The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-11-20

after my preaching to the preachers" |
have had a rest, so far as work in the pulpit
goes. / was not asked 10 preach again.
And / am mighty glad OF Il, for if the
preachers will not go to work what can
they do 10 stem this tide of laZiness? What
good can / do standing in their places
But now, please for truths sake. not for
mine at all, do not misunderstood. The
preachers of Oakland are good and great.
perhaps the best In all ways to be found in
this world. Great cities send here ard take
them away from US at from $1,000 TO $4,000
year. And they are not all lazy. One of
them, the one who built that wondrous
fine edifice in New York. has reared here
perfect poem in architecture, ga soul in
stone," and he had nothing but bis energy,
industry, good sense and good character to
go ahead with. So get rid of the idea that
l have any other than the highest regard
for the Interpreters Of the Book in my own
town.
But ! have been teaching, preaching If
you please. on my mountain top necessarily
for six years this one thing that is TO save
us from being Mexicanized-the gospel OF
TOLL And. plainly, what want is that the
shall preach il plainly. 1t Is plainly, SO
plainly. written in the Book. 1t Is the first
fhing in it. 1t is all through IT. DE, the
Carpenters son." went about DUNG good.
But he did not go in carriage--more likely
In a leathern apron. Ages before the SER
mon on the mount. ages before the mighty
hands of Moses reached up through the
flame and smoke of Sinai for the Ten Com
mandments, this one command, which in
cludes all others if well obeyed, fell from
the Creator as he spake face to face with
man. I'm the sweat of thy face shalt thou
eat bread"
But, my preachers. you do not preach or
practice the gospel of toll at all. 1ou not
only do not preach or practice the gospel of
toll, bnt you have lost all touch or sympathy
wit toll
know of the men who carry the bod, till
the soil or dig the bitches? You know
nothing Of them! You seemingly do not
want 10 know of their existence. You
leave the hod- carrier 10 his Catholic priests,
the PoItugee farmer TO the Catholic priests,
the poor foilers everywhere you leave en-
tlrely TO the priests And you too often
hold only half-concealed contempt for
these same quiet priests who keep with
Gods poor. Do you know anything about
these priests? You know even less about
them than you do of the men who eat bread
In the sweat of the face. Let me tell yoC,
then, that these priests are close TO the
Bible IN the matter of toll. / have eaten
bread that they have ground with their own
hands from corn they raised with their own
hands in remote corners of Canada. They
raise all their own food in the mountains of
Italy, and always share with strangers.
They nave always been famous gardeners;
were famous gardeners even here in Cali
cannot afford TO get above toll or toilers.
lien we get above toll that day we shall
surely Gle, individually and collectively.
God and nature have said it.
Some time ago the Jews wanted me to
speak again in their synagogue. | said,
not before" Then there came a coed,
honest Jew. by name Alexander. He kept
n big bookstore at Ninth and Broadway, Oak
land. And he said: Il will work. You
are right. | want my people TO work as
they worked in the days of David" ! said;
You sit down aud read two hours till l
have done this pot-boilirg screed. and then
we will work two hours in a ditch that
drains spring. Then when your face is
wet we will stop aud talk and read and rest
and sob, as We will have a right TO do.
After that you 60, like Lot in Sodom, and
search for, perchance, ten, or even two,
who will toll with me, or toll even among
themselves, and if you find even two / will
come and talk, and l will be willing TO talk
so long as they and you shall be willing TO
toll"
Well, We went into the ditch together
And myi Such baby work with his poor,
weak little hands. Why, my mother could
Go more work than ten such, and she is in
her seventies. But let il be said briefly he
old his best. de was an old man, and
worked him moderately. But when the
TWO hours were over his hands were not
only blistered, but they were bleeding. He
grew faint, so led him toward the dining
room and washed his sweat-wet face and
blistering hands at the door. Then we
dined and dined, and he talked Of his people
TO my mother and planned how many of his
peculiar people he was going 10 help lead
back to the old pastoral ways and days Of
good King David. BE went away with the
going down OF the sun TO search for those
other Jews who would 60 TO work. And
have never seen him any more, or any one
OF the Jews he went 10 search for You
smile here, my Christian friend, do yen, at
my attempt to reform the Jews? Well,
got one Jew 10 work two hours. And that
Is Just two hours more than ] have gotten
any Christian 10 work if he could help it,
And now this morning comes letter
from Catholic institution in San Francisco
asking for bit of my poor brains, and