The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-06-07
THE NOBILITY OF LABOR.
Dr. d. II. Tiffany Discusses the Social
Condition OF the WOrkingmen
Before the SUNDAY Lecture society.


From the Chicago lnter-Ocean.
The social Condition of the W orking
People was the subject OF very able
and interesting lecture delivered yeSter-
lav afternoon by the. Rev. DIR. .. II.
Tiffany, pastor of the Trinity Methodist
Episcopal Church OF tins city. The first
portion of the discourse was given to
Generalization upon the subject Of labor,
all of which tended to prove that labor
i, the initial law of nature, and that
man Is not an aggregation of pOssiblII.
ties but unit. The speaker denounced
the custom of society, which Is inclin-
/ cd to look down upon the workinGman,
. disrcgardng the necessity of work IN
/ this lite. To some people work Is u
curse, and the end of life is eagerly an
ticlpatcd us a means whereby they are
to get rid of doing work. The fact that
. there is work to do is sufficient punish
mont and misery 10 this class. Man :
destiny is something more than to mere
" suUsist and accumulate wealth. In
work man can glorliy God. Toilers
are merely carrying out in detail SIT
cred allotment. given to them by the
author ofthcir being. The distinctions
90 society in regard to work and work
inc people are but arbitrary assumptions.
II the human race wer" perfect, men
would group themselves into classes other
than tLcv are now, and more according
Ia their intrinsic merit. Society divides
them into the principal classes-tho.e
who do and those who do not work.
That elias. of men who inherit wealth
and are maintained ky possessions which
have been left to them by others are
called aristocrats. and in some instances
they are Of very great force and lnfiu-
cuce in this world, particularly III Eastern
and Europeans countries. 1t Is an I'M
RECOGNIZED class, however among Us.
There Is still another class in society
which is composed of men who do no
work and vet are not aristocrats. These
ARE the paupers. Neither the former nor
the latter class does anything for the
rood of society. 1t is Il little singular
that those whose conditions are 80 far
apart should belong together. But 1"
social providence orders That ut the gate
of every Dives there shall be Lazarus.
IN. .-..,pB class l. rpmpDSel of all that
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No., 'f''G C,,Lrni o NV tbe Iatr civil war
, TTa" S.,I,;m', ws. done by fine working.
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with which TO carry ON the war
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