Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-05
OF THE COMING MAN.
Rev. T. 4. Donehoo Lays Bare Some
Discrepancies in Character,
TO ILLUSTRATE THE IDEAL BEING.
Public Institutions and Private Relations
Scorched.
APREAcHEG'S OPINION OF THE TARIFF

lev. Il. II. Donenoo preached strong
sermon yesterday on "The Coming Man. %
In treating the subject in his usual plain
anc outspoken manner the social, private
and commercial relations of the ''meu of
the period" were made targets for his ar
rows OF gospel truth and cehsure. He also
tackled the management Of public institu-
tions with fearless language, the while
showing what may be expected in the future
If "the coming man is what ne is expected
to be and what he ought to be-"
His text was: when 1 was q child
spake as child, felt as a child. thought
as child; now that am become man, 1
have put away childish things" He spoke
in substance as follows:
1.-THE coming man-what will he be? In
what respects will he differ from the present
man, or the past man? Will he be wiser,
happier, better? Will he be more perfect
in his physical structure, Drawer to encounter
life's difficulties, stronger to battle with evil
in its varied forms? Will he take a frmer
grasp upon truth, and have less use for
lying, and cheating, and deceiving, than the
man of to-day? These iare questions which
it would be pleasant to have answered salts
factorily.
FUTURE OF MAN AND TAXES.
"Many ingenious speculations have been
INDUCED in as to what man shall be 10 the
future. Some have been wildly visionary,
some utterly absurd and grotesque. By
some it has been sagely declared that under
his wise administration taxes will take such
tumble that it will be actually worth
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silly tariff laws, which place absurd values
on everything we eat or wear or use in any
way, to the impoverishment of the people in
general and the enriching of the moEopolist
in particular, will be >felt and feared no
more. In that day life will be worth living;
and even If man finds that he has had a
surfeit of it, and is seized with the desire to
take good long rest, he will have the
supreme satisfaction of knowing that his
friends will not have to pay S100 in hard
cash for $50 coffin, in which to deposit his
mortal remains
This, in the view of some wiseacres, is
the kind of man that is yet to burst upon
the world in the golden future which is in
store for the race, when man has outgrown
his swaddling bands.
WHAT THE COMING MAN OUGHT TO BE.
"While others are indulging in their day
dreams about what man shall be in the
happy days to come, / desire to talk seri-
ously to you regarding what the coming man
may reasonably be expected to be, and what
he ought to be, it he only follows the
eternal laws of truth and equity as they have
been propounded in the word of God, and
imbedded in the thoughts ana expressions
of the wise in all ages and all lands.
''The coming man will be honest. He
will not be ashamed to live within his
means. He will never think OF starving
his family that he may wear fine clothes and
pay his dues in the club, and "set it up' for
the boys in lordly style, and then 90 home
and abuse his family because they do not
make the home more comfortable.
'ln his business he will be content with
legitimate profits, and scorn the thought of
cornering me market that he may compel
his helpless customers to stand and deliver
He will join lodge with some nobler am
bition than to obligate the entire order to
patrohize him in his trade or calling. He
will connect himself with the church with
other thoughts than to- use the brethren to
boost his own individual enterprises. His
allegiance to party will not be determined
by the simple question of "boodle," as is
the fact too often in these days.
LEGISLATORS OF THE FUTURE.
''The coming man will not legislate for his
own exclusive benefit, and lay onerous bur-
dens on the nation that lew may gather in
the most fabulous profits from such vicious
methods. Nor will he expend all his
patriotic fervor in making things solid for
his own party in utter disregard of indiyld-
ual rights.
The coming man will not be fool. In
this respect. therefore, ne will be vast i'm
provement on the man of the present In
his DAY the saying of Shakespeare's Puck,
What fools we mortals be- will hare lost
all its pith and point. He will hardly think
it proper form to send off his thousands to
convert the heather in Darke,: Africa or
irigidest Greenland from the error of their
ways, while begrudging the outlay of
penny to convert the beathen at his own
door. 1t Is a sorry comment upon our
methods of propagating the gospel, when it
is gravely asserted by those who have made
careful study of the matter, that the only
hope of converting Chinaman is to keep
him away from Christian lands where he
will be made to witness iniquities and
hvpocrsies such as would fill his people at
home with horror and with contempt for
those who presume to come to teach them
and godliness.
JAILS AS CRIME RECRUITING STATIONS.
"The coming man will not deem it an i'm
perative duty, as public spirited citizen,
in all that concerns the welfare OF
his fellowmen, to erect in every town and |
city costly edifiee at the expense of the |
long suffering public and designated in our
day by the name of Jail. in which an un- |
failing supply of thieves and felons of every |
dye may be educated and equipped for their |
peculiar line of trade, rs is the custom now |
Jail lifts its frowning front to the |