Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-05-17
THE LABOR QUESTION,
The Church of Christ Will Settle
This Social Disorder.
THERE WILL BE No5 REVOLUTION
Despite the Awful PeriI-AdViCe to Labor
Labor Has Grievances, So
Has Capital.
Special 10 tie RsqiSter.

Brooklyn Tabernacle, on the sll-abSorbing
Labor Question. He discusses the follow
ing subjects iu the series: THE Battle
for Bread" The Rights Of Capital and
I.sbor, "Ths HardsSipS Of the Working
Classes" How Employers and Employees
o lght to Treat Each Other" and The
Greatest Foe of l. ,bor"-6ve in all
The opening hymn Of the service this
morning begins:
Arm OF the Lord, awake! awake!
Put on thy strength, the nations shake
And let the world adoring see
Triumphs o! mercy wrought by Thee.
After expounding appropriate passages
Of Scripture Dr.. Tslmsge gave out the
text, Genesis i:2: TEE earth was without
form, and void, and darkness wa, upon
the face of the deep. Aud the spirit OF
God moved upon the face of the waters.
DR.. Tslmsge said:
THE SERMON.
Out in space there hung 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 ughness, confusion, and dis
tortion, uselessness, ghsstliness and horror.
1t seemed like great commons on which
smashed up worlds were dumped. 1t was
what poetry and prose, scientist and Chris
tian agree in calling Chaos. Out OF that
black, rough, shapeless egg our beautiful
world was Matched. Gcd stood over that
original anarchy Of elements and said:
Atlantic Ocean, you 60 right away and
lie down therel Pacific Ocean, you sleep
there! Caucasian range Of mountains
YOU stand there Mount Wash
ington you be sentinel there
Mont Blanc, you put on your coronet OF
crystal therel Mississippi, you march
there. and Missouri you marry it thereW
And he gathered in His almighty hands
the sand and mud and rock, and rolled and
hesved and nodded and dented and COM
pressed them into shape, and then dropped
them in four places; and the one was Asia,
and another Europe, and another America,
North and South.
That original chaos was like the confu'
sion and anarchy into which the human
race ever and anon has tendency to
plunge God has said: Let there be light
OF Law, light of jqs'ice, light OF peace, light
OF love" No! Mo- say Ansrchic voices,
Let there be darkness, let there be cut
throatery, let there be eternal imbrogiio,
let there be chaos
Such social condition many are ex.
pectiug because of the overshsdowing con-
test between Labor and Capital. There
has not been an intelligent man or woman
during the last two months who has not
asked the question: "Shsll We have bloody
revolution IN this country" have heard
many answer the question in the atiirma-
i've; answer il in the negative.
There may be and there have been ter
rife ou bursts of popular frenzy but
THERE WILL BE No ANARCHY,
for the Church of Christ, the mightiest and
prsnGest institution of the planet shall
laying hold of the strength of the eternal
God, come out, and putting one hand oil
the shoulder of Labor and the other on the
shoulder of Capital saw: 81 come i'll the
name of the God who turned chaos into
magnificent order, to settle this dispute BY
the principles of eternal justice and kind
ness; and now | command you, take your
hands off OF each other 8 throsts " The
only impartial institution on this subject is
ne church, for it is made up Of both CAPT
ralis,s and lsborers, and was founded by
Christ, who wss q carpenter, and so has a
right to speak for all lsborers; and Who
owns the earth and the solar system and
the universe, and so can speak for the cspi.
talists
As for myself, as an individual | have a
right to be heard. My father was farmer
and my grandfather, and they had to work
for living; and every dollar own |
earned by the sweat of my own brow, and |
owe no man anything, aud if any oOligs.
ton has escaped my memory, come and
present your bill when descend from this
pulpit, and will pay you On the spot.
I am going to say all that think and feel
on this subject, and without any reserys-
ton, asking your prayers that l may be
Divinely directed in this important series
of Sabbath morning discourses.
BOTH HAVE GRIEVANCES.
That Labor has grievances will show
you plainly before get through this course
of sermons That Capital has had out
RACES committed upon it | will make evil
dent beyond dispute. But there are right
and wrong ways Of attempting reforDs'
ton.
When / say there will be no return to
social Chaos DO not underrate the awful
peril ofthese times. We must admit that
the tendency it toward revolution. Great
throngs gather at some points OF disturb
auce in almost all our cities. Railtrsins
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 exhsusted
BY vigilance night and day. In some
cases the military called out. The whole
country asking the question, What nextY
An earthquake has with one hand taken
hold Of this cantinent at the Pacific beach
and With the other hand has tskeR hold o
the continent at the Atlantic beach, snt
shaken it till every manufacturing
commercial, agricultural, literary
and religions interest bs'
trembled. A part OF Belgium ane gres
riot. Russia and Germany and AustEiG
| keeSing their wOrkmsn quiet only b.
standing ArtS;es SO vast that they are eat
ing on, :ha life Of those natiOnG. The oDl!
reason that ireland Is in peace ig becaus
she is hoping for Home Rule and the tri
umph Of GIsdstoaeisu. The LABOR qusrree
| is hemisphere, aye, q worldwide quarrel
and the whole tendency 10 toward Ar
archy. 9.
But one way in which We may avoi'
Anarchy is BY letting the people know
WHAT ANARCHY Is.
We nuSt have the wreck pointed out i
order to steer eiesr ps it. Anarchy
abolition of right Of property. II make
your store and your house and your none
and YOUR family mine, and mine yours.