St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-05-14

filed, and Is not without the many joys
of his own household. to say he can do
without the thought of God; but what
Will replace the thought of God among
the struggling masses, who look around
and see so often the Joys Of life going
away from them. What will replace
the thought of God in the heart OF the
poor. stricken widow, who, de-
priyed of her support in the death
Of her husband, listens to the
little ones crying for bread? What
very house of the happiest OF mortals
when grief comes. for this so-called
temporal joy is OF passing nature. II
Is the sun rising in the morning. but
sure soon to set; the rose opening its
petal III spring. soon to be Withered. All
men. whoever they are. have their sad
moments, their times of despair, ad-
versity, tribulati0ns, sorrows from one
another, sorrows from their satiated
hearts, sorrows from sickness, sorrows
from death. oh. my God, to take Thee
away from the physical world, to con-
denim US forever to sadness. to darkness,
TO despair, to humiliation.
We need God. Our intellect shows
us God existing and God making Him
self manifest through Christ, and Christ
perpetuatlng Himself through His
church, but the mere fact that we need
absolutely God and religion shows us
that God and religion exist because all
nature, this whole creation, is creation
of order; wherever there is an absolute
deep need, the remedy which that need
calls for IS sure to exist. Test this
truth in any part Of nature. Test it in
your own physical being. Test it in
the trees and plants. suns and planets.
So when you LOOK deep down into the
moral nature of man; when you
penetrate into his heart, into his
mind, and read there an absolute
clamoring for a Supreme Being, and
for another life. an absolute clam
oring for that happiness which cannot
be found, aud when looking over the
broad field of history you see the mill
ions of men i'll every age setting aside
the vain prattling OF false philosophers,
needing their own deepest instincts,
paradise, be sure that God is and that
His paradise awaits you.
Religion gives US the motives to fol-
low out principle, to do OUR duty; 1t
gives US the motives to seek our own
legitimate rights; it gives motives for
the recognition of rights in others, and
when all that can be done is done, and
there are yet sorrows Gas sorrows will
be). religion will give US consolation and
joy in the very midst of these sorrows.
We are living III a peculiar crisis of
history. We all know and see and feel
those powerful democratic pillows that
are sweeping over the face OF humanity.
There is today, as at previous time,
unrest amid the masses, and a secret
impulsion driving them onward in
search Of amelioration, in search of
better social condition, in search of
greater liberty. This lmpulsion given
to democratic movements. given to popu-
lar unrest in search of better conditions
is really the fruit of Christianity. If
Christ had not appeared, the world
would have continued on the road it was
travelling before Him. and that was the
triumph of tile powerful. the enslave-
ment of the many, because paganism
had absolutely forgotten the dignity of
man and the rights Of man. Christ
has been at work in humanity for
1.S00 years. constantly leavening more
and more the masses, so that in all
this unrest and uprising | see, when l
look beneath the surface, Gods own
working, the evolution Of the vital prin-
ciples of His own revelation. l claim
modern democracy for Christ and for
God. l hail it! | bid it Godspeed. But
for its own sake l warn it. The best
movements go astray by excess; the
worst evil against which they have to
protect themselves is excess. A vertig-
nous fury comes in; forward they go,
without ever asking whether they are
crossing the frontiers of right and order
or not. For the sake of the upward move
ment of humanity, the time has come
when we must give warning that
it be careful. cautious and just.
The present moment In this
city is propitious. when we
nave in convention among US brother
hood of labor, which, from its inception,
has been marked by conservatism as
we'll as by steadfastness i'll demands for
just rights; convention of brother
hood which has been moving precisely
OH those lines of just action and eQuit-
able dealing and wide foresight. TAX
ing things as they look from time to
time at the present day. there are three
dangers menacing it. The first is this
That in the opposition to capital and
property we absolutely drive away CAP
ital. In some states of this Union Things
have come to pass that capital obeyei
literally the popular request and re-
manned away, and sthose who ciamored
against it. left to themselves, lived OH
air or futile hopes. Labor is in
absolute need of the corporation
of capital; humanity cannot live
without it.. You must have both the
machine and the electricity to set it in
motion; you must have willing arms
ana tue power which will give an iu.
centitiyc to these arms to work. These
are the simplest truiSmS, but yet they
are forgotten at times, forgotten by
those who raise the vain clamor against
capital, and forgotten by men who,
without joining this clamor, yet by
their silence fail to put before all con-
csrned true notions of order aud sue
cess. Capital that would lock out labor
is mad, and labor that would lock out
capital is mad. Capital and labor are
the two parts of the social organism,
just as the head and feet are necessary
III the human body. Let there he no
foolish extremes that would leave a
city, or state or country in the con-
ditIOn of barren waste.
There is second danger coming
from foolish theories and absurd
mouthings, and it IS this: That we
shall demonstrate to the world that
popular government 10 not possible,
The United States has entered upon
tremendous experiment, which is to
recognize all men as politically and
civllly equal. Heretofore you know it
it was necessary for strong man to he
seated on throue and to have his ten
thousand warriors around him, ready
to decapitate the rebel at the first sign
of rebellion.
believe most firmly in my heart that
men are capable OF self.yovernment. |
believe that self-government in the
United States is the coming form OF
government of civilization. believe it
is the very best ann most logical ex-
PLANTATION of the principles of the gospel
OF equality among men as children OF
God. and as brothers among themselves,
At the same time there are those who
do not believe as we do, and really, do
we not sometimes in this country give
them reason. do we not talk such non
sense. and act out such folly, that sensi-
bic men may say, 'WhY, it is absurd to
put the safety of a nation in the hands
of the multitude2' Unless these NOM.