The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-06-19
THE POOR"
The Two Great Brooklyn Divines Preach
on this important Topic.

NEW YORK, June Sin the Brooklyn
Tabernacle, which was filled to OVERLOOKING
yesterday, DR.. Talmagc took his text from
Micah, vi, ~; "The Lords voice crieth
unto the city. "
Among the uproOlng classes place the
oppressed poor. Poverty to Il certain ex.
tent Is Christening, but after that, when
1t drives man TO the wall and he
hears his children cry in vain for bread
1t sometimes makes him desperate,
think there are thousands OF honest men
lacoialed into NagabOndism. There are
men crushed under burdens for which they
are not halt paid. While there is no excuse
for crlminality, even in oppression, state
II a. simple fact that much Of the scoun-
drelism OF The community Is consequent up
Oh llI-treatment. There are mary men
and women battered and bruised and stung
until the hour of despair h,r come, aud they
stand with the feroclty Of wild beast
which, pursued until il can run no longer,
turns round, foaming and bleedingto fight
the hounds,
The texlsoi Mr.. Bcecher's sermon were
Luke w.: Is, 10 and u, and Matthew xi. {.
3 md .. The vast majority Of mankind
have beelAOoor aud are poor now. There
are a thousand men poor where there is
one man rich, taking the whole world to-
gethcT. The causes Of this poverty are
worth a moments consideration. Soil
and climate have much to do with il and
bad government il another source OF poy.
ertv Wars tend 10 disturb property or
to destroy 1t, and, strange ~ it may see N,
the men that suffer the most are
those whose passions lead it on.
The king may supply the spark but the
fuel is in the common people. But besides
these reasons there certain great primal or
fundamental causes OF poy0Sty. ignorance
is one great cause. Ii is knowledge that
is the gold mine. All this shows that the
poor need intellectual and mental culture.
Christ was sent to preach the gospel to the
poor, not to feed them. 70 develope that
in man which should make them wiser
puier add stronger, that is the aim OF the
gospel. Men have supposed that IL meant
reconciliation, that they had fallen before
they wefe born by the sins OF their ances-
tors, and had to be reconciled with God,
as II our abstract disagreement
with him had been the cause Of all
this worlds trouble. But the plain
facts Of history are that men began in ami.
malism and they should he raised out OF il
by some moral influence which should give
them ascension into intelligence, into virtue
and true goodness. The primary result OF
the gospel is to develop man himself, and
the way to relieve is 30 to develop him,
that he will need no relief SO christianity
Is not to be tested by creeds but by conduct,
and the reality Of the gospel taught by
schools and churches is to be Judged BY its
fruits, hy its effect.
| do not disown creeds, particularly my
own laughter, but criticise them in that
they are partial. The power OF thefcreed is
relatively small. The power OF the spiritsoi
humanity il relatively great. A good life
curses bad creed This principle
Of elective affinity is one OF the great social
dangers. lsAk with very great interest
at the change going on in Great Britain, at
the change that will come when every man
In Great Britain has the suffrage, The
tendency OF the times is towards inadetit,
| among the laboring man. The first resuI
| OF intelligence is that they repudiate til
| churches. notice that the working me
OF Great Britain are, to great extent, in
fidels. The lsborlng classes that think ar
tending to think themselves away from tn
house Of God, and are substituting Othe
institutions OF their own, and this, IL no
| arrested, will be fatal TO them. II the
| throw away the church let them at leas
| save the Bible. The New Testament is thu
cradle OF liberty and the hope Of the poo
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