The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1877-09-28


lExtracts from sermon by Prot swingl
She prepareth her food In surnmer.--i'vor.
e., 4.
This want Of given age or individu-
al Is very unreliable quality. Its de-
mands always need looking into mos
carefully. Like conscience, which must H.
self be instructed, the want Of each mind
must be broughtupt to some judgment-bar
10 answer for It's suggestions and aspira-
tons. AS the CONSCIENCE Of a Hindoo
will declare that such a child must be
drowned, or such woman burned up,
so what we call "wants" will, II let
alone, do most wonderful things with
the income of any toiler. Ii might be
that our desires for fine furniture and
clothing and for palatial homes and all
gorgeousness are rs wrong and as de-
spotic as the conscience Of the Pagan
mother who offers her first-born to some
imaginary god. II may be we are all
led to and fro by an inner fury rather
than by deep wisdom. Beyond doubt
the idea Of our text is finding in the
measureless wants Of the present a most
powerful enemy, and great will be the
sorrow before the age shall have passed
through this one war.
Much as the cities and villages and
the private rooms and purses are plum
dered by dishonest men, still larger
number of persons are robbed by the
prevailing .faisc wants. A wicked
philosophy can ransack house and
empty II as quickly as it could be ac-
complished by regiment Of Turks.
One would rather be beggared BY a
fashion than by dishonest man, but
the beggary in each case is the same
fact; it Is painfully complete.
Doubtless there are many forms of
labor which secure no fair wages, and to
underpaid persons all talk about econ
omy and forethought is only cold cru
city; but in four instances out of five
the wages form summer time out Of
which the toiler might carry food for
the winter to come were not the toiler
attacked and beaten, and robbed by the
surrounding tastes. II is said there are
switchmen on one of our oldest railways
whose homes and realities are worth ten
thousand for each Of these most patient
laborers. A stonc-yard master in Gin
cinnati says he has men who have cut
stone forhim twenty years and who are
worth ten or fifteen thousand, dollars.
Many such facts might be gathered up
in our land, and all would 20 10 tell
what common wages will achieve when
no senseless fashion or barbaric taste
interyenes 70 subject the toilcr to daily
pillage.
X Is one of the painful scenes Of the
day 70 see industry struggling against
the despotism OF almost rcsistless fash
ion: Good men are leaping to their toll
as soldiers hurl themselves against a
driven not by the natural and
wants of society, but by the
temporary dreams Of the heart. Fash
ion slaughtcrs lis subjects like Daho-
mey King In rational society II i
thought that four hours Of labor would
sustain life, and that six hours a day
would provide for the future; but the
sacred laws Of production and provision
are rudely broken by the enormous APP
petite that wants all forms Of things in
the passing hour.
You can all enumerate for yourselves
the foes that prevent our industry from
filling the present and future with real
happiness. Let us proceed now to ask
why the principle Of the text should be
thought so full Of nobleness. WHY
should not the laborer exhaust upon to-
day the wages Of to-day, and
upon tomorrow the wages Of
tomorrow? The answer is plain. Life
has its summertime, and II not its win
ter at least its fading autumn. The hard
telling days should not cover all of life
up to its last hour. Work is indeed the
condition of success Of both body and
mind. but not work which amounts TO
a servitude like that OF galley slave.
As silver hairs come, the quantity Of
physical and mental strain should be
and life should flow more
peacefully as il approaches the sea-
And then the heart Is so constructed by
lis Maker that II must be able always to
see before il future Of supposed peace.
II must see home before itself, planted
by some stream or grove, and must each
day mark how the hard toll Of the hour
Is laying those foundations. As the old
Suhtiinp anu prosecuted SAINTS, COM
PEELED 70 part with their old Jerusalem,
saw New Jerusalem coming down
from God out Of Heaven. so all the
young and middlc-aged toilers in shops
or street or field should see a home Of
plenty and joy coming down to them,
not out Of Heaven, but out of the future
years Of this life. Such an inspiration
i demanded by the soul, and the toll Of
each day may not be the task Of cruel
master, but the building up 81 better
future; the opportunity Of an intelligent
mind granted BY benevolent God.
The part which this BODYBUILDING
performs in morals Is as vast as the
part II plays in inspiration and hope.
The early life must have an outlet for It's
powerful passions. Something must
receive the hands power and the hearts
love. Some noble object must move be-
lore man; otherwise his momentum will
be given to folly or vice. When wages
are building up the future, they are
easily withheld from the paths Of sin.