The Progress., 1893-04-15
PROBLEM OF THE MOB
..oosAslNe olsCoNTGNr AND SU5-
N,.,on AMONG THE VERY poor.

vr,ur. uf LHborcr- ih"ir ff"~"hi
,,,...,,, to- Chri>tInuity but Tcmp"-
I'll. cbnrch Must Tate H"id.
Nrw YORR April 9.-Mr. Dixon an
.a this morning that until next
VI ,he usual review of current events
.ord be omitted, rs the special series OF
..,nons 10 he begun next SUNDAY morn
s,oull occupy the full morning hour.
rss .pr,rou this morning wasH discourse
''.,n IN, ner,is of the ignorant and help
masses The text was taken from
,I,,,bp,y iy. 20 But when hc saw the
.,l,;tndcs he was moved with comps
ho,ansr they were distressed and
.s,,erpd IA sheep not having n shcp.
berl
And set this same crowd-this vast
..,lhtude Of distressed and scattered
.,nle that 80 moved Jesus with pain
,,,har,,d ~ last round his cross and
;,,nel with the proud and the rich in
,,..king and laughing ut his agony
rhcse that did not join in the mocking
g,od heholding in silence Hcgcl has
I.snel a mob to be that force in ma
s,swhich acts without or apart from
a, organization of the whole There
,..y be thus an ignorant or learned
nah mob of men of fashion or of men
A letters But the spirit is tho same
,rd in its severance from the organic
,a,nle there is the same essential vulgar
av We must remember. in any discus
don of the problem of the mob. that tits
.snable Of this wider definition The
.hurrh that seeks its own good as against
the gupl of the community would bo It.
,elfamnh The class or clique or fac
non educated or uneducatcd. Chat blind
~ Seeks It's own interests rs against the
rommunal interests is animated by the
spirit og the mob
When the leaders of study Join with
these factions IA sympathy or in action.
they have abdicated the throne and joined
the mot When all England. and in fact
Mi the world with uncovered head
moarnad the death of TennysUn ~ he
WIS laid 10 rest in Westminster abbey.
the Prince of Wales preferred To 80 to
the r.ce track and bet rather than To pay
homage tn the immortal eulogist of his
father and the laureate of the English
nation In that act the Prince of Wales
WAS no better than the dirty leader of
the anarchist mob that must be driven
,nto corner. clubbed into submission
aud dragged 20 tho penitcntiary
..fs q
Bu; It is not OF this larger view OF the
spirit ol the mob that | wish to speak
this morning II is rather the cry of
neel from ,hc dark. vulgar mass. which
the world has misHamod tho mob. that
wish you 10 hear today We are i'm the
midst -. labor wars. and one miserable
faction springs upon the throat of an
other faction. aud they fight each other to
the death They call each other traitors
liars thieves. and while they destroy one
another their common enemy laughs ut
their calamity and mocks ut their weak.
uess We see the pitiable spectacle of
the Knights of Labor in one hostile
camp the Federation of Labor in an.
other the employers fighting both. and
the wrpiched people ground 10 death be
tween the three. Do the masses need n
gospel Thousands and hundreds of
thousands of them are apparently alienat-
cd from Christianity. Docs this aliena-
tion ilean real clash between the needs
Of the people and the ideal of Christian
iiy: Far from it. The opposition is sim
ply upon the surface. II is "A temporary
Misunderstanding IL must pass as the
veil OF ignorance is lifted. Hundreds Of
thousands of the masses are in heart
longing and praying for light. for guild.
snce and salvation.
TIE probtem Of The mob ~ ne problem
ofthe ruce.
First-lt must be SO because of the
transcendeut sacrifice made for the com
mou people in the life and the death of
Jesus Jesus Christ spent his life with
the poor laboring for them. leading them.
teaching them. healing them. We are told
that tiod So loved the world that he gave
hls only begottcn Son that this world
night live He gave himself. God was in
CHRIS, recouciling the world unto him
self The world here referred TO is this
dark, restless throng. distressed and
scattered Us sheep having no shepherd
II was INTO this mob. lost in the wilder
ness Of self aud sin and ignorance. that
Jesus came. He said that he came not
TO call the righteous, but sinners. So
great a sacrifice as his life and death
could not have been made had not the
need been commensurate with the deed.
Love measures its work by needs. not by
deserts. SO God measured his sacrifice,
not by what the mob deserved. but by
what IL needed
rRUt HISTORY OF THE COMMON PEOPLE.
second-The history of the world. so
isr as Il has been written mt all. is the
siory OF the needs of this great multitude.
hs the record of their sorrows set to a
universal music. II is the story Of their
hopes or IL is the sad record of their
despair. Real history tells the story of
Their dumb and bitter struggle with the
material forces of the universe. How
tney wrcstled with famine and hunger
and cold and unexplored forests. wild
continents. slave chains. war. pestilence