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A SCHOLARLY SUNPAY SERMON BY
b DR. N. M'GEE WATERS.
i Subject: Joy in Work,
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rßrooklyn, N. Y.—ln his series of
gsermons on ‘‘The Choice of a Pro
fession,” the Rev. Dr. N. McGee
‘Waters, pastor of the Tompkins Ave
nue Congregational Church, Sunday
preached on “How a Young Man
May Find Joy in His Work.” He
said in the course of his sermon:
The story of labor is a checkercd
one. It is only in our highest civiliza
tion that work is coming to its own.
In his savage state man is the lazy
animal. Indeed, it is not natural
for any animal to work, save as it
is driven to it by the whip of neces
sity. This is the view of work we
find embodied in the old Genesis
story, where labor is set down as a
punishment for Adam’s sin, where
he is told, as he is driven from the
Garden, “Thou shalt eat thy bread
by the sweat of thy brow.” This is
not only a very uninspired part of
the Bible; but this sentiment certifies
that it is o very old part.
How labor was despizad received
its most signal illustration from the
life of Christ. You remember how
over the multitudes who hearad Him,
He cast a spell. All the people said
that no man spake as He spake. The
loftiest spirits pressed about Him and
asked Him if He were' the Messiah,
Yet they scarcely could believe for
joy. And what was the basis of their
doubt? Their skepticism was all in
that question of theirs, “Is not this
the carpenter’s son?” How could
a workman be the real Saviour? They
marveled at His wisdom. They con
fessed that He spoke with authority.
They followed Him as sheep follow
a shepheérd. But He was a carpen
ter, and so the high and mighty set
Him down for a fraud. It was be
cause their eyes were holden that
they mistook the dignity of toil for
a disgrace.
In some parts of the world that is
still true. But increasingly the world
is coming to honor the toiler,
whether he works in a profession or
a trade, and is correspondingly com
ing to despise the idler, whether he
be rich or poor. How much the
United States has done with its
democracy to bring this about, and
'with its great men, almost all of
them coming from the cabin and the
plow, we may never know. Certain
it is that New England was the first
country since the land of the ancient
Jews in which it was counted respec
table to earn one’s living.
Little do we think, or have taken
time to find out, how much our work
contributes to. our happiness.
Work is a great character builder.
I suppose most of us work in order
to eat. I suppose if we were gener
ally asked, we would say that the
first requirement we made of our
labor was that it should clothe us,
and feed us, and house us. That is
the first requirement and the lowest.
~ The second and greatest require
ment a man makes of his work,
‘whether he knows it or not, is that
it shall make a man of him. Your
work maust bring you bread, but no
less it must bring you culture. Some
how or other we are always pitying
the boy who is born poor, or the
young man who fails at college. It
is a hardship and sometimes a pity.
There is one man, however, more un
fortunate than that voung man, and
that is the young fellow who is born
in a silken nest and goes through col
lege in an automobile. There is
nhothing wrong about a silken nest,
and there is nothing bad about an
-automobile, except its trail. But you
cannot raise an eagle in eiderdown,
and it requires far more of a man
to amount to anything in college who
'goes through it in an automobile
instead of walking., We are so made
that we must have struggle. The
reason why rich men’'s sons rarely
amount to anything, is because they
never develop their muscles. There
is no teacher like work. It must
bring him bread, but no less it must
bring him culture. ‘““The Man With
the Hoe—he needs not so much pity.
Moses was a herdsman; David was
a shepherd; Jesus was a carpenter;
Benjamin Franklin knew no college
—he was a printer’s devil; Robert
Burns knew no leisure—he was a
plowman; Abraham Lincoln wore no
soft raiment; but these are our stars
of the first magnitude. Rven col
leges can give culture only through
work, and there are some things col
leges cannot teach. Literature and
history and the liberal arts are at
last the ornaments of life; even read
ing and writing and the rule of three
are all named the ‘“‘conveniences ofi
life.”
But these are fundamentals—in
dustry, thrift, courage, honesty,
truth, faith, hope, love. These are
the threads which, woven together,
make the eternal life of man. If voau
have forgotten these, ‘“‘though vou
have gained the whole world, you
have lost your own soul,” and these
may be had for the receiving in every
work and calling open to men. When
You stand before a task, look for a
teacher. llf it offer thee not wisdom,
despise its wage. If thy calling
yield thee not culture for mind and
heart, it is but a coffin for thy beiter
nature. Demand of your life work
that it shall make a man out of you. |
Work is a great influence giver.
‘And here we come upon another
blunder. It is not the kind of work
You do that gives vou influence so
much, That is what the world
thinks. It is the way vou do it.
Quality counts for more than kind.
It is true, of courge, that there are
some vocationg that in themselves
damn the worker. All labor that
makes merchandise out of men’s
vices Is of that sort. It is true algo
that certain kinds of work give more
consideration than others.
The minister, becauge he is a min
ister, occuples a larger place in the
community than the day laborer.
That is, he does if he ministers, His
great calling will not serve in itself.
Many a laborer in many a village has
/been more the voice of God to that
village than the parson has been.
For, after all, the thing that counts
in influence is not money or possess
slons. It is a quality, a thing, an at
mosphere. It is personality. So the
fineness of a man's work, or the
coarseness of it, s the thing by
which he is at last judged in the
community,
There is a little town out in Min
nesota called Rochester. A few years
ago when I was there it only had a
few hundred people in it. It was
a nice little, commonplace, prairie
town. It is not the capital of the
State; it is not the seat of the uni
versity; the penitentiary is not even
there; nor have they a church with
relic working miragles. It is not
‘the home of a United States Senator,
nor any politician, And vet it is the
Mecca of a pilgrim host. From every
‘State in the Unijon, from across the
sea, from every capital and country
of civilization men are journeying
to Rochester, Minnesgota.
- And those who are going are the
scholars, the authorities, the masters
in surgery.
What takes them there? Simply
this: An old doctor hy the name of
Mayo has been practising in that
little town for a generation. His two
sons, now in early maturity, practise
with their father. The fact is that
they have been doing such marvelous
things with the knife, and such fine
work as surgeons, that the great mas
ters from Paris, Berlin and Vienna,
as well as this country, are singing
their praise, and go out to that little
town to sit at the feet of these men,
and pay homage to the superiority of
their work.
It is always so. If you are re
membered at all it is by the things
you have done well-—whether vou
have raised a field of corn, sewed
a patech on an old garment, made a
pumpkin pie, or written a poem.
Work is the great happiness
bringer. You all know what a game
of nine pins is. You set up so many
pins, and you roll two balls, and you
make a “strike’”’ or a ‘‘spare,” or else
you don’t. The game is to knock
over as many pins as poscible. Men
become very skillful in it and gain
a great deal of pleasure by doing it.
That is the philosophy of all play.
It is the erection of artificial difiicul
ties or barriers and learning to over
come them with ease and skill. That
makes the exhilaration of tennis, and
baseball, and bowling and golf. .
I am told, and I do not know any
thing about it myself, that therein
lies the mania for making money.
That is a great game. Now, in
reality, work is just exactly the same
thing. The difficulties to be over
come are not artificial, to be sure,
but very real. But they are there,
and work is the game of bridging
them over with skill and ease and
joy.
In its final analysis, for a healthy
man there is no game in the world
S 0 exciting and so exhilarating as
his work. I suppose you long
suffering folk who sit in the pews
and are more or less at times tempt
ed to somnolence, have never real
ized that there was anything exciting
about the preaching business. And
vet I want to say to you that I
know of no keener joy than when
well and ready I take a theme and
look it through and analyze it, and
illustrate it, and mark out the
points to be made in its illumina
tion, and then sit down to write a
sermon. Your fingers will not fly
fast enough. If it turns out well
there is a great exhilaration and
state of happiness and joy. Making
a sermon is a great game.
Ivow the reason that there is so
much happiness in work is because
of this fact. All true work is a man
expressing himself. We have gener
ally thought that work is drudgery.
We want to think about work as ex
pressing a man’s message. Stephen
son’s engine is Stephenson’s thought
dressed up in steel; Tennyson's poem
is Tennyson’s thought set down in
letters; Watts’ “Hope’” is Watts’
heart hunger put on canvas; St.
Paul’s is Sir Christopher Wren’s
praise to God put into stone. Why,
then, shall not the house builder
make his house declare his thoughts?
Why shall not the blacksmith make
his hammer and anvil express his
hope? Why shall not the farmer pub
lish his secret? Almost any man can
learn the technical part of any work
from, carpentry to poetry—but no
man hath mastered a trade till it be
comes a language through which he
can express himself to all men. O,
the drudgery of life lies in the fact
that we bend above our work like
dumb driven cattle with never a
secret of our heart told in our work.
And this shall be the joy of our life,
that we make our vocation proclaim
to all the world the truth that God
hath put into our hearts!
The Narrow Way. 4
Matt. 7:13, 14,
Narrowness is Christ's idea of the
way of life, a straitened way, the way
of truth. For a moment pause and
ask: Could it be otherwise? It is 11
o'clock, the orthodox regulator at the
watchmaker’'s points with exactness
to that hour. “Very narrow,” exclaim
all the cheap timepieces of the neigh
borhood, and they persistently point
to all hours from 9.30 to midday, but
their boasted liberality is only inex
actress, which is another word for
untruth. 2
So orthodoxy in the harbor channel
marks with exactness each rock of
sunken hulk, and puts its danger sig
nals out. A liberal pilot might be
careless of these signals, but the pas
senger would prefer that the pilot
should be overcautious rather than
too liberal.—H, E, Partridge, Pomo
na, Tenn,
A Prayer. |
Grant, we beseech Thee, O Lord,
the Giver and Guide of all reason,
that we may always be mindful of the
nature, of the dignity, and of the
privileges Thou hast honored us with,
CGrant us Thy favorable assistance in
the forming and directing our judg
ment, and enlighten us with Thy !
truth, that we may discern thnse‘
things which are really good, and,
having discovered them, may love
and cleave steadfastly to the same. |
And, finally, disperse, we pray Thee,
those mists which darken the eyes of |
our mind, so that we may have a per- |
sect understanding, and know both
God and man, and what to each is
due. — Simplicius (translated b)"
George Stanhope, Dean of Canters
bury, 1704).
Commit Yourself to God,
Cries for things past that cannot
be remedied and care for things to
come that cannot be prevented may
easily hurt, but can never benefit me.
1 will, therefore, commit myself to
God in both and enjoy the present,—
Joseph Hall,
Commissioner Smith vs. The Standard oil Co.
Mr. Herbart Knox Smith, whosa zeal in the
cause of economic reform has been in no wise
abated by the panic which he and his kind
did so much to bring on, is out with an an
swer to President Molifett, of the Standard
' Oil Company of Indiana. The publication of
this answer, it is officially given out, was de
layed several weeks, “for business reasons,”
because it was not deemed advisable to
further excite the public mind, which was
profoundly disturbed by the crisis. Now that
the storm clouds have rolled by, however, the
Commissioner rushes again into the fray.
Our readers remember that the chief
points in the defence of the Standard Oil
Company, as presented by President Moffett,
were, (1) that the rate of six cents on oil
from Whiting to East St. Louis has been is
sued to the Standard Oil Company as the
lawful rate by employes of the Alton, (2)
that the 18-cent rate on file with the Inter
state Commerce Commission was a class and
not a commodity rate, never being intended
to apply to oil, (3) thgyt oil was shipped in
large quantities between Whiting and ast
St. Louis over the Chicago and Eastern
Illinois at six and one-fourth cents per hun
dred pounds, which bhas been filed with the
Interstate Commerce Commission as the law
ful rate, and (4) that the 18-cent rate on oil
was entirely out of proportion to lawiul rates
on other ecommodities between these points
of a similar character, and of greater value,
such, for example, as linseed oil, the lawful
rate ‘on which was eight cents. President
Moffett also stated that thousands of tons of
freight had been sent by other shippers be
tween these points under substantially the
same conditions as governed the shipments
of the Standard Oil Company.
This defence of the Standard Oil Company
was widely quoted and has undoubtedly ex
erted a powerful infiluence upon the public
mind. Naturally the Administration, which
has staked the success of I{ts campaign
~against the “trusts’ upon the result of its at
tack upon this company, endeavors to offset
this influence, and hence the new deiiverance
of Commissioner Smith.
We need hardly to point out that his re
huttal argument is extremely weak, although
as strong, no doubt, as the circumstances
would warrant. He answers the points made
by President Moffett substantially as follows:
{1) The S.andard Oil Company had a traffic
! department, and should have known that the
six-cent rate had not been filed, (2) no an
swer, (3) the Chicago and Eastern Illinois
,rate was a secret rate because it read, not
‘from Whiting, but from Dolton, which is
described as ‘“‘a village of about 1,500 popu
lation just outside of Chicago. Its only
~claim to note is that it has been for many
years the point of origin for this and similar
. gecret rates.” The Commissioner admits in
describing this rate that there was a nowe
attached stating that the rate could also be
used from Whiting. ;
The press has quite generally hailed this
statement of the Commissioner of Corpora
tions as a conclusive refutation of what is
evidently recognized as the strongest rebuttal
.argument advanced by the Standard.
In fact, it is as weak and inconclusive as
the remainder of his argument. The lines of
the Chicago and Eastern Illinois dp not run
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From the Railway World, Fanuary 3, 1908,
into Chicago. They terminate at Dolton,
from which point entrance is made over the
Belt Line. Whiting, where the oil freight
originates, is not on the lines of the Chicago
and Kastern [linois, which receives its Whit
ing freight from the Belt Line at Dolton.
The former practice, now discontizued, in
filing tariffs was to make them rend from a
point on the the line of the filing road, and it
was also general to state on the sams sheet,
that the tarif® would apply to other points,
e. g., Whiting, The Chicago and Rastern
Ilinois followed this practice in filing its rate
from Dolton, and making a note on the gheat
that is applied to Whiting. This was in 1895
when this method of filing tariffs was in
common use.
Now let us see in what way the intending
shipper of oil could be misled and deceived
by the fact that the Chicago and Eastern
Illinois had not filed a rate reading from
Whiting. Commissioner Smith contends that
‘‘concealment is the only motlve for such a
circuitous arrangement,” i, e,, that this
method of filing the rate was intended to
mislead intending competitors of the Stand
ard Oil Company. Suppose such a prospec
tive oil refiner had applied to the Interstate
Commerce Commission for the rate from
Chicago to Kast St. Louis over trs Chicago
and Eastern [llinols, he would have been in
formed that the only rate filed with the
commission by this company was 6%. cents
from Dolton, and he would have been further
informed, if {ndeed he did not know this al
ready, that this rate applied throughout Chi
cago territory. So that whether he wished to
locate his plant at Whiting, or anywhere else
about Chicago, under an arrangement of long
standing, and which applies.to all the indus
trial towns in the neighborhood of Chicago,
he could have his freight delivered over the
Belt Line to the Chicago and Eastern Illinois
at Dolton and transported to Kast St. Louis
at a rate of 614 cents. Where then is the
concealment which the Commissioner of Cor
porations makes so much of? Any rate-—
from Dolton on the Eastern Illinois or Chap
pell on the Alton, or Harvey on the Illinois
Central, or Blue Island on the Rock Island,
applies throughout Chicago territory to ship
ments from Whiting, as to shipments from
any other point in the district. So far from
the Eastern Illinois filing its rate from Dol
ton in order to deceive the shipper, it is the
Commissioner of Corporations who either be
trays his gross ignorance of transportation
customs in Chicago territory or relies on the
public ignorance of these customs to deceive
the public too apt to accept unquestioningly
every statement made by a Government
official as necessarily true, although, as in
the present instance, a careful examination
shows these statements to be false.
The final point made by President Moffett
that other commodities of a character similar
to oil were carried at much lower rates than
18 cents, the Commissioner of Corporations
discusses only with the remark that ‘“the
‘reasonableness’ of this rate is not in ques
tion. The question is whether this rate con
stituted a discrimination as against other
shippers of oil,”” and he also makes much of
the failure of President Moffett to produce
before the grand jury evidence of the alleged
illegal acts of which the Standard Oil official
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tory had been guilty. Considering the fact
that these shippers included the packers and
elevator men of Chicago the action of the
grand jury in calling upon President Moffett
to furnish evidence of their wrong-doing may,
be Interpreted as a demand for an elabora
tion of the obvious; but the fact that a rate-~
book containing these freight rates for other
shippers was offered in evidence during the
trial and ruled out by Judge Landis, was
kept out of sight. President Moffett wounld
not, of course, accept the invitation of the
grand jury although he might have been
pardoned if he had referred them to various
official investigations by the Interstate Com
merce Commission and other departments of
the Government,
We come back, therefore, to the conclusion
of the whole matter, which is that the Stand
ard Oil Company of Indiana was fined an!
amount equal to seven or eight times the.
value of its entire property, because its trafiic
department did not verify the statement of’
the Alton rate clerk, that the six-cent com-.
modity rate on oil had been properly filed
with the Interstate Commerce Commission,
There is no evidence, and none was intro=-.
duced at the trial, that any shipper of oil.
from Chicago territory had been interfered:!
with by the eightecn-cont rate nor that the .
failure of the Alton to file its six-cent rate
bhad résulted in any discrimination against |
any independent shipper,—we must talke this
on the word of the Commissioner of Cor
porations and of Judge Landis. Neither ls it |
denied even by Mr. Smith that the “inde
pendent’” shipper of oil, whom he pictures as \
being driven out of business by this discrime !
ination of the Alton, could have shipped all
the oil he desired to ship from Whiting via
Dolton over the lines of the Chicago and
astern Illinois to Kast St. Louis. In short, '
President Mofleti's defence ig still good, and
we predict will be declared so by the higher
court, (
The Standard Oil Company has been
charged with all manner of crimes and mig
demeanorsg. Beginning with the famous Rice
of Marijetta, passing down to that apostle of
popular Ilibertles, Henry Demarest Lloyd,
with his Wealth Against the Commonwealth,
descending by easy stages to Miss Tarbell's
offensive personalities, we finally reach the .
nether depths of unfair and baseless mig
representation in the report of the Commis
sioner of Corporations. The Standard has '
been charged with every form of commercial
piracy and with most of the crimes on the
corporation calendar. After long years of
strenuous attack, under the leadership of the
President of the United States, the corpora
tion is at last dragged to the bar of justice to
answer for its mlsdoings. The whole strength
of the Government is directed against it, and
at last, we are told, the Standard Oil Com
pany is to pay the penalty of its crimes, and
it is finally convicted of having failed to
verify the statement of a rate clerk and is
forthwith fined a prodigious sum, measured
by the car. Under the old criminal law, the
theft of property worth more than a shilling
was punishable by death, Under the inter
pretation of the Interstate Commerce law
by Theodore Roosevelt and Judge Kenesaw
Landis, a technical error of a trafilc official
is made the excuse for the confiscation of a
vast amount of property, .
[ PORATABLE AND STATIONARY
Saw, Lath and Shingle Mills, Injeotors,
Pumps and Fittings, Wood Saws, Splitters,
Shafts, Pulleys, Beltiug, Ganoline lfu:hu.
LARGE STOCK
o LOMBARD,
Foundy, Maskias and Boiler Works ead Supply Stare,
; ; AUGUSTA, GA.
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