Morning journal and courier., 1888-02-20
PRACTICAL TRUTHS.

The WOrklRgmen Christianity the
 Lever That Exalts Labor-The True
 Solution of Labor Difficulties And
 Wrongs.
 HChrist and the Workingman." The first of the series of sermons on "Christ and the Home" to be delivered at the East Pearl street M. E. church, Fair Haven, was preach ed last evening by the Rev. A. H. Good enough to a large congregation. His text
 was from Eph. 6, 7 and 6: "With good will
 doing service as to the Lord and not to
 men. Knowing that whatsoever good thing
 any man doeth the same shall he receive of
 the Lord whether he be bond OF free"
 Among the many practical things the preach
 or said were these:
 Who is Jesus Christi He is a man and a
 God, the God man. Who is the working
 mani That is difficult question. Most men
 work and it is well it is so, but by the work ingman the world to day means that man who tolls at manual labor and who works fer certain wage per day or week. Labor is the life of humanity. All things are produced by work. Our food, raiment and our pleasures are the result of work. Work is honorable. No man should be monument of labor is built from man to God, from earth to heaven. Millionaires, doctors, lawyers, teachers and ministers are all workingmen, but not in the sense I speak of this evening.
 The question is, what does Christianity propose to do for the workingman? Chris tianity signifies labor. My father worketh hitherto and work" Go ye therefore and work. It lifts you up to the level of the 1 divine ideal of humanity.
 God has given us fuel. But what use is thousand acres of woodland or all the beds tofn iv, kO prepare them for use.
 1 It is surprising how the workipgmen of l to-day will allow themselves to be duped. They will allow few self-appointed leaders | to throw dust in their eyes and then lead them whithersoeyer they will. Now we must admit that the workingman | has been wronged at times by selfish men. But how much better their condition to-day than it was centuries ago, when the work I ingman was bought and sold like nerchan- | disc. This betterment of their condition. l l claim, is the outcome of Christianity. One of our city papers the other day Gn- tentionally or etherwise) spoke of the
 Knights of Labor" as the 'sBlights of La bor." Our Lord says, "The workman is | worthy of his hire," and believe that most l of our workingmen to-day receive fair price | for a fair days work. The man who goes to his work with the idea of doing as little as possible for his employer through the day I could not do so if he had Christ in his heart. | Neither could the employer rush and drive | his men if he were true Christian. | The masses of the workingmen are mis- ! taken. They think they see the panacea for | all evils in the strike. Strike! am begin- ming to hate the word for I cannot see where strikes have ever benefited the workingman \ one dollar.
 believe God calls men to be farmers, | blacksmiths, shoemakers and carpenters just | as surely as he calls others to be teachers and | ministers. And if we fill our place in our ! allotted sphere we shall receive our reward from God for digging in the earth, if that is | our work, just as sure as the preacher and teacher of Gods word will receive his.
 The godly millionaire and the godly pauper | will be the same in the future world. "Be- | lieve on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt
 be saved" s'Keep his commandments and
 thou shalt have a right to the tree of life"
 The workingman's foes are these: 1st. The saloon where rum is sold, debas- ing the man and robbing his family.
 2d The men who make tools of working l men in attempts to control capital.
 Sd. The efforts to destroy the Christian Sabbath.
 I put against these his best friend, the New Testament; out of which has come all that is good and better and best in human ! society.
 The next sermon in the course will be de- /! liyered February 26 on ''The True Policy of { Life.'
 1 New Haven Colony Historical Society. Rev. William G. Andrews, D. D., will read
 a paper before this society at o'clock this
 Monday evening, subject: "William Samuel Johnson and the United States Constitution. , Members are requested to invite their friends.