The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-02-20
THE SALVATION OF SOULS.
SAVING THE PRESENT GENERATION.
The Rev. DIR. TaImRge breaches Sermon
on Helpfulness-An Appeal For the
Moral and Physical Wants of
Men and Women.

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eagerly listened. His text was: David,
after he had served his own generation,
by the will of God fell on Sleep" from the
Acts viii, So. And upon this the preacher
discoursed upon the work of saving this
generation, saying these among other
things:
Now let us look around this morning,
praverfully and in q commOn-sense way,
and see how we can serve our own genera
ton. And in the first place, / remark, by
seeing that they have enough to eat. The
human body is so constructed that three
times day it needs food, as a lamp needs
oil or a locomotive needs fuel. To meet
that want God has girdled the earth with
apple orchards and orange groves and
wheat fields and oceans full OF fish and
prairies full of cattle, and yet have to
tell you that the vast majority of the
human race lack for food, or lack the
right kind of food. Our civilization is
awfully askew on this subject. God
only can correct it. Many OF
the mightiest fortunes of our day have
been made out of the blood and bones of
unrequited toll. To build a tower in olden
time demand was made for 10000 hui
man skulls from Ispahan and for $4,000
skulls from Bagdad, and that number OF
people had to be slain in order TO furnish
the human skulls for that tower. But
that number of human skulls was a small
number compared with the demand which
is made in order TO build up the tower of
the worlds wealth and magnificence, IN
which there are wrought the skeletons of
uncounted multitudes of the underfed
population of the earth. Millions OF
skulls Do not, therefore. sit at your table
with five or six courses of abundant sup
ply and think nothingof the family on the
back street, who, if they had any one OF
these courses between soup and almond
nuts, would feel that they were In heaven.
A great deal of the drunkenness of the
day comes from a lack offood, or a lack OF
the right kind of food. Many OF the
laboring classes, after drinking what
some OF the grocers call coffee, swee tened
with something that many OF the
grocers call sugar, and chewing what some
OF the butchers call meat, and swallowing
something that some OF the bakers call
bread, feel so miserable that they are
tempted TO fill their nasty pipes with
something that the tobaccOnist calls to-
baccO, or go into a low restaurant for
something which the Tumseller calls beer
Good coffee would extirpate vast amount
of American drunkenness. 1t IS high
time that all doctors, all ministers of re-
ligion, all philanthropists all Christians
put themselves in battle array against the
adulteration of food. But now, how are
we to serve our own generation by getting
the right kind of food? BY sitting down
with embroidered slippers and lounging
In an arm chair, our mouth puckered
around a Havana of the best brand, and
through the luxuriant smoke reading
about political economy and the
philosophy of strikes? No. But by
finding out some family that have moth
ing better than gristle and sending them
a first rate tenderloin beefsteak. Let us
quit surfeiting ourselves until we cannot
choke down another crumb OF cake and
give supply to the necessities of the suf-
fering. Oh, how often we see on a small
scale what the great warrior expressed on
large scale when his staff officers were
attempting to dissuade him from certain
campaign because it would sacrifice 200,-
COO lives, and he replied with diabolism
that can never be forgotten: What are
100000 lives to me?" So far from appeas-
ing human hunger, there are those de-
scribed by Isaiah as grinding the faces OF
the poor. You see mechanic, or farm
er, put an AK or scythe on a gTindstOne,
while some one turns the crank around
and around the water dripping on the
ground and harder and harder the wood
man presses the AK on the grindstone, un-
til from being round and dull, it becomes
keen and keener and the farmer lifts the
AK and runs his finger cautiously along
the edge to test livery cautiously, lest
he cut his finger TO the bone. So | have
seen a man put down on the grindstOne
of hardship and one man would turn the
crank and another man press down
harder and harder until the mans life
thinner, his prospects thinner, his hopes
thinner, and Isaiah shrieks out, what
mean ye, that We grind the faces OF the
poor? Oh, it is an awful thing to be
hungry. 1t is easy enough to be in good
humor when we have full supply, but let
hunger take full possession of us and we
would all be barbarians and cannibals and
devils. Thank God the day is coming
the Lord hasten it-when every family
will sit down at full table, and it will be
only a question between lamb and veni-
son, between partridge and quail on
toast, and from spoon made out of Nevada
silver or California gold, the pastries will
drop on the tongue with thrills OF
thankfulness because they have enough.
Meanwhile, instead of the elaborate dis
cussion on the subject of bread. let us all
go TO work in some way to alleviate human
hunger. / have read that the greatest
battle in all the worlds history-greatest
for the number of troops engaged-was
the battle of Leipsic because Napoleon
had 10000 men and Schwarzenberg had
10000 MOI MOI The greatest battle in
the worlds history is now being fought,
and there are more troops in it than any
other battle in all the worlds history. IL
is the struggle for bread. The ground
tone of one of the great masterpieces OF
music, the artist says, was suggested to
him by the cry of the hungry pOpulaoe of
Vienna as the king rode through the
streets and they cried: "Bread, give us
bread - And through all the great har-
monies of musical academy and great
cathedral l hear the pathos, the ground
tone, the tragedy of an uncounted multi
tude who with streaming eyes and wan
cheeks and breaking hearts, in behalf of
themselves and their families are plead
ing for bread. Well, now, let us take
another look and see how we can serve
our generation by seeing that they have
enough to wear. God knows just how many
people there are in the world. In civil
lied lands we take the census and we tell
quite accurately how many people there
are in England and the United States; but
he who tells how many people there are
in Asia or Africa makes a wild guess.
But God knows exactly how many people