, 1886-05-23
THE BATTLE FOR BREAD
DR.. TAlMAeE olscoURsEs ON THE
LABOR QUESTION.

His Advice to workmen Who Are on
Strike. workmen who Have Employ
menf. and workmen who Have No
Employment-Anarchy Cannot Prevail.
BROOKLYN. May 16-Rev. T. Dewitt Tai
mage. d. D., to-day began a series of Sab
bath morning discourses in the Brooklyn
Tabernacle on the al-absorbing labor ques-
ton. He discusses the following subjects in
the series: THE Battle for Bread, - THE
Rights OF Capital and Labor" THE Hard
ships Of the Working Classes" How En-
ployers and Employees Ought to Treat Each
o her. and The Greatest Foe Of Labor, 50
five in al.
The opening hymn Of the service this
morning begins.
Arm OF the Lord. awake awake
1ut on thy strength, the nations shakel
And let the world niortng sec
Tiumphs Of mercy wrought by Thee.
After 'xpounding al propriate passages OF
scripture DIR. Talmage gave out the text
Genesis i >: The earth was without form,
and void. and darkness WINS upon the face of
tine deep And the Spirit of Col moved upon
the fac, Of the waters" DIR. Talmage said:
Out in space there hung a great chunk Of
rock and mud, and water and shell. thou
sands Of miles in diameter, more thousands
of miles in circumference A great mass OF
ugliness, confusion and distortion, useless
ness, ghastlines, and horror. 1t seemed like
a great commons on which smashed up
worlds were dumped. It was what poetry
md prose, scientist and Christian ngree in
calling chaos. OIt of that black, rough,
shapelcss egg our beautiful world was
hatchel. God stool over that oriyinnl
anarchy of elements md said. "Atlantic
ocaar Won no ri,bt ov,v and ,e down
-. -, -. H.,
-
Caucasian r"nse o. "ouhtaihs' you stanu
therel Mount Warrington, you De sentihei
there Mont Blanc, yon put on your coronet
of crystal there Mississippi, you march there
and Missouri YOU marry it there," Ami He
gathered in His ALMIGHTY hands the sand
md mud - roc,, owl ro,lod and h.ovat
- ~, 49,. - -, ..a1
y" " a." " Wv
.n'i" "'o s""iT' anu 'ncn ur"'Sep 'nehh III
four places and the one was ASIA, and
another was Europe, and another Africa,
and another America, North and South.
That original chaos was like the confusion
mud anarchy into which tho human roce evar
and nuon has n tendency 10 nlunge God
Inns snid. Let there be light of law LIGHT
of instice. light OF lover mo, MOI sev
or,rcbic vo,c.a. .let IN ara ha d,rLn.a, tt
-, nn an, ~ ~, - ~ ~
embroclio Let thor. he ch,osr
such a social condition many ore exn.r,-
;.r haaansa -, ,La ~ -. -.
uanTahor al caai,aI, e. -.
- NJ. ;n,.ut..., 80 - d,smn'h.
last two month. who hr- not osteI ,he ana.
tion. "Snou we hnve blootv revo'utio, in
III. .o,ntr,r hoy. ho I'd r,s,y ans,ar
tba o,os,ta,, H.. nmrmatra. - !,
Il, ,Lo naa,,t,,
tn n,av Io md thor, havoh.o, ,a~rin.
o,tI, 80 NJ nor,,lar rr.n,r. h,, H. ~ y.ni
ho no onarchv. FOE tbs chr,,ch Of cbris,
tho n,f,Ltie.t and ,rou1os, ius,itntio., ~ ia
-, shau tariun Lod ~, ,ha $50. ~
Inc .,err,I G,d CON. ont and nr,tinr one
hand on III. sbouider of Thor md ,ha o,ho,.
on tbn shonider NJ r,nitai saw. ST COME n,
,ha norne of ,h. Col ubn ,,rn.d cbnos into
mognidccpt order Ia s.,tia nj, disnut. Ia,
Tho nrircinLs of .taruol in.tico and
lindres. md NOW communal va,
tata YOUR hands Off - s,cb oths, .
tbro,tsu TIN. only 3mnartiol institution
on this subject 4. the church for IL ia mad.
Of bo,h con;tapsts and l,horars and was
founded Inv Christ who WINS n cnrnen,er and
50 mas ripht TO speas for ali lnborers, md
IA owns The ,nrth and The solar svstem and
the untvarse anI "a can monk for th. c,nL
talists.
AZ for mv.olf ma nm frdivi1,oi Ibov. A..
right 10 le benr1 Nv father w,s n farmer
and my prnnifatber and tbev had In work
for n living ond evcrv dollar | own / earned
by tho swdat of nv own brow and I owe no
man .nnvthing and II INV obIignfi,n has
escapel my memory come and nresent vour
hill when | descend from this mimi and |