The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-24
LABOR TALK IN THE PULPIT
Continued from Eighth Page.

years, need never fear darkness. 1 al
Jude to the electric light. Never will
there be any mead of our suffering from
the lack of light or heat or motor power,
as long as the winds blow under
the heavens and as long as the
waters go rushing to the sea, for we have
learned how to transmute these eternal
and ever active powers of nature, wind
and rushing water, into heat, light and
motor power; and should even this ever
fail, recent discovery has shown that in
the not perhaps far distant future, the
star light and the sun hight will be our
chlef neat, hight and motor power on this
globe, for discovery has been made by
the means of which star light can be
transmitted into motion.
1t is unnecessary that I should take
other departments of nature, whence we
draw our material sustenance, and show
that they, too, are ineXhaustible for that
which is true in the instance 1 have given
you, is true in the instance of all; ; and the
truth oftheteXt, that we need take no
thought of what we shall eat, or what we
shall drink, or what we shall wear. comes
into our minds, and into our hearts, with
a force and truth that is simply invinci-
BILE, and we rest our faith upon the pro-
ductive powers of the earth with a resO-
luteness and fearlessness that can never
be SHAKEN
If we need not fear the productive
powers of the earth ever falling u.s. we
need never fear over population, forever
was there time when the world could not
support ten times its population as easily
as the present. Forsooth! Pessimistic
political economists try to make US be-
lieve that we are suffering from over
population, when the state of Texas alone
can support half the population of
| these United States. France, a country
less fertile, and with no more
resources than the great empire
state of the west, supports at
least forty million people. Never need the
population of the earth fear the ravages
of cold while we have coal mines already
| discovered, sufficient to last for a hun
dred thousand years. Never need the
world fear the lack of clothes as long as
there are in these southern states mil
lions of acres of the choicest cotton lands
| uncult1vated; never need it fear the
pangs of hunger so long as wheat is
cheaper than corn, and corn in such
abundance that it is cheaper fuel than
| coal
| CAPABLE OF EARNING A LIVING.
So, then, if there is no possible explaua-
ton for our present starvation and cold,
| that is so widespread at the present time,
| by attributing;it tothe poverty of the natu-
| raj resources which God has given US, and
as amply as God has provided sustenance
| for men, equally as well has he endowed
| men with the means of obtaining this sus-
J tenance.
| He has doubly armed him to get all he
| would have to eat and to drink and to
wear, and never need an increase of popu-
| latiOn be burden on the already exist
! ing population, so long as God has en-
| dowed each individual with one mouth to
| feed and given him at the same time two
| eyes to spy out his food afar, two feet to
run to it and two hands to catch it with
| God hath taken the utmost precaution to
| guard against accident and to most amply
provide each being with the power of self
! support, which is an infallibe argument
that he intended each individual to he
self-supporting and not dependent upon
| another for support. If God hath 50
amply stocked our store house, and so
doubly provided US with the means to so
easily secure these things, the fault is
not with him, but with US, if there is any
suffering or lack of all these things.
The trouble is we are taking the wrong
method in trying to get these things, we
are not seeking to get them in his way,
we are not trying to seek first the king
dom of God and his righteousness. We
believe that his is the poor
est possible. Imaginable way to
get these things. The cause of our
want is we have departed from righteous
ness. 1t is because we are full of wrong
| ness, that starvation and rags are so
abundant in our midst and the spectacle
of beggars is so often seen upon the
streets.
Time would fail me were l even to
enumerate in detail the wrong ways in
which we attempt to live; l can only at
tempt one to-day.
One wrong principle is the father of
hundred ills, one wrong principle righted
| will cure hundred ills. Cut the tree at
the root and you at once kill every leaf
and seed of that tree, though there be
| million. That wrong principle which to-
! day IS responsible more than any other
| for our woes-I do not say that there are
not others also-but that which to-day is
| more responsible than any other is that
we are working too many hours out of The
| twenty-four.
| TOO MUCH WORK.
| You may ask me do you mean to say
! that too much work is the cause Of our
| starvation [ not only say that, but say
| also that it is largely the cause of our
| physical, mental and moral starvation
| 1t IS violation of one of the principles
and eternal laws of God, and the crime of
which we stand guilty to day in the sight
| of God and in the sight of starving hui
| manity, is, we who are working, are
working too much. We are working so
much that others who wish to work can
| not work at all
| filled with mystery that the human race
cannot solve it, 1t has been solved for
| ages, and has been expressed somewhat
| in this way, and was that system of labor
which was used by the wise king, Solo
mon in building the temple of the Lord
| Eight hours for our usual avocation, eight
| hours for rest and recreation, and eight
| hours for the worship of God and the
! help of worthy distressed brother If
there is one principl at all of the King
| dom of Heaven, this is certainly one of
| them, and to the violation of this princ-
| pie, more than TO any other, can be traced
| the origin and source of our ills.
Let us see how the violation of this
! principle affects the wage-worker, the
| capitalist, tand the moral and spiritual
nature of mankind Perhaps at the pres
ent time the greatest objector to the re-
duction of labor to eight hours would
come not from the capitalistic class, but
would come from the wage-worker him
! self He will answer; 1T will reduce my
wages and l can scarcely live now / will
not consent to anything that will reduce
my wages. =" Nor would we, and it is be-
cause we believe that IL will not lower his
wages half so much as continuing the
present system, but viii increase his
wages IL not in dollars and cents, il will
make the dollars and cents buy more.
THE RESULT OF LONG HOURS.