Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-05-23

discussion Of all moral questions. The la
Dor. question is not merely one OF eeono-
mica II is becoming more and more een-
icAl. The only solution ofthe yexing prob
lens of the modern world Is Jesus CHRIST
The word of God must get into the social
ana industrisI life or the nation. Is doomed
Rev. L. Fl. LoSG. of Denver, urges that
the pulpit should preach the Gospel with
out depression to any other subject, aud
then concludes:
The labor question pertains to the HE
that now is, and the only relation the pull
nit can have to it or to any other question
involving only temporarily, ia not direct,
but indirect, for Just as the pulpit can per
shade men to accept the gospel as rule
of life, and the promise, All these Things
will be added unto you, will put them on
the true track to get their food and raj.
ment aud this, in my judgment, would end
All strikes between employers and employees.
Raw. DAVID SWING, of Chicago, says:
The clergy are compelled BY their PROBES
sion 10 bs students of the labor question.
The pulpit must seek out the paths OF JUS
tice and equity whether they lead through
labor, or capital, or pleasure, or piety. But
in this new crisis of labor We must not lead
others until we are sure of having found
psth. We must be Just TO the man who
has money and the man who has to WORK
Rev. SMITH BAKER, of Lowell, says as FOL
lows:
The pulpit is to know nothing aboul
classes in the community, but preach to al
men as on 4 level. 1t should demand faith
fuluess from the laboringmsn asd justice
from capitalists. It's sympathies are al
WAYS to be with the poorer classes; MOI
against the rich, but that the poor may o.
kept from the leadership of unwise men.
Rev. DR.. JOIN CHEsTER, of Washington
says: ,
question is one not merely OF presept bu
sIao of example. The laboring msu ma,
be oppressed by a money grasping her
arehy as well as By a railroad monopohst
The church may be 50 conducted that 1t
hiuh pew rents canse virtual lockout
Of the Door. Ii may foster a moneye'
aristocrscy By saying to the rich, Sit tho,
mere in q good place" aud 10 the poor
stand thou there, or sit here under m
footstool." No wonder that many pulp
is muzzied, when 1.-The chief sests in Its syr
agoyue" are rented out to men who bav
crown rich through the oppression OF tn
moor X Let the principles o. IN
Fan Commandments and the Sermon O.
the Mount be applied to the present laoo
trouble. and they will speedily terminate.
Rev. Dr.. SIMEON GILBERT, Of Chicago
says:
The pulpit should not be obsequious t
the rich, nor should it coddle the poor.
should not be afraid to tell either party
to tell all parties interested in the contrc
versy-tbe kind, honest, plain truth OF tn
mstter."
Rev. o. P. Clifford, of Boston, says:
In the pulpit il O man laboring wit
head and heart to make the world better !
capital is q man lsboring, oftlmes nigh
and dsg TO pay interest on borroWe
money, dividends on invested funds, I
meet actual needs in the world and PR
ride for his own family. In labor IS ma
working With his capital OF trained or III
|rraiued mind, skilled or uuskilled muscle
that he may care for his oSn family. Her
ere three men in certain temporary rel'
lions With each other; all are capitalist
sll are laborers. Let rs not lose sight
the fact that the man is more than the II
. alton. The man in the pulpit ought, 8
far as possible, by careful and pstier
study, to get the facts aud points OF vie
from both the other men, and insist upo
strict Justice Tor both.
Rev. Dr.. Little OF Chicago says:
, The wickedness OF boycotting, OF &C
of personal violence and lawlessnsss, OIL
terteace with the rights Of others, the pu
Dit o6ghs boldly to denouee But whe
, new measures ike reduction Of hou
! and increase OF wages, are uGder dlscu
} sion, it ought to speak with some dilhdent
; and reserve. In it's legitimate wish
champion the csuse of the lsboring ma
D snd the poor it must De careful MOTTO cat
, TO their preiudices and Whims, and Eecou
b the defender and advocate OF their tolol
and follies. IL mgst remember that II
!, rights of capital are Just b secred as tho
5 of labor The preaching Of virtue, tenn
} ersnce contentnent, reverence for Tic
, aad for law is what the lSbo-ing class nee
70 hear and put into practice. \ bsttt
quality of manhood is the supreme need
this country to-day.