St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-31
DR.. Talmage Addresses His Tabernacle
Congregation on the Hardships Of
the Working Glasses.
Thousands u, he Says, Are Working Like
Slaves to be Able to Spoil
Their Offspring.
Children of To-Day Could Ask oues-
lions Ancient Philosophers
Could Not Answer.
Kings and Queens at Gods Throne
VINO Came From Birmingham
and Lowell Factories,
DIR. TaInage's Sermon.


carpenter encouraged the goldsmith. and
ne that smoOtheth with the hammer him
that smote the anvil" He said: You have
seen In factories piece of mechanism pass
Ing from hand to hand and from room to
room, and one mechanic will smite it, and
announcer Will fiatten it, and another will
chisel IL, and another will polish it, until
The work be done. And so the prophet de-
scrlDeS the idols OF Olden time as being
made, part of them by one hand, part of
them by another hand. Carpentry comes
III, eold-Deatlng comes in, smithery comes
ln-and three or four styles of mechanism
are employed. $50 the carpenter encour-
aged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth
Win the hammer him that smote the anvil"
When they met. they talked over their
work and they helped each other on with it.
1t was very bad kind of business: il was
making idols which were an insult to the
Lord OF Heaven. I have thought if men in
bad work can encourage each other. ought
not men engaged in honest craftsmanship and
in honest mechanism speak words of good
cheer? The Bible comes down to the mi
nutl8 OF everything. 1t tells us how many
dollars Solomon paid for his horses. 1t tells
US III deuteronomy what kind of roof we
ought to have On our house. 1t applauds
the
INDUSTRY AND GENEROSITY
OF the Israelitish spinsters. 1t gives us
specimens Of old-time needle work, leather
making. tanning establishment, pottery,
brick kiln, city water works, ship building.
Men see in their own work hardships and
TRIALS, While they recognize no hardships or
trials in anybody else's occupation. Every
mans burden is the heaviest and every
Woman'S task is the hardest. Some find en-
couragement in the fact that their families
are going to have the very best opportunity
for development and usefulness. That may
sound strange to you, but the children of
fortune are very apt to turn out poorly. In
nine cases out of ten the lad finds out if
fortune is coming by II years of age-he
flndS out there is no necessity of toll, and he
makes no struggle, and life without strug-
gle goes into dissipation or into stupidity.
There are thousands and tens of thousands
OF men IN our great cities who are toiling
ON, denying themselves all luXuries. wear
after year toiling and grasping. What for?
10 get enough to spoil their children. The
father was fifty years getting the property
together. How long will it take the bows
to get rid OF that property, not having been
brought up in prudent habits? Less than
five years to undo all the work of fifty. You
see the sons of wealthy parents going out
into the world, inane, neryeless, dyspeptic,
or they are
1NCoRRIGIBLE AND RECKLESS:
While the son of the porter that kept the
gate, learns his trade, gets robust physi-
cal constitution, achieves high moral cuI-
ture, and stands in the front rank OF church
and state. Who are the men mightiest in
our legislatures and congress and cabinets?
Did they walk up the steep of life in silver
slippers? Oh, no. The mother put him
down under the tree i'll the shade while she
spread the hay. Many of these mighty
men ate out of an iron spoon, and drank
out OF the toughest earthenWare-
whole life forced march. They never had
any luXurieS until. after while, God gave
them afhuence and usefulness and renOwn
as reward for their persistence. Remember
then, that though you may have poor sur
roundingS and small means for their educa-
ton of your children, they are actually
starting under better advantages than
though you had fortune to give them.
Hardship and privation are not a damage
to them but an advantage. A clipper likes
stiff breeze. The sledge hammer does not
hurt the iron that it knocks into shape.
Trouble is hone for sharpening very keen
raZors.
Akenside rose to his eminent sphere
from his fathers butcher shop. Robert
Burns started as shepherd. Prideau used
to sweep Exeter college. Clifford was
shoemaker; and the son of every man of
toll may rise to heights of intellectual and
moral power, if he only will trust God and
keep busy. Again, offer as encourage
ment that you have
so MANY OPPORTUNITIES
of gaining information. Plato gave S13.-
600 for two books. The Countess of
Anjou gave 200 sheep for one volume.
jerome ruined himself financially by buying
one copy of Origen. OH the contrast.
Now there are tens of thousands of pens
gathering up information. Type-setters
are calling for copy" All our cities quake
with the rolling cylinders of the Harpers
and the Appletons and the Lippincots and
the Petersons and the Ticknors, and YOU
now buy more than Benjamin Franklin
ever knew for so cents! A Woodworking
man comes along toward his home, and he
looks into the show window of the book
store and sees an elegantly bound volume.
He says: 81 wish 1 had that book; there
must be a great deal of information in it."
A few months pass along, and though
that book which he looked at cost SIS, it
comes now in pamphlet shape, and costs
him so cents. The high wall around
about the well of knowledge is being
broken down, and people come, some with
porcelain pitchers and some with pewter
mugs, to dip up the living water for their
thirsty lips. There are people who toll
from o'clock in the morning until 6
o'clock at night, and know more about
anatomy than the old Psychologists, and
who know more about astronomy than the
old philosophers. If you should take the
learned men of 200 years ago and put
fa1v
children from the common schools in
Brooklyn. and put them down on the
other bench. the children could
EXAMINE PHILOSOPHERS
and the philosophers could not examine the
childrenl "Ah" says Sir Isaac Newton,
coming up and talking to some intelligent
lad of years: What is that?" 80! that
is rail train" what is that?" ''That
is telegraph" ''What is that?" "It is
telephone" "Dear me! think I shall 60
back to my bed in the dust, for am bewil-
dered and my head turns" o. rejoice that
you have all these opportunities of informa.
ton spread out before you, and that seated
in your chair at home, by the evening light,
you can look over all nations and see the
de scending morn of a universal day. One
more encouragement: Your tolls in this
world are only intended to be discipline
ny WHICH, you Suall De prepared Tor heaven.
Behold, bring you glad tidings of great
JOY" and tell you that Christ, the carpen-
ter of Nazareth, is the workingman's Christ.
You get His love once in your heart, D,
workingman! and you can sing on the wall
in the midst of the storm, and in the shop
amidst the showing of the plane, and down
in the mine amid the plunge of the crow
bar, and on shipboard while climbing rat
lines. If you belong to the Lord Jesus
Christ, He will count the drops of sweat on
your brow. He knows every ache and
every pain you have ever suffered in your