The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-03-11
FROM THE PULPIT.

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ST. Johns Catholic church was well
filed on Sunday morning with an at
tentiye congregation who participant
ed in the opening devotional exercises
and later on listened intently to the
words OF the Rev. Father Prior.
In his opening remarks he said that
many persons claim that it is impos-
sible to be scientist and religious
man at the same time, for the man
who follows religion is narrow-mind-
ed The speaker believed that some
people attempt to become scientists
and leave religion alone in order to
be odd, to be looked up to, as it were.
After drawing several word-pictures
to show the fallacy of such course
he said: Behind, beyond and above
all this, there is an invisible and cal
culating mind. God has written His
Omnipotence on every limb Of the
tree-aye, on every star is the finger
Of God. Bring a man before some
painting of Raphael, where the char
acters appear almost llfelike. Show
him the beauties contained therein.
When he praises the picture he does
not forget Raphael. God has given
US an intellect and powers of reason
ing, that we might investigate. Some
one has said that those who drift
away from the Divine truths do so
through small draughts of philoso-
ply" l want to say to you that
no man is justified in denying the ex-
listence of God. The hand of God is
seen in everything in nature. There
are sermons in stones, the mountains,
the hillsides, the stars, the steam en-
CINE we see gliding along the steel
rails every day." In closing he paid
glowing tribute to the Almighty for
mercy shown in the past.
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The second of a series of sermons
on "Our City, was delivered by Rev.
f. M. Rule in the Methodist Episco-
pal church last night. The sermons
are creating considerable interest, so
much SO that members of other
churches were present last night to
listen to the discourse. He took for
his text the one selected for the first
sermon Of the series: every city di-
| ,-iIa 6 81,
Matt Mi, 25.
After resume of the sermon Of last
Sunday evening, he said he desired to
speak Of some things Of cities in gen.
eral and our city in particular. "Ma-
ny Of you, who are older can remem-
ber,'' said he. when you knew every
citizen Of Mankato by name. Now
you do not know one in ten of those
who you meet on the street. You ask,
who is he?' Where does he live?'
What does he do?'
Most men have something to do.
The census shows the number of able
bodied men in the United States who
are without work to be small" He
classified the work Of cities as follows:
Production, distribution, service.
The work OF production was the
great business Of cities, especially true
OF the cities of America Within the
past quarter of century this nation
las risen to the first place among the
manufacturing nations of the world
and manufacturing has become the
life OF our towns and cities. In the
so chief cities, he said, the ratio of
producers to distributors is as 13 to I,
while few of those employed in pro-
duction and manufacturers, officials,
maSter-mechanics, contractors, ETC.,
at least 9-l0ths are artisans. o. the
100000 people employed in the me-
mechanical industries of this coun-
try, 4-5ths are under the factory sys
TEN and among the most of those,
who, from the nature of their work,
cannot be in factories, are under con-
tractors, and consequently belong to
the class of wage-workers.
He quoted Loomis' "Modern Cities"
in saying that in production of every
sort two tendencies were noteworthy:
the incessanu substitution Of unskill
ed for skilled labor
After speaking Of the problem of
bringing the CLASSES" together, he
drew attention to the fact that in
this city there are IS churches to
about 40 saloons. He said that ia all
of the churches there was a seating
capacity for about 1850 persons out Of
population of 10000 people and fol-
lowed it up by saying there was some
thing wrong somewhere. He refer
red to the great responsibility of the
church and said it was not properly
caring for its present population.
In conclusion, he spoke Of the great
influence of the city on other parts of
the State.