The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-07-10
CAPITAL AND LABOR.
Rev. Dir. Wells Believes More Harmonious
Relations Would Give Better Results.

The theme of the Rev. N. L. Wells. at the
Grace NJ. Z. Church. Last night. was Cap
ital and Labor" and was handled on the
theory that the humanizing influences of
Christianity would soon put an end to the
strifes and Discussions which now exist
between the two classes. His text was
taken from Isaiah, xi, 60:
The wolf shall dwell with the lamb and the
leopard shall lie down with the kid: and the
calf, ana tie young lion and the failing together;
and a little cGild snail lead them.
And the COW and the bear shall feed; their
young ones shall lie down together; aud the
lion shall eat straw like an OK
And the sucking child shall play on the hole OF
the asp. and the weaned child shall put his hand
on the cOokatrlce's den.
Talking from the text, the pastor said
that Its language was but f%igurative.
although there were many of the belief
that IL WAS literal. and that the time would
come when its words would be fulfilled as
they are written. Whether that be true or
not. 1t referred to the social condition of
the world. During the age of which the
text treated, he said, the social condition
was In u chaotic etate. The powerful sur.
vived and the weak persisted. The former
preyed on the latter, not because they had
Alright TO. but because they had the power
TO do so. In those DAYS t was physical
W The speaker said that the time
was not 30 very far distant when q man
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he did so whenever she displeaeed him.
and nothing was thought of it, Not only
did the husband do It. but the grOwn-up
sons considered IL their right to beat the
mother. These things are dying out. he
said. Men no longer preyed upon each
other as they did In the days of Caesar; nor
did men beat their wives. This. he said.
Is the beginning of the fulhllment of the
prophecy. He then applied tho text TO
capital and labor. They are two classes.
he said, of which one claims that the other
Is opDressiDg 1t. il is the case of the wolf and
the lamb. There was a time when three
classes entered into the problem, capital.
labor and sustenance. but that has been
evolved into the two first. He said that it
was wrong to believe that capital
was always the enemy or labor, and
that he believed that the time
D was close az hand when all of their differ
ences would be settled, and that they
would lie down as was predicted the wolf
and the lamb would. just how it would
be done he could not tell, but he was conf
lent that It would be 80. He urged his
congregation to entertain more of a BROTH
erly and slsterly spirit one to the other. and
toward their ellow-meD and said that il
would not be until that spirit became
universal and that the words OF his text
could be applied to the world.
The pastor was presented with q copy of
Henry Georges Social Problems by q
few of the members of his congregation
during the evening services.
Inc morning TOPIC OF new. Wells was
Suicides" He pointed out to his hearers
the sacredness of the life which had been
given by God, and the wickedness of the
self-destruotiOn of IL. He said that sui.
cides were becoming more ana more oOm-
mon, as civilization progressed. and that it
needed all the efforts of Christian workers
to stop the evil. He mentioned those which
had occurred In this city, and then of the var
ious causes assigned for them. The evil of
intemperance was one. he said. and one of
the greatest causes. and he warned his
hearers against that as well as the others.