Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-01-08
AT THE TABERNACLE.
REV. DR.. TALMAGE breaches ON THE
BREAD QUESTION.

Some of the Causes Which Lead to the
Ever Present Distress Among the Work.
Ing C1asses-A1cohol and Improvidenoe
Are Potent Factors.
BROOKLYN, Jan. Tt seemed appro-
pirate that DR.. Talmage should preach
this sermon after his personal contribu-
tion of 1000 pounds of meat and 1900
loaves of bread to the poor who gather
ed shivering in the cold around the bak-
cry and meat store of Brooklyn, where
the food was distributed without tick
cts, and no recommendation required
except hunger. The text was, Matthew
XVI, II, "Ye have the poor always
with you
Who said that? The Christ who
never owned anything during his earth
~ stay. His cradle and his grave were
borrowed. Every fig he ate was from
some one else's tree. Every drop Of
water he drank was from some one else's
well. To pay his personal tax, which
was very small, only 81 ID cents, he had
to perform miracle and make fish
pay it. All the heights and depths and
lengths and breadtbs of poverty Christ
measured in his earthly experience, and
when he comes to speak of restitution
he always speaks sympathetically, and
what he said chen is as true now-''Ye
have the poor always with you
For 5000 years the bread question
has been the active and absorbing ques-
ton. Witness the people crowding up
to Joseph's storehouse in Egypt. Wit
ness the famine in Samaria and Jeru-
salem. Witness the Z, 0G0 hungry people
for whom Christ multiplied the loaves
Witness the uncounted millions Of peO-
pie now living, who, l believe, have
never yet had one full meal of health
lives. Think of the 354 great famines
in England. Think of the $4,000, 900
people under the hoof Of hunger year
before last in Russia. The failure of
the Nile to overflow for seven years in
the eleventh century left those regions
depopulated. Plague of insects in Eng
land. Plague of rats in Madras PIesi-
dency. Plague of mice in Essex. Plague
of locusts in China. Plague of grass
hoppers in America. Devastation
wrought by drought, by deluge, by
frost, by war, by hurricane, by earth
quake, by comets flying too near the
earth, by change in the management of
national finances, by baleful causes in
Vulnerable. proceed to give you three
Or four reasons why my text is marked
ly and graphically true in this year
1894.
THE TARIFF BUGBEAR.
The first reason we have always the
poor with us is because of the perpet-
ual overhauling of the tariff question,
or, as shall call it, the tariffc contro-
versy. There is need for such word,
and so l take the responsibility of man
it. There are millions of
people who are expecting that the pres
ent congress of the United States will
do something one way or the other to
end this discussion. But it will never
end. When | was years of age, re-
hearing my father and his
neighbors in vehement discussion of
this very question. 1t was high tariff
OF low tariff or no tariff at all. When
your great-grandchild dies at so years
of age, it will probably be from over
exertion in discussing the tariff. On
the day the world is destroyed, there
will he three men standing on the post
office steps-one a high tariff man,
another low tariff man, and the other
a free trade man-each one rcd in the
face from excited argument on this sub
ject. Other questions may get quoted.
the Mormon question, the silver ques-
ton. the pension question, the civil serv-
ice question. All questions of annex
alton may come to peaceful settlement
by the annexation of islands two weeks
voyage away and the heat of their vol
canoes conveyed through pipes under
the sea made useful in warming our
continent, or annexation of the moon,
1ethrOning the queen of night, who is
said TO be dissolute, and Lringing the
lunar populations under the influence
Of our free institutions: yea. all other
questions, national and International.
may be settled but this tariffic ques-
ion never 1t will not only never be
settled. but it can never be moderately
Iuiet for more than three years at
line, each party getting into powcr
aking one of the four years to fix it
Up, and then the next party will fix it
Town. Our finances cannot get we'll be-
:ause of too many doctors. 1t is with |
lick nations as with sick Individuals |
Here is a man terribly disordered as to
his body. A doctor is called in, and he |
administers a febrifuge. a spoonful ev-
ry hour. But recovery is postponed.
md the anxious friends call il, another
octor, and he says: What this pa
lent needs is blood letting; now roll
p your sleeve!' and the lancet flashes.
sut still recovery is postponed, and
doctor is called in, and he
administers some small pellets and
avs. All the patient wants is rest.'
Recovery still postponed, the family
ay that such small pellets cannot