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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION".' ATLANTA, GA-, t TUESDAY MAT 18, J686
TALMAGE’S'SERMON.
(PHEACHED YESTERDAY IN BROOK'
LYN TABERNACLE.
8cv. T. D6Witt Ttlmtxa OommtfioM a sari*. ot Fla*
nmou on tba All-Aboorblnf Labor Qaoa.
uon, tho Ftrat on* saint on tko »no.
Net of “Xto Bottle for Brain."
Bnoomr, K. Y., Mny 10.—[8psoial.]—Rev,
PcWitt Talmage, D. D., today begin a serle*
of Sabbath morning discourses in the Brook
lyn tabernaclo, on the all-absorbing tabor
question. Be discusses the following subjects
in the series: “The Battle for Bread,” the
Sights of Capital and Labor,” the Hardships
of theWorkingJClasaes,” “How Employers and
^Employes. Ought to Treat Each Other,” and
JThe (Irentest Foe of Labor”—live in all.
The opening hymn of the service this morn
ing begins:
AnnoftheLord,awake! awaken
l’ut on thy strength, the actions shake!
And let the world adorlngsee _
Triumphs of mercy wrought by Thee.
After expounding appropriate passages of
Scripture, Dr. lUmage gave out the text,
Ocncsia ifi: “The earth was without form, and
void, and darkness was npon the face of the
fieep. And the spirit of Clod moved npon tho
dace of tho waters." Dr. Tabnago said:
Out in apace there hung e greet chunkof
lock and mud and water and shell. Thousands
of miles in diameter, mere thousands of miles
In circumference. A greet, mass of uglini
confusion and distortion, uselessness, ghastli
ness sud horror. It seemed like a great com
mons . on which smashed-up worlds were
damped. It was what poetry and prose,
Scientist and Christian agree in calling chaos.
Ont of that black, rough, shapeless egg
lieantifttl world was hatched. God stood o
(hat original anarchy of olemonta and said:
"Atlantic ocean, yon go right away and lio
flown there! Pacific ocean, you sleep there!
Caucasian range of mountains, yon stand
there! Mount Washington, you be sentinel
there! Mount Blanc, yon pnt on your coronet
Of crystal there! Mississippi, you march
there, and Missouri, you marry it thore!" And
lie jpithered in His Almighty hands the sand
and mud and rock, and tellea ami heaved and
moulded and dented and compressed them into
chape, and then dropped them in fbnr places;
and tho one was Asia, and another was Europe,
and another Africa, and another America,
North and fionth.
That original ebaoa was liko tho confusion
and anarchy into which the human race ever
and anon has a tendency to plunge. God haa
Bald: 'Let there be llchtofIaw.il
tice, light of peace, light otlovo!'
ar, light of jus-
i!” “No! No!"
imbroglio, let there be
Such a social condition many are expecting
because of tho overshadowing contest botwoon
labor aud capital; there has not been an intel
ligent man or woman durlpgtho last two
months has not asked the question: “Shall we
have bloody revolution in this country "
have heard many answer the question i
afllrmativo; I anawer it in tho negative.
There may be and thero have boon terrific
outbursts of popular frenzy, bnt there will be
so anarchy, for the church of Christ, the
mightiest and grandest Institution of tho
planet, shall, laying hold ofthe strength of
the eternal God, come out,. and patting one
jbsnd on tho shonlder of Labor and the other
on the shoulder of Capital, say: "I come in
the name of the God who turned chaos Into
magnificent order, to settle this dlapnte by tha
principles of eternal justice and kindness, and
now I command you, take yonr hands off of
each other's throats.” Tho only impartial in
stitution on this snbjoct is
the church, for It la made
up of both capitalists and laboren, and was
founded by Christ, who was a carpenter, and
.So haa ■ right to speak for : all laboren; and
Who owns the earth and the solar eystem and
tha univorse, and aocan speak for the capi
talists.
As ior myself, os ah Individual, I have a
light to be heard. My father was a fanner,
and my grandfether, and they had to work
for a living; and tvei7 dollar I owa I earned
by the sweat of my own brow, and I owe no
m*” anything, and if any obligation has
■scaped my memory, come and present yonr
Mil when 1 descend from this pulpit, and I
will pay yon on the spot. 1 am going to say all
that 1 think and feel on this subject, and
Without say reservation, asking yonr prayers
that I may be divinely directed in thla impor
tant series of Sabbath morning discourses.
Thst labor has grievances I will show yon
plainly before I get through this course of
sermous. That capital haa had outrages com
mitted upon It I will mako evident beyond
dispute. Bnt there are right and wrong
ways of attempting a reformation.
When I say there will bo no return to social
chaos 1 do not udderrate the awful peril of
these time*. We must admit that the ten
dency is toward revolution. Great thronga
Bather at some points of disturbance in almost
•11 our cities. Ball-trains hnrlsd ovor the
rocks. Workmen beaten to death within
sight of their wives and children. Factories
•mailed by mobs- The faithful police of onr
cities exhausted by vigilance night and day.
In some cases the miltary called
ont. The whole country asking
the question, "“What next!” An earthquake
bar with one hand taken hold of this conti
nent st the Pacific beach, and with the other
hand hag taken bold of the continent at the
Atlantic beach, and shal
ttfacturing, commercial,
snd religious interest b
of Belgium one great r
many and Austria kcei
a niet only by standing
hey are eating ont the
The only reason that Ii
because she la hoping fi
triumph of Gladstonism
and
But one way In whicu wo mmj otviu ■»-
•reby la by letting tho people know what an-
nreby is. We most have the wreck pointed
ont in order to steer clear of It. Anarchyjls
abolition of right of property. It make* yonr
•tom ana yonr house and yonr money and
your family mine, and mine yonr*. It la
Wholesale robbery. It is every man’s hand
•gainst every other man. It la anon and mur
der and ranine and lost and death triumphant.
It means ho law, no church, no defense, no
rights, no happiness, no God. It maans hell
let loore on earth, and society a combination
of devila incarnate. It means axtermination
of everything good and the coronation of
every thing inmroou* Do yon want it! Will
yon havo It! Before yon let it get a good foot
hold In America taka a good look
>t the dragon. Look at Paris, whan
for a flew days it held away, tha gut
ters red with blood and the walks down the
street e stepping between comae* tho arch
bishop shot aa he tries toqiell the mob, and
every man and woman armed with knits or
pistol or bludgeon. Let this country take one
mod, clear, scrutinizing look at anarchy before
It is admitted, and it will never be allowed to
set sp its reign in onr borders. No: thore is
too mach good sente dominant in this country
to permit anarchy. All good Mople will, to
gether with the officers of civil government,
ty “Peecer’and it will bo re-established.
Within six months them wiU be a kindlier
nnderstanding between labor and capital than
has ever been known In this country. They
have bad demonstrated as never before their
absolute dependence npon each otner.
Meanwhile my brotherly counsel is to three
classes of laborers. ,
First, to those who nre at work. Stick to
it. Do not, amid the excitement of these
times, drop yonr employment, hoping that
something better will turn up. Hewhogivea
up work now, whether he be railrovl min,
mechanic, farmer, clerk or any other kind of
employe, will probably give it up for starve-
tion, Yon may not like the line of steamers
that yon $re sailing in, bnt do not jump over
board In tha middle ot the Atlantic. Be a
little earlier than uraal at yonr post of work
While this turmoil lasts, and attend to yonr
occupation with a little mom assiduity than
kutmckincterixfld vm,
My brotherly counsel in tha second place, is
to those who havo resigned work, Itlsbost
-I?, 0 ? f n<l fe st r ° r everybody to go back im-
P° ? ot , wa ‘* hi see what others
do. Get on board the train of national pros-
iwrity before it starts again, for start it will,
start toon and atari mightily. Last year in
the cityofNcw York there were forty-five
gensnl strikes and 177 shop strikes. Success-
nil strikes, ninety-seven; strikes lost, thirty-
rour; strikes pending at the time the statistics
were made, fifty-nine; strikes compromised,
thirty-two. Would yon like me to tell you
who will mako tho most ont of the preeent al
most universal strike! I can and will.
Those will make the moat ont of it who go
first to work.
My third word of brotherly advice is to
another clase of laborers: namoly, those who
have been a long time ont of work. How
many of them! Before this present trouble
began thero were nearly two million people in
this country out of work and could not get
work. I have for the last ten years been busy
much of the time in trying to get people work
who asxed for it. I have worn myself out
sgsmand again, asmahyof you have, to get
employment for those who besought it. In
some eases we succeeded, in othore failed.
My brotherly counsel. is to the nearly two
million Hopla who could not get work before
this trouble began and who have themselves
and their families to support, to go now and
take the vacated places. Go In and
take thoae places a million and a half strong.
Green hands you may bo now, but you will
not be green hands long. My sentiment is
frill liberty for ell who want to striko to do so,
and frill liberty for all who want to take the
vacated places. Other indostrles will open for
those who are now taking a vacation, for we
have only opened the outside door of this con
tinent and there is room in this country for
eight hundred million people end for each one
of them a home and a livelihood and a God.
So, however others may feel about this ex.
cite meat as wide as tho continent, I am not
scared a bit. The storm will hush, Christ
will pnt bis foot npon it as npon agitated Gali
lee. As st the beginning, chaos will glvo plsce
to order as the Spirit of God moves npon tho
waters. But hear it, workingmen of America!
Yonr first step toward light and betterment of
condition will be an assertion of yonr individ
ual independence from the dictation of yonr
fellow workmen. You are a free man, and let
no organization come between yon and yonr
beat Interests. Do not let any manor any body
of men, tell you where yon ahull work, or
where you shall not work, when yon shall
work, or when yon shall not work. If a man
wants to belong to a labor organization, let
him belong. If he does not wsnt to belong to
a labor organization let him have perfect lib
erty to stay out. Yon own yourself. Let no
man put a manacle on yonr band or foot or
head or heart,
I belong to a ministerial association that
meets once a week. I love all the members
very much. We may help each other in a
hundred ways, hat when that association shall
tell me to quit my work and go somewhere
else, that I must stop right away becaitso a
brother minister has been badly treated down
in Texas, I will say to that ministerial associ
ation: “Get thee behind ue, Satan!” Fur
thermore, I have a right to resign my paster-
age of this church and say to the people: “I
decline to work for yon any longer. I am go
ing. Good bye.” But I havo no right, after I
have quit this pulpit, to linger around tho
doors on Sunday mornings and ovenlngs with
a shotgun to intimidsto or hinder tho minister
who comes to tako my place. I may
quit my place and continue to be a gentleman,
but when I Interfere with my successor in
this pulpit I become a criminal and deserve
nothing better than soup in a tin bowl In Sing
Sing penitentiary. Hero is a statement that I
would have every laborer pnt In his memoran
dum book or paste in his hat, and every news
paper pnt at the head of its columns. Thoro
are nowabont twelve mlUlon people in thla
cenntiw receiving wages and about six hun
dred thousand belonging to organizations that
control their labor. I would have all the six
hundred thousand do as they please and
I wonld have all tho other eleven
million four hundred
organ!
rations ought not to control tha eleven million
fonr hundred thonaand laborers not in them.
Yonr first daty, O laboring man! la to your
ikmlly. Let no one bnt Almighty God dic
tate to yen how yon (hall support them.
Work when yon please, where yon pleaso, at
what yon pleaso and allow no one for a hun
dred millionth part of a second to interfere
with yonr right. When we emerge from the
J resent unhappiness, at we toon will, wo (hall
nd many tyrannies broken and labor and capi
tal will march shoulder to (boulder.
This day I declare the mutual dependence
of labor and capital. An old tent-maker pnt
It just right—I mean Paul—when he declared:
"The eye cannot say to tho hand, I havo no
need of thee,” You have examined some
elaborate machinery—a thonaand wheels, a
then sand bands, a thonaand levers, a thonaand
pulleys, bnt all controlled by ono great water
wheel; ell the parta adjoined, so that if yon
jarred ona pert yoa Jarred all the parte. WoU,
society is a great piece of mechanism—n thou
sand wheels, a thousand pulleys, a thonaand
levers, bnt all controlled by one great and
ever-revolving force—tho wheel of God'e
providence. So thoroughly is socisty bal
anced end adjusted, that if you harm ono
isrt yon harm all tho parts. Tho professions
nter-dependent; all the trades Intcr-dc-
pendent; capital and labor inter-dependent;
so 1 hat the man who lives la a mansion on tho
hill and the man who breaks cobblestones at
the foot of tho hill affect each other’s mlafor-
tut e or prosperity. Dive* cannot kick Laza
rus without hurting his own foot. They who
throw Shadrech Into the furnace got their own
facca ecorchcd and blackened. No such thing
as Independence. Smite society at any one
point and yon smite the entire community.
Or to fall back on tho old tatttmaker's figure,
what if the eye ohould lay; “I am ovarseer of
thla physical anatomy; I am independent
of all tha other members; If there to
anything I despise it is thsse miserable and
low-lived lagan!” What If the hand should
say: “I am boss workman; I am independent
of all the other members; look at the callosa
in my palm end the knots of my knuckles; if
tbi re ia anything I hate it Is the human eye,
eeaitd under the dome of the forehead, doing
nothing bnt look!” Now, wa come in thla
morning to break up that quarrel, and we say:
“Oh! allly eye, how eoon yon wonld ewim in
death If yon had not the band to Support and
defend yon. Oh! aiUy hand, yon would be a
mere fambler in the darkness If it were not
for tho human eye." “The eye cannot say on
to the hand, ‘I have no need of thee.’ ”
Belief will come to tha working classes of
Is country through • better underftatiding
between capital ana labor. Beibre this con
test geaa much farther it will bo found that
their interests are identical; what helps oae
helps both; whet Injures one Injures both.
Show me any point In the world’s history of
six thousand years where capital ires prosper
ed and labor oppressed, or where labor ires
prospered snd capital oppressed. What la the
state of things now? Labor at its wife end to
get breed. Capital at its wit's end to pay the
taxes end to keep tha store end factory run
ning. Show me any point in the last fifty yean
where capital was getting large accumula
tion, and I will ehow yon the point at which
labor was getting large wages. Show me a
point at any time In the met fifty years where la
bor wee getting large wages, and Isrill show yon
the'point whare capital seas getting large profit*
Until the crack or doom there will be no relief
for the working elasaei until thero la a better
ucdersiendlog between lebor end capital Bad
this war ends. Every speech that capital
makes against labor lean adjournment of our
national presperity. Every speech that labor
makes against capital ia an adjournmentof onr
natioral prosperity. When the capital of tha
cent try maligna labor it ia the eye caning the
hand. When labor maligns capital It
the hand cnnlng the eye. The
capitalists of tba connti7, so far
as 1 know them, are successful laborers. If
the capitalists in this bouse today wonld draw
their glove, ynn would see the broken finger
nail, the sear of an old blister, here and there
ettifiened finger-joint. The greet publishers
of New York and Philadelphia, so far as I
ki ow them, were bookbinders or printon on
in all pay. The carriage man a torturers of Ue
country used tusendpeper the wagon-bodiee
In the wheelwright’s shop. On the other hand,
yon will find in all oar greet establishmeata
men on wages who need to employ their one
hundred or ttvo hundred bands.
Peter Cooper was a gluemsker. No one be
grudged him his millions of dollars, for he
built Cooper institute and swung open Its
doors for every poor man’s son, and said to the
day laborer: “Bond your boy np to my insti
tute if yon want him to have a splendid edu
cation.” And a young man of this church was
the other day walking in Greenwood ceme
tery and he saw two yonng men putting flow
ers on the grave of Peter Cooper. My friend
supposed the young men were relatives of
Peter Cooper and decorated hie grave fbr that
reason. "No,” they said, “wo pnt theee flow
ers on hie grave because it was through him
we got our education.” Abraham Van Neat
was a liarnessmakcr In New York.
Through economy and Industry and skill
he got a great fortune. He
gave away to help ethers hundreds of
thousands of dollar* I shall never forget the
scene when I, agrecn country lad, stopped at
his house, ana after passing tho evening with
him he came to the door and came outside
and said: “Here, DeWitt, la fifty doUars to get
books with. Don’t tay anything about it”
And I never did till the good old man was
gone. The wealthy men of the twentieth
centnry are in these lest fonrteen yean of tho
nineteenth century sitting with their feet on
the shuttle, or standing np swinging the pick
axe, or doing some kind of bard work, and
from the same classes are to come the philoso
phers and poets and orator* Henry Clay was
“the millboy of the slashes;” Hugh Hiller, a
•tone mason; Colnmbu* a weaver; Holley, a
soap boiler; Arkwright, a barber; the learned
Bloomfield, a shoemaker; Hogarth, an en
graver of pewter plate, end Horace Ore '
started life In New York with ten dollars
seventy-five cents in his pocket
The distance between capital and labor Is
not a great gulf over which la awnng a Niag
ara snipenskm bridge; it la only a step, and
the laborers here will cross over and became
capitalists and the capitalists will cross ovar
and become laborera. Wonld to God they
wonld shake hands while they are crossing,
there from one aide and thore from tho other
elde.
The combatants In this great "war botwoon
capital and labor are chiefly, on the one aid*
men of fortune who havo never been obliged
to toll, and who despise labor, and, on tha
other hand, men who could get labor lmt will
not have it, will not stick to it. It Is the hand
cursing tho eye or the eye car
ting tho' hand. I want it under
stood that tho laborers are the highest
stylo of capitalists. Where Is their invest
ment! Injthebank? No. In railroad stock?
No. Their muscle* their nerve* their bones,
their mechanical skill, their physical health,
arc the highest kind of capital. The man who
has two feet and two ears and two eyes and
ten finger* owna a machinery that pats into
nothingnesi Corliss’s engine snd all the rail
road rolling stock, end ell the carpet end
screw and cotton factories on tho planet. I
wave tho flag of trace this morning between
the contestants. I demand a cessation of hos
tilities between labor and capital. What is
good lor ono is good for both. What is bad for
ono is had for both.
Again: relief will corao to tho working
classes of this country through a co-operative
association. I am not now referring to trade*
union* We may hereafter discuss that ques
tion. But I refer to that plan by whioh labor
ers hecomo thoir own capitalists, taking their
surpluses and patting them togother and
carrying on great enterprlsoa. In England
aud Wales thero are 785 co-operative associa
tions, with 300.000 member* with a capital of
♦1-1,000,coo, doing business In one year to the
amount of $57,000,000. In Troy, N. Y.
thero was a co-operativ* Iron foundry asaocla-
tough to giv
plished whet
an Idea of what could bo accompl
tho experiment la fully developed. Thorns*
Brastey, ono of tho first of the English par
liament, declared; “Co-operation la the ono
and only solution of this qusstlon; It is tho
■ole path by which the laboring classes as a
whole, or any large number of them, will
ever emerge from too hand to month mode of
living, and get their share In the rewaida’and
honors of onr advaneed civilisation.” Thomas
Hnghe* tho ablest and tho moat brilliant
friend of the workingman, Lord Derby, John
Stuart Mill, men who gavo half their flfetlmo
to tho study of this question, all fkvor co-op
crative association.
Tho principle was illustrated In Ireland. Ono
day a mall coach traveler found a man stand
ing in the 1 water repairing a dam. "Are yon
working by yourself!” inquired the travolor.
“Yt*" was the answer. “Where ia yonr stew
ard?” “We hove no steward-” "Who ia your
roaster?” “We have no maater. Wo are on a
new system.” “Then who rent yon to do this
hr’ "Tho committee.” "Who Is tho com
mittee?” "Somo of tho members.” “Whst
members do yon mean?" asked tha visitor. “Tho
ploughmen and laboren who are appointed by
ns as a committee. I belong to the new ays-
Unite*”
that there havo boon great failures
rection. I admit it. Every great
movement at the start is a failure. The ap-
■ 'cation of steam power a failure, olectro-
egrapby a failure, railroading a failure, but
after a while the world’s eblef enecesse* I
hear reme ny: “Why, It la absurd to talk of*
■orpine to bo pnt Into this co-operative asso
ciation, when men can hardly get enough to
eat and wear and tako ears of their fsmmos.”
I reply: Pnt into my hand the money spent
In the last five years In this country by the
labeling classes for rum and tabacoo, sad I
will start a co-operative Inatitntlon of mone
tary power that will surpass any financial
Inatitation in the United State*
Again: I remark that relief will coma to
the working classes through more thorough
discovery on the pert of employers that it is
best for them to let their employes know Just
bow matters stand. The most ofthe capital
ists of today are making less than 0 per cant,
less than 5 per cent, lass than 4 par cent on
their Investments. n*ro and there ia an ana
conda swallowing down everything, bnt inch
are tha exception* It la often the case that
employes blame their employer because they
suppose he la getting along grandly, when he
la oppretaed to tho last point
of oppression. I knew a manufac
turer who employed more than a thousand
hand* I said to him: “Do yoa ovar have any
trouble with yonr workmen? do you have any
strikes?" “No,” he said. “What! m this time of
angry discussion between capital and labor, no
trouble?" “None at all—non*” I mid: “How
la that?*, “Well,” h* said, “I have a srsyof
my owa. Every little while I call myam-
iluyea together, end I say: ‘Now, boys. I want
o show you how matters stand. What yon
turned ont this year broaght so much. Yoa
see It Isn’t ss much m wo got last year. I
can’t afford to pay yon as muon aa I did. Now,
you know I pnt all my means in thla business.
What do yon think ought to be my percentage,
and what wages ought I to pay yon? Goes* let
tbl*’ “And,” mid that mana-
ns settle
fseturer,
“we
_ Ivance together, and
my men would die form*’’ Bnt when a mu
goes among bis employes with a supercilious
air, and drives up to hia fsetory as though bo
were the autocrat of the universe, with the sun
end the moon In hie vest pockeOs, moving amid
the wheels of the feetory, chiefly anxious tost
a greased or smirched hand should touch his
fmmscnlste broadcloth, ha will tee at tha and
he bae made nn awful mistake. I think that
employem will find out after awhile that it is
to their Interest, aa far aa possible, to explain
matters to their employes. You be frank with
them end they will bo frank with yon.
Again: I remark, relief will come to tho la
boring classes through the religious rectifies-
Hon of the country. Labor is appreciated and
rewarded just In proportion aa a country Is
Christianized. Why Is our smallest coin a
irony, while in Chlnait takes six or a doxen
are comparatively large. How do I account
for It? The philosophy la easy. Onr religion
is a democratic religion. It makes the owner
of a mill understand ho is a brother to all the
operatives in that mill. Born of the same
Heavenly Father, to lie down In the same
dust, to be saved by tho urns supreme mercy.
No putting on of airs in tho sepulchre or in
tho judgment.
An engineer In a New England fsetory gets
sleepy, and he does not watch the steam gauge,
and there la a wild thunder of explosion, and
the earner of tho mill and one of the workmen
are slain. The two slain men come np toward
the gate of heaven. Theosrnerof the mill
knocks at the gate. The celestial gatekeepsr
cries: "Who is there?” Tho reply comes: "I
was the owner of b factory at Fall River,where
there ms an explosion just now, and I lost my
life, and I want to come in.” “Why do you
want to come In, and by what right do yon
come in?” asks the celestial gatekeeper. “Oh!”
says the man, “I employed two or throe hun
dred hands. I was a great J^man at
Fall River.” “You employed 7 two or
three hundred men,” soya the gatekeeper,
“bat how much Christian grace did yon em
ploy?” “None at all,” lays the owner of the
mill. “Step hack,” says the celoatial gate
keeper, “no admittance here far yon.” Bight
after comes np the poor workman. Ha knocks
at the gat* The shining gatekeeper says:
“Who ia there?” He says: “I am a poor
srorkman; I come up from the exploeion In
Fell River; I wonld like to enter.” “What la
your right to come in here?" asks the shining
gatekeeper. The workman says: “I hoard
that a shining messenger earns forth from
S our world to our world to redeem It. I have
sen a bad man; I used to swear when I hurt
my band with the wheel; I used to boSangryh
I have done a great many wrong thing* bnt I
confessed it ail to tha messenger that came
from yonr country, and after I confessed it he
told me to come np her* and that yon may
know I have a right to come, there Is n Is name
on the palm of my hand; here la hia name on
my forehead.” Then there Is a sound of work
ing pulley* and tho gates lift, and the work
ing man goes in. There was a vast difference
between the frmerals st Fall River. The
owner of the mill had a great ftinaral. The
poor workman bad a small funeral. The man
who came npon hia own pompous resource*
was shut ont of heaven. The poor man, treat
ing In the graoe of the Lord Jesna Christ, en
tered heaven.
So you see it is a democratle religion. I do
not care how much money yon hav* yon
have not onough money to buy yonr way
through tho gat* I do not oare how poor yon
are, If you have the graoe of God in your
heart, no ono can koep you out. If tho shin
ing gatekeeper, smitten by some Injustice,
should try to koep yon ont, all heaven wonld
from their thrones and they wonld ery,
it him In I Lot him In 1" My friends,you
need to saturate our population with tho re
ligion of Christ, and wages
rill be larger, employers will be more
considerate, all the tides of thrift will set In.
I havo tho highest authority for saying that
‘dlincsa Is profitable for tho lllo that now i*
pays for the employer. It pays for the em
ploye. The religion of Christ came ont to rec
tify all the wrongs of the world, and it will
“* lettle this question between labor and cap-
Jnst as certainly as yon sit thero and I
stand hero. Tho hard hand of tho whool and
the soft band of tho counting room will clasp
csch other yet. They will clasp each other in
congratulation. Thoy will claspeach other on
the glorions morning of the millennium. Tho
bard hand will say: “I ploughed the desert Into a
garden;” tho soft hand will reply: “I furnished
tho seed.’’ The ono hand will say. “I thrashed
tho mountains;” the other hand will say: “I
K id for the flail.” Tho ono hand will say: “I
mmered tho spear into a prnnlng-hook;”
and the other hand will answer: “I signed
the treaty of peace that made that possible.”
Then capital and labor will lie down together,
and the lion end the lamb, and the leopard
and the kid, and there will bo nothing to hurt
oa to deetroy in all God’s holy mount, for tho
mouth ofthe Lord hathapokaa It.
MR. DAVIS'S ILLNESS.
Bo tTDl Not he Able to Attend the Exercises
at Mobile.
Mississippi Cm, May 12.—Jefferson Davia
haa been confined tohie room sinoo hia return
to Beauvoir,suffering from prostration induced
by tho late exciting eeenoe through whioh ho
has passed. He is under the care of several
physician!, and it is expected that with undis
turbed rest and repose be will be able to fill
his appointment at Mobil*
Months, Ala., May 13.—[Special.]—Ex-
President Davie is 111 at Beauvoir, with brer
and neuralgia of tho head, from which he
snflora severely. He write* under date of
May 12th, stating as mach, and adding that
hie physicians have notified him that it would
not be possible for him to come to Mobile on
tho 20th, as promised, to participate In the
exercise* for the benefit of the Hemmes monu
mental Bind. In conclnelon, he lays:
It Is a great disappointment to mo, as I wished,
by my presence, to show my remsets to tho memory
of that pure patriot and Ufnimona seaman, whom
It bar been the fashion of our enemies to cover
with abusive epithet*
In another letter of the same Import ho (ays:
Tho hope of participating In your labor of love
was very nsar my heart, aud the desire to see his
mcmoiy honored baa been InUnalAed by the Ma
rions designation of pirate, aa well as the abuso
hasped npon a regularly commissioned officer or
theconfcdcrste navy, and as gallant, capable and
— an officer as ever graced the •srriee of any
nr.
EX-PRESIDENT ARTHUR.
lint Mllle Hope >• Entertained of Ills Olll-
Ruuell
New Yobk May 13.— Tho
condition of cxPrealdent Arthur con
nines to lie a great cause oi anx
iety to hia relatives and Intimate friend* Aa soon
assny on* of his Mends ont of town roaches New
York, a trip Is Immediately made to the ex-presl-
dent's house to learn tha latest
ooucerniog his health. General
Arthur received yesterday a cablegram signed
John W. Mackey and John
jointly by
Yonng aaal
Speakers' Nora Throat.
Public ipeaken snd pulpit orators are con
stant aufbrert from throat troublo. For such
ilia the beat remedy that has yet bean found is
Dr* Btarkay A Psion’s Compound Oxygen, as
mads by them at thalr laboratory, No. 1529
Arch atreet, Phllsdelpbl* Penn. The Rev.
Sidney Wilbur, of Albion, N. Y., writes:
“ Well, I most con fra* and I do it gladly, that
yonr Compound Oxygen i* I think, ths most
wondtrfnl remedy, at toast, tor all diseases of
tbs throat and lungs that I aver hoard of or
believe to bo In oilstone*” Tbit Jn-loraement
la sqnsled by many hundreds of othnr* Write
for a pamphlet on tba subjat, which will be
■ant free of postag*
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consumption In Us early stags* and allsrlat* If
not cure, In Hi latter stagsa
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Ur. J. L. Peatt, Greenfield, IIU say*: “It
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frequently the forerunner of somo serious
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etc. Do not neglect tho warning it give*
ng a badly Ulcerated Sore Throat, I
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called, arnnnd his neck Ilk* a string of bead*
drzen of these piece* necessary to make tba
valne of one of onr pennies? In this country,
for nothing do wa svant to pay fem than a
penny. In Chin* they often have ta , ,....... ......
twelfthrf a penny. #f What ihhe T ’dl!fere*«J } water, using It«. gargls. Ths soreness and
Christianity. Show ms a community that la I Inflammation was entirely gone the next
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DYSPEPSIA
fariabl* appetite; faint gnawing fooling
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