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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION.' ATLANTA, GA„ TUESDAY HAT 25, 1886
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TALMAGE’S SERMON,
PHCACHED YESTERDAY IN BROOK
LYN TABERNACLE.
Hue Groat Birina YrMeawtealreont ot an imi
of Bmoai on to. Labor Qanntlon - Tha
Subject Being Sow Xnslogen Ought
to shell Bmplojee. stc.
; Bbooklyk, N. T., M»j 23.—[Special,]—Kev,
I. DcWitt Tslmsge, D. D„ today prcachod the
second in hb series of sermons on the great
ltbor dlecnsalon, the suidect' being: “How
£m|doyers Ought to Treat Employes.” The
tipeniug hymn was:
■ "Glory to (Sod on high.
■ - Let heaven and Osttb reply.”
Dr; Talmage chose two texts, the first from
Galatians r. 15: "If ye bito and devour one
sttotfehr. teke heed that ye'bo not contamed
cnoof another;” and PhllippUns ii.-fc “Look
mht every man on his own things, bat eTory
man also on the things of others.” Following
- is the sermon in full:
Tho labor agitation will toon quiet. The
miib will again open, the railroadi*reani
their traffic, our national proeperltiea again
•start. Of course, the damage done by the
strikes cannot immediately be repaired.
V.’ages will not bo so high as they wore.
Spasmodically they may he highor, hat they
trill drop lower. Strikes, whether right or
Wrong, always Injure laborers more than tbp
capitalists. Yon will see Mb In the starvation
of next winter. Boycotting and vlolenco and
murder never pay. They are different stages
of anarchy. Goa never blessed murder. The
worst use yon can put a man to b to kill him.
Blow up tomorrow all tho country
Beats on tho banks of the Hud
son, and all the fine housee on Madison
Bqnaro and Brooklyn heights, and Bunker
lull, and Bittonhouse square, and Beacon
Btrrct.and all the bricks and timber and atones
will just fall back on tbo bare bands of
fftmriiran labor. The worst enemies of the
■working classes in the United States and Ire
land arc their demented coadjutors.
Ac:,situation—the assassinations of Lord
JFredt rick Cavendish and Hr. Burke in Pine nix
park, Dublin, Ireland, in the attempt to
avenge the wrongs of Ireland, only turned
away from that afllicted people mllllous of
sympathisers. Tho attempt to blowup tho
house of commons, In London, had only this
effect—to throw out of employment tons of
thousand! of innocent Irbh people In England.
In this country tho torch put to the fkctorlet
tbatbnvo discharged band! for good orbed rea
son, obstructions on the rail-tncks In front of
midnight express trains, because the offenders
do not like tbo president of tho compsny;
Strikes on shipboard the bourthey woro going
to sail, Or in printing olficea tho hour
tho paper was to go to press, or in the
mines tho day the coil was to bo
delivered, or on house scaffolding so the
fcatldcr fails in keeping hb contract—all
these are only a hard blow on tho head of
American labor, and cripple Its arms, and
lame its foot, and pierce lb heart. Traps
sprung suddenly upon employers, and vio
lence never took one knot ont of the knuckles
of toll, or put one farthing of wages Intoacal-
Iona palm. Barbarism mil never core tho
wrongs of civilisation. Hark that!
Fiedcrick tho Great admired somo land
near hb paiaceat Potsdam, and resolved to got
lk It waa'owned by a miller. He offered tho
miller three times the value of tho property.
The miller would not take it because it was the
Did homestead, and be felt about as Naboth
felt about his vineyard when Ahab wanted Ik
Frederick the Great wai a rough and terrible
man, and he ordered the miller Into hb proa-
race, and tho king with a atlck in Mi-hand—
a stick with which bo sometimes struck the
offioers of state—eald to the miller: "Now
I have offered yon threo times
She value of that property, and If yon won't
soil it I’ll take it anyhow.” Tho miller said:
"Your majesty, yon won’t.” “Yes,” said tho
' king, “Iwill take It.” “Then," gatd tho mil-
. Ibr,“ifyonrmaJoatydooatakoH I will auo
you in tho ohancery court.” At that threat
Frederick the Great yielded hb infamous do-
■ mand. And tho most imperious outrage
against the working-classes will yet cower
lielore the law. Vioionco and contrary to
tho law will never accomplish anything, but
righteousness and according to tho Uw will
accomplish ik
But gradually the damages done the laborer
J>y tbo strike* will ho repaired, and somo im-
portai.t things ought now to bo said.
The whole tendency of our times, as you
have noticed, Is to make tho chasm between
employer and employe wider and wider. In
olden timo tho head man of the fhetory, the
master builder, the capitalist, the head
man of the firm worked aide
by side with their employes, working some
times at tho samo bench, dining at tho same
table: ciul there an those hen who can re
member the time when the clerks of largo
commercial establishments wen accustomed
to board with the bead men of the firm.
All that b changed, and the.tendency la |to
make the dbtanco between employer and em-
the at’ceesi
capitalist
Borers
tho employe feel that ho b wronged by
of toe capitalist, and to mako tho
feel,
only
‘Now my la-
beaab of burden;
. Beads of tweak” In other words, the bridge
nfsynipathyb brnken down at both ends.
' That reeling was well described by Thomu
Carlyle when he laid: “Plugaou,
of bt. Dolly Undershok buccaneer-1 iko
■ays to hb men: "Noble apinnen, this b tho
hundredth thousand we have gained, whoroln
I mean to dwell and plant my vineyard. Tho
bundled thousand pound b mine, tho dally
Trago was your*. Adlon, noble spinners; drink
my health with thb groat, each which I give
you over and above.”
Now what wo want b to rebuild that bridge
Df sympathy, and I put the trowel to one of the
abutments today; and I preach more especial
ly this morning to employers at such, although
what I have to my will be appropriate to all
Who ora in tbo house.
The outrageous behavior of a multitude of
laborers toward tholr employer* during the
last three months’ b*h*viortafkmou(analwor-
thj of moat condign punishment, may .
Induced some employers to neglect the real
Christian duties that they owe to thorn whom
they employ. Therefore I want to aay to you
whom I confront face to face, and thooo to
whom the** words may ootne, that all ship
owners, all capitalists, all commercial firms, all
master builders, all housewives are bound to
Bo Interested in the entire welfare of their
subordinates. Years ago some one gave
them prescriptions for becoming a million,
alre. Fink spend year life la getting and
keeping the earnings of other people. Sec
ondly: have notoriety abont the worrlmentc,
the leases, the disappointments of others.
Thirdly: do not mind the fket that year vast
wealth impliei the poverty of a great many
people. Now there b not a man m my audi
ence who would consent to go out Into ltf*
with those three principles to earn a fortune.
It b your desiro to do yonr whole doty to tho
men and women in yonr service.
First of Ul, then, pay as large wages as are
actionable and as yonr business will afford,
Hot nrcemarily wbat others pay; certainly not
wbat yonr hired help my yon most pay, for
that is tyranny on tbo part of labor unbear
able. The right of a laborer to tell hb em
ployer wbat he must pay implies the right
of su employer to compel a man into a
servi- e whether ho will or not, and cither
of tits. Ideas is despicable. When auy em
ployer allows a laborer to my wbat be must
do,' cr have his business ruined, and the em
ployer mbmiti to it, he does every bucinesc
man in the United .States a wrong and yields
to a principle which, carried out, would dis
solve society. Look over your affairs and pat
yourselves in imagination in your laborer's
place, and then pay him what before God and
your own conscience you think you ought to
^“Godblesa yon’a” arc welljin theirplace, but
they do not boy coal nor pay home rent, nor
pt iboai for the children, At tho same time,
yen, the employer, ought to remember through
what straight! and strains you got the fortune
ter which yon built yonr (torn or run the fac
tory. Yon are to remember that yon taka all
the risks and tho employe' takes none, or
scarcely any. You are to remember that'”--
may be reverse! in fortune and that some —..
stylo of machinery may mako yonr machinery
valneleor - — .
business
valueless, or some new stylo of tariff eot yonr
em back hopelessly and forever. Yon
most take all that Into consideration, and
then pay what b reasonable.
Do not be too ready to cat down wage. Ax
Jar as possible pay all, and pay promptly.
Thorn b a groat deal of Bible teaching on thla
subject. Ualachi: “I will be a swift witness
against all soroerem, and against all adulterers,
and against those who oppresa the hireling in
hb wages.” Leviticna: ‘Thou ahalt not koep
tho wages of tho hireling all night onto the
morning.” Colesatana: "Masters, give onto
your servants that which is Just and equal,
knowing that ye also have a Master m
heaven.” So you see it is not a question be
tween you and yonr employee*much as it is
a question between yon and God.
employes: “Now, If you
. got another," when you
know they cannot got another. As far as pos
sible once a year visit at their homes, your
clerks and yonr workmen. That b the
way yon can become acquainted with
wants. Yon will by snob process find out that
there Is s blind parent or a sick sbtor being
supported. Yon will find some of yonr young
men in rooms without any fire In winter, and
in rammer sweltering in ill-ventilated apart
ments. You will find how much depends on
the wages yon pay or withhold. On Saturday
morning, when yon come into yonr counting-
room and draw the check which will bring the
young man, but the relief to tho diro ueccsrl-
tles which stand back of him.
Moreover, it b yonr duty as employer, u
for ss possible, to mould the welfare of the
employe. Yon ought to sdvbo him about
investments, sbont life insurance, about sav
ings banks. You ought to give him the bene
fit of your experience, Thore aro hundreds
and thousands of employers in this country
and England, I am glad to say, who are
settling In tho very boot poaslblo way the
destiny of their employees. Such men as
Marshall, of Leeds; Lister, of Bradford; Ak-
royd, of Halifax, and men ao near at home It
might offend their modesty if 1 mentioned
their ntmes. These men have built reading-
rooms, libraries, concert halls, afforded cro
quet lawns, cricket grounds, gymnasiums,
Moral societies for tholr employes, and they
have not merely paid the wages on Saturday
night, but through the contentment and the
thrift and the good morals of their employes,
they are paying wages from generation to
generation forever
Again, I counsel all employers to look well
after the physical health of their aubordiuatea.
You are expected to understand better than
they all these questions of ventibtion and ran-
shine, and all the lawa of hygiene.
There are atores and banking houses and
factories and newspaper ostablbhmonts where
tho atmosphere is doatb. Your employees
may always appreciate your work, at that
stylo of kindness was not appreciated In tho
Charles Kendo, whoro
was provided for the
instance mentioned by Charles Keade, where
la a great factory a Bur
blowing awi
and stone, the
and soma of tbo workmen refined to pnt
great fan in motion. They seemed to prefor
to inhalo the filings, the poisonous filings, Into
tholr lungs. But in tho vast majority of oasos
fioyea will appreciate overy kludnoss
away of tho dust of metal
s, thodust arising from the machinery,
t of the workmen refined to pnt this
your employes w
in that direction.
I never conld understand why t
our city cars mutt stand all day wnen tney
might jut as well alt down and drive. It
seems to me most unrighteous that so many
of the fcmalo clerks In our stores
should be compelled to stand all
day, and throng those hours when then aro
but few or no cutomors, Theso pcoplo havo
aches and annoyance and weariness enongh
without putting upon them additional fatigue.
Unless those fcmalo clerks must go up and
down on the bulncsa of the store, lot thorn sit
down. At tho end of tho year you will find
that thoy have sold as many goods and made
as fine bargains—yea, better; for ono clerk
with a clear brain and reated body and [radl-
unco will sell more goods than two clerks with
health, bedraggled.
Then I would havo yon carry out thb uni
tary idea, and'pnt Into aa few hours as possi
ble the work of the day. Somo time ago—
whether it hu been changed I know not—
there were ono thonnnd grocer clerks In
Brooklyn who went to bulnouat S o'clock
in tho morning and continued until 10 o'clock
at night. Now, that la inhnman.
It seems to mo, all the merchants in all de
partment* ought, by simultaneous move
ment, to como out In behalf of
the early cloaing theory. These young
men ought to havo an opportunity
of going to tho mercantile library, to tho read
ing rooms; to tho concert hall, to the gymna-
alum, to the church, Thoy have norves, thoy
have brains,thoy have intellectual aspirations,
they have Immortal spirits. If they ean do a
' round day’s work In tho ton or eleven
, you havo no right to keep them har
nessed for seventeen. 1 do not think that any
Intelligent employer can afford to b* reckless
of tbo physical and mental health of hb sub
ordinates.
But above all I charge you, O, employers,
that you leek after the moral and spiritual
welfare of your employes. Firak know
where they spend tholr even-
lu(S. That decides everything. You
do not want around your money drawer a
young man who went laat night to see Jack
Shcppald, A man that comes into the store
in the morning ghastly with midnight revelry,
is not the man for your atore. The young
man who spends hb evenings In the society
of refined women, or in musical or artbtic
circles, or tn literary Improvement, b the
young man for yonr store. Without any dis
gusting Inquisitiveness, without any imperti
nence, yon onght to havoyonr young men an-
drrstand that yon are interested so much In
tbetr welfare that you want to know whore thoy
•pend their leimre honra, and they will frank
ly and gbdly tell yen.
Do not say of there young man: "If thoy do
tbi Ir work In the buiinres noun, that Is all I
have to ask,” God has made you. that man's
guardian. I want you to understand that
msny of three young men are orphans, or
worse than orphans, filing ont Into society to
struggle for themselves. A young man b
pitched Into tho middle of the Atlautie ocean
and a plank b pitched after him, and then ha
b told to take that amd swim ashore. Treat
that young man aa yon would like to havo
your ton treated if you wore dead. Be
father to that dork. Than b nothing
more beaotlfhl than to bear an aged mer
chant addrearing hb clerks and saying, "My
mV’ That young man in yosr employ has s
history. Hb father was a drunkard. His
fint remembrance of hb father eras the father
coming home late at night Intoxicated and the
children hiding under the bed frightened.
Ami that young man has stood many a timo
lie tween lather and mother keeping her from
the brutal blow. He b prematurely old in
trying to provido- fat too house' rent and
clothing for hb younger brothers and listen.
He may seem to yon like all other young
men, but God and hb mother know no is s
hero. At twenty years of age ho has suffered
u much as many bar* suffered at slaty. Do
not tiead on him. Do not swear at him. Do
not send him on a useless errand. Say,
“Good morning,” and “Good nlgbk” and
“Goodbye.” Yon an deciding that man’s
distil, y for two worlds
One of my earliest remembrances u of old
Arthur Tappan. There wore many differences
or opinion about bis politics, but no one who
ever knew Arthur Tsppan, and knew him
well, doubted hb being an earnest Christian.
In bis store In New York he had s room where
evtiy morning he called bis employes to
pi Ibcr, and bo prayed with them, read the
gciiptnrce to them, rang with them, and then
they entered on the duties of the day. On
Monday miming the exercises differed, and
he gathered the young men together and ask
ed them where they had attended church,
whst bad been their Sabbath experience* and
wbat bad been thesermoa.
.Samuel BadgcUbsdthe brgest business iu
ti e writ of England. He had In a room of hi*
warehouse a place pleasantly fiirnbhed with
comfettabb scats sod “Fletcbor’s family devo
tion*” and Woalapau hyrea boohs.and ho gath
ered blf employes together every morning,
and, having rang, thoy koolt down and pray
ed sldo by eldo—the employer and the em-
ptayee-
Do yen wonder at that man’s success, and
that though thirty years before, he had been a
K irtner In a small retail shop in a small vib
ge, at hb death he bequeathed many mill-
ions. God ean trust-inch a man M that with
plenty of money.
Sir Titus Salt had wealth which was beyond
one: _ i
dinner, and there were thirty-five hundred
people present, and in hb after dinner speech
he said t0,thcse people
look around me and oee __
of friends and work people without be
ing moved. I feel greatly b
oredby the prerence of tho nobleman at
lido, and I am etpeeblly delighted at tho
presence of my workpeople. I hope to draw
around mo a population that will en|oy the
beauties of thb neighborhood—a population
of well-paid, contented, happy operatives I
have given Instructions to my architects that
nothing b to be spared to render the dwell
ings of the operative* a pattern to the country,
and if my life b spared by divine prorldtuoe,
I hope to tee contentment, satisfaction and
happiness around me.”
That b Cbrbtbn character demonstrated.
There are other* in thb oenntry and in other
lands on a smaller scale doing their best for
their employes. They have not forgotten
their own early straggle*. They remember
the first yard of nankeen they measured, tho
lint quarter of tea they weighed, the first
<o’d and how tired Soy were, and though thoy
may be sixty or seventy years old, thoy know
Just how a boy fools between ton and twenty,
and how a young man feels between twenty and
thirty. They havo not forgotten it. Thooo
wealthy employers were not originally let
down ont of heaven with pulley* or silk in a
wicker basket, satin-lined, flutned by cheru
bic wings. They started in roughest cradle,
on whose rocker misfortune pnt her violent
foot and Upped them into the cold world.
Those old men are sympathetic with boys.
But yon are notonly to lie kind to thoeewho
aro under you—Christbnly kind—but yon
aro also to eeo that yonr boos workman, and'
ysuT head clerks, and yonr agenb, and yonr'
overseers in stores aro kind to thoeo
under them. Sometimes a man will
get a little brief authority In a store
knows what some of tho lads suffer In tho _
Ura and In the lofts of somo of our groat estab
lishments. They have no tone to appeal to.
Tho time will come when tholr arm will bo
strong, and thoy can defend themselves; but
you capitalbk you, tho head man of the firm,
muct look, ranorvbe, see all those around you,
investlgato all beneath yon,
And then I charge yon not to put ' unneces
sary temptation in the way of yonr young
men. Do not keep largo rams of mon
ey lying around unguafdod. Know bow
much money there b in the till. Do not havo
tho account books loosely kept. Thoro aro
temptations inevitable to young men, and
enough of thorn without yonr patting any
unnecessary temptations in tholr way. Men
in Wall street having thirty years of reputa
tion for honesty have dropped Into Sing Sing
and perdition, and yon must be careful how
S ou try a lad of fifteen. And If he do wrong,
o not ponnoe on him like a hyena. If he
toll why
1 him to thou whd will
rhy you
givo bun another chance. Many a young
man has done wrong once, who will never! do
wrong again. . t
Ah, mv friends! I think wo can afford to
give everybody another chance, when God
knows we should havo alL bun in perdition
If bo bad not given ns ton thousand chancos.
Then, if in moving around yonr factory, or
mill, or barn, or store, you are Inexorable with
yeung men, God will remembor It. Homo day
the wheel at fortune will turn and yon wlu
b* a pauper, and yonr daughter will go to tho
—tkbmua*
If In moving among yonr men you see ono with
an ominous pallor or cheek, or yon hoar him
coughing behind the counter, uy to him:
mother die, do not demand that on the day
after the funeral ho bo in tho store. Give
him at least a week to got over that whloh ho
will never got over.
Employer*, urge upon your omployos abovo
all, a religious llfo. Yon can do It. You are in
a position not to bo langhod at, or scoffod ak
or jeered ak You hold the keys of the estab-
lbbmenk and by yonr position you demand
reverence. Now, urgo all thou employee In
to a religions life. So far from thak now b Ik
young men? Instead of being cheered on tbo
rood to heaven, urns of yon are caricatured,
and it b a hard thing for you to hoop your
Christian Integrity in that store or factory
when there are so many hostile to religion.
Ziethcn, a brave general under Feederick the
Greek was a Christian. Frederick the Great
was an inddei. One day Zietheu
the venerable, white-haired gou-
oral, asked to bo oxcoaed from
military duty tbit he might attend tbo holy
sacrament. He wu exensed. A few days
after Ziethen was dining with the king and
with many notables of Prussia, Frederick the
Great, In a Jocose way, said: "Well, Ziethen,
how did the sacrament of last Friday digest?”
Tho venerable old warrior arose and said:
“For yonr majesty I have risked my life
many a time on the battlo-dold, and for your
majesty I would be willing any
time to db; but you do wrong when
you Insult Ibe Christian religion. Yon
will forgivo me If I, your old military «*r-
vank cannot boar in silence any Insult to my
Lard and my Saviour.” Frederick tbo Great
leaped to hla feet, and be pnt out hb hand,
and he told: “Happy Ziethen! forgivo mo,
foralvo mol Yon will never b* bothered
•Hub.”
Ob. there aro many being scoffod at for their
religion, and I thank God there are many men
as brave aa Ziethen. Go to he even yourael
O, employer t Taka all your people with you
Boon yon will be through buying andMllfng
and through with manufacturing and bnlld.
inf, and Gad will aak you: "Where aro all
thoaa people over whom you had so great In*
fluenct? Aro they bare? Will they bo here?”
O, shipowners! into wbatfharbor will your craw
mil? After being tossed on ao many aois will
they gain tho port of heaven? O, banker*!
will tboao young men who
aro running up and down
the long liuoa or figuree, and handling the
chrcka and draft*, and handling the rollaof
government sccuritlca—sre they keeping their
accounta right with God?—the credit ac
count ofmcrciea received and the debt ac
count of etna forgiven. O.yon drygooda mer
chant*! are thorn young men under your care
who are providing fabric* of apparel for head
and band, and foot and back, to go unclothed—
unclothed into eternity? O, you merchant
grocer*! are tbcie young men that under your
care are providing food for the bodice and
families of men, to go starved forever?
O, you manufacturers or this United States
with *o many wheels a flying, and ao many
bauds a pulling, and so many new patterns
turned out, and ao many goods shipped—are
tbo spinners, are the carmen, are the draymen,
are the ssltsmen, are the watchers of your es
tablishments working out everything but their
own ealvatiou? Can it be that, having thorn
people under yonr care, five, ten, twenty yean,
you have made no everlasting imprest ion for
geed on their immortal sooU? God turn at
all back from such cel fish ness and teach us to
live for others and not for ourselves. Christ
seta us an example of sacrifice, and so do many
of his disciple*.
One summer. In California, a gentleman who
bad Just removed from the Sandwich islands,
told me this incident. He said one of the
Sandwich islands is devoted to lepers. People
getting tack of the lafwnwy on the otbertaJand*
are sent to Uet ieU of lepers. They never
come off. They are In different stages of
disease, but all who die on that island die of
leprosy. On one of the healthy islands there
was a physician who always wore his hand
gloved, and it was often discussed why he
always had a glove on that Hand undor all cir
cumstances.
One day this physician came to the city au
thorities, and he withdrew his glove, and he
said to the officers of the law: “You see on
that hand a spot of the leprosy and that I am
doomed to die. I might hide thia for a little
while and keep away from the isle of lepers;
but I am a physician, and I can go on that
island and administer to the sufferings of tboao
who are farther gone in the disease,
and I should like to go now. It
would be selfish In me to stay amid
these luxurious sourroundings when I
might be of so much help to tho wretched.
Send me to the isle of tho lepers." They,
seeing the spot of leprosy, of course took the
man into custody, lie bade farewell to hia
family and his friends. It was an agonising
farewell. He could never see them again. He
was taken to the isle of the lepers and thoro
wrought among the sick until prostrated by
his own death, which at laat camo. Oh,
that was magnificent self denial, magnificent
sacrifices, only surpassed by that of Him who
exiled Himself from the hearth of heaven to
this leprous island of • world, that He might
riclan onr wounds and weep our griefs and
our deaths, turning the',isle of a leprous
world into a great blooming paradisical garden.
Whether employer or employe, letuscateh
that spirit.
SAM JONB8 AND SAM SMALL.
How the Two Revivalist* Pass the Days—
Jones Hlta at Ilia Cnemles.
Baltimore, May 19.-8am Jones and Sam
Small have been to work'here for somo dsya now.
Jones finds minister* In nearly every town ho
viaita who do not approvo of his methods. Yester
day he hit out at a man who had been denouncing
him. The sword thrusts were not numerous, but
they were keen. Tho occasion was found at the
conclusion of the sermon of Rev. Sam Bmaall, at
Rev. Dr. Hurpland's church. Mr. Jones stopped
forward to the desk In hla quiet, characteristic
way. He picked up Mr. Small’s little moroeo bound
Bible, and holding it up to the big cougrogation
said:
If this little bnnch of paper I hold In my hand la
God's truth, then It outweighs all the univers of
tuns and stars. If thla book la true, am I crazy?
Am I fanatic? I tell you, If it la true, I want to bo
so crazy that I will walk all over tho city on my
knee* to save jxior, perishing ainnors? WhstS
, if this book i* true, there aro JW.OOO crazy
jtlana In Baltimore. They’ro so crazy that they
wont pray, they won't work, but If they don't look
out therll walk with their arms folded right
down Into the Jaws of boll. People aay Small and
I exaggerate. Kxagerate! Why, you can’t oxsg-
erate what *in la doing. I'd just aa soon try to ex-
agerato the beauties or heaven! What la It you
don't like about mo and Small? What Is It? I'm
siandingright on the Ten Commandments and the
8eimon on the Monnt. Ain't yon? If you aro,
ain’t we standing hand In hand? Oughtn't wo to
aland shoulder to shoulder? But aro you standing
there? That's the question?
. “Who's this preacher that’s denouncing me in
this city?'' I asked a friend yesterday.
“Why, don't you know?" replied my friend, lie's
»e man that the liquor people got to deliver a
lecture and paid him for it. (omlles.)
in glad I know why ho oppoaeame. continued
tones. It’s always tho hit dog that hollers,
hter.) I never was In Baltimore before and
t know anybody her*. I didn't Mk anybody
to let mo come, but I'm hero because your pastor,
Rev. Dr. Murkland, and other leading ministers
and laymen Invited mo. No. when you hear peo
ple on the corner discussing the rink and tho re
vival and the revivalists, some fellow will come
up and ask: "Been around?" You may say: "No;
I don’t endorse these men." I don’t want you to
endorse me. (Laughter.) Your endorsement, oven
if It was written out, wouldn't bo auy good.
(Laughter.) 1 don't want any man to endorse mo.
1 wouldn’t even endorse tnyaelf. But I do waut
God to endorse me, and I want all of you to co
operate with me. There's no man wants to go to
heaven worse than I do. If I don't go to heaven,
my friends, I tell you I will turn around and walk
away from the golden gate the most disappointed
man in tho universe.
Rev. Bam Jones is as plain and unassuming as a
notable man can be. Ho goes on the principle that
the great can as well afford to bo unaanuntng aa
can the rich to be plain, and he baa brought this
ilmple creed to the perfection of practice, no and
Mr. Small, Mr. Maxwell, the ehorlster, and Mr.
Taylor, the stenographer, occupy a suit of rooms
at the Bt. James hotel. Mr. Jones ilseps alone, and
has a Urgo, pleasant room ou the second floor
looking out on Centre afreet. When things get
crowded he "doubles up" with Mr. Bmall, and then
Mawell and Taylor double up.
at 7 o’clock and goes Into Mr. Small’s room, or the
latter goes Into nu room, aa the case may be. and
they havo prayers. Then they repair to breakfast.
A favorito dish with both Is oatmoal and cream.
They must have fruit at all their meals. They
were raised on fruit and they have not yet learned
how to get along without It. Broiled steak la a pret
ty steady order from Mr. Jones. For a drink he
likes lemonade-and coffee. Now. that he has
S ven up tobacco, he concentrates hu affectlous on
cse two beverages.
Alter breakfast Mr. Jonoa reads his letters. Theso
accumulate at tho rato of liny a day. They aro of
all aorta. They coma from Infidels, drunkards,
blacklegs, tramp#, ministers, church members,
from pcoplo who have been moved by his ser
mons, and from people who appear to Uko keen
delight In elaborately explaining mat they have
not been moved by hla sermons; and laat, but not
least by a good bit, from hia friends and from bis
wlfo. Ho write* to Mrs. Jones every day, Sunday
Included, and the knows where he Is every min
ute ofhU tlmejust as positively although she were
with him. It U Mr. Jones’ custom, when remain
ing In a place for several weeks, to have hU wife
to come to him and speud a row da;
She la tall, handsome, *
every one or them, from their shoes up, and they
show It lu their photographs, which Mr. Jortee
always carries around with him.
But to return to the letter*. Some of them are in
ji inthuziastlc, encouraging vein from Uhristians;
others are Bill of Inquiry and pleading from seek-
era after religion: others scoff and sneer and abuse,
and sometimes there are letters that breathe forth
. Jdyonelnv]
day afternoon,
SHMIVkinnCuul
going through Ids
tatc* to hi* stcnogral
mi, miuwumcauu mix. mss, JOfUS
only one Invitation t6 dine, and that
when he took dinner
xa*. After reading and
IUCIIW, HI. JUIKX UIL—
such replies as are lm*
ji own writing every time.
Mr. Jonee does not mind abuse. When be strikes
that kind of a letter he toaaes It aside with the re
mark: "Another yelpin' cur a fbllowln' tu.”
. The letters having been brushed aside, the two
evangelists devote an hour or so to receiving call
era, They are as various in character and purpose
aa the letters, and often aa numerous. They as*
ministers, members of the
basing the revival *
s of the executive committee
In charge, seekers, drunkards
o are influenced by the merest
• who really deserve charity
sion of the levee. Mr. Jonea and Mr. Small aome-
time* take a stroll previous to the noou meeting at
the Young Men’s Christlon association bnlldfiif.
They go anywhere and everywhere, but they can
not paaaa soda water fountain to save their liven.
Soda water la their great delight. If Mr. Small
moves post the shining fountain without exhibit
ing any (disposition to stop, Mr. Jonea wUl tug at
his arm and aay: “Hold up, Ham! Gome In and
have a drink." Tlien they disappear together in
the drugstore and emerge In a few moment* look
ing happy and contented, and smacking tbetr lips
lu a cheerful way. It 1a a rare thing when they
return from any of their strolls without having five
cents’ worth or the foaming, alsslng temperance
beverage concealed somewhere about their anat
omy.
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and fa:tid breath ao poisonpus to the air. Ex
posed in the tick room It keeps the atmosphere
wholesome. A small quantity In tbo va«el
receiving the dischargee from the throat and
bowels will destroy thei contagion* matter.
"We will fake wbat we need," is the motto oi
Chicago sociolist*. That assure# a bath at ail
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