Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-05-21
A Series Of Sermons Giving Advice to
the Laboring MAN. Something
Worth Meditatng.
Tkc Tendency Toward Revolution and
Anarcby--The Labor Quarrel
Hemisphere.
Manufacturing, Commercial, Aariculsorsh,
Literary and Religious interests
Tremble.
"ruE LABOR qursrIoN.p


the Brooklyn Tsrbernaclc, on The allah
sorbine labor question. He discusses
The following SUBJECTS in tho eeries
"The Battle for Brcad,t' "TlDe Rights Of
Capitol aud Lrbor,' "The HardHhips Of
che Working Classes, nWHow Employers
and Rrnployee Dpgbt 10 Treat Each Oh.
err aud "1he Greatest Zoe Of Labor
Ave in all
The opening hymn OF The service this
morning begins:
Arm OF the Lord, awakoi Avahei
Put on ehy strength, tho nations shake
And les the world 20 iog SEQ
Tfiumphs Of msrjy wrought By Thee
After cxpoundipg appropriate passages
sof scripture DR.. ralmage gave ont the
text, Genesis l. 2: "The earth WAS With
out form, and void; and darkness was
upon the face ~ the deep. And the
Spirit of God moved upon the faoecf the
waters" fc. Talmage said:
Our In spSse there hing great chunk
of rock and mud aud water and shell
thousands 81 miles In diameter more
thoraandss)f miles ia circumference.
great mass u ugliuess, confusion aud dis
tortion, sclcssDess and horror. ~
seemed NE great commons on which
smasheds,p worlds were dumped. IL
was what poetry and prose, scientist and
Christian agree In calling chaos. Out q
that black, rough, shapeleas egg our
beantift world was hatched. God stood
over tbat original anarchy OF elements
and said "Atlantlc ocean, you 20 right
away and lie down there's Pacific ocean,
YOU sleep therei Cauceueian range Of
mountains, you stand there Moubt
Washington, you be sentinel thcrei
Mont Blanc, you put on your coronct OF
crystal therei Mississippi, you march
there, and Missouri VOC marry II there 7"
And he gathered IN His Almighty hands
the sand and mud aud rock, and rolled
and benYed aud nodded and dented and
compressed them Into shape, aud then
" dropped them Ia four places and The one
was Asia, ana another was Europe, and
another Africa, and another America,
North aud South.
That original chaos was,lke tho oonfu-
sion and anarchy into which the human
race ever aud anon hassa tendency to
plunge. God has said "Let there be
light OF law, light Of Justice, light Of
peace, light OF ioyelr oNoi MOI" say
anarchic volcesi "let there be darkness,
let there be cut throatery, let there be
Z eternal imbr0glio, let there be cbGos"
Such social condition many are cx-
pectlng because OF the OvGfshadowing
contest between labor and capital there
mas not been an Intelligent man or woman
during the last two moaths who has not
asked the question; "Bhall we have
bloody revolution In this country" |
have heard many answer the question In
the affirmative. l answer II lu the neg
ativo.
There may be and there have been ter.
rlilc ouibursts af popular frenzy, but
there Will be- no anarchy, for the church
OF Christ, the mightiest and grandest In.
atitnuon OF tho planet, shall, laying hold
oil the strength OF tho eternal God, come
out, and putting one hend on the shout.
der OF labor aud the other on tie shout.
der OF capital, say; ~ come In the
name OF the God who turned chaos into
magnificent order, to Eettlo this dispute
ny tue principles OF eternal justico and
Kindness, and now command YOU, take
\ your hands off Of each others throats. ~
The ony impartial inatitutlon on this
subject is the church, for IL 10 made
up of bota capitalists ana laborers, ANA
was founded by ChrlGt, who was n cur.
pentert and so has right TO speak for
all laboieTs, aud who owns the earth and
the solar system aud the universe, and so
can speak for the capitalists.
AZ for myself as au individual / have
right 20 be heard. My father was n
farmer and my grandfather, and thoy had
TO work Tor living; and every dollar |
own earaod by the sweat of my own
brow, ana | owe no mnu anything, and IL
any obligation has escaped my memory
come and present. your bill when /
descend from this pulpit, and fwlA nav
You ON tloepot am g0iup 10 say all
that think and feel ON thus subject, and
without any reservation, asking your
prayers that may he dlvluoiy dlreeto
IN this important series OF Sabbath morn.
ing dlsoouFssa.
Vnat labor has grievances ] wiz show
you plainly before get through With this
course OF eermons, That capital has had
outfages coinmbted upon 1t wis make
evident beyond dispute. But there are
right aud wrons ways 81 attempting "
reformation,
When shy there Will De no reblru to
ssoclkl chaos l do not underrate the awful
peru oi these times. WemuSt admit that
The tendency as toward resolution, Great
throngs gather at some points OF dismrb.
sanca Ia almost all our cities Rail-tralns
hnned over the rocks. workmen beaten
70 defth wlthiR sight OF their wives and
children Factories assa'led bg mobs
The faithful police In our cltlea exhausted
by Nlgllauco night anil day. ia some
cases the military called out. The whole
country asking the question, AWhst
ne%tg' An earthquake has With one
hand taken held OF this continent at the
Pgciilc beach, and with tue other hand
has taken hold OF the continent at the
Atlantic beach, and shaken Ii TIL every
manufacturing, commercial AGRICULTURAL,
literary and religious interest has
tremhlod. part Of Belgium one great
riot. Rusala and Germany and Austria
keeping their worklnen quiet only by
standing arlnl so vast that they are eat.
Ing out the lite OF those nations. The
only reason that Ireland is In ~ see Is be- !
cause she Is hoping for homo rule aud the |
triumph Of Gladstonisfa The labor quar- |
rel Il hemisnhsric, ave, Worldwide |
quarrel, and the whole tendency is toward
Bur one way IN which we may aRoid
anarchy is by lotting the people know
SHAT anarchy Is. We must have the wreck
pointed out In order 20 steer clear II II.
Auerchy ~ abolition OF right OF property
y rlakes your stores and your house and
'onF money end your family nine, ana
nlnv yours. u II wholesale robbery. nj 4
: eNcl'y mans hand against every other
nnn. II IL arson and murder and raplae
nd lust aud death triumphant. II means ,
% law, 40 church, no defense, no rights. / !
% happsness, no God. II means he'll lei | /
Jose on earth, and eoclety a com, /
nation a devils lnoaFnate. II means h
ACCUMULATION OF everything good and the | h
cremation 81 everything Infamous. Dolv
on want ~ gil you have its Before d
% let It geta good foothold In America d
'ku good look Al the dragon. Look AZ Il
Pils where Tor . few days It held swsy, &,