Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1872-12-14
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At Plymouth Church on Sunday
evening Mr.. Beecher preached a ser
mon that is worthy of being read and
studied by every man in the land. If
he can learn people to practice the Wis
dom taught in this discourse there will
not be many Americans who have done
more good in their day and generation.
We copy from the New York Suns re-
port
Then Mr.. Beecher took his text from
Ephesians iv., 2S: "Let him that stole,
steal no more but rather let him Ia
Dor, working with his hands the thing
which is good, that he may have to give
to him that needeth.
That is the pattern of reformed life,
said Mr.. Beechcr. Some people gain
their living without earning it. 1t caus-
es suspicious of sleight of hand "Let
him that stole steal no more" 1t Is ne
cessaav to have been thief to steal, but
there is great deal Of stealing not done
by thieves, and | advise all those who
obtain their livelihood in an improper
way to cam it in proper way here
after
"BY THE SWEAT OF THY BROW.
Every man should earn his own liv-
ing. do not say it is misfortune to
be born rich, but | do say that of one
hundred men born with money and one
hundred men born without it, tie chan
ces to find virtue and happiness are bet
ter in the last hundred. He who is
born in life to rise early, to work, to
earn his living, is the happy man. y
man who works is healthier and hap
pier than he who does not, and he Is,
moreover, debarred from those tempta-
tons which spring from the possession
of wealth, and those pitfalls which
have ruined so many young men. 1t is
not only necessary to earn our own live
lhood, but we must rise with the sun in
summer and before it in winter, and
work with our hands. There is no de-
gradation in labor. 1t exaltS the man.
| 1t was not disesteemed in earlier days.
| Only in Greece and Rome it was de-
spised because the Greeks and Romans
owned slaves. The nation to which we
owe so much and from which we have
learned so much-the Jewish natlon--
always honored labor. The Jews
taught their children some little craft,
and they were not drudg ges. y drudge
is a man who labors with his hand and
has no mind to control him, no consci-
ence behind it, no manhood.
MIR. BEECHER AS AN ACTOR.
If l were a cabinet maker do you sup
pose | could construct cradle without
singing a lullaby all the time ? Laugh,
ter. Could l saw, plane and rub saw,
plane and rub Gmitating the move
ments of these tools and not put my
heart in the work If | did | would
be a drudge. The builder is a drudge
who, every time he drives nail, won
ders where he can get poorer and
cheaper one.
Men tell us that a mans character
NAV be told by his writing. | can tell
YOU the character of builder and arch
itect of cold big house. That man
would be heartless and bloodless. But
90 into nice, warm, coy house, and
Won would find out that the man who
built it was social good man, with u
heart ard brains too.
4 LIE.
Men do not like labor because the
worker ranks below the thinker. That s
a Democratic feeling. | say I'm just as
good as any other man because all men
are equal. / beg Your pardon, all men
are not equal. They are not equal in
size, heighth. girth; not equal in virtue;
but all men are civilly equal before the
law. When man says, I'm just as
good as any man, it may be so, and it
NAV not be so. When the universal
man says so, it's lie.
That has been the grand blunder of
Communists aud 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 10
the mapufactory, but there will nor be