The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-12-27

YORK Suns report:ot Mr.. Beeoher's ser-
mon mon at plymouth& Church. on last Sun
Then Mr.: Boeoher took his text from
Ephesians w., 2S: "Let him that stole
stea! no more; but rather let him labor.
working with his hands the thing which
is good, that be may have to give to him
that needeth."
That is the pattern Of reformed life.
said Mr.. Beeoher. Some people gain
their living without earning it. It causes
suspicious OF slight of hand. "Let him
that stole stoal no more" It is neoes.
sery to have heen thief to steal Init
there is great deal of stealing not done
ny thieves, and I advise all those who
earn their living in an improper way to
earn 1t In proper WY hereafter.
Every man should earn his own living.
10 not say it is misfortune to be born
rlch, but 1 do say, that OF one hundred
men born with money and one hundred
men born without it, the chances to find
virtue and happiness are better in the
last hundred. He who is born in life to
rise early, to work, to earn his living, is
the happy man. A man who works is
healthier and happier than he who does
not; and he is, moreover, debarred from
those temptations which spring from the
possession OF wealth. md those pitfalls
which have ruined so many young men.
IL is not only necessary to earn our own
livelihood, but wo must rise with the sun
IN summer and before it in winter, nnd
wo'k with our hands. There is no de-
Gradatlon in labor. It exalts the man.
u was not disesteemel in earlier days
Only IN Greece anu Rome it was de-
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owned slaves. The nation to which we
owe SO much. and from which we buve
learned so much-the Jewish nation
always honored labor. The Jews taught
their childron some little craft, and thew
were not drudges. A drudge is q man
who labors with his hand aud has no
mind to control him. no conscience be-
hind 1t, no manhood.
Ii were cabinet maker do You SUP
pose could construct cradle without
singing lullaby all the time? laugh
teri Could saw, plane and rub; saw,
plano and rub, Initiating the m movements
of these tools, and not put nv heart in
the work? If I did, I would be drudge.
yho builder is drudge who, every time
he drives null, wonders where lie can
got poorer and cheaper one.
Men tell us that mans character NAV
be told by his writing. I cnn tell YOU
tho character of q builder and architect
OF cold. big house. That man would
be heartless and bloodless. But 60 into
moe. warm, cozy house. and you
would find out that the man who built it
was social, good man, with heart and
| brains, too.
Men do not like labor, because the
worker ranks below the thinker. That's
democratic feeling. say I'm lust as
good MS any other man, because oil men
are equal. l beg your pardon, all men
are not equal. They are not equal in
size, height, girth; not equal in virtue; !;
put all men are civilly equal before the
law. When a man says, "I'm lust ns
good as any man," it may be so, and it
may not be so. When the universal man
says 80, its lie.
That has been the grand blunder OF
the Communists and Internationale.
They wanted all man equal with UNEQUAL
means. The most productive part of
man is the animal part. A man shears
sheep, and there are 500 men in the
same township who can do tho same
thing. Then the wool is sent to the
'nanufactory, but there will not be 500
mon who can weave the fne cloth. The
result ls that the man who shears gets
one dollar day. while the weaver gets
three or four dollars day. This is the
result OF brains and education.
In Ohio, when I lived there, I knew
eminently educated German gentlemen
earning a dollar day breaking stones on
macadamized road. Measured by avo.
cation, they were low; but they were
thinkers. ranking higher-they were
honorable.
A man who has been hard worker all
his life says to himself, II have a smart
boy. Ill give him chances mover had.
LII give him good education. Yes, I'll
make lawyer out of him." Immode.
rate laughter. In the month of June
there will be 500. 900 blossoms on eyery
apple tree. There will be about 800
apples, and the remainder will drop to
the ground. It is the same in all pro.
fessions. Out of 100000 candidates
there will only be 800 professional men.
The great trouble is that men are
moro anxious to be rich than to bo hap.
py. l never knew O minister WHO
warnod his people about being e1trava-
CANT who refused to receive q good
salary. never derided wealth, never
exhorted you about being economical,
for l would just as lief walk into nv
yard and soy to my COWS, "Oh, Alder