Hedropp< and
af.t in four different places, and tho one de
<sit was Europe. and anotlrr deposit was
Asm, and another deposit was Am a. aim
the fourth deposit was Aineri- a. North
ami South. In other words, ‘‘tho spirit of
tiod moved upon the face of the waters '’
>' ell, now, that original chaos was a typo of
the anarchy into which to iety is ever and
anon tempted to plunge. Hod said: ‘ let
there Is, light of order, light of law, light of
sympathy, lightof justice, light of love. ’ An
anarchical voice said: “No, no; let there l>o
stark ness, let there 1< outtbroaterv, let there,
he eternal Imbroglio, let there ‘ho chaos.”
1 hat social confusion, that moral chaos is the
condition into which a great many supposed
our land was to be plunged be ause of tho
overhanging content Ijetween Capital and
I jibnr. Daring the past three months, aye
during the Inst the years, the in
telligent people of this country have been
asking; ‘‘Are we going to have anarchy and
bloody revolution in Aineri - a f' Thousands
of voices have answered in the affirmative.
1 answer this morning in the negative. There
tnav Is*, ns there have been, outbursts of jx,p
u!ar frenzy, but there will be no anarchy, for
the Church of ('hrist, tho grandest and
mightiest institution on earth, will come out
in the name of the Eternal God, and putting
me hand on the shoulder of Capital and
he other hand on the shoulder of Labor,
will say: “I conie out in the name of the
‘bid who turned chaos into order to settle
this dispute by the principle of jus
tice and kindness. Now, I com
mand that you take your hands off of
each other’s throats.” The Church of God is
the only impartial institution on this subject,
for it has within its borders capitalists and
laborers.and it was founded by tho Christ who
"a a i arpentor, nnd therefore has a right to
•peak for all laborers; and who owns this
world and tho solar syst •>„ and the universe
und has, therefore, a right to speak for capi
talists. As an individual I have a right to
tie beard on tho labor question. My father
was a farmer and mv grandfather was a
farmer and they toiled for a living. 1 have
not a dollar in the world that 1 did
not earn by the sweat of my
bmw nnd 1 owe no man anything.
If I have forgotten any obligation, and you
will meet me at tho foot of tho pulpit when I
‘■ome down, 1 will settle it on the spot. I pur
pose to say all 1 have thought or felt on this
subject, and without any reservation, and I
only ask of you that you pray God that I
may be divinely directed in this impartial
series of Subbath morning discourses; and I
also ask that you receive what I have to say
n, silence, nnd without either approval or
disapprobation in sound. When I say there
will be no anarchy in this country 1
do not want, you to think that I under
estimate the awful peril of this hour. The
tendency lius been toward chaos and toward
anarchy. Excited throngs causing disturb
ances in nearly all our great cities; rail
trains hurled over the rocks; workmen
beat< n to death in the presence of their wives
and children: faithful policemen exhaust 'd
by vigilance by day and vigilan c by night;
in some cities the military called out; thou
sands of {Kviple ask ing: “AVluit next:”
A great earthquake with one hand has
tis :> hold of this continent at, the Pa
cific lend,, and with tli> other hand has
taken lin'd of the continent at the At
l ictic beieli, and has shaken it, and
all agricultural and manufa during and com
mercial and liteiavy aud artistic and moral
uni religious interests hive been inigbtilv
shaken. 1 look across the water and I find
I art of Belgium no great mob. Kuss'a and
Germany and Austria kieping the i.eople
ouiet b\ staining armies that are eating the
life of those nntons. Ireland at pra-o
to davi nlv hoeac-e i' anticipate- 11 uno Rule
an l the triumph of Gladstoneism. The quar
rel i otve n( apitnland I at or isheinisphe i \
:im . it is world-wide, an 1 every nan must
admit that the tendency has been to
wn *1 Anarcl,'\ Now, my friends,
on • way in viliii li we a e to avoid anarchy is
to lit ilie i cople know what anarchv is.
'■Tow us the ho’o that v>o tnav st e • clear of
it. At,a,cl,v is the ala I tii n o alt rights of
property. It-is every man's hand a:a nst
every other in u,. It is making your home,
your : tore, vour h >neit e-tate, your home,
vour fmn ly mine—and mine yours. It is
avion, rapine, nmrder, lust and death tri
unn I:mt. It s lie.l let loose on earth, and
s> ietv a combination of devils incarnate.
: is th" overthrow of everything go hI, and
it is the coronation ■ f everything infamous,
it nuns no law no rights, no de
fence. no family, no eiuiroh, no peace, u .
happiness and no God. That is anatvhv.
Now. who wants it in this country? Let us
lock at the old dragon. Let me take one
square and scrutinizing look at him U'fi re we
o”.o" him to )ut his foot u this continent,
i'hejvai le want to know what anarchy is,
niul then tliev will rise up, all the good eo
i"* 1 "t the 1 nited State's, and iu coujutiction
w Hi, the officers of the iavv, city officers,stve
< tluvrs. national oJUvrs, we shall com
mand peace, and have pa e naive s o l. and
,a a' ail tie time. With n si months
there 'ill in th- country Ik* a he'ter
i-'ate if tec ling between • 'afiital : and i.ab r
i ban there ever has been, because i. a .-,
named as rover before, they have lad i,
oeaions" rated that they are ab-o'utely de
*-: dent o,ca h other. Meanwhile T give
three words c>f advice to the laboring i lasses
of V nerica so far as my words may reach
f hen My tiis; word of 1 rotherlv counsel
laborers is to Those who hav e work now.
Stick to it. Do not under the turmoil
of the present excitement give up
vour enij loyment w ith the idea that
something better will turn up. Because
y>t do not like the line of steam rson which
s you ad. do not jump overborn and in the mid
y 'die'<>t tae Atlantic O.oan. Those railroad
n.ct', those mevhani s. those carjK.'iiters,
those mas ns, thow* clerks in stores, those
* mploves in all styles of business who give
up their work, pre bably give it up for star
-al 1 would say t > tcis. lass .. f laborers
rv ho have work, not" only stick tc> it in these
t imes of excitem, ut. but make this change:
tio a little earlier to your place of
work and do your work better than
jou ever have done it before,
with more intensity and more earnestness.
Lot additional assiduity ohara. t-'vi e you.
1 hat is mv first word ct adviev to those who
have work. My second word ofauvLeisro
those- who have had work but have resigned
it- "he best thing for you. and the best thing
ft' l everybivly ist' go back iunnevliatelv. Do
not wait to see what others will do.' You
go: on Kami tlH' train of i a;ional prvsjveritx*
before it starts, for start it will, and start
soon, aud stait mightily. We have a retort
of th* strikes of la-t Year, which
says there were fortv-five general
strikes in the State of New'York; ITT shop
strikes, sue* essful strikes, ninety-seven";
strikes 10.-t. thirty-four; strikes pending at
the time the s.atistics were made, liftv-iiine;
strikes compromised, thirty-two. Bo that
we have enough facts before us to philoso
phize a little and to make up a good opiniou.
Now, do you want to know who of all the
laborers will make the most out of these
strikes' I can tell you, and I wi.l tell you.
The laborers who will make the most out o?
these strikes will be the laborers who go to
work first. My third word of brotherlv
counsel for the laboring men of
this country is to that class ot
men who have for months and peraaps for
years been unable to net work. Before this
great trouble began there were nearly o -
000 out of employment iu the Unite and States.
I have leen busy much of the time during
the past ten years in trying to get pet-pie
wacrk, and so have men in all co:nm.mit es
aad professions. The one business lias teen
to help other people get work and you and I
can hardly t 11 how many letters of commen
dation we have written, such as: “i>iv
this man work in you:' stc re.
your facto rv. in y.m t foundry;
I know him. I know him to be an industrious
man; his family are starving to death: give
him a p.’-■ —: I1! take it a< a fersona; fa.or
if you will help this man into some kitKl of
Kisiness w here be < an sum ort his family.”
leer - : hn-rliy a respectable man in this
n cise wh i has not written such a letter as
that. N.gh two million. Now, mv advice
• tho e n.gii two million is that f-r the sup
port of tiie-.nsolves and tiieir fa—il.e . they
go tin ami take the va’atcsl | L-. -es. Nearly
two mill.on stronsr. 'i hat is my sentiment,
b u 1 liberty for all men to strike who want to
strilo-. and full liberty for all who
want to take th -ir places. Applause.) Hush!
> “u w ill be in ( r hands f<ir a while, but you
W ill not 1 e green hands long. F'or those who
have res gne-i their pla es perha' s other or
eupati -r:s will open, for we are jus' openiug
the outside do >r of this continent. This con
tinent can suppiorteight bumireil millionpeo
-11“. and there i- room :n th -co intry S') that,
every man shall have a livel.h !. a hon:e
and a God. tio you s<e, while sonic
are in de; air about the time i, I ;i :i
not s a red a bit. This tempo t is
going t i be hashed an 1 Christ is going
to put H.s fisit in it as He did on agitate i
Galilee. As :tt the beginning, eha >s !' goin r
to turn intsj beautiful ord* r as the sj ir it of
God moves upion the fac-' of the watc: s. But
here is a word that 1 would like to -ay in the
hearingof the Ameid -an peop e es'iecialiv n
the h aring of those vvh > toil with hand :n <1
fixit. Your first step toward light and t(-
ward the betteriftent of your condition, oh.
workmen of America, is in your assertion of
your personal indepiendenco from ail di-ta
tiou of other workmen. You are free
men. e fought to get our freedom
here in America. You are I tee men. 1. i
no man or organization come between you
an l your personal rights. Let no organiza
tion tell you whore you shall work. ivLero
you shall not work : when you shall wurk,
ivhsu you shall not work. If a man wants to
belong to a labor organization let him have
full liberty toMo so. If a man wants to stav
out of a labor organi ati u let him be just as
free to stay out. You are vour own master.
Ix?t no man put a manacle < n y< ui' wrist,
or on your heart. I 1 elong to a labor or
ganization, a ministerial association, that
meets once a week. I love all the members.
d\ e can help each other in a hundred ways.
But when that niini-ierial association shall
come and tell me to quit work here because
some brother minister has b en badlv treated
in Texas (l aughter , I will tell that minis
terial association :“Getthee behind me.Sata ~’
(Laughter). I may have a right to leave my
work here; for some reason I may say to
this pieople: "I am done. I will work for you
no longer; good bye, lam going.’ But I
have no rig,ht Sunday mornings and
Sunday nights to linger around the
door of this church with a shotgun
to intimidate the man who comes to take my
place. I may leave my work here and still
be a gentleman: but when 1 attempt to inter
fere with the man who comes to take my
place then I become a criminal,and I deserve
nothing better than the thin soup iu a tin
bowl in Sing King Penitent:ary. There is one
thought that I wish every newspaper man in
America would put at the head of a column,
and which every laborer would put in his
memorandum book and paste in his hat—
the fact that tiiere are in tho United
States 12,000.000 earners of wages.
There are about 000,000 of them that belong
to 1 iltor organizations of various style;. My
theory is. let the 000,000 who belong to the
organization ;do as they please. Let the 11,-
400, O K), who do not belong to labor organiza
tions, do ns they please. But there is no law
of God or man, or common sense, or common
justii e that will allow tk)0,0(X) men, who do
b long to labor organizations, to dictate to
11,400,0U0 men ho do not belong to them.
Freedom for those inside organizations.
Freedom for those outside. Now, when
we ishb.ll emerge from this present unhappi
ness, as vi'S shall emerge, Labor and Capital
will march shoulder to shoulder, and they
will have broken some tyrannies that need
to be broken. Labor in this country has two
ty; anuies to break—th? capitalistic tyranny
and the tyranny of fellow workmen; and
when American labor can do that it will be
free. Mr. Powderly is right and Mr. Irons
is wrong. Tho old tent maker had it right
—I mean Paul—when he said: "The eye
cannot say to the hand, I have no need
of the *.'’ That is one of the most skillfully
put things 1 ever read, by the old tent
maker. "Th" eye cannot sav to the liaml, I
have no need of thoe.” What if the eye should
say: ‘lf there is au:>ht I despise, it is those
four fingers and a thumb; I can’t bear the
sight of you; you are of no use anyhow; get
out of my way:” Suppose the hand should
say to the eve: “I am boss workman; you
couldn't get along without me; if there is
anything 1 despise, it is the eve seated under
th ‘ a- 'ine of the forehead‘doing bottling hut
look. ’ Oh, you silly eye, how soon you
would swi n in death if the hand did
not support you. Oh, you silly hand, how
s ion you would lie tumbling round in the
darkness if the eye did not give you a lantern.
That is the first thing to iie understood iu
this country—that Labor and Capital are ab
solutely, entirely dependent on each other.
You go into a large factory. A thousand
wheels, a thousand bands, a thousand levers,
a thousand pulleys, and all controlled by one
great water wheel, but all the parts
of the machinery iu some way re
lated to all the other parts. That is
human society. A thousand wheels, a thou
saud levers, a thousand pullies, all controlled
by the wheel of divine providence, but all
the parts related to each other. Dives can
not kick Lazarus without hurting his own
foot. They cannot throw Sbadrach into a
furnace without getting their own faces
scorched and blackened. That which smites
Capital smites Labor, and vice versa. Point
back into history aud wherever you find
Capital largely prosperous you find wages
large: wherever you find wages large you
find Capital prosperous. When Capital de
nounces Labor it is the eye cursing the
hand. When Labor denounces Capital it is
the hand cursing tn? eye. The Capitalists
of this i ountrv are for the most part success
ful laborers, and among all the styles of
work aud in all the shops you will find men
who were capita’i ts. In other words, they
are al! the time crossing over. Men who are
capitalist; are Incoming laborers, and men
who are'laborers are becoming capitalists.
It is not any great Niagara sus} ension bridge
over the chasm: it is only a step. Would
God they would shako hands while they pa-s.
It' the capitalist in thi - house would draw his
glove you would see a broken linger nail,
the soar of an old blister, a stiffened
finger joint. Nearly all the i apitalists of
to-day are success;ul laborers. Nearly all
tho great publish ug houses of America are
conducted by men who set type or were en
gaged in br>o; binding. Neailyall the wen
who own carriage fa.tories iced to sandpa
per the wagon wheel to get it ready for the
painte \ Peter Cooper was a gluemaker aud
he went cn until he glued together an im
mense fortune, and he established that
princely institution the Cooper Institute,
which has mothered .TOO su.h philanthropies
in the United States, and I never
pass it without saving within myself:
“What a magnificent monument that man
built to himself and to Christian charity.”
The laborers of this rouutry have no greater
friend, because Peter Coojier practically said
t every laboring man in thi- country: “Do
you w aut your boy to have a splendid educa
tion If you do send him up to my Institute;
it will cost you nothing.” An elder of t sis
church was some time age walking in Green
wood and saw two young men putting
flowers on Peter Cooper's grave. He
thought: "Why they must be friend*
or relatives of the old man.”
But after a while he got into conversation
with them, and they said: “No, we are not
relatives, but we were poor boys, aud we got
our education from Peter C op r. and that
i- the reason we put flowers on Ins grave ‘
If the people who were ble sed by that gk
riousoM n an should put flowers on his grave,
they would be mountain high. Abram Van
Nest was a harness maker in New York.
\ ear after year he stood at the bench. Pie
had large success. Heto’d me many times
he thought he made the best harness in
New \ ork. He went on and gathered a
large fort no. rn I ..e distributed hundreds ci
thousands ot dollars to the poor, to Bible
w 'T .e.-. tract societies, humanta •an so
i t't.'S. No poor man ever asked help o.
Abram \an Nest Put he gave it. I never
shad forget one aight when I. a green
, country lad, called on him. aud after spend
ing the evening h- accompanied me to the
do r and said: “1 ? Witt, here is 3tTO to buy
Books w ith, but don’t say anything about
it. And 1 never did until the old man was
dead. Bo they are all the time crossing
over. Do you know who will be the million
aires of the twentieth ceuturyf Thev are. in
this last fourteen years of the nineteenth
century,with foot on the shutt’e, hand on the
pickaxe, or doing some kind of hard manual
work. Do you know out of that class are
coir.iug the poets, the oiators, thi philan
throphists of the world? Henrv Clay, the
1 Demosthenes of the American Senate, was
the mill boy of the Slashes: Hugh Miller, a
quarry-man at Cromartie. Scotland: Colum
bus. a weaver: Arkwright, a barber; Haw
ley. a soap boiler: Bloomfield, the glorious
theologian, a shoemaker: and Hora e Greelv
started life in New York with *10.75 in hi
pork<? They are cmssl. over—
the lalurtT to b- rrr* the can til ist’
and th* oariit&fHt to be* "wtts the,
laborer, aol I thisbay wave a flag of trace be
tween them. There is goin rto bo \ asr im
provement in affairs when we shall .realize
that the old t .‘it maker i*a right wh> n he
said : The eye cannot say to the nand I L ave
no need of thee. - * ,
There > ,u!m:i g Tn ; tt come a great all 'via
tu n on thi- subject by CO- jr?rat:\e ins? tu
tions. lam ut referring now to labor or
ganizatiocs, I am riot r feiT nr to trades
n::i n-. but t i that plan by which laborers
p’,’- w?nt money they i-an sav-e in an
'iiterprise and conduct it them-elve-.
It hum jia-vS'cl beyond experiment.
T><> iin: •-ay it is experiment. In England
and Wales th"re are now TOS co-ojierative in
stitutions. with UHO.iKO memliers. with a cap
ita! of *14,00 '.O *O. doing a business one year
of $-T7,fiO MUX). The first exjieriment in this
country was th° Troy Co-operative Foundry
which had large-uccess an l went on long
enough to den; oust rat? possibilities. B:t
there arc score s an 1 huudr ■ Ls of these co-op
erative institutions, and they are going to do
vast improvement. They have ceased
to be an experiment or a
mere th-ory. Thomas Hughes, the most
brilliant friend of the laboring men in Eng
land, say tlr? co-operative institution is the
path out of tle-se trouble;, lxirel Derby an l
John Stuart Mill gave half 'litir lives to the
discussion of those subjects. Sir Thomas
Brassev said iu tho English Parliament co
op*>rati ■!! is th" one aud only solution of this
question, it is the sole path by which the
laiioring classes as a whole, or anv largo
number of them, will ever emerge from the
hand-to-mouth mode of living and get their
share of the rewards and honors cf our al
vanced civilization. The prin iple was
illustrated in Ireland, where a traveler left the
mail coa -h and saw a workman standing up
to his waist in th ■ water repairing a dam, a
mill dam. He said to this workman: “Why,
you seem to be alone—nobody to watch you.”
The workman replied: “I am all alone. I
wat h myself.” “Where is your steward:”
“We have no steward.” “Where is your
master?” “We have no master.” “Why,
who sent you?” “The committee.” “Whose
committee;” “Well, I belong to an
association and we eleit certain
members as a committee and they
regulate this whole thing. We belong to the
new system of labor, the new system of as
so; iation, the co-operative method.” But
you ask me if sometimes these efforts have
not been a failure? Oh, yes; all great move
ments have been a failure at the start. The
application of steam power a failure, electric
telegraphing a failure, railroading a failure
at first: but afterward the chief success of
the century. Co-operative] institutions will
go on to larger success. You say—some one
says to me: “Why it is ab;urd to talk about
laborers who cannot get enough wages
to support themselves aud their families,
putting their surplus into an institution of
this kind.” My reply is, that if you will put
into my hand the money which during the
last five years has by the laboring classes of
America been spent for rum and tobacco, I
will establish a co-operative institution might
ier than any monetary institution iu America.
There will also be alleviation of this whole
subject when emp.oyers find the importance
of telling their employes just how matters
stand. You know 'as well as I do
that here is the difficulty in a great
many establishments—while the laborers are
at their wits’ ends the capitalist is also. How
he shall pay the rent, how he shall meet the
tave •, and how he shall keep the machinery
going. Meanwhile the laborer thinks this
man is rolling up a large fortune. It cannot
be so at all iu that case. The vast majority
of the capitalists of to-day are not making
out of their investment 10 per cent.,nor 9 per
cent., nor 8 per cent., nor 7 per cent., nor 6
per cent.. nor 4 per cent, .nor 3 per cent.
Labe r at it’s wits’ ends because of small wages,
Capital at it's wits’ ends. I know there are ex
ceptions. There are great anacondos that are
swallowing down everything. lam not re
ferring to them. lam referring to the great
mass of capitalists. Now do you not think it
would alleviate this matter if the capitalist
should say: “I'll explain this whole matter
to my men.” There is an immense amount of
common sense abroad in the w'orld. There
is an immense amount of good, kindly feel
ing. I do not believe there would be one
strike, where there are ten strikes, if it were
the universal plan that capitalists should let
their laborers know just how matters stand.
I had a friend who had a thousand men in
his employ. Some years ago when there
were strikes often I said: “How do you get
along?” He said: “Very well.” “I suppose
vou had strikes?” “Oh, no; I never have any.”
z ‘Never have any? What do you mean:”
“Well” he said, “I call my men together
every little while and sav: ‘Boys, let us tee
how matters stand. Last year' I made so
much. This year you see we are making
less. I want to know what you think
about it, what you think your wages ought
to be and what I ought to get on my invest
ment; for, boys, you know I have got every
thing in this thing and I have got to keep it
going. I want you to tell me, looking over
the whole affair, what your wages ought to
be, and what mv interest on the investment
ought to be. We are always unanimous, and
my men would die for me.” But suppose
a capitalist acts with supercilious air,
and drives up to his factory as though he
were the autocrat of the universe, the
sun and the moon in his vest
pocket, chiefly anxious lest some greasy or
smirched hand should touch his French
broadcloth. That man will find his awful
mistake. In the vast majority of cases I be
lieve there would be but little or no trouble
if the men who own immense establishments
fairly and frankly told their employes ail
about it.
Then there is going to come great altera
tion of this through the religious influence
which is to be brought upon the country.
AV hv is it that in this country we have noth
ing less than a penny, while in China they
have the money they call cash put on threads
and put around the neck, and this cash—it
takes ten. fifteen, twenty of them to make a
penny? The only difference is that which is
made by Christianity. Heathenism depresses
everything; keeps everything down. Chris
tianity enlarges everything; lifts people up.
You go through a community where infidelity
is abroad and controlling everything; wages
are down, and employers are hard on their
laborers. Let the religion of Jesus Christ—
the old fashioned religion—dominate a com
munity. and you will find the employers
kind and the wages good,comparatively. The
religion of Jesus Christ is a democratic re
ligion. It teaches the employer that he is
brother to all the operators in his mill, born
of the same Heavenly Father*, redeemed by
the same supernal Christ, to lie down in the
same dust. Not much chance to put on airs
in the sepulchre, or at the judgment. The
engineer in a New England factory gets
sleepy. He does not watch th? steam gauge.
Then there is a wild thunder of explosion, in
whi h the owner of the mill is killed and
one of the poor workmen in some part
o. the facoiy. Th; two slain men
come up toward the cate of Heaven.
The owner of the mill knocks at the
gate. Thecelisial gatekeeper says: “Who is
there:’’ He says: “1 owned a mill at Fall
Fiver: there has been a great explosion
there and I lost mv life: I came no here and
I expect to enter heaven." “What right
have you to enter heaven f says the celestial
gatekeeper. The other says: “I m; a great
man down there and I employed 200 hands."
“Employed two hundred hands, did you:
How much of the grace of God did you em
ploy:' “Nothing." “Stand bacs, you can
not enter here." Right afeer him
comes this poor laborer who was slain
b.- the same acudeut. He knocks at
the gate. Th? gatekeeper say;: “Who is
there: He-ays: “I am a workman; Icame
n ■ from Fall River: I was pcor there: there
"a a great a cident there: 1 lo t my life; I
want to enter heaven." What right have
you to come h -ie to the pare of heaven!"
"Wei!. I have no rg ;t in my-elf 1 was a
lad man once: I did a thousand thing-- I
cu;ht not to have and me: I used to curse and
si*, ar whe i 1 h trt my hand or foot at the
mill, but I heard a shining messenger come
from th ; s gate to our world Te help and save
it. and I found Li:n and told him all a' out
it: I contcssed the who'e thn*. and he
told me to come up here, and he told me also
that if I was halted at the gate 1 nee i only
show his name written on mv mind or written
on my forehead." Tun there is agr at rat
tling of pulleys, the gates heist, and he en
ters :ut e coronation. In the one ca-e the
man had a great funeral: in the other case the
man had a small funeral. The man who had
a large funeral, however, had no Christ with
him. Theother man had accepted Christ as
his Saviour. The religion of Jesus Christ is
a democratic religion. You cannot buy your
way into heaven, and you cannot be so poor
that anybody wilt dare to shut you out. If
the gatekeeper, smitten with a sense of injus
ti ee.-hould halt and stop an i try to keep you.
all Heaven would fly from their thrones
crying: “Let him in.” I have the best au
thority for saying that Godliness is profitable
for the life that now is. It pays employer
and it [ays employe, this religion of Jesus
Christ an l it is going to settle forever aud
forever this dispute. The time is going to
come when the hard hand of toil and the soft
hand of the counting room will clasp.
They will clasp in congratulation,
and they wiD clasp in the glorious
millennial hour. In that glorious millennia)
hour the har 1 handof ioil will say: “I plowed
the desert into a garde i:' and the soft hand of
the counting room will say: “I furnished the
s-ed with which the ground was sown;” and
the hard hand of toil will say. “I thredied
the mountain-;:' and the % -it han 1 of the
counting room will say: "T paid for the flail;”
an i the han] hand of toil will sav: “I
jOT-xiel the spear into a pruning- bent;”
and the soft hand of the counting room:
“I sie_)cd the treaty that male ti?" thing
possible. ’ Then Capital and Labor shall lie
drawn t -gether—“the lion and the intrib. the
ieapard an-i the kid. and there will be nothing
to hurt or destroy in all God's holy mount,
for the mouth of the Lord bath spoken it.”
A Drammer’s Luck.
Charlie Baker is a traveler oul of Phil
adelphia and a very good man, bt some
times. he runs up against somebody xvho
is one too many for Charlie. He tells
this one on hira-elf.
“You see,” he sa!d in reply to a ques
tion for particulars, “it was this way. I
was at a hotel table not long ago, and
wh n the waiter came round for my order
I rushed through the ram, lamb, sheep or
mutton part, and wound up by calling
for a nve dollar bill, expecting to throw
the hash producer clear over on to his
beam ends, but he never smiled and only
said “yes s-ih.” and went to the kitchen.
In a few minutes he returned with my
order and on a nice silver dish was a
bran new live dollar bill. I thought it
was a job on me of some kind and in my
coolest manner I stuck it in my pocket
and went ahead to demolish the viands.
I had been in the hotel a couple of clays
and was to leave that afternoon. So
right after dinner I went to the clerk for
my bill and to order my baggage down.
*• ‘What’s the bill?” I asked.
‘ Two days at $2 a day is s4,’ replied
the clerk, ‘bath 25 cents, one live dollar
bill, $5.50; $9.75 in ail.’
“ ‘What do you mean by charging a
half dollar extra for that $5 bill?" X
exclaimed angrily.
“ ‘Didn’t you order it at dinner?’
“ ‘Of course I did.’
“‘ltwasn't on the bill of fare wa3
it? ’
“ 'I didn't see it there.’
“ ‘But you did see there a note which
read: “All dishes ordered not on the
bill of fare will be charged extra,” didn’t
you?’
“That broke my heart,” continued
Charlie. “I hadn’t a word to say nor a
thing to do but pay the extra half dollar
and lay for that clerk and that waiter,
and I’m laying for them you bet.—Mer
chant Traveler.
Signs ot the Times.
— Judge.
Old-Fashioned Lard.
Grocer (to clerk) —“Say, what became
of that barrel of soft-soap!”
Clerk—-“ Don’t know.”
“That’s mighty strange, for it was set
ting here.”
“Oh, you mean that pale looking
stuff?”
“Yes.’’
“I sold it for lard.”
“Did, eh?”
“Yes, sir.”
“Did anybody kick?”
“Not exactly about the ?oap. but one
man came along and said that the last
flour he got here made him slobber like
a horse in a white clover pasture, out—
here comes someone.”
Old-timer enters —“Say, got any more
o' that lard?”
“No, sir, just out.”
“Wush you had some more. Makes
the best bread I’ve eaten sense I was a
boy. AA ’y it jolts like bein’ punched
with a rail. That’s the sort o’ viddults
I like—somethin’ lean feel. AA'ife don’t
like it. but then she ain't been uster good
livin'.”
‘ AV ell order you some more.”
“AA'ush you would. You may talk
er bout vour cotton-seed oil, an’ all that,
but old fashion' lard is the best stuff fur
cookin' purposes after all. It’s naehul,
an' nobody has ever improved on natur’
yit. Wall, good mornin’. Don't furgit
to order the lard. Say. I wouldn't care
if it was a leetle stronger.”— Arkrnsaw
Traveler.
One Cas<> of Happy Childhood.
P lpr
In
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Changed Hia Order: Temperance
advocate (to young man in restauraut)—
“My dear young friend, do you know
that the Bible says, ‘Look not upon the
wine when it is red?” Young man
(surprise)—“No, does it? Here waiter,
make that Pvhine wine instead of claret.
X. Y. Times.
TURNING TO THEFT.
HOW GOOD YOUNG MEN OFTEN
GO TO BAD IN CITIES.
A Bitter Choice Between Wrong
.Doinig anti Starving to Death, —
A New York Police Ser
geant’s Story.
“It h singular how young men who
have l>een well brought id, an i whose
natural traits are not vicious, drift into
house-breaking and sneak-thieving.” re
marked Sergt. Cross- of Capt. Williams's
command to a Xt-w York Time* reporter.
Detective Price had just arrested Frank
L. Manning, the prin eg of sneak thieves,
who robbed so many houses, and his
arrest brought forth the remark. “Man
ning may be an old hand at the business
now, but I’ll bet he was led into it origi
nally by want, escaped dietec:ion, and so
decided to follow it for a business. That
has been the way with lots of those fel
lows-. Now, here's a ea.se on which $
base my conelusions.”
Going to the black walnut case set
against the wall in the station he pointed
to a photograph of an intelligent-looking
young man. He is known as- No. 825 iq
the gallery, and is now at Sing Sing serv
ing out a term of seven and a half years.
“Now that young fellow, when he first
came to New York.” said the sergeant,
“wa ; as modest, quiet, and re-po table
a young man as one would wish to meet.
He had excellent references, and had no
trouble in getting a place in a wholesale
house down town, where he was well
liked. "When the depression in business
came in 1881 he was discharged, with
others, because there was no work for
him to do. He tried to get work but
failed, and finally found himself without
money and with an unpaid board bill
staring him in the face. He had no
friends who-were able to keep him, and
so became desperate, One evening he
left the house where he was boarding,
and took with him all the keys he had.
He had determined to raise some money
in some way, and, honest methods not
appearing, he decided to try house
breaking. One of the keys in his bunch
enabled him to open a house on on?' of
the side streets between Fifth avenue and
Broadway, and, going to a chamber, be
stole a lot of jewelry aud got out of the
house without being detected. This he
pawned, and got enough money to help
him out of his financial troubles and give
him funds to splurge on for a time. Now,
if he had been caught there, his whole
future would have been changed, and he
have been saved Success ruined him.
“For nearly six months we had com
plaints of-houses being entered and valu
ables taken, and Detectives Price and
Dunlop, who Avere put on the case, Avere
completely baffled. I don't remember
just hoAV they were led to su-pect the
felloAv, but they got hold of some clue
and arrested him, and he virtually con
fessed to having committed over forty
burglaries. Of course his arrest broke
him all up, and little by little his mode
of operating came out. Like Manning,
he had no accomplice in his work, and
he counted no acquaintances among the
professional thieves and burglars. On
the contrary, he was careful to have only
associates of good character. His busi
ness associations before he became a thief
had given him an opportunity to become
acquainted Avith the faces of a number
of wealthy and Avell-to-do people. He
was a constant attendant at the theatres,
and Avas always in a good seat early in
the evening. If he suav the face of a
man he kneAV in the theatre with his fam
ily he would leave the theatre at the close
of the first or second act, go to his resi
dence, and get an impression of the lock.
Then he would go to the theatre again,
and after the performance would go and
have a fine sapper at a small restaurant.
Perhaps that was a part of his
plan, in order to enable him to
say and possibly prove that he
was at a certain theatre on a cer
tain night in case of trouble. The next
night, or two nights later, with a key
made from the impression he had, he
would go to the house, and if he had rea
son to believe it safe to do so, would go
through it and pick up whatever small
articles of value he could find. He Avas so
shrewd in his methods and so clever in
doing the jobs, and so correct in his hab
its that detection seemed impossible, for
he left no clues behind him. No man ha 9
ever given the officers of this precinct
more trouble than he, except Manning,
but in both cares the offender was finally
caught, as was inevitable.
“Now, that young felloAv's career is a
sample of several that the police have
records of, and I wouldn’t be at all sur
prised when Manning’s history is known
to find that he begi-n his career in the
sameAvay and first robbed boarding bouses
because he was out of Avork and couldn’t
find any honest means of earning a living.
That sort of thing drives more people into
crime than people generally imagine.
Education in crime by professional
thieves isn’t the cause of the making of
one-half as many thieves as is the fact
that young men of much more than aver
age ability are fairly driven to thievery by
want and the fact that they can see no
Avay of making an honest livfhg in the
immediate future.”
The Cultivation of Licorice.
Consul Woodcock, of Catania, Bicilv,
says that there are tAvo species of th*
licorice plant in his consular district.
The one sends down a main root to th
depth of from three to six feet, Avith but
few lateral roots; the other does not sink
so deep in the earth, but creeps beneath
the surface at a depth of from six inches
to tAvo feet, the latter being most pro
ductive, and the most highly prized. It
is stated that if the licorice plant were
cultivated, instead of being allowed to
grow wild, it would yield much larger
results: but the Sicilians are of the opin
ion that its culture will not pay, so they
are satisfied by collecting it as produced
by nature in its wild state. No use is
made of the stem except for fuel. The
licoric • plant grows most luxuriantly in
the valleys adjacent to streams of water;
ic is, however, found among the foot hills
of the mountains, but grows le-3 luxur
ian ly there. It requires a moist soil, con
sisting of a clay loam; the climate must
be warm, such as is adapted to the
growth of oranges, lemons, and other
semi-tropical fruits. It cannot endure
frosts, or cold, high altitudes. The root
continues to grow for four or five years,
Avhen it is considered in the best condi
tion for gathering. The root will con
tinue to grow for ten or twelve years
longer, but it is not considered so rich in
juice-yielding quality. The crop is
gathered from the same ground once in
four or five years, and on the average 100
pounds of the root produces sixteen
pounds of licorice paste.
Naturalists now count no iess than
1,870 different kinds of fishes in North
American waters, of which 500 live in
the rivers and lakes and 550
kinds belong to the Pacific. Of the re
mainder, 105 dwell only in the deep
waters of the Atlantic and the Gulf of
Mexico, never approaching the shore or
the surface.
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