Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1894-01-19
REV. DR., TALMAGE.
The Eminent Brooklyn Divine's Sun
day Sermon.
Subject: The Bread Question"

| O"noV ony .u'uS uurlug his edrInly stay, hi
cradle and His grave were borrowed. Ever
1g he ate was from some one else's tree
Every drop of water He drank was from
| some one else's well. To paw His persona
tax: which was very small. only 31L cents
| He nal to perform q miracle and make
| fish pay it. All the heights and depths an,
lengths anil breadths of poverty Christ meas
ured in His earthly experience. and wheI
He comes TO speak Of restitution He always
| speaks sympatbeticallv. and what He said
then is as true now-''Ye have the poor al
ways with you"
For 5000 years the bread question has been
the active and absorbing question. Witness
the people crowding up to Josephs store
| house in Egypt. Witness the famine in Sa-
maria and Jerusalem. Witness the 1000 hun
| cry people for whom Christ multiplied the
loaves. Witness the uncounted millions oil
people now living, who, believe. have
never yet had one full meal of haalthful and
nutritious food in all their lives. Think OF
the 354 great famines in England. Think of
the 25.O0O, 900 people under the hoof of
hunger year before last in Russia. The fail
ure of the Nile TO overflow for seven years
in the eleventh century left those regions
depopulated. Plague of insects in England.
Plague OF rats in Madras Presidency. Plague
OF mice in Essex. Plague of locusts in China.
Plague OF grassboppers in America Devas-
tation wrought by drought, by deluge, by
frost, by war. by hurricane by earthquake,
by comets flying too near the earth. by change
in the management Of National finances.
by baleful causes innumerable. | pro-
coed to give you three or four reasons WHY
ny text is markedly and graphically true in
this year 1924
The first reason VIC have always the poor
with us is because OF theperpetual overhaul
ing OF the tariff question. or, as | shaH call
it, the tarif11c controversy. There is neei
for such word. and so take the response
bility Of manufacturing it, There are millions
OF people who are expecting that the present
Congress of the United States will do some
thing one way or the other to end this dis
cussion, but it will never end. When
l was five years of age. remem-
Der hearing my father and his neigh
bors in vehement discussion of this very
question. It was high tariff or low tariff or
no tariff at all. When your great-grandchild
dies at ninety years of age. it will probably
be from over-exertion in discussing the
tarin. On the day the world is destroyed,
there will be three men standing on the post
office steps-one a high tariff man,
another low tariff man. and the other a
Tree trade man-each one red in the face
from excited argument ON this sub
Mormon question, the silver question. the
pension question, the civil service question.
All questions of annexation NAV come to
peaceful settlement by the annexation Of isl
ands two weeks voyage away and the heat
OF their volcanoes conveyed through pipes
under the sea made useful in warming our
continent, or annexation of the moon, de-
th-on'ng the queen of night, who is said to
be dissolute, and bringing the lunar popula-
ions under the influence OF our free institu-'
lions yea, all other questions, National and
International, may be settled, but this traffic
question never. II will not only never be
settled, but it can never be moderately quiet
Tor more than three years at time, each;
party getting into power taking one of thel
four years to fix it up, and then the next
party Will fix it down, Our finances cannot
get well because or too many doctors. 1t is
With sick Nations rs with sick Individuals
Here is man terribly disorderei as to his
)ody. doctor is called in, an | he admin !
sters febrifuge, a spoonful every hour. |
But recovery is postponed, and the anxious !
rlends call in another doctor, and he says:
What this patient needs is blood letting; |
lcw roll up your sleeve - and the Ian Iet
lashes. But still recovery is postponed, aud
homeopathic doctor is called in, and he
administers some small pellets and says
Recovery still postponed, the family saw
hat such small pellets cannot amount to
ouch anyhow, and an allopathic doctor is
allied in, and he says, ''What this patient
wants is calomel and ialap." Recovery still
hydropathic doctor is called in,
nd he says: what this patient wants is
ot and cold baths, and he must have them
light away. Turn On the faucet and get
eady for the shower baths Recovery is
till postponed an electric doctor is called
A. and be brings all the schools to bear
pom the poor sufferer, and the patient, after
brave struggle for life, expires. What
illed him? Too many doctors And that
what is killing our National finances. Ny
ersonal friends, Cleveland and Harrison
nd Carlisle and Mckinley and Sherman, as
,lented and lovely and splendid men as
ak the earth, all COOL doctors, but their
'eatment OF our languishiny finances is so
lFerenf that neither treatment has a full OBJ
and under the constant changes it
simply wonderful that the Nation still
yes. The tariff question will never be SET
ed because of the fact-which have never
card any one recognize, but nevertheless
le fact-that high tariff is best for some
eopte and free trade is best for others. This
rifle controversy keeps business struck
rough with uncertainty, and that uncer-
inty results in poverty and Indebtedness
r vast multitude Of people. fthe eternal
10 on this question could have been fash
ned into loaves of bread. there would not
hungry man or woman or child on all
e planet. TO the end of time, the words
the text will be kept true by the tarif1ic
have the poor always with
~"
Another cause of perpetual poverty is the
use alcoholic. The victim does not last
ng. He soon crouches into the drunkari's
ave. But what about his wife and chill
en-? She takes in washing, when she can
t it. or goes out working on small wages.
cause sorrow and privation have left her
TO do a strong woman's work
lie children are thin bloode1 and gaunt
d pale and weak standing around in cold
oms or pitching pennies on the street cor
r. and munching a slice of unbuttered
cad when they can getit. sworn at by pass
Shy because they do not get out of the
" kicked onward toward manhood or
manhood, for which they have no prep
ltion. except depraved appetite AMI
ii constitution, candidates for aim ,
use and penitentiary. Whatever |
Ter cause of poverty may fail, the saloon /
y be depended on to furnish an ever in
EASING throng of paupers. Oh, We grog- /
Dps of Brooklyn and New York and OF all
cities ye mouths of hell. when will vs. /
ice to craunch and deyour2 There is no
nger of the liquor business failing. All [
Ter styles of business at times fan Dry
DDS stores go under Hardware stores go
der Grocery stores go under. Harness /
kers fail, druggists fail, bankers fail, ,
tchers fail, bakers fail, confectioners fail, c
the liquor dealers never 1T is the only Q
ure business | know of. Why the per- O
nence OF the alcoholic trade? Because, &
the first place, the men in that business h
light up for money, only have to put il
o large quantities OF water more strych- q