The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-06-17


amelioration thrown away in self-suficiency
cruelty and ignorance.
Sunday Philosophy, Morals and Religion.
The leading social question of the day-the
labor strikes-was discussed yesterday by Mr..
rockingham, who, if he ever had an aspira-
ton toward q political Office before, has
spoiled his chances of election in the future by
what he said on this point yesterday.
Looking at the question of a reduction
Of the hours Of labor, he said, what is well
known as the true and experimental test of
success that "the rule is, work until the work
is DONE whether it take two or twenty hours.
There are many brain workers whose brain
sweat stands out on their foreheads. Some
times they work fourteen hours. The true
worker estimates his work not by the time
it takes but by the success he achieves. Apply
the eight-hour rule to New York. he added,
"and civilization would 60 back" He had
watched the procession last week and he saw
welldressed men-men who did not look i'll
used or trodden on. If procession of CAPT
talists were to 60 down Broadway he believed
they would look more haggard and careworn.
The lawyer, the man Of letters, the journalist,
the physician, do not limit themselves to eight
hours. Do the rich improve their leisure
hours? and will the laborers2 he asked. The
assumption is too much. He secuted the In
ternationals' idea that there is an eternal war
fare between capital and labor Wealth be-
longs to everybody who will labor for it, and
none work harder than the capitalists them
selves. Mr.. rockingham then drew picture
of the capitalists getting together and deciding
to live without the labor of the poor. The idea
is preposterous and the attempt would be sui
tyranny" exercised by the laborers as by the
capitalists We may in passing earnestly COM
mend the suggestions Of Mr. rockingham to
the consideration of the workingmen of our
city.
Yesterday was the time appointed for taking
up collections in the Catholic churches of this
city and diocese for the Pope, and we doubt
not the amount received was large It GER
tainly should be so in st. Stephens, where
very suggestive text was taken by Father
McCready, who elaborated the Scripture idea
of work, work until the allotted task is accom-
plished and success crowns our labors. Dr.
Mccartney, Of Maryland, speaking in St
Andrews church on the temporal resources
of the Pope, remarked that st. Peter and his
successors faithfully fulfilled their mission to
become fishers of men, for they captured the
whole pagan world in their net and made it
Christian. And they did it and still do it by
the ever-present power Of the Saviour, who has
promised to be with His Church even unto the
end of the world. The reverend doctor waxed
very bitter against ''the prince Of robbers"
Victor Emmanuel, and assured his hearers
that the Italians are ION the point of rebellion
on account of the exactions of the unscru-
pulous adventures who now rule them" If
this were so we should be likely to
hear Of it in another way and from
another correspondent. The statement, how
ever, we presume served to increase the Pom
tifical fund. The Archbishop briefly sketched
the growth and power of the Catholic Church
from the days Of st. Peter its assumed
founder, and claimed that ''the whole history
of the Church is the history of st. Peter and
his successors. He acknowledged that cher
estes and schisms did arise in the early history
of the Church, but they don't compare with
the heresies of the sixteenth and nineteenth
centuries. Luther rebelled against the Pope,
but held to the Bible and the divinity of
Christ But our modern reformers have dis
carded the Pope and the Bible and religion
and the divinity of Christ and have made and
set up for their alteration and worship the
idols Of science, money, power and reason.
There is therefore, great reason why Christian
faith should be deeper and stronger, and the
congregation WAS asked to show its faith by it's
works and to subscribe literally to aid the
Pope
Mr.. Beecher was very felictous yesterday in
his pulpit, and amused his hearers with apt
illustrations and pointed commonplace say
ings. He wanted to convince them that the
Christian life is one of growth, and that while
God does much for us we have much to do for
ourselves ere we can stand up perfect men in
Christ Jesus.
DR.. Porter, of Brooklyn, made an eloquent
plea for the sanctty of the Sabbath, and COM
pared it to the mountains in the physical
world. 1t was we'll attested fact of sociol-
ogy, he said, that those who climbed mp tho
high mountain of the Lords Day felt the brac-
ing atmosphere and the spicy odoz that came