The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-06-17
The Rev. Chauncey Giles De-
scribes tine Spiritual House
Not Made with Hands.
BEECAER ON RELIGION AND WORK.
Twenty 18th Anniversary Celebration Of
the Founding Of the Congre-
cation B'Nai Israel.
FATHER RCREADY ON TIE WORK CT LIFE.
The Sins Of the Age Set Forth by Archbishop
ntrlOskey at St. Patrick's Cathedral.
LYRIC HALL.

LYRIC HALL.
View OF the Ei1ht-Hour Movement
Caused Not by Real Wants, but I,nnSi-
nary Longings--The Whole Thing N
Utopin-SernOn by Rev. .. II. Froah-
fnghnm.
Notwithstanding the summer solstice, the attend
moe at Lyric Han, Sixth avenue, between Forty
nrst and Forty-second streets, was exceedingly
large. Rev. o. h. rockingham, the regular pastor
occupied the pulpit. The reverend gentleman
chose for his subject "The Complaint OF Labor,n
but before proceeding TO his main DISCOURSE offered
few Introductory remarks. He said he did not
choose this theme for sermon from any de-
Hsre Tor discussion or the sort; but from o
sense OF professional duty. Not that he could
add anything to what is now going on both at home
and abroad; but that he belonged TO that class
whose mission was to guide and purify the human
That class Is the cergy-a class composed OF
with educatlons the best the country Affords
. class TO whom all questions OF social ethics
should be familiar. Their manual OF duty Is the
New Testament, the Sermon the Mount 'Wel-
come" the reverend speaker began
"wELCoMB Discomfort
TO me- he said; lyon are hopeful thing among
Every aspiration for something new is not to be
crowned upon or put down. but to be encouraged
and helped. The only question is to the noble
ness Of the complaint" The speaker said he care
mlly watched the other day the procession
Of working men that he might see in their faces
their purpose. The procession was small, but that
meant nothing He watched the file and saw we'll
dressed men-men who did not look ill-used or
trodden on. He laughing and chatting,
but men with determined, blood thirsty looks.
Even the banner Of the Internationals borne
IN the hands Of very innocent men. II a procession
BROADWAY
would look far more haggard and careworn One
banner said, "Peaceably If we can; forcibly II we
must" DO the lawyer, the man or letters the
journalist and the physician limit themselves to
EIGHT HoURsY
Tho rule IT, work until the work Ii done, whether
II take two or twenty hours. There are many
brain workers whose brain sweat stands out on
their foreheads. sometimes they work fourteen
hours. The true worker estimates his work not by
the time il takes, but by the success he achieves.
Apply the eght-hour rule TO New York and civiza-
tioD would 20 back. Did the men wish to cultivate
themselves Who would not assist them The
man who puts brain in his muscle is worth more in
the market. He has something that might be called
aspiration II the men want two more hours to
cultivate themselves, they are not only the re-
fich improve their leisure time WIN
TEE LABOEERsS
Because in the name of Improvement it is asked,
will 1t be spent in Improvement The assumption
OF this IL too much. Is the complaint Aonest Ia
the discomfort honorable II has sprung from
speculation OF the universe; not from deep-rooted
conviction that they have not as much as they de-
serve. They have the same beliefs the same codes
a. the lnternatonals Of Europe. The Internationas
take thing for granted in every manifesto-that
between capital and labor, brain and hand there s
eternal warfare They believe that government
IN THE HANDS OF THE POOR;
that all property should be taken from the owners
and given to the poor; that there is a conflict be-
tween those who to aud those who do not-not
strange doctrine in Europe; on the one hand those
who have; on the other hand those who strive TO
get; landed proprietors, who never earned foot OF
their broad acres, whose ancestors never did; on
the other hand men who own not yard. There
are men who are rolling in vast estates yet give
thought to the poor: men who suck the last drop Of
blood rom the working class. Who OF u.s. in Europe,
would not take up some theory OF
COMMUNISM
Bot here there is no class. Wealth belongs 10 him
who viii labor for It, 1t is everybody's. All labor
come with the pickaxe and spade, some with the
pen, some with the brush. TO be sure, there are
few who do nothing; but they are the most miserable
creatures In existence. All classes work and the
capitalists the most severely. This mans brain is
Laboratory, chemists shop. Though he never
lifts q hammer, never handles trowei never
delves the earth, yet his brain does them ALL The
influence OF his brain is felt in every hut In the
land. And Is not the laborer capltalistY Are not
liis tools his saving Are they not capital There
a no laboring class, no wealthy class. How viii
you define
TIE CAPITALIST AND THE LABoRERs
You say the capitalist pays; the laDorer receives.
Then the man OF letters the journalist, the lawyer,
me physician are lahorers. The man receives with
one hand and gives with the other. II wages are
W ne large there must be a large fund; II they
10 DE nothing we are at the beginning of things.
Suppose
TnE WEALTHY
were 70 GET together and try 10 live without the
labor OF The poor. There IL no man OF sense who
does not know II could not be done. The wealthy
know they live by the work OF the poor So when
laborers get together and lash themselves into a
passion they hurt no one much as themselves
They are suicidal. In Europe there is a
DEsP0TisM or CAPITAL;
here IL rs an unnleaning term Yet no one can
neny that there ~ some despotlsm; IL Is the uriey.
snce OF society; and unless political ECONOMY
PRONUNCIATION OF DEGREES and maniiestoes are on
khe part Of the wOrkmen. There Is no tyranny on
The side OF any one except those VINO are com.
claiming Of IL; yet capitalists buy up u certain
article and ruin families Is IL less llideous when
men say,
''yoU MUST DROP YOUR TooLs;"
lose the labor on which you and yonr family de-
pend Tyranny what capitalist has done anything
IKE that Bnt behind all this IL the leeing tnat
the property of man Is an Insult TO another
that one mans having property Is theft rom the
community There are probably no people In Amer
Tea who believe that. There Is no man on earth
OWN nothingp Must we divide to-day, divide to-
morrow What becomes OF our arrangements;
what becomes OF our family In six months the
WOrlu would he In the hands OF usurcrs ii is then,
hol te owning OF property that IL odious, Dnt the
power J, gives; that SIMPLY because man Is rich
ne becomes richer. But suppose the poor man
comes 10 the ricb man and says,
II NEED MONEY
70 hQild house, and he gives IL 10 him without
interest. Tie mans money would soon be dissi-
Jatcu II TINS were the much better spend IL
IN luxury for himself and friends. Much better
seIend ~ IN travel. He gives up these, sends his
tald ule other day, 'Rich yes have enough TO buy
hsult OF ciotnes.n His money was
FEEDING THE STRINGS LABOR.
Anu were tne working man to get money without
nevIng 10 earn II he would lose all his seIErcspect
become mere dependent. The speaker related
bne AsOTy VI lnan who came TO him