The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-06-03
DR.. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
SHALL WE HAVE ANARCHY IN
AMERICA.

SHALL WE HAVE ANARCHY IN
AMERICA,
Text. 1.-THE earth was without form and
void, and darkness was upon the face Of tho
deep, and the spirit of God moved upon tho
face of the waters. Genesis l. q
Out in space there hung great chunk Of
rock and mud and sand aud SHE'LL thousands
OF miles In diamoteH more thousands Of miles
IN circumference, great mass of ugliness,
confusion, distortion, uselessness ghastliness
and horror. 1t seemed like some great com.
mons on which masht dup worlds had been
dumped. Poetry and prose, scientist and
Christian, all agree in calling 1t chaos. That
was'the ugly, unsharely egg out Of which
our beautiful world was hatched. God
bent over that anger and turmoil of elements
and he said; "Atlantic Ocean, you 60 away
and lie down there Pacific Ocean, you 60
and sleep there Mount Washington, you
stand sentinel here. Mont Blanc, you put
on your coronet of crystal there. Mississippi.
you march there, aud Missouri, you marry ii
there" God took up in His almighty arms
the rock and the mud and the sand and the
shell and He feaycli it aud He rolled it and
He indented it and He divided j, and He
compressed it into shape, and thea He dropped
1T in four different places, and the one de-
,posit was Europe, and another deposit was
Asia. and another deposit was. Africa, and
tie. fourth deposit was America, North
and South. In other words, "the spirit of
God moved upon the face of the waters"
Well, now. that original chaos was type Of
the anarchy into which so iety is ever and
anon tempted to plunge. God said. Let
there be light of order light of law, light Of
sympathy, light Of justice light of love-" An
anarchical voice said: mo, no; let there bo
darkness, let the: Q be cutthroatery, let there,
be eternal imbroglio, let there be chaos"
That social confusion, that moral chaos is the
condition into which great many supposed
our land was to be plunged be- anse of the
overhanging contest between Capi al and
Labor. During the past three months, aye
during the last live years, the in.
telligcnt people of this country have been
asking: Are we going to have anarchy and
bloooy revolution in AmeIi,aN Thousands
OF voices have answered in the affirmative.
answer this morning in the negative. There
may be, Us there have been, outbursts of pop
u,ar frenzy, but there will be no anarchy, for
the Church of Christ, the grandest and
mghtiest institution on earth, will come out
in the name of the Eternal God, and putting
one hand On tho shoulder of Capital and
the other hand on the shoulder Of Labor,
will say: Il come out in the name of the
God who turned chaos into order to settle
this dispute by the principle of JUS
tlcc and kindness. Now, l COM
mand that you take your hands off Of
each others threats The Church of God is
the only imnart al institution on this subject,
for it has within its borders capitalists and
laborers, aud it was founded by the Christ who
was carpenter and therefore has right to
speak for all laborers; and who owns this
world and the solar system and the universe
aud has, therefore. right to speak tor capi-
talists, AS an individual l have right to,
be heard on the labor question. My father,
was farmer and my grandfather was q
farmer aud they tolei for living. l have,
not earn by the sweat of myi
brow aud l owe no man anything
If Fave forgotten any obligation, and you
will meet NE at the foot of the pulpit when Il
cone down, will settle it on the spot pur-
pose to say all have thought or felt on this
sub e.t, and without any reservation, and T.
only ask of you that you pray God that II
may be divinely directed in this impartial
series OF faobath morning diScourseS; and L
also ask that you receive what have to say
in silence, and without either approval OF.
disaprrobation in sound. When say there
will be no anarchy in this country 1
do not want you to think that l under
estimate the awful peril of this hour. TIE
tenden y has been toward chaos and toward
i
ances in nearly all our great cities; rail
trains hurled over the rocks; workmen
beaten to death in the presence of their wives
and children; faithful policemen exhausted
by vigilance by day and vigilance by night;
in some cities the military called out; thou
sands Of people ask ing: "What nexts"
A great earthquake with one hand has
taken hold of this continent at the Pa
ciflc beach, and with the other hand has
taken ho'd of the continent at the At
lantic beach, and has shaken it, and
all agricultural and manufacturing and com.
mercial and literary and artistic and moral
aud religious interests have been nightly
shaken. | look across the water and | find
yart of Belgium enc great mob Russia and
quiet by standing armies that are eating the
life of those nations. Ireland at peace
to-day cnly because it anticipates II ,me Rule
and the triumph of Gladstoneism The quar-
rel tetwesn Capital and Labor ishemisphe ic,
ave, it is worldwide, and every man must
admit that the tendency has been to-
wa'd Alarch~. Now, my friends,
one way in which We are to ave anarchy IS
to let the people know what anarchy is.
Show US the hoe that we may st er clear of
| it. Anarchy is the abel tion OF all rights Of
property. 1t is every mans hand 'ainst
every other man. It is making your house,
your store, your hore5t estate, your home,
NOul lam ~ lhIuc-dI.u liliue yUub III IS
arson, rapina, murder, lust and death tri-
umrhant. It IS hell let loose on Garth, and
so ietv combination of devils incarnate.
| it is the overthrow of everything good. anl
It is the coronation # everything infamous
1t means no law, no rights. nu de
fence. no family, no church, no peace, no
happiness and no God. That is anarchy.
! Now, who wants it in this country Let us
| look at the old dragon. Let me take one
square and scrutinizing look at him before we
allow him to ut his foot On this continent.
The pso, lc want to know what anarchy is,
and then they will rise up, all the good REQ
pie Of the United States, and in conjunction
with the officers of the law, city officers, state
| officers. national officers, we shall COM
mani peace, and have peace universal, and
peace all the time. Within six months
| there will in this country be better
state Ct feeling between Capital and Labor
than there ever has been, because they have
learned as never before, they have had it
demonstrated that they are absolutely de-
| three words of advice to the laboring classes
of America so far as my words may reach
them. My first word Of brotherly counsel
| to laborers is to those who have work now.
Stick to it. Do not under the turmoil
of the present excitement give ur
your employment with the idea that
something better will turn up. Because
you do not like the line of steamers on which
| you all, do not jump overheard in the mid
die of the Atlantic Ocean. Those railroad
men, those mechanics, those carpenters
those masons, those clerks in stores, those
employees in all styles of business who give
up their work, probably give it up for star
vation Iwould say to this class of laborer
who have work, not only stick to it in thest
times of excitement, but make this change
Go q little earlier to your place o
work and do your work better thai
you ever have done it before
with more intensity ard more earnestncss
Let additional assidity characterize you
That is my first word of advice to those VIII
have work My second word of advice is +
those who have had work but have resigne,
it. The best thing for you, and the best thin
for everybody isto go back Immediately. d
not wait to sea what others will do Yol
get on board the train of rational prosperit
before it starts, for start it will, and star
soon, and start nightly. We have repor
of the strikes of last year, whic
saws there were forty-five genera
strikes in the State of New York; III sho
strikes; successful strikes. ninety seven
strikes lost, thirty-four; strikes pending a
the time the statistics were made, fifty-nine
strikes compromised, thirty-two. So tina
we have enough facts before us TO philoso
phize n little and to make I'D a good opinion