New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-02-11
BROOKLYN TABERNACLE.
Discourse Of Rev. T. 10 Witt Tai.
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On Sunday Morning, January 18.


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On Sunday Morning, January 10.
HUNGER IN IRELAND.
Twas a.hungered, and ye gave me mcat.-st.
Matthew, XIV, IS. s~. .a%. 49,.
Owning California, Australia and
Golconda, all the reindeer of the for
est and all the buffalo of the plain,
all the wild duck of the marshes, all
the plover and robin red breasts of
the sky, all the fish ofthe five oceans,
all the grain.felds oftwo hemis-
pheres, all immensely for space, all
eternity for duration-yet hungry.
Why did Christ submit to this
faintness and gnawing and physical
torture? It was that He might per-
suade all nations that He is in full
Sympathy with anybody that has not
enough to eat.
Every moral and Industrious man
has a right to enough to eat. / lay
down this principle, whatever social
or political theory it may seem to
crowd. If in all the earth there is a
moral and Industrious man that has
not enough to eat, it is because
somebody else has more than his
share. God spreads His table three
| times day all around the earth, and
there is plenty on it for the fourteen
hundred millions of the race; but
the trouble is that some seize the
platters and the pitc hers onthe table,
| and having supplied their own hung.
er, put the rest in their pockets, and
leave millions to rise unfed. The
great question in America, Eng
land, Ireland and Scotland, and the
great question in every civilized
country to-day, is the question, how
much property a man may gather
up, and then by law roll it down
from generation to generation
| the larger estates swallowing
up the smaller estates, I'm.
til in the far distant future, if the
principle be unimpeded, one man will
own continent, and all the con.
tinents in conflict; after awhile
one man will own the whole
earth, and will have the capacity, il
he desires to sell the water so much
per gallon, and put a tax on sun.
shine and fresh air! There are es.
tates rolling up in this country
which set all political economists to
thinking about the future. The
reason things with us are not as
ominous as they abroad, is because
we have not yet had time enough to
make them ominous. One man in
Wall Street, few weeks ago, turn.
ing over with one hand twenty mil.
lion dollars worth of stock, is very
suggestive. While I shall not this
morning attempt to grapple with the
political phase Of this subject, I will
say that in which you all must
agree, that as long as the Sultan Of
Turkey has a salary of $6,OOO,O0C
per year, and the Emperor of Russia
has salary of $8,250,00O per year,
and thirty-two thousand people in
GreatBritain own all the soil, though
there is population of thirty -siz
millions, and the Duke of Norfolk
owns five hundred thousands acre;
at the Hebrides, and the Duke oil
Sutherland, in Scotland, owns from
sea to sea, and the Duke of Rich
mond owns three hundred Thousand
acres at Gordon Castle, there must
be something deplorably wrong in
the condition which allows a great
many people to starve. It is cues.
ton SO vast that you andI cannot
settle it, nor America, nor England
There is only one being in all the
universe who can settle it, and that
is God, and settle it He will. NORTH
and South, politicians were busy
scores ofyears studying how to gel
rid of American slavery, all they
ciphered and ciphered and ciphered,
and accomplished nothing. Their
God rose up to extirpate American
slavery: and He did the work, but
one million five hundred Thousand
men, North and South, brave men
dropped into their graves. Whether
it will require greater or lesser sa
crifce of human life, or no sacrifice
at alias I pray God it may be-te
settle this land question, I will not
attempt to prophesy. But this
know, that Christ is in sympathy
with all the distressed, and a voice
to-day comes thrilling through every
American cabin, and every Irish peal
howell, and every destitute English
home, saying: 81 was a.hungered. y
This rage of ahfronted appetite which
men call hunger is a terrific demon
stration. It has often been seer
on shipboard when, all the food ex
hausted, lots have been cast as te
who should die and with his owr
body furnish food to others. It has
been seen again and again among
the Arabs, when children have been
roasted for food by their own par
ents. Famine in Jerusalem. Fa
mine i'll ancient Utica. Famine ir
lands entirely depopulated by it
leaving the whole country to the
jackals hunting for corpses. Fa.
mine in Leyden, Holland, where the
Spaniards for months besieged the
city, and the food was gone, and
rather than surrender to the ty.
rant the burgomaster came out into
the presence Of the famine.stricken,
and said; my lifeis at your ser;
vice; here is my sword; plunge it in
to my breast; take my flesh; teal
apart my body, and appease von1