St. Paul daily globe., 1886-01-17
ADDRESS TO THE MINISTRY.
A Working Man Gives Them Point
ers for Future Use.

Text: "For the love of money is the root
of all evil" i Timothy, vi, 10.
As the sun is the central power Of life
and light TO all so IS the Bible the great
light to the minds of men. The ministry
stands on Zion's towers to warn the people
of their sins. rich and poor alike. DIR.
Dana of ST. Paul and Rev. J. l.. Scudder
of Minneapolis have given their views On
Labor and Capital. Their impartial treat
ment of the question is fully appreciated by
all concerned. This question has become a
national problem, worthy of deep and
serious study by all those who love their
fellow-man more than money. We do not
ask the lovers of money for justice-they
have trampled poor humanity in the dust
for more than eighteen centuries.
Pharoh was powerful and deied God.
Modern PharOhs are numerous and equally
as wicked; but our cause is Just. If God is
for us who can be against us? We call upon
the priesthood of all denominations to be
true TO their vows. ''ChOOSe We this day
whom We will serve" and let your answer
be, ''As for me and my house we will serve
the Lord, ''open thy mouth. Judge right
eously and plead the cause of the poor and
needy" Teach the sublime truths of Him
who was Graded in a manger, and had
not on earth whereOn To lay His head.
Like Him ever be ready to advocate the
the cause of the poor and distressed against
the crushing power that drives them into
poverty. That single wOrdi What volumes
does it speak, Ii speaks of want and woe,
hunger and fatigueS, and all the miSerieS
our weary bodies suffer. 1t speaks Of the
insatiate avarice and naughty power
of wealth, fleeing ''hOnest labor" until
lnaaA a
humanity lies trampled under foot. All
this for the ''lOve of money!" in the form of
stocks. bonds and fat dividends, wasted by
our OppressOrs i'm palaces, and pampered
pride, and scornful uncOncern upon their
victims. How easy for them to contribute
81, 900 for the missionary cause, and as
much more for sOft-cushiOned pewl But
God is not Knocked. He that despiSeth
the poor reproacheth his Maker" What
mean We that We beat My people to pieces,
and grind the faces of the poor. saith the
Lord God of Hosts" Please read the
twenty-third chapter of Mathew TO your
wealthy congregations. If they pronounce
you crank" and threaten to
CUT YOUR SALARY,
tell them you are simply repeating the fiery
words of Indignation that fell from the lips
of your Divine Master, and you feel il is
your duty to proclaim the whole counsel of
God ana keep nothing back. Tell them the
church records show only per cent. of
the working masses attending public worship
while the other 95 are left to the tender
mercies of mOnOpOlists, Bob IngersOlI and
the devil. and that you have determined
hencefOrth to preach TO please God rather
than men, regardless of consequences.
If they dub you ''striker" and call out
the PinkertOn miScreants to shoot you
down, preach your last sermon to them
from James chapter W, 1-6. From this
text open your spiritual batteries with dou-
ble-shOtted grape and canister. The Bible
| is a vast magazine of ammunition and the
game is plenty. National banking swind-
lers, land sharks, jobbers and usureTs
and many others of the same
species like the showman's menag-
erie, too numerous to mention), each
with claw and beak fastened in the
vitals of ''labor' seizeing the lions share
Yet they produce nothing, excepting
poverty. They leave enough of this TO I'll
the homes of the toiling millions to over
flowing.
If they tell you workmen are ignorant
simply the bone and muscle of the nation
and that wealth Is the legitimate fIuit o.
large brains and deep thinking, tell then
they might sit and think till the resurrection
morn, and there would be no forests felled
furrows plowed, railroads, locomotives, o.
steamships built, for as thought, withou
work is useless in the material world, so i
il in the spiritual. Faith without work /
dead. They may dress in silk, satin anC
velvet. listen TO fiowery sermons, anC
panoramic views of pearly gates, accom-
panied by exquisite music, but all in vain
If they have failed to hear the wall of the
widow and the orphan, the cry OF pair
from the sick, the downcast and broker
hearted, ''for inasmuch as We did it not Il
one of the least of these. ye did it not t
me-" Ask them how their books balsncs