The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-01
THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES.
A Sermon Preached by Rev. Myron w.
Reed, in Denver, COL, Feb. %, 1885.
A Look at Current Events and an Effort to
Predict the Morrow from the Signs in
the Political and Social Sky.

| TExT-Matthew xvi and B: He answered and said
unto them when it is evening we say it viii be fair
weather Tor the SKY IS red, and IN the morning !,
will be foul weather to-day for the sky is red and
lowering. o, ye hypocrites, We discern the face
OF the sky, but can ye not discern the signs OF the
finest
thought in the red sunset of the day of ee's
surrender that we were going to have fair wealth
er in this country. And when an international
congress settled by arbitration warlike matter,
l thought we might have settled weather all
| over the earth But discover that the time
has not come to melt cannon and make bells.
The old human nature is actively at work. One
| cannot with pen emancipate slavery.
Ignorance and avarice must be eliminated be-
fore the earth will be very desirable place to
live in. Time was when Abraham and Lot
could avoid a quarrel by separation. They
must live together now, and if possible
avoid quarrel. There is no new West
and no unknown East. There are very few un-
occupied seats In this street-car of the city of
God. Here in this Nation we have been too
| anxious to say eve have $1,000 900 in quantity,
and very careless as to quality. We have not
only emigration, but assisted emigration" The
warehouses of Great Britain hnd cheap substi-
tute in the factory towns of New England. and
the revenue of old Ireland falling there has been
beginning made for Ireland on the plains
and among the foothills of the Rocky mount
aims The absentee landlord is sagacious be-
ing. Rent must come from some place. We do not
intend to wait and if it is good thing for the
land of nation to be owned by the citizens of
another-that experiment has been worked out
For young nation we have made remarkable
iyf han ,,J o,,I IJn.-
by the old nations over the sea. think that the
signers of the Declaration of independence must
be disappointed in u.s. They meant it when they
classed as lnalienable rights of man, 'life liber
ty and the pursuit of happiness Men have no
wings-how can they pursue happiness except
on foot. and the foot on land2 man in Ireland
pursuing happiness will very soon overtake
jail. Two thirds of the babies born in Ireland
are trespassers the minute their pink feet strike
the earth-"mother earth no longer, but stony
step-mother.'
Was it to repeat this kind of thing that Wash
ington put in his life! That which he won with
his sword should not be bought back with mon
ely. We need TO see TO it that the surrender at
yorktown amounts 10 something-that some
earl of England does not advertise Bunker Hill
monument to let-no Irish need apply" ''The
land of a nation belongs to the people of that
nation" That is the doctrine of two Of the
most notable Englishmen of our day--Herbert
Spencer and John Stuart Mill Think one min
American to say amen
We must eliminate ignorance. Who will long
submit to have case tried before colored
justice Of the peace who cannot read. bat who
can count! The slave ceased to be a slave, be-
came freedman, ceased to be freedman and
became citizen. but he kept his ignorance.
The coiored population Of the South doubles in
twenty years-the white doubles in thirty five
years. There is little migration of white people
to the South. There is more from the South.
Soon then, we will have new Africa not quite
as ignorant rs the one that Livingstone discov-
cred, but ignorant What is the remedr' The
school house.
If man walk in the night he stumbles Of our
30, 900, 900 many walk in the night. Let there
be light That is the first necessity. 10 es-
tabllsh our system OF public schools will cost
North Carolina three cents on the dollar But
hat ''the Republic take no harm let the Nation
assist Ignorance is a national danger. Let the
Nation avert the danger. 1t will not cost as
much as the Modoc war. It. will read better in
history. The negro in America must be at
tended to-he did not come here, he was broE eht
here He was assisted by the sons of the Pill
griIns and Puritans,
The Indian we found here. and the money
we have expended in killing and in being killed,
would have sent every Indian on earth through
college. boarded him at the Parker House and
given him a pension. An Indian! you say. The
poor creature you see from the car window is
what we have made Of him. The rags on him
are the rags of a shoddy blanket furnished to
him by white American thief, and the poison
in him was unknown to him until the DAYS Of
Plymouth and Jamestown He is bad, but he
has had white and competent teacher
Concerning the parade of workingmen to-day,
it was, as observed. quiet, orderly affair. As
to whether it ought to have been OH Sunday my
advice was not asked. / am satisfied that the
day was selected not to offend the sentiment of
any part Of the community but simply as con-
yenient day, in the same way that observe my
church people use the day for what might be
80. H. NJ H.
Denver to New York. man leaves here on Sat
urday night and leaves there to return on Sun
day night. Thus he saves two days, or thinks
he does. There are so many of these travellers that
it becomes necessary for an army of railroad
men to lose their Sunday. Likewise, a street
car is convenience on Sunday II is literally
patronized by church people, and so the street,
car driver loses his Sunday l would like to live
in country where there were no sacrificed
classes" country that aceords to all men day
in the week. and wages for six days work that
were enough for seven days for himself and
family and something over for the days of sick
ness and old age-a suficiency for the present
and security for the future. l may not live in
that country, but believe my children will
Mr. Gladstone said while ago "In the con-
troversy between capital and labor the clergy
have not been able to abstain from partisanship,
and where they have been partsans it has not
been on the side OF labor. This has tended to
stimulate feeling in favor of the dsestabhsh-
ment of the church. OF this sentiment I can
not measure the breadth or depth, think that
remark is true. Perhaps it is as well not
to DO a partisan at all-simply tell
the truth to men on both sides the barricade
The parade today was doubtless intended
to give the spectator, especially if he were
member OF the Legislature, some notion of the
strength of organized workingmen Saying
nothing now of the day chosen, an assembly or
parade is legal and an effective way of secur-
ing result. Less than two hundred years ago
men could not meet and discuss social questions.
They cannot to-day in some countries There
is danger in free speech and free press but
there is more danger in compelled silence
When there is no resistance, powder will not
explode. Here is the mistake of the Car In
stead of letting in light and air, he keeps ram
ming down wads. By and by fire will reach that
compressed powder, and the gun will burst, and
another crowned wretch will be added to the roll
OF dead crowned wretehes. You can go to your