Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-12-05
Mistellameuns &eading.
A SENSATION SERMON.

.." A SENSATION SERMON.
ONE OF HENRY WARD BEECHERs DIsCoURss.
Many of our readers are doubtless curious
to know what manner of sermons are those
that have won for the Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher so wide a popularity at the North.
The following is the New York Suns report
of Mr.. Beecher's last Sunday evening sermon
at Plymouth Church:
Mr.. Beecher took his text.from Ephesians
iv., %: "Let him that stole, steal no more
but rather let him labor, 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. Beecher. Some people gain their living
without earning it. 1t causes suspicious of
sleight of hand "Let him that stole, steal no
more" 1t is necessary to have been thief
to steal, but there is great deal of stealing
not done by thieves, and I advise all those
who obtain their livelihood in an improper
way, to earn it in proper way hereafter.
"BY THE SWEAT OF THY BROW"
Every man should earn his own living. l
do not say it is misfortune to be born rich,
but I do say that of one hundred men born
without it, the chances to find virtue and hap
piness 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, and those pitfalls
which have ruined so many young men. 1t
is not only necessary to earn our own llvell.
hood, but we must rise with the sun in sum-
mer, and before it in winter, and work with
our hands. There is no degradation in labor.
1t exalts the man. It was not disesteemed in
earlier days. Only in Greece and Rome it
was despised, 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 nation-always honored
labor. The Jews taught their children some
little craft, and they were not drudges. A
drudge is man who labors with his hand
and has no mind to control him, no conscience
behind it, no manhood. .-... .: ..
MR.. BEEcHER AS AN ACTOR.
If were cabinet maker, do you suppose
I could construct cradle without singing
lullaby all the time? Laughter.] Could
saw, plane and rub, Gmitating the movement
of these tools,) and not put my heart in the
work? III did I would be drudge. The
builder is a drudge who every time he drives
nail wonders where he can get poorer and
cheaper one. .-~
Men tell US that a mans character may be
told by his writing. can tell you the char
acter of builder and architect of cold, big
house. That man would be heartless and
bloodless. But go into a nice, 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 Democrat
ic feeling. I say am just as good as any
other man, because all men are equal. l beg
your pardon, all men are not equal. They
are not equal in size, height, girth not equal
in virtue; but all men are civilly equal before
the law. When a man says, "1'm just as
good as any man," it may be so, and it may
not be 80. When the universal man says so,
it's lie.
That has been the grand blunder Of the
Communists and Internationals. They want
ed all men equal 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 will not be
five hundred men who can weave the fine
cloth. The result is that the man who shears
gets one dollar a day, while the weaver gets
three or four dollars day. This is the result
of brains and education.
TRUE REsPECTABILITY. =.
In Ohio, when I lived there, I knew emf
nently educated German gentlemen earning
dollar day breaking stones for macadam-
lied road. Measured by avocation they were
low; but they were thinkers, ranking higher.
They were honorable men.
A man who has been hard worker all his
life says to himself, 81 have smart boy, III
give him chances 1 never had. I'll give him
q good education. Yes, I'll make lawyer
out of him." [Immoderate laughter. In
the month of June there will be FIVE hundred
thousand blossoms on every apple tree There
will be about three hundred apples, and the
remainder will drop to the ground. 1t is the
same in all professions. Out of five hundred
thousand candidates there will be only three
hundred professional men.
THE CURSE OF WEALTH.
The great trouble is, that men are more
anxious to be rich than happy. l never knew
a minister who warned his people about being
extravagant who refused to receive a good
salary. never derided wealth, never exhort-
ed you to be economical, for I would just as
lief walk into my yard and say to my COWS,
"Oh, Alderneys, be careful of your milk"
Laughter.
A man may be rich and yet be fool. Of
one hundred who have wealth, but one knows
how to use it. The insane notion that if
man only had wealth he wouldn't want any
thing else has been the ruin Of many young
men. Sudden wealth and immense wealth
are the dream of many men in cities who have
left their farms and workshops to come here.
venture to say that there are five thousand
young men here between twenty and thirty
years of age who have nothing to do.
NEW YORK Is FULL OF THEM.
I do not wish to be disrespectful, but ask one
of them if he can do days work. He will
answer, No. Are you good on shipboard I
No, I've never been to sea. Can you make a
chair? No. Are you a blacksmith ?
No. Are you carpenter? No. Is there
anything on Gods earth that you can do?
No, not thing. [Laughter.] Now think,
what can you do? Well, l am good book
keeper [Laughter.] They can do nothing
and can get nothing to do. Not alone is this
the case in New York, but in all the large
cities of the Union.
WHAT THEY LAUGHED AT.