The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-05-27
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
Initial Discourse Of Q Series On
the Labor Question
The Relation Between Employer and Ea-
Ploye One % Nutusl Dependence
The Meaning % Anarchy-so-
iution Of the Problem-


series on she Labor Question delivered by
Rev. 7. Dewit TslmAgs in Brooklyn
Tabernacle. The text was:
The ssrta ~as without form and void.
and darkness vas upon the face Of the
deep. And the spirit Of God moved upon
TIE face Of the waters Genesis, L, =
DR.. Tslmage said
Out in space there hung 9 great chunk
Of rock ard mud and water and sheil-
Thousands Of miles in diameter, more
thousands Of mues in circumference. A
great mass Of ugliness. confusion and
distortion, uselessness. ghastlinsss aud
horror. II seemed like great commons
on rhich smashed up worlds were dumped.
II vas what poetry and prose, scientist
and Christian agree in calling chaos. Out
Of that black, rough, shspeiess egg our
beautiful world was hstched. God stood
over that original anarchy Of elements
and sid:
Atlantic ocesn, you % right away and
lie down there Pacific ocean. you sleep
there Caucasian range Of mountains,
yoa stand thersi Mount Washin gton, you
Be sentinel here, Mount Blanc, you put
on your coronet Of crystal there Nissis-
sippi. you march there and Missouri you
marry il there"
And be gathered in his almi ghty hands
the sand and mud and rock, and roll ed
and heaved and nodded snd deut4i and
compressed them into shape, and then
d-eppei them into four places; and the
one Vas Asia, and another was Europe,
and another Africa, and another America,
north and south.
The original chaos was like the confusion
ard anarchy int, which the human race
has ever and anon q tendency 70 plunge.
God has said Let th-rs = Eht q law.
lgrt Of justice. lighI 0: peace, Light 0.
love" No, no" say suzrceIc voices:
-, there e darkness. ls, the-= t.e cut.
tnros:ery. ct ;aers be et=rUs. lnbrogi.o.
let there be chaos"
such social condition many are ex.
Pec'ng because Of the overstsicwing
contest between labor s-i eap.:s.. the-s
has not been al int=lligen man = woman
during the lAs; Two months who las ut
asked the question. Shall we hsv.
bloody revolution Il this country" 1
have heard many answer the question II
I'll sfiTma:lve; l answer il = tie mega
tive.
The only impartial Institution on this
SGT -ct is the church. for i e made up Of
tcth capitalists and lsbyrers. AMI was
founded hy Christ, who was . carpenter.
and SO hss ighI . speak for a.! laoor.
ers. and Thc owns t3e earth a-d the solar
system and the universe. aud Sc can speak
fyr tos capitalists.
A. for myself as az individual I have
r.-t' - Be heard. Ny father was 3 farmer
sHi M grandfather. and they lad 70 Work
for living. and every dollar l own I
azrnei by the sweat II nv own b-ow. and
we n man anything, sId # any Oh. ga
ton has escaped ny memory. come and
pT@.en. your bill when iescen from this
pulp, and viii pav OF the spot. am
g0.-g . say al I think and feel On this
subject, and without any rsserv alton. ask
ius yo1r prayers that I may te diy!1elv
directed IN this important series Of Sab
bath morning discourses.
Tha. lator has grievances I viii show
yol plainly before get through this
course Of sermons. That capital has had
outrages committed upon II l VIII make
eviieB; beyond dispgte But there are
right and wrong ways Of attempting a
reformation.
When I say there will BE- no return 70
social chaos do not un9errsts the awful
peril Of these times. We must admit that
the tendency IS toward revolution. Great
throngs gather al some points Of disturb
ance in almost all our cities Rail trains
hurled over the rocks. Workmen beaten
n death within sight Of their wives and
children. Factories assailed BY mobs.
The faithful police Of our cities exhausted
ty vigilance night and day. In some
cases the military called out The whole
country asking the question: What
n@1t'' An earthquake has with one hand
taken bold Of this continent az -ne Pacific
beach, and with the other hand has taken
hold Of the continent al the Atlantic
beach, and shaken Il till every manufsct-
uring. commercial, agricultural. literary
and religious interest has trembled. A
part Of Belgium one great riot Russia
and Germany and Austria keeping their
wJrkmen quiet only by standing armies
20 vast that thev are eating out the life Of
those nations. The only reason that Ire
land is = peace i because she Is hoping
fgy home rule aud the triumph Of Glad
-'Oneism. The labor quarrel is hemis-
pheric, aye, a worldwide 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 70 steer clear of it.
Anarchy is abolition Of right of property.
II makes your store and your house and
your money and your family mine, and
mine yours. II 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, church, no defense, no rights,
no happiness, no God. II means he'll let
loose on earth, and society combination
Of devils incarnate. II means extermina-
ton Of everything good and the corona
ation Of every thing infamous. Do you
want il; WIN you have it;
Meanwhile, my brotherly counsel is TO
three classes of laborers.
First, TO those who are al work. Stick
TO il. Do not amid the excitement Of
these times drop your employment, hoping
that something better will turn up. He
who gives up work now, whether he be
railroad man, mechanic, farmer, clerk or
any other kind Of employe, will probably
give ii up for starvation. You may not like
the line Of steamers that you are sailing
in, but do not jump overheard in the mi d.
die of the Atlantic. Be a little earlier
than usual at your post Of work while this
turmoil lasts, and attend 70 your occupa-
ton with little more assiduity than has
ever characterized you.
Ny brotherly counsel, in the second
place, is TO those who have resigned work
1t 10 best for you and best for everybody
70 go back Immediately. Do not wait to
sAA what others do. Get on hoard