New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-09-23
from recruiting Service Is granted FirstLieuteuant
Wm s. Sage, 18th Infantry.
CaRI8TTAN 8OOIALISM.
A SERMON BY THE REV. DIR. LUDLO

CHRISTIAN SOCIALISM.
A SERMON BY THE REV. DIR. LUDLOW.
TIE wonKEGMEN TO RISE BY A RETURN FROM
INFIDELITY TO FAITH. FROM LICENSE TO LAW
TUE KIND OF MOVEMENT THAT WILL MEET TIE
SANCTION OF CHRISTIAN PEOPLE.
The Rev. DIR. j. M. Ludlow preached yes
erday morning in the Westminster Presbyterian Church,
Brooklyn on the vital necessity of religion. temperance
and law in any great effort Of workingmen TO ameli
their condition He founded his sermon on Luke
w. II and lSthe text upon which Jesus preached In
the synagogue at Nazareth.
This was text said speaker for all Christsteaeh
lng for there He declared that had been anOned to
"preaeh the gospel to the poor" It mere sent
mentasm that led God 10 enter our humanity Jesus not
only became but He chose spend the thirty years
Of His private life tOihng at common trade have no
doubt that the carpenters is interested In the
labOring mems movement for their real elevation in
every form OF good than BE is in the schools
Of philosophy, the councils Of politicians, the
enterprises Of capital the cathedralbuildng and eard
nal-paFading Of the world. There no movements
which ha such promise of Divine blessing II the work
ingmen will lock to Him and allow Him to direct them
believe that the Providence OF God has brought society
into such condition that the eve OF recon-
srucon OF many of the forms of government and such
reorganization the departments OF trade and labor and
such rearranRng OF social distinctions that the working
may ind no disadvantage, social POLITICAL IN the
way OF his physical mental moral or spiritual we-be-
ing, in any form of honest toll he may choose.
But offers His fayOrs ouly the condition Of faith
and nothing sadder in history than the way in
which refused enternto what Providence has
prepared them through unbeef Jesus is the friend
OF the workngmen and Christianity ia the great leyeer
dwelling up, not down. We do not wonder
Of the French Revolutonsts calling Jesus the
Grand 5ansCuOte. and thinking OF Him as wearing the
blouse while the Church was decorating His efBgies IN
Off
conception The peasants of Nazareth types OF the
tolers Of centuries since All the poor heard Jesus
gladly. But notice the sequel: though they wondered
at the gracious words which proceeded out Of His
mouth" at the close of His address they were filled
with wrath aud rose up and thrust HIM of the city"
Why was this IL reveals Characteristic contradiction
in human nature which has been displayed all through
history Of the poor mans treatment OF the Poor Mans
Friend The Nazarenes, grOauiug under poverty and
ready at moment to join in che reyolts chronic In
GaIee. could not appreciate real liberty. They were
caught with glare OF pOmp and power. aud liberty
nothing more than having pomp and power OF Their
Roman Empire and eXait their name and divide the
spoil with them, they would follow ooseqmousy ana
obey absolutely SO, though Jesus's words brought
conviction OF His truth. yet when He would not per-
form mighty miracles they rejected Him with curses
TIE mnltitudes would have made Him king, but when
He would not they substituted cross Tor the offered
crown.
publican that they based the consent OF
the governed Tnat consent asked form each case
tut assumed by shrewd rulers. who knew that men
would grind and bleed without rebellion II only some
siastles deliberately kinded the popular passion Now
10 for play hence imperial theatres now for CON
quest, hence now the superstition IN all OF US
hence new dOguas; mans innate cruelty, hence
nqusiti0ns Tue masses OF men have been sheep snep
but when he eitary yrants were dethrOned they made
worse themselves such as the Dantons and Ma
the COmmunisIc leaders of the Second Reign OF Terror
recently IN France And all the time these poor sheep
voice ana follow Him. Go INTO The SOealistic elubrOOus
isht and you will near denuncatoLs OF tyrants IN
same breath The sOciastic alliance at Geneva In 1869
put forth the basis Tor lis appeal 10 the working
L demands the abolition OF all worship the substitution
OF science for faItu." Our saviour halowed the mar
rage relation by HIS presence at the wedding at Cana
and pronounced the strongest laws for Its permanently
what He said aOout tivoree but rms same Congress
demanded the abolition OF marriage" The splnt OF
he Gospel Is tnat OF liberty not merely Of thought. for
the New Testament preeepts develop tn sentiment OF
Individual manhood, sell-reilance: and when the
Reformation the people dared 10 break the sbaekes Of
Romish imposition, God rewarded them by giving them
not only religious liberty, but Inspiring tnem with a
s , ~ M man Ten times richer than formerly
But the international Congress Of WorEinRmen at |
Blse with the spirit OF the ROmsh lnQulstlOn, DE- |
manded the abolition Of all property IN the soil and |
declared should use machine until be |
SHOULD first compensate te "orkmen mo wanted o 90
rress 4 liberty parity, faith such as bTeathed from the
lie OF Jesus, whom do many VI the WorKngmen take !
FOR lcadersl Horace Greeley, VINO az one time was |
Thought 10 tnCtured with sOciastic notions. anu
who went near to these people as his strong commoa
,enss would let hun, wrote: Along with many noble
aud lofty souls, whose Impulses are purely /
milan hrOpc, there thrOnR tine scores OF whom |
ne world quite wOrthy-ue cancelled, the erOtchey,
the selfish, The heldsroBg, the p.ayed-Ou the idle !
aud the gOodfor-nOthiug generally" These are the |
wouldbe leaders to-day. Men VINO cry, " Away with |
taxation" bat who never paid cent Of II; Away |
M. the home" who live in the club q" Down VITA
social dstineuons who show Oy heir speech the need
OF culture Away with the Churcn," who /
nearer 10 Is than To let their children take Christmas
gifts Ihe carpenter OF Nazareth, the throne OF
the world ks in pity upon the blind leading the blind,
s they 20 stumbling INTO the ditch OF anarchy and He
won nj save them &c be through return from
infdelty to faith from an rage against all who
are better imam themselves to love and fraternity and
among themselvea from all hceuse
h. involved destroying the marriage relation and
merging the retreats of home IN the unsecminess Of
human herd to purity temperance ana the sacred
rntions of famies into which the Creator, by laws
neurological as well moral has the children OF
mem Tuey must recognizes and not antaguniZe The |
Cnutch which savior OF all purchased with HIS blood
Tupn the workingmcu's movement will be hailed and /
helped by all good and true aud especially by che
PrOsestant, and, believe, ROuisn as well
-breause the spirit the Lord which upOa Jesus,
Il an it and no combination of kings capitalists
stand against 10.