The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-06-19
THE POOR"


NEW YORK, june 10. the Brooklyn
Tabernacle which was filled to oyerHowing
yesterday, Dr. Talmagc took ms text from
Micah, vi, TO- "The Lords voice crleth
unto the city
Among the uproOlng classes place the
oppressed poor. Poverty toa certain ex-
tent is Christening, but after that, when
II drives man to the wall and he
hears his children cry in vain for bread
II sometimes makes him desperate,
] think there are thousands Of honest men
lacefatcd into vagabOndi,m. There are
men crushed under burdens fa which they
are not half paid. Whilethere Ii no excuse
for crlninality, even in oppression, state
II ~ simple fact that much Of the scoun-
dreism OF the community i consequent up-
OIL ill'treatmcnt. There are mary men
and women battered and bruised and stung
until the hour OF despair has come, aud they
stand with the feroctty OF wild beast
which, pursued until II can run no longer,
turns round, foaming and bleeding 10 fight
the hounds.
The texts OF Mr. Beecher's sermon were
Luke w.: Is, 10 aud 81, and Matthew M.
8 md y. The vast majority OF mankind
have beelApoor aud are poor now, There
are thousand men poor where there is
one man rich. taking the whole world to-
gethcr. The causes Of this poverty are
worth a moments consideration. Soil
and climate have much to do with il and
bad government ia another source OF pow
erty. Wars tend 10 disturb property or
to destroy it, and, strange'as it may see IN.
the men that suffer the most are
those whose passions lead II on.
The king may supply the spark hut the
fuel Is in the common people. But besides
these reasons there certain great primal OF
fundamental causes OF povaSty 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 10 preach the gospel to the
poor, not TO feed them 70 deyeope that
In man which should make them wiser.
purer add stronger, that is the aim OF the
gospel. Men have supposed that it meant
reconciliation, that they bad 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 arc that men began in ami
masm and they should he raised out of it
| by some moral influence which should give
| them ascension into intelligence, into virtue
and true godiness. The primary result OF
the gospel is 20 develop manihmself, and
the way TO relieve IL 80 TO develop him,
that be will need no relief. SO christianity
| is not to be tested by creeds but by conduct.
aud the reality Of the gospel taught By
schools and churches is to be Judged by its
fruits, by its effect.
do not disown cTeeds, particularly my
own laughter, but criticise them in that
| they are partial. rhe power Of thefcreed is
| relatively small. The power Of the spiri1of
| humanity is relatively great. A good life
/ curses bad creed. This principle
| Of elective affinity is one Of the great social
| dangers. | lsbk 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 inddelity
among the laboring man. The first result
| OF intelligence is that they repudiate the
churches. notice that the working men
OF Great Britain are, TO a great extent, in
fidels, The laborBg classes that think are
tending 10 think themselves away from the
house OF God, and are substituting other
institutions OF their own, and this, II not
arrested, will be fatal TO them. II they
throw away the church let them at least
save the Bible. The New Testament is the
cradle Of liberty and the hope OF the poor
| man.