The Indianapolis journal., 1892-07-11
THE HOMESTEAD TROUBLE
DR.. HaiDes Leads Up to 1t in Sermon
on the Brotherhood of Man.
Says Both Sides Have Forgotten Their Orig
iral Relstisn-Dr puchtel On the Pro-
gIamme of Jesus Christ.

At the First Presby terian Church, yes
terday morning. Rev. M. l.. Haines, ID. D.,
took his text from St Paups speech In
Athens-the twenty-sixth verse of the
seventeenth chapter of Acts:
And hath made Of one blood ali nations of
men.
DR.. flames said it was an occasion even
in st. Paurs life. when he made the ad-
dress of which these words arc part. He
had crossed over from Asia into Europe.
and there had lifted up for the first time
the standard of the new religion, which
was afterwards to revolutionize the lands
of that continent. He had journeyed into
Greece. and found in Athens the brain
Of the world. He stood on Mars hill. the
temples, statues. schools of art about him.
He stood where Plato and Aristotle had
taught, where Socrates had discussed the
great lessons of life. He stood in the pres
ence of men of Athens-stoics, epicureans
and others. who had drunk deeply of
science and philosophy aud who Thought
they nonopoliZed all that was best to be
known.
To these men, with calm, quiet courage.
with simplicity and breadth of stats
ment, Paul set forth the fundamental truth.
respecting the unknown god whom they
ignorantly worshiped. The Athenians
worshiped many gods, but st. Paul de-
clared unto them there was but one; that
he was a spirit, the giver of life. omni-
present. not far from every one of u.s. in
whom we live and have our being
Having thus spoken of God and the
unity OF God, Paul passes on to speak OF the
unity of the race. ALI nations have sprung
from this one Creator aud Father. So he
Athenlans before him, who thought they
came from an aboriginal and superior
stock, and were above all other races. Tho
Athenians boasted that they were sprung
grasshopper in their hair. Paul made clear
the unity of the race. He based human
unity upon the fatherhood of God. The
incarnation of Jesus Christ reveals apd
establishes this unity more clearly. 1t has
always been perplexing problem as to
how the different races Of men sprang into
existence. Neither the Bible nor eth
nology has told us. We know we have
diversities of races marked by special diff
ferences. The race types seem fixed to q
certain extent, but it seems now to most
scholars that these race types are not ID.
compatible with primeval unity, and that
all are descended from one common stock.
The languages of earth We are now taught.
point. with all their outward differences,
TO primitive identity; with all the
marked diversities of the races of earth
their un1tles are more and more marked.
Most men have now accepted the unity OF
cept its divine origin. Darwin emphasizes
the bodily and structural likeness between
men and animals. But when it comes to
the higher qualities of man. that which
makes man man-the moral nature-his at
tempt to show that moral ideas are the re-
suit of the DEVELOPMENT of the instincts In
the animal, bis theory seems to be fail
ure. The wide moral gap between the
man and the animal has not been bridged.
Mr. Darwin thinks of man as On animal,
IN a W. n MI tah M nai m
to the plants.
Christianity recognizes mans higher nat
ure as linking him with God above. and
treats him Is q blood relative of deity. 1t
traces him back to Adam. who was the so n
of God. God formed mans body. we are
taught in Genesis, from the dust How
long the process and through what sue
cess1ve stages We are not sure. but finally
God breathsd into his body the breath of
hfe-lnteiiectual, splrital and moral-and
man became man. a living soul.
Paul, speaking to these Athenian phil
oeophers. points out how their literature
reaches MP and touches the edge of this
great truth. He does not tell them they
have thought too highly of themselves.
The fault with their thinking is that they
have taken too low an estimate of them
selves. The philosophy of the gospel goes
beyond the best philosophy of men. 1t
says we are the sons of God.
If all men are of common origin, and all
are children of tho same father. then all
men are brothers. Christianity shows that
the race is brotherhood. But the sense of
this kinship has been practically lost be-
cause of so many pecnliarities and diver
siOns from the primitive pair. Yet there is in
every age constant interfusion of blood,
and this interfusion binds men of oil ma
tionalities into a close actual relatl onship.
A recent writer shows how close are the
relationships of the people in England
Broadly speaking. to quote this schol.
ar's words. all the inhabitants OF
England eight hundred years ago
were the fathers and mothers OF
are the offspring of humanity. When we
60 back only few generations we
find we have hundreds and thousands
Of ancestors. We who are living
of sociaI life would be greatly increased il
we could all take this view. We are in the
United States many nation alitIes. many
classes divided by race peculiarities and
preiudices, by education and by employment
until through these outward differences
men lose sight of the underlying fact that
they are blood relatives. And hath made
of one blood all nations Of men,"
Some would have us believe the great
trouble lies IN the great industrial system
and that If we could only change that W G
could get lid of some OF the difficulties. and
bring men together. As the wage system
now exists it Is q system that permits, if II
does not involve. the practical servitudt
or the many ana the practlcai Denent OF the
few.
The Doctor then spoke of the serlou,
aspect of affairs at Homestead, and said
that Mr.. Frick and the Amalgamated Asso
| citation members who there confronted
each other were blood kin. He thought II
| this fact were borne in the minds of those
| who confronted each other-the fact of the
| brotherhood of man-the solution of the
| labor problem would be less difficult II
| conclusion. he noticed that the Baptis
| churches and societies were this year cele
brating great centennial; that one hun
| dred years ago William Carey, who wal
| sneered at by Sidney Smith as the conse
| Grated cobber, had begun the great mls
| sionary movement which had since beer
| taken up by all the great denominations
| and that the gospel had been taken to al
| the nations of the earth.
The Programme OF Christ.
At the Centralavenue Church, last even
ing, the pastor. DR.. Henry A. Buchtel
| preached upon The Programme of Jesu
Christ" taking the following'text: