The Progress., 1893-04-15

terial world and in their strurrIo with
the unknown forces of the supernatural
world their cry should touch the heart
pf the strong in knowledge and truth
ihry have reballed against the priests.
md yet they move in a priest ridden
H"rld, IN which ghosts and hobgoblins
nrc their masters. They have deserted
the sanctuary and follow their own vain
conceptions of an impossible and mou-
strous spiritual world
OPPRESSED ny SUPERSTITION.
Tho masses have ever been ridden with
superstition. Few understand how hope.
less has been their struggle with this fell
power. Take the hearty Scotch and
Irish people and write the history of
their lives, of the forces that gave the
formation of character and the course of
their development in life. and it Is q
mass of tangled superstition rather than
the guidance of n compass or the friend
ly rays of the lighthouse of knowledge
Recount some of the vile ideas that dom
mate the lives of these people. A black
cock is highly priced, ~ its presence pre-.
vents the rayages of bogies and war
locks. To hear n cuckoo cry before
breakfast il an i'll omen. II is fortunate
for the housewife if brood of chickens
all come of the nest cock birds: IT is in
dicativo of coming prosperity. The mag
pie is the particular horror of the Scotch
people
One is sorrow, two mirth.
Three a wedding. four birth.
Five heaven. six hell.
Seven the dc'il's ainscl'
II you first see the new moon with vour
hands empty, you will be unfortunate for
month If you see cow lick any of
her feet. you will at once hear of n
death. To SEQ snail on the bare ground
is "A bad omen. To see one on the grass is
sign Of plentiful year. The sudden
loss of hair is the sign of the loss Of chill.
drcn. health or property. To dream of
ones teeth falling out is the sure sign of
the death of Il friend TIE shrinking of
meat in The pot while cooking presagcs
downfall in life. II it should swell. You
will be prosperous. Ii is unluCl,y TO be
recalled after having set ont on jour
ney To be told of something you have
forgotten. but you can destroy the spell
by at once taking meat and drink. When
you first put on "A coat. If You will place
money in the right hand pocket, you will
not know want. but if you by mistake
place it in the left hand pocket you will
be in need as long rs the coat is worn
Such are the forces that dominate the
minds of thousands and hundreds of
thousands They will not believe in the
divinity of Christ. and yet they steer life
by the crotchet of II superstition.
DLUNDEES or THE LABOR LEADERS.
Third-The ceaseless cry of the worlds
millions today is the cry of their needs
Christ looked upon this crowd. He was
moved with infinite compassion at their
distress and their blind helplessDcss.
The same is true of the cry today. II
should move every heart to pity. to love,
to the furthest exercise of all the forces
of love in active life to rescue AS they
were scattered then they are scattered
today. They do not know what they
want. They do not know what they need.
/ They have no real leaders. They would
be better off often with no leader ut vi
than those they have. They do not knew
their own friends. They did not knew
them in the days of Jesus. They have not
/ learned To know them in the centuries
that have rolled over the earth since then.
The pharisees cursed and killed Jesus.
and the people stood by beholding-the
people for whom he had lived. to whom
he had ministered, upon whose needs
he had poured out his life in loving sac
rifice, in whose homes he had moved
with boundless sympathy. scattering the
/ light of eternal truth wherever he went
And yet the people cried. with evil lead
ers, Cruelty him."
| Under the inspiration OF n great work
Mr.. Edward Bellamy has practically
/ given his life to the cause OF these suf-
/ fering masses He has lost thousands of
/ dollars in his work He has made the
/ greatest sacrifices to pursue that work
! And yet what do the masses care? Moth
/ ing. They scarcely know Bellamy. He
received letter the other day from one
of tho people who had read his book and
who had read for n few months his
paper. The New Nation. He wrote to
stop the paper. saying that he had be-
come thoroughly converted now to the
principles. and he was in no need of an"
further expense in the way of paper.
| have devoted weeks and months in
this pulpit to the expression in the most
vigorous language possible of the wrongs
of the laboring masses in America, for
which | have been criticised most Sc
verely by the conservative world of
strength and capital. 1t is amusing as
well as sad for me to receive from week
TO week copies of labor papers in which
low and villainous paragraphs are penned
by their ignorant editors against me
simply because | am minister. The
trouble is they do not know their own
needs. They do not know their own
friends. and in their ignorance they are
incapable of judging.
RAILING AT THEIR BENEFACToRs.
Hyde park in London is given ON Sun
day afternoons to all sorts of meetings.
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