Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-05-31
IABORHRS' RARDSHIPS.
The Third Of the Series Of the Rev.
Dewitt TaImage's Tabernacle Ser
mons on the Labor Question
Men Who See DIflIcultles In Their Own
Work, bat Only Roses in Some-
body Else's Occupation.
woman UnequaiIy Paid-asiioral Hard
ships OF the Working Cihssos-Pa-
thence Makes Perfect Man.
special to the Gazette.

BROOKLYN, N. T., may 0V.-heN.
Dewitt Talmage, ID. d., preached to-ds
In the Brooklyn Tabernacle the third {
his series of sermons on 1.-THE Labc
Question" entitled 1.-THE Genuine Hare
ships OF the Working Classes" TIL
Brooklyn Tabernacle, which Is the mos
spacious Protestant church In America
largely oyeriows at ordinary times, bu
during the recent series Of sermons tn
multituGts who cannot get inside tn
building are vastly more numerous.
DR.. Talmhge's text is found In Isalal
xii, Z: $50 the carpenter encouraged TN
goldsmith, aud he that smootheth Will
the hammer him that smote the anvil.
lie said
You have seen IN factories q piece d
mechanism passing from hand 10 hand
and from room TO room, and one me
chanic will smite II, and another will
fatten IL, and another VIII chisel IL, and
another will polish II, until the
work be done. And so the
prophet describes the idols OF olden times
as being made, part Of them by one
ha nd, part Of them by another hand.
Carpentry comes In, gold-beatiDg comes
IN, smithery comes Inland three or four
styles Of mechanism are employed. $50
the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith,
and he that smootheth with the hammer
he that smote the ANVIL When they
met they talked over their work, and
they helped each other on with II. II
was a very bad kind Of business; 1t was
making idols which were an insult TO the
Lord OF heaven. | have thought II men
In bad work can encourage each other,
ought not men engaged in honest artisan
ah md In AHA A.
words OF good cheerr
The bible comes down to the mi
nutiiu Of everything. II tells us
how many dollars Solomon paid
for his horses II tells us in Deuter-
onomy what kind of a roof we ought TO
have on our house. II applauds the in
dus.ry and generosity OF the lraelitish
spinsters. 1t gives us specimens OF old
time needle-work, leather making, tan.
Ing establishment, pottery, brick kiln, |
city water works, ship.bullding.
Men see In their own work hardshps |
and trials, while they recognize no hard !
ships or trials IN anybody else's occupa-
tlon. Every mans burden Is the heaviest |
and every Noman's task Is the hardest,
We find people wanting to get into other
occupations and professions. hear men
In all kinds Of toll wishing they were en-.
ablod 20 do something else, saying to me
II have mistook my path in life; | ought
TO have been Il mechanic and am a mer-
chant" or, al ought 10 have been q law
yer and am an artist; If had under
taken some other path IN life I would
have had an easier time and
| would have had grander successes"
suppose when the merchant comes home
at night, his brain hot with the anXleties
OF commercial toll, disappointed and
yeNed, agitated about the eXcitements In
money markets, he says; "Oh, ! wish
were u mechanic! When his days work
Is done, the mechanic lies down; he is
healthy in body, healthy In mind aud
healthy in soul, but can't sleeps" while,
at that very moment, the mechanic is !.
wishing he were banker or merchant !
lie says; "Then could always have on y
beautiful apparel; then could move In |
the choicest circles; then could bring !
mp my children In very different sphere !
from that In which am compelled to !
bring them up"
Now, the beauty OF our holy religion ia
hat God looks down upon all the occupa- !.
Ions aud professions, and while cannot =
your annoyance and Z
'ou cannot understand mine, God "
understands them all He knows all y
bout the troubles OF these men mem y
Toned In my text-the carpenter who =
Encouraged the goldsmith and he that I,
mootheth with the hammer, and the !,
-
VIII speak this morningof the general =
Iardships OF the working classes You u
nay not belong TO this class, but YOU are y
ound as Christian men and women 20 y
now their sorrows and sympaihize with =
hem; and as political economists 10 y
ONE to their rescue There Is great ~
anger that the prosperous classes, be- !,
lnse of the bad things that have been ~
aid by the false friends OF labor, shall :,
onelude that all this labor trouble Is ~
hullaoaloo" about nothing. Dc not 20 !,
II on that tangent. You would not. ~
either would !, submit without protest a.
, the expressions to which many Of our y,
lborers are subjected. "a ~
You do great wrong to the laborlpa ~
lssses u you hold them responsible for an
nc work OF the scoundrelly anarchists, n,
GU cannot hate their deeds more thor a.
ughly than do all the industrial classes. ~
inc head OF the chief organ of the mn
n'snss OF LABOR, IN Dig letters, find AZ,
le following vigorous disclaimer: "a,
"Let II be understood BY all tho world 40
lat the knights Of Labor have no AMI. cd
non association, sympathy or respect mi
u the band of cowafdly mnrderers, cut. on
lroats and robbers, known as anarch- MI
ts, who sneak through the coun.ry like ius
lanignt assass MS, stirring up the pns. de,
ons OF ignorant foreigners, unfnrlpr In
e red nag Of anarchy aud causing uot 70,
I'd bloodshed, Parsons, Spies, Fielding. Tor
ost and all their followers, sympathIz, hi
:, aiders and abettors should be sum. fro
ar'ly dealt with. They are entitled 10 tax
more consideration than wild beasts Ua
ne leaders are towards aud their fol- ete
wers are fools.n III
You may do your duty towards your VII
oployes, hut many do not, and the bic. me
sc business firm In America today Il mo
ZIP, Gouge, Grind 4 Co, va,
Look, for Instance, AZ the woes az tho he
omanly toilers, who have not made any and
rike, and who are dying hy the thousands nnt
q dying by the inches. ! read a fev tasl
les from the last labor report, just out. syn
specimens OF what female employees mn,
durei poisoned hands and cannot Iad,
'rk. Had 70 sue the man for 90 cents y me,
other; "About -four mouths OF Tho ,hSs
" can by hard work earn ilv,lo more M,
N - per week. Another: nShe con,
" makes WraDnera at al mar tn..,, ~, Il