, 1876-05-22
Prof. Swing on the Relations
Of Christianity to
Labor.
What Was Done at the Recent
Unitarian Conference at
Louisville.
The First Congregational Church
Celebrates It's Twenty-ffth
Birthday.
Programme Of the Eighteenth
Convention of tho Illinois
Sunlny-School Asso-
citation.


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t!antty to Labor. Ills discourse was % follows:
s % 10 10 tbe % ant 5ttG thoa ,uEEa1d; consid:;
her ways and be w!so.-prov.. e., ..
You were asked last Sunday to view the Office
Of labor {" in tue life Of 1na1t. The great labor
unt1er tl,c sun VIVA fonnd ~ In o,,y contin,,.
once ~ thn ~, ~ cr..tsor,N,n sy ai,ua,-n,,. ~
ass ~. o. ~ w. ~ e!ea.oh,aa enlargement OF
tnat first week IN Which tiod gaVc osaFt to the
material and moral machinery Of the world. AS
su,nInc that man Is an agent Of thu 1nf1n,,c One
anno[nted hire for a wnr1f that ,n,y cvcr ~
10000 wears in addition to t,c centrie. % alreat1v
passed over, let us to-day Inquire Into the Office
Of religion In this empire Of work. It must bs
TINT tllfs rreat lumnn enerry I, cxl,astct1 u1onp
1on,tn ,5,.rr,t. +. !. ~ ,,,,1a,' ,,,S,. ~ =
aelte channels III H. Is no, fahoom ~oFk II 1t
"aa oiaalnea W wise aoo ana Is carried for
ward by rational agent. The creative power
OF God did not exhaust itsclf thought
saa.3, .t. L". ~ ~" eaI.t u.''noo 'na'
tooaY theso Is 10 oe eceh mul~
tttude Of s,lns and planets that move in orbits
20 &c e1Ses tnt er tss Lave rot safie seeona
and shaped " lltnl, II must be that man is sx,
shall rsyeal some tearing upon worthy en.l.
@ nPssa ssds % y ss 'ss aSy5as 5sss
ends, and hence in the world Of tiotl md man We
must expect to ful wise ends appointed for maj,
to reach. and to nud man seeking wise paths
At unce VIC RECALL tic paths of politics, of
science, Of invention, OF education Of Useful art,
Of flne art, Standing amid these highways of
the kine called man, NC may say with the wise
her paths pcace." Among these ways uEoug
which the 1Rborrr rnoycs, one Of the very largest
and uoblest has been omitted from the cnunlcra.
ton. ! omitted IT that II might now stand
alone, and be for thc hour specially LOOTED ct IN
It's own utility mud beauty. This Is the path Of
religion. 1nas'nuch rs 30 far We ore con-
ccr1'ed there ts no religion except Christianity,
ehip Of our eontincnt may be in so!uc se,,se csn:
braced, sfi9ll l'y religion mean tic religion Of
tho colnInon Bible.
itellgion must signify man as viewed in rein
Politics Is man and the state; mt is man and
nis taste as to 1o''?, hna color, and sounu.
Science Is man and the trnthi religion must,
1hcrciors, bt term That hf!ngs heforc us man
anu us dot. II cannot a.ana 1or simply
prayer, or hymn, or q creed, but inust &c
vague, i1nmcnsS term, standing 1or the soul tn
shany houre O. nc, out OF Lug sanctuary hs weIl
rs within, and many hours lived W men who
.,A'S "1s ~ 'sA ssA-s4 ASH1A~u "As Ao"s ~
the earthly rolls Of woFshipcFs., Gould VIC Dc
hne religion perfectly wc should M ~ better able
70 astefIltng WaGfe IL =, ahn now much IS pres
cut 1n this wicked world. ln tho abscnce oi an
e1sct ll'le to lay down upon IT. LII Tue absecc of
cup BY which we may measure the water cont
ing from beneath tho whits throne, Wy can only
hope t'lat thtfe arc souls BY thousands outside
our churches whose depths contain that mysse-
rious scnti1nent TINT Vt times bursts forth n
prayer and hymn, oF sits III Tic silence OF medI-
tallon.
| a first pnrt IN tho task Of religion must bc to
Tyr furnish ~ Us such conception Of man Us xlll 1ns-
| tify tho work demanded Of society. In orlcF
that We may totl willingly and Wisely y IS nee.
cssasy tna1 wo @ kno* ,ro or nnllm 'oetnuf o.
and prospects, II QUO IS ~ tbe presence Of tne
dcaf he should know T. TIT nc 1,. nay not ta,k
much. II our companions afe pilnd, We should
know the fact, that We may not point out tho
nesnefy to them aloag en1 W2y jhus ' ins
re arc. Il man u simple chs'nscal action,
Ike tho toamng OF an akal a! ~ afa .. u
plants whose lcases wither Ut tho touch, or
close In the dark, then great LABOR Is Only