The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1883-04-25
Pastor Cru.an's Sunday Sermon



Working men and women do not have 70 fight
life's battle alone. God and Gods providence is
on the side of the working men. They are sur
rounded by hosts of friends. and among these are
labor-saving machinery and inventions The be
ginning of this century was the beginning of new
era Of civilization. Coal, steam, and such won
drOus inventions as the power-loom, the power
press. the cOttOn-gin and hundreds Of others.
transformed life. Fingers of steel and sineSs OF
iron began to do the work of human hands The
sphere of labor was enlarged, the demand for II
increased, and better wages paid. Commodities
Of all kinds were cheapened. The working men
OF to-day enjoy cJnveniencies and Injuries Vhlch
Kings could not have one hundred years ago.
These steel fingers also touched the brain of the
Vorking-man. Ii requires more brain 10 vcrk
machine than 70 handle tool. Working-m men
we're never 50 intelligent nov.
Intelligence and culture friends of working
people. | respect working men and would have
them respect themselves. You can be and ought
TO be something more than bread winners and
bread-eaters. Resolve TO be something more and
be tier than a machine or an animal, governed and
controlled ~ others. You being OF free
spiritual powers Your aim ought 10 be 70 bring
out these and give them perpetual impulse and
expansion. You ought to Cultivate mind and heart
because you are a man. You are not a mere me
chanic, OF clerk. or labOrer. You are an immortal
soul. You were sent into the world with grand
possibilities Intelligence paws also in dollars and
cents Culture the brain and you culture the hands
also. Intelligent labor always commands the
highest price, and has control Of other wOrkmen-
Skill in work trade no matter what It Is, Is
another friend of working mon. ThorouPhness
pays. Snatter" Is not in demand. Ii Is Just as
true now as when Webster said Il, There Is al
ways room in the upper story This Is as true Of
working men as OF lawyers. The skilled mechanic
is always IN demand. The supply never equals
the demand. The books keeper, or clerk, who thor
oughly masters his work and taxes intelligent
interest in it, Is always the man who Is never
long in want of place, and he is the man who
is eventually taken into the firm, because he has
made himself Indispensable.
Strict sobriety, and by that mean total absti-
hence, is another friend of working-men. / do
not believe any man can afford TO drink, not even
II he be a millionaire. Certainly the man who
works for wages cannot afford To drink liquor or
smoke tobacco If he ever expects 10 be anything
else than a wage winner The reason why some
working men always have been poor, and always
will be poor the reason why some wOrking-men
cannot afford to hire a servant. but make their
wives slave in the kitchen and the reason why IN
some working mems houses it is constant prob
lem % how TO make both ends meet is because 50
large part of the daily earnings 60 into the till Of
the rumseller and over the tobacconist's counter.
Leaving Out OF sight the deadly physical and moral
peril Of the drinking habit, you afford TO thus
does It makes lifelong poverty an absolute Ger
tainty-
The best Of all friends Of the working man is
Christ, the Carpenter. He wGs himself o working
man. He knows what poverty is. lie knows all
about the grind of toll the physical WEAKNESS, and
the tired, sore oyerwusked body, for BE has borne
it all. Why! So that you, . working-men and
women, might have one Friend who could sympa-
thize with you, help you, save you. He speaks
specially to you in his tender invitation, Come
unto me all ye that are weary and are heavy laden
and will give you rest.