Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-11-30
BEECHER ON LABOR.
Curious AllusiOEs in an Interesting
Sermon.
Popular Errors in the Education Of
American Youth.

Popular Errors in the Education Of
American Youth.
Last sunday night Henry Ward
Beecher preached from Ephesiansi y. IS:
Let him that stole. steal no more: but rather
let him labor, working with his hands the
thing which Is good, tlat he may have TO give
10 aim that neeaeth-
This is the pattern OF a reformed life,
said Mr.. Beecher. Some people gain
their living without earning il. It causes
suspicious Of sleight Of hand. "Let him
that stole steal no more" It is neces-
sary to have been a thief to steal, but
there is a great deal Of stealing not done
by thieves, and I advise all those who
obtain their livelihood in an improper
way 20 earn it in a proper way hereafter.
Try THE SWEAT OF THY BROW"
Every man should earn his own liv-
ing. j do not say it is a misfortune to
be born rich, but / 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
l born in life 70 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 ne is, moreover,
debarred from those temptations which
springfrOm the possession of wealth, and
those pitfalls which have ruined 50
many young mel. 1t is not only neces-
saTy to earn our own livelihood, but we
must rise with the sun in summer and
before it in winter, and work with our
hands. There is no degradation in la
Dor. II exaits the man. 1t was not dis
esteemed in earlier days. Only in
Greece and Rome it was despised be-
cause the Greeks and Romans owned
slaves. That nation to which we owe
so much and from which we have learn
ed SO much-the Jewish natiOu-always
hOnored labor. The Jews taught their
children some little craft, and they were
not drudges. A drudge is a man who
labors with his hand and has no mind
to control him, no conscience behind il,
no manhood.
Mr.. BEECHER AS AN ACTOR.
III were a cabinet-maker, do you sup
pose I could construct q cradle without
singing a lullaby all the time? Laugh
ter Could l saw, plane and rub i'm
itadng the movements OF these tools, 1
and not put my heart in the work? III
did 1 would be a drudge. The builder is
a druge who, every time he drives a nail,
wonders where he can get a poorer and
cheaper one.
Men tell US that a mans character
may be told by his writing. / an tell
you the character Of q builder and
architect Of a cold, big house. That
man would be heartless and blood
less. But go into a nice, warm, coy
house, and YOU would find out that the
man who built it was a social, good
man, with a heart and brains, too.
ALE.
Men do not like to labor, because the
worker ranks below the thinker. That's
a Democratic feeling. Isay Pm Just as
good as anyOther man, because all men
are equal. l beg your pardon, they are
not equal. They are not equal in size.
hight, girth; not equal in virtue; but all
men are civilly equal before the law,
When a man says, pm just as good as
any man" it may be and it may not
be so. When the universal man says
50, it's a lie.
That had been the grand blunder of
the Communists and Internationals.
They wanted all men equals with unequal
means. The most productive part of
man is the animal part. A man shears
a sheep, and there are five hundred men
in the same township who can do the
same thing. Then the wool is sent to
the mandatory, but there viii not be
i've hundred men who can the
fine cloth. The result is that the man
who shears gets one dollar a day, while
the weaver gets three or four dollars a
day. This is the result Of brains and
education.
TRUE RESPECTABILITY.
In Ohio, when [ lived there, I knew
eminently educated German gentlemen
earning a dollar a day breaking stones
a macadsmized road. Measured by
.avocation they were low; but they We're
thinkers, ranking higher-they were
honorable.
A man who has been a hard worker
all bis life says to himself: 81 have a
smart boy. III give him chances ]
never had. III give him a good educa-
ton. Yes, III make a lawyer out of
LImmoderate laughter. In the
month Of June there will be i've hun
ilred thousand blossoms on every apple
tree. There will be about three hundred
apples, and the remainder will drop to
the ground. It is the same in all profess
siOns. Out Of five hundred thousand
candidates there viii only be three hum
dred professional men.
THE CURSE OF WEALTH.
The great trouble is that men are more
anxious to be rich than to be happy. I
never knew a minister who warned his
people about being e-xtravagant, who re-
fused TO receive a good salary. I never
lerided wealth, never eXhorted you
about being economical, for ! would Just
as lief walk into my yard and say to my
cows, "Oh, Attorneys, be careful Of
your milkin CLaughter.l
A nan may be rich and yet be a fool. J
OF one hundred who have wealth, but
one knows how to use it. The insane ]
notion that II q man only had wealth
he wouldn't want anything else, has
been the ruin Of many young men. Sud-
den wealth and immense wealth are the
dream of many men in cities, who have
left their farms and workshops to come /
here. Iventure TO say that there are !
i've thousand young men here between
twenty and twenty-three years Of age
who have nothing to do.
NEW YORK Is FULL OF THEM. I
do not wish to be d~isrespectful, but {
ask u of them if he can 10 a DAVIS |
work. He viii answer, No. Are YOU !
good on ~ship-board? No, I've never
been to sea. Can you make a chair?
No. Are YOU a blacksmith? No. Are
a carpenter? No. Is there any J
hing on Gods earth that you can do? +,
No, not a thing. Laughter. Now
.hink, what can you do? Wen, Pm q
good book-keeper. Laughter. They
AN do nothing and can get nothing TO {
10. Not alone is this the case in New '
York but in all large cities in the Union.
WHAT THEY LAUGHED AT. !
Thousands Of young men would
Jtarve to death on a hundred acres OF
and because they couldn't raise corn. :
They would be houseless and homeless F
u q lumber yard-barefOOted with all
he leather in the swamp at their COM n
nand. They have abandoned work and
want something nice and easy. ! think
hat the respectable German in his six :
attic, pegging away at his last,is
much more respectable than the young
nan who left his fathers farm before 4
he learned to work. Youought to 20 TO
nv house and see the number of appli-
made 10 me daily. Why, peo-
lie must think that / own Central Park, ~
md Prospect Park, and the pOstoffice, !
nd the c~ustSmhOuse, and the navy
ard. Lsughter.l They don't believe N
bat I've no influence at Washington. y
Laughter. But l never turn them =
way. l never say, young man, go j
Vest" Loud laughter try to en- y
Ourage them. S