The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-08
BREAD FOR MOUTHANDSOUL
TaImaSe'S Text: "YG Have The Poor
Always With YOU"

Poor in Earthly Possessions When
He Was on Earth.
Brooklyn, Jan. 1T seemed appropri-
ate that DR.. Talmage should preach this
sermon after his personal contribution of
5000 pounds of meat aud 1000 loaves Of
bread to the poor, who gathered, SILVER
ing in the cold around the bakery and
meaG store of Brooklyn, where the food
was distributed without tickets, and no
recommendation required, except hunger.
The text was Matthew 26:ii: "Ye have
the poor always with you"
Who said thatl The Christ who never
owned anything during his earthly 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
thirty-one and a quarter cents, he had to
perform a miracle and make fish pay it,
All the heights and depths and lengths
and breadths Of poverty Christ measured
in his earthly experience, and when he
comes TO speak Of restitution, he always
speaks alphabetically, and what he
said then is as true now: "Ye have the
poor always with you"
For six thousand years the bread ques-
tion has been the active and absorbing
question. Witness the people crowding
up TO Joseph's storehouse in Egypt. Wit
ness the famine in Samaria and Jerusa-
lem. Witness the seven thousand hungry
people for whom Christ mu tiplied the
loaves. Witness the uncounted millions
of people now living, who, believe, have
never yet had one full meal
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In all their lives. Think of
the 354 great famines in England Think
of the twenty-five million people under
the hoOf of hunger year before last in
Russia. The failure of the Nile to over
flow for seven years in the eleventh cen
fury 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 grasshoppers in America.
Devastation 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 in
Vulnerable. / proceed TO give you three or
four reasons why my text is markedly
and graphically true in this year 1894.
The first reason we have always the
poor with US, is because of the perpetual
overhauling Of the tariff question, or, as
] shall call it the tariffic controversy
There is need for such word and so |
take the responsibility of manufacturing
it. There are millions of people who are
expecting that the present congress Of
the United States will do something one
way or the other TO end this discussion
But it will never end. When | was five
years Of age l remember hearing my
father and his neighbors in vehement
discussion of this very question 1t was
high tariff or low tariff or no tariff at all
When your grea t-grandchild dies at ninety
years of age, it will probably be from
over-exertion in discussing the tariff. On
the dayithe world is destroyed, there will
be three men standing on the postoffice
steps -uOne a high tariff man, an
other low tariff man, and the other
free trade man-each one red in the face
from excited argument on this subject
Other questions may get quieted, the
Mormon question, the silver question, the
pension question, the civil ser
vice question. All questions of
annexation may come to peaceful settle
ment by the annexation of islands two
weeks voyage away, and the heatof their
volcanoes conveyed through pipes under
the sea made useful in warming our con
tinent, or annexation of the moon, de-
throning the queen of night, who is said
TO be dissolute, and bringing the lunar
populations under the influence of our
free institutions; yea, all other questions
national and international, may be settled,
but this tarific question, never. IL will
not only never be settled, but il can never
be moderately quiet for more than three
years at time, each party getting into
power taking one of the four wears to fix
II up, and then the next party will fix it
down. Our finances can not get well
because Of too many doctors. 1t is with
sick nations as with sick individuals
Here is man terribly disordered as TO his
body. A doctor is called in and headmin-
listers a febrifuge, a spoonful every hour
But recovery is postponed, and the anx-
1ous friends call in another doctor, and
he says: What this patient needs is
blood-letting; now roll up your sleevew
and the lancet flashes. But still recovery
Is postponed, and homeopathic doctor is
called in, and he administers some small
pellets, and says: ''All the patient wants
is rest Recovery still postponed. the
family say that such small pellets cannot
amount TO much, anyhow, and an allo-
pathic doctor is called in, and he says:
what this patient wants is calomel and
Jalap." Recovery still postponed, hydro
pathic doctor is called in, and he saws.
''What this patient wants is hot and cold
baths, and he must have them right away
Turn on the faucet and get ready the
oAAONNA oUNAAo. ANANoNtA4 oiAil DOSbDODeu,
an electric doctor is called in, and he
bring all the schools to bear upon the poor
sufferer, and the patient, after brave
struggle for life, expires. What killed him.
Too many doctors. And that is what
is killing our national finances. NV per
sonal friends, Cleveland and Harrison and
Carlisle and Mckinley and Sherman, as
talented and lovely and splendid men as
walk the earth, all good doctors, but their
treatment of our languishing finances is
so different that neither treatment has a
full opportunity, and under the constant
changes it is simply wonderful that the
nation still lives. The tariff question will
never he settled because of the fact
which have never heard any one recog-
nize, but, nevertheless, the fact that
high tariff is best for some people and
free trade is best for others. This tarific
controversy keeps business stuck through
with uncertainty and that uncertainty
results in poverty and wretchedness for a
vast multitude of people. If the eternal
CAB on this subject could have been fash
Toned into loaves of bread, there would
not be hungry man or woman or child
on all the planet To the end of time, the
words Of the text will be kept true by the
tariffic controversy: "Ye have the poor
always with YOU
Another cause of perpetual poverty is
the cause alcoholic. The victim does not
last long. He soon croucheS into the
drunkard's grave But what about his
wife and childrenl She takes in washing.
when she can get IT. or goes Ollt yyo,.lr in o.