New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-06-01
BEECHER on LABOR.

IN . secen. sermon the Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher disceucsed on the subject Q: labor
a. fol!ow.:
Every man .houid earn his own living.
do not say i. is misfortune 70 be born rich
but do say that Of one hundred men born
with money and one hundred inen born
without ;t. the chances 20 find virtue and
happiness are better in the last hundred
He who is born in life 20 rise early &c
work TO earn hi. living Is the happy man.
A man who works i. healthier and hap
pier than he who does not. and he is
moreover. debarred from those temp.a.
tons which sprins from the possession
Of wealth. and those pitfails which have
ruined so many young men. 1t i. noc Onl :
necessary TO earn our own livelihood. but
We must rise with the sun in summer and
before it in winter. and work with our
hands. There Is no degradation in la Dor.
II exalts the man. II wa. not disesteemed
in earlier days. Only in Greece and Rome
it was Gespised because the Greeks and
Romans owned slaves. That nation to
which we owe 80 much and from which We
learned SO inuch--the Jewish nation--ai.
ways honered labor. The jews laugh,
their children some little craft. and they
were not drudge.. a drudge il a man who
labors with his hands. and hs. no mind 20
control him. no conscience behind il. 90
manhood.
IfIwsre . eabins. maker. 80 you sup.
pose could construct a cradle without
singing a lullaby all the time Could ! saw.
plane and cub. saw. plane and rub fimita:.
ing the movements of these ,OslA1. and not
put my heart in the work. II did would
be drudge. The builder is a drudge who.
every time he drives nail. wonders ~heye
he can &c, poorer and cheaper one.
Men tell us that mans character mas he
told by his working. lean tell you the
character Of builder and architect OF a
cold, big house. That man would be heart.
less and boodlsss. Blu: 90 snta q nice.
warm. coy house. and you would find out
that the man who built it was a social. good
man, will, heart and brains too.
eMen do not like to labor, because the
worker ranks below the thinker Yha.s a
democratic feeling. say Im just as good
IS any other man. because ak men are
equal. beg your pardon; all men are noe
equal. They are not equal N sze. height.
girth; not equal in virtue; but all ileD are
civilly equal before The law When a man
says''!'m just as good As any man" it may
Se so, and 1t may not he SO. Nhen the lIu!.
yersal man says 80. it, lie.
That has been the grand h..nder of .he
Communists and International. They
wanted all menequals with unequal means.
The most productive part OF man is the
duIiu - part. u map snedfe sheep and
there are five hundred men in the same
township who can do the same thing. Then
the wool is sent TO the sn.nufactory, bu:
there VIII RIO, be five hun Ired ,neD who
can weave the fine cloth. The result is
that the man who shears gets one dollar a
day. while the weaver get. three OF four
dollars day. This is the Jesuit Of brains
and education.
In Ohio, when lived there, knew emf
nently educated German gentlemen earning
mized road. Measured BY ayocation they
were low, but they were thinkers, ranking
higher-they were honorable.
man who has been a hard worker all
his life says to himself: 81 have a smart
boy. I'll give him chances l never had
Ill give him good education. Yes, III
make a lawyer out Of him. [Immoderate
!aughter.l in the month Of June there win