Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-01-08
APPROPRIATE SERMON.
"YE HAVE THE POOR ALWAYS WITH
YOU"
DR.. Talmags's Tabernacle Sermon Yesterday
Christ the Poorest Of the Poor in Worldly
Goods-The "rariffc Question"


GOods-Ths "Tariffc Question"
BROOKLYN, n. Y, January I'll
seemed appropriate that DR.. Tnlmage
should preach this sermon after his
personal contribution OF three thousand
pounds OF meat aud two thousand
Ioaves OF bread to the poor W no gathered
shivering ia the cold around the bakery
anu meat store of Brooklyn, where the
1909 was distributed without tickets,
auu no recommendation required ex-
cept hunger. The text was: Matthew
~o'Ii; mare Tie poor GliU0yS tcih
yOtL"
Who said that? The Christ who never
owned anything during his earthly STAY.
Ills cradle aud his grave were borrowed
Every ne he ate was from someone
else's tree. Every drop OF water be
drank was from someone else's well.
10 pay his personal tax, which was
very small, only thirty-one and a QUAR-
ter cents, he had TO perform a miracle
and make tish pay IL. 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 svm-
pathetically. and what he said then is
as true new: "Ye have the poor always
with you"
For six thousand years the bread
question has been the active and abb
soroinR question. Witness the people
crowdtng up TO JoSeph's storehouse in
Egypt Witness the famine 10 Samaria
and Jerusalem. Witness tho seven
thousand hungry people for whom
Christ multiplied the leaves. Witness
the uncounted millions Of people low
living who, believe, have never vet
had one full meal OF heathfuI and nutri-
trious food In all their lives. Think OF
the 354 great famines in India. Think
OF the twenty-five million people under
the hoof of hunger year before last in
Russia. The failure or the Nile 10
overflow In 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 az locusts iu
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 innumerable. | pro-
coed TO give you three or four reasons
why my text is markedly and graphical |
~ true in this wear 1894.
THE FIRST REASON
We have always.the poor with us. is be- |
cause or the perpetual over-hauling of |
the tarif question, or, as ! shall call it, |
the Iarifhc controversy. There is a |
need for such a word and so / take the |
reSponsibiitty Of manufacturing 1t.
There are millions OF DeOple who are
expecting that the present Congress Of
the United States will do something
one way or the other 10 end this dis
,ussiou. But 10 will never end. When
was five years Of age remembe.
rearing my father and his neizhbors in
,ehement discussion OF this very cues
ion. Ia was high tariff or low' tariff
II no tariff ~ all. When yovr great
dies at ninety YEATS OF age.
will probably be from. SEer.exertion
q dlscuSsl1G the t97ff. On the day
5y-FONed, there Will be
men standing on the posioflice
s-one high tariff man, another
HlOw tariff man, and the other free
rade man-each one red N the face
rom excited argument on this
uoject. Other questions may get !
luieted, the Mormon question, the sill
yer question, the pension question, the
;iv!l service question. All questions OF
annexation may come to peaceful settle
ment by the annexation Of ISLANDS two
weeks voyage away, aud the heat Of
their volcanoes conveyed through pipes
nader the sea made useful iu warming
our continent, or annexation OF the /
moon, dcthron.ug the Queen Of Night. |
who Is said 10 be GissOlute, and bring |
lug the lunar populations under the in /
huence Of oUr free Institutions: yea all |
other questions, national and interna- |
tonal, may be settled, but this tariffc /
question. oevor. IL will not only never |
be settled. but il can never be moder- /
ately quiet for more than three years at
2 time, each party getting into power |
taking one OF the four years 20 fix 10 |
up and then the next party viii fx 1T .
down.
otE FINANCES
cannot get well because OF too many
doctors. 10 is with sick nations as with .
sick individuals. Here is man terri. /
bly, disordered as 60 uis body. A doctor
Us called in, 5rd be adm .nisters febrI- /
tuge, spOOut. every hour But re-
coVery is postponed. and the anxious
trends call 100 another doctor, and me
says: what this patient needs is
o.ood-letting, now roll up your sleevcw
and The lancet flashes. But still recoy.
cry is postponed, and q homeopathic I
doctor is called iu. and be administers
some SINAI. pellets and says: "All the
patient wants is rcst.' Recovery still
postponed. the family say that such
small pellets cannot amount TO much
anyhow, aud an aIlopathlc doctor Ia
called in. and hs says. "What thls
patient wants is CaIoueI and iaiap."
Recovery s'.I postponed. a hfdropathlc /
doctor is called %. and be says. .Mbat
thi- patient wants U.s. hot and cold baths
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