St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1886-06-05
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
initial Discourse Of q Series On
the Labor Question.
The Relation Between Employer and Em-
pIoye Ono OF Mutual Dependence
The Meaning of Anarchy-So.
luton of the Problem.

10 VINO VponAAS OAoSV0A % VI -
series on the Labor Question delivered by
Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage in Brooklyn
Tabernacle. The text was:
The earth was without form, and void;
and darkness was upon the face of the
deep. And the spirit of God moved upon
Che face of the waters.-lGenesis, Ia
DIR. Talmage said:
Out in space there hung q great chunk
of rock and mud and water and she'll.
Thousands of miles in diameter, more
thousands of miles in circumference. A
great mass Of ugliness. confusion and
distortion, uselessness, ghastliness and
horror. 1t seemed like great commons
on which smashed up worlds were dumped.
1t was what poetry and prose, scientist
and Christian agree in calling chaos. Out
of that black, rough. shapeless egg our
beautiful world was Matched. God stood
over that original anarchy of elements
and said:
"Atlantic ocean, you go right away and
lie down therel Pacific ocean, you sleep
there! Caucasian range of mountains,
you stand there? Mount Washington, you
be sentinel there! Mount Blanc, you put
on your coronet of crystal there! Missis-
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marry it therew
And he gathered In his almighty hands
the sand and mud and rock, and rolled
and heaved and nodded and denied and
compressed them into shape, and then
dropped them into four places; and the
one was Asia, and another was Europe,
and another Africa, and another America,
north and south.
The original chaos was like the confusion
and anarchy into which the human race
has ever and anon a tendency to plunge.
God has said: "Let there be light of law,
light of justice. light of peace, light Of
lovem ''Noi noW say anarchic voices;
1'let there be darkness. let there be cut.
throatery, let there be eternal imbroglio,
let there be chaos"
Such . social condition many are ex.
pecting because Of the overshadowing
contest between labor and capital; there
has not been an intelligent man or woman
during the last two months who has not
asked the question: s'ShaM we have
bloody revolution in this countryw
have heard many answer the question in
the affirmative; answer it in the mega
tive.
The only impartial institution on this
subject is the church, for it is made up of
both capitalists and laborers, and was
founded by Christ, who was carpenter,
and SO has right to speak for all labor
ers; 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 have q
right to be heard. My father was farmer
and my grandfather, and they had to work
for living, and every dollar own I
earned by the sweat Of my own brow, and
I owe no man anything, and If any obliga-
tion has escaped my memory, come and
present your bill when descend from this
pulpit and will pay ON the spot am
going to say all I think and feel ON this
subject, and without any reservation, ask
ing your prayers that may be divinely |
directed in this important series of Sab
bath morning discourses:
That labor has grievances / win show |
yea plainly before / get through this |
course of sermons. That capital has had |
-outrages committed upon it win make |
evident beyond adispute. But there are |
right and wrong ways of attempting a
reformation.
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social chaos do not underrate the awful
peril of these times. We must admit that
the tendency is toward revolution. Great
throngs gather ct some points Of disturb
ance In almost all our cities. Rail trains
hurled over the rocks. Workmen beaten
to death within sight Of their wives and
children. Factories assailed by mobs.
The faithful police Of our cities exhausted
by vigilance night and day. In some
cases the military called out. The whole
country asking the question: "What
NEXT" An earthquake has with one hand
taken hold Of this continent at the Pacific
beach, and with the other hand has taken
hold of the continent at the Atlantic
beach, and shaken it till every manufact-
uring, commercial, agricultural, literary
and religious interest has trembled. A
part of Belgium one great riot. Russia
and Germany and Austria keeping their
workmen quiet only by standing armies
so vast that they are eating out the life OF
those nations. The only reason that Ire
Hand is in peace is because she is hoping
for home rule and the triumph of Glad
pheric, aye, q world wide quarrel, and
the whole tendency is toward anarchy.
But one way in which we may avoid an
archy is by letting the people know what
anarchy is. We must have the wreck
pointed out in order to steer clear of it.
Anarchy is abolition Of right of property.
Il makes your store and your house and
your money and your family mine, and
lssi6G yours. Il is Wholesale robbery. II is
every mans hand against every other
man. 1t is arson and murder and rapine
and lust and death triumphant. II means
no law, no church, no defense, no rights,
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