Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-05-29
LABOR AND CAPITAL.
Trades Unions--Co-O Operation the
Remedy For Strikes.
The First OF q Series OF Sermons
ON the Labor Question by Rev.
r. Dewitt Talmage D. D.

q 6oKl0S Oh mOIuiuR
In the Brooklyn tabern acle, on the all.
absorbing labor question. He discus
ses the following subjects in the series:
'tThe Battle for Bread" "The Rights
Of Capital and Labor" The Hardships
of the Working Classes" ''How En-
ploycr and Employees Ought to Treat
Each Other," and "The Greatest Foe
OF Labor five In all.
The opening hymn of the service this
morning begins:
Arm Of the Lord, swakeI awskel
Put on thy strength, the pations shakei
And let tho world adoring see
Triumphs Of mercy wrought by Thee.
After expounding appropriate pass
ages of scripture DR.. Talmage gave
out the text, Genesis I. 2: ''The earth
was without form. and void; and dark
ness was upon the face of the deep.
And the spirit of God moved upon the
face of the waters" DR.. Talmage
said:
Out in space there hung Il great
chunk of rock and mud and water and
shell. Thousands Of miles IN diameter,
more thousands of miles in circumfer-
ence. A great mass of ugliness. con-
fusion and distortion, uselessnoss,
ghastliness and horror. 1t seemed like
great commons on which smashed
up worlds were dumped. 1t was what
poetry and prose, scientist and chris.
Gan agree in calling chaos. Out OF
that black, rough, shapeless egg our
world was Matched. God stood over
that original anarchy of elements and
said: atlantic ocean, you go right
away and lie down there! Pacific
ocean, you sleep there! Caucasian range
Of mountains you stand there! Noun,
Washington, you be sentinel there
Mont Blanc, you put on your coronet
af crystal there! Mississippi, you
march there and Missouri you marry
ii there!" And he gathered in His
Almighty hands the sand and mud
and rock, and rolled and heaved and
moulded and denied and compressed
them into shape, and then dropped
them in four places; and the m was
Asia, and another was Europe, and
another Africa, aud another America,
North and South.
That original chaos was like the
confusion and anarchy into which the
human race ever and anon has q ten
denoy to plunge. God has said: "Let
there be light of law. light of justice,
light of peace, light Of Lowell" "No!
MOI" say Anarchic voices: ''let there
be darkness, let there be c~ut-throatery.
let there be eternal imbroglio, let
there be Chaos"
Such q social condition many are
expecting because of the overshadow-
ing contest between Labor and Capt.
tai; there has not been an intelligent
man or woman during the last two
months who has not asked the ques-
ton: ''Shall W. havo bloody revolution
in this ~countryp" l have heard many
answer the question in the affirmative;
| answer it in the negative.
There may be and there have been
terrific %outbursts of popular frenzy but
there will be no anarchy, for the
Church of Christ, the mightiest and
grandest institution Of the planet,
shall, laying hold of tho strength of
the eternal God, come out, and put.
ting one hand on the shoulder of La
Dor and the other on the shoulder Of
Capital say: 81 come in the name Of
the God who turned Chaos into mag
ni6cen order, to settle this dispute by
the principles of eternal justice and
kindness; and now / command you,
take your hands off of each
others throats." The only i'm
partial institution on this subject
Is the church, for it is made
up OF both capitalists and laborers, and
was founded by Christ, who was a car
pointer. and so has a right to speak for
all l%aborers; and who owns the earth
and the solar system and the universe,
and SO can speak for the capitalists.
AS for myself, as an individual I
have a right to be heard. My father
was a farmer and my grandfather, and
they had to work for q living; and
every dollar l own I earned by the
sweat OF my brow. and l owe no man
anything, and II any obligation has es-
capped my memory, come and present
your bill when l descend from this
pulpit, and | will pay you on the spot.
I am going to say all that I think and
feel on this subject. and without any
reservation. asking your prayers that l
may be divinely directed in this i'm.
portant series of Sabbath morning dis
courses.
That labor has grievances l will
show you plainly before get through
this course of sermons. That capital
has had outrages committed upon Ii /
will maka avidaut havoud disputa Rut