Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1894-01-11
CAUSES OF POVERTY.
REV. DR.. TALMAGE BREACHES UPON
THE PRESENT HARD TIMES.

providencc-The Gospel of Helping 9th
crs-A Paid Up Policy For Eternity.
BROOKLYN, Jan. 1T seemed appropri- |
ate that DR.. Talmage should preach this !
sermon after his personal contribution Of |
5000 pounds of meat and 1000 loaves of
bread to the poor who gathered shivering |
in the cold around the bakery and meat
store of Brooklyn, where the food was dis
tributed without tickets and no recon-
mendation required except hunger The
text was Matthew XVI, IL, I'VE have the
poor always with YOU"
Who said that? The Christ who never
owned anything during his earthly stay.
His cradle and his grave We're borrowed.
Every fig he ate was from some one else's
trne Every drop of water he drank was
from some one else's well. TO pay his per-
sonal tax, which was very small only 81 -
cents, he had TO perform a miracle and
make a fish pay it, All the heights and
depths and lengths and breadths of poverty
Christ measured III his earthly experience,
and when he comes to speak of destitution,
lie always speaks sympathetically. and
what he said then is as true now, "Ne have
the poor always with you"
For G,00O years the bread question has
been the active and absorbing question.
Witness the people crowding upt .Ioscph's
storehouse in Egypt Witness the famine
in Samaria and Jerusalem. Witness the
1000 hungry people for whom Christ mul-
tplicd the loaves Witness the uncounted
millions of people now living who, | be
lieve, have never yet had one full meal of
healthful and nutritious food in all their
lives Think of the 354 great iamnes in
England Think of the % 600 people under
L.. &C l,.f, 1,lt l.,
Russia.
The failure of the Nile to overflow for
seven years in the eleventh century left
those regions depopulated. Plague of in
sects in England. Plague Of rats in Ma
dras presidency. Plague of mice in Essex.
Plague of locustS in China. Plague of
grasshoppers in America. Devastation
wrought by drought, by delugc, by frost,
by war, by hurricane, by earthquake, by
comets flying too near the earth, 10y change
in the management Of national finances by
baleful causes innumerablc. | proceed to
give you three or four reasons why my text
is markedly and graphically true in this
year 1894.
THE TARIFF CONTROVERSY.
The first reason we have always the poor
with us is because OF the perpetual over
hauling of the tariff question, or, rs | shall
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