New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-11-08
ORR SATURDAYS SERMOM

The sermons in city churches Tomorrow. q,
last Sunday, will, 10 doubt, If they are not
preached altogether on the text OF the panic
and the hard times coming, administer saln-
tary warning by way Of side Issue thereupon.
Resignation and the necessity of kissing the
rod will be preached to Dives, who has
lost millions, and Lazarus, who was working at
\ mans work last week, and this is driven to
his rich brothers gate for tie crumbs that 'ah
from his table.
Something better than resignation. perhaps,
awaits the New-York Dives who wakes TINS
morning to find his money gone, but himsef
separated by no impossible gulf from his broth
ers. What that something is our reverend
friends can tell tomorrow better IMAM we;
but TO our secular fancy some hint OF 1t must
come to the bankrupt in thousand common
place petty ways; in the mere f&cs that he Is
as much man among men as yester'
day; his lungs as sound. his brain as
alert and strong; the November sun and
wind arc az blight and bracing to-day -
though tho Construction Company had cot
gone to protest; it gives him just as keen
pleasure and pride when bis boy Bob comes
home with his school hOnOrs. or wins the
cham oion's bat at cricket; and when his 1T
tie gill kisses him. the water stands in lis
ewes, for be sees with them the grassy hiIiock
at Greenwood where her mother lies. How
can his lost money come between him and
that child or grave 1t is of them. not it, he
thinks when he prays in his own fashion,
whatever that may be.
The millions he owned may have cast
Golden glamour over him in the eyes of his
cria m
Christian brothers in the church; but we may
be sure that in his most purse-proud moment
he knew that there was One before whom Dc
stood on the level Of the ground md with
empty hands. He will be very likely to look
at himself to-day in tho slme searching, eter-
nal light, aud in the face of such
vision will not be apt TO indulge IN
any laudations of his own sanity resignation.
Another wholesome lesson he will learn most
probably is that this golden glamour about
him has not been hall so bewilderiDg to his
associates as he supposed. They took his
measure LONG ago, and his greenbacks added
rot one cubit 10 his real stature. If any
respect or homage ia lacking to him to-day
he may be toicrably confident that it was the
money only which deserved it before; but in
holds his friends with irmcr grip now that
there is no golden purse to cross his palm or
theirs.
After all in month or two he will be sur
Drised to find how much more real the posses
sions are which are left t. him than here
tofore. He will have time not only to become
acquainted with his children but with himself
in some other character than stock broker.
He will give no balls nor state dinners per-
hans but bis Old chums viii sit more comfort
ably and chat more freely &C his tlblc'
If he can no longer pour great sums into the
treasury of the Lord he will he mOre likely
to give the faith OF the widow with her milo
Resignation at all events will not be bls sui;a-
bic mood, tunless it is lifting to be resigned
when we lose the glittering shadow with bet
ter chance of finding the substance.
AS for preaching resignation 10 Lazarus IN
danger OF starvation. who shall do i'll God
himself in his own way may enforce such
lesson, but not his fellow-man through whose
fault it is he stands where he does to-day.
The suffering Of the coming Winter will fall
most heavily on the honest laborer. who was
content with his harl work and wages, the
man who caused it by the part he bore in the
general gambling aud reckless expenditure
should recognize it as lis frsc business 10
furnish the hungry with bread. Resignation
can be preached with more chance of effect to
fuller stomac.Is.