The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-01-08
TABERNACLE PULPIT.
DR. TALMACE breaches ABOUT
POVERTY.

BRoOKLYN, N. Y. Jan. 2, Is94.-It
seemed appropriate that DIR. Ialmage
should preach this sermon after
his personal contribution of 5000
pounds of meat and 1900
loaves of bread to the poor who
gathered shivering in the cold around
the bakery and meat store Of Brooklyn.
where the food was distributed with
out tickets. and no recommendation
required except hunger The text
was. Matthew 26s ii. We have the
poor always with you
Who said that2 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 we'll To pay his personal tax,
which was very small, only thirty-one
and a quarter 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
in his earthly experience, and when he
comes to speak Of restitution, he all
ways speaks sympatheticaly, and
what he said then IS as true now; +4e
have the poor always with you.
For G, 900 years the bread question
question Witness the people crowd
ing up to Joseph's storehouse in Egypt.
Witness the famine in Samaria and
Jerusalem. Witness the b 600 hungry
people for whom Christ multiplied the
loaves Witness the uncounted mill
ions Of people now living, who. 4 be-
lieve. have never yet had one full meal
Of healthful and nutritious food in all
their lives. Think Of the 354 great fam
ines ia England Think Of the o. OO0,
600 people under the hoof of hunger
year before last in Russia. The fail
ure Of the Nile to overflow for seven
years in the eleventh century left those
regions depopulated. Plague of in
scots in England Plague Of rats in
Madras presidency Plague of mice
in Essex Plague of locusts ia China.
Plague of grasshoppers ia America
Devastation wrought by drought, by
delugc- by frost, by war, by hurricane
10y earthquake, by comets flying too
near tho earth. by change ia the man
agement of national finances, by bale
fui causes innumerable. ] 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 rs. is because of the perpetual
overhauling of the tariff question. or.
as I shall call it, the tarifhc contro-
vcrsy- There is a need for such
word and so ] take the responsibility
Of manufacturing it, There arc mill
lions Of people who are expecting that
the present congress Of the United
States VIII do something one way OF
the other to end this discussion But
it will never end. When ] was five
years of age remember hearing my
father and his neighbors in vehement
discussion Of this very question Tt
was high tariff or low tariff or no tariff
at all. When your great grand
child dies at 90 years of age, it will
probably be from over-cScrtion in dis
cussing the tariff on the day the
world is destroyed, there viii be three
men standing on tho postoHice steps
one high tariff man. another a low
tariff man. and the other a free tariff
man Fl each one red in tile face
from excited argument on this
subject other questions may get
quieted, the Mormon question. the sil-
yer question, the pension question. the
civil service question. All questions
Of stnn~ sation may como to peaceful
settlement by the annexation Of ISL
and~ o weeks voyage away and the
he-t 81 their volcanoes conveyed
TN b pipes under the sea made use
full ~ " arming our continent. or an
ncxation Of the moon, dethroning the
queen Of night, who is said TO be dis
solute. and bringing the lunar popu-
lations under the influence of our free
Institutions: yea AN other questions,
national and international may be
settled. but this tarifhe question never.
1t viii not only never be settled. but
81 ~ = upver no moderately galicf fCr
more than three years at q time, each
party getting into power taking one Of
The four years to fix it up, and then
tho next party Will fix it down Our
finances cannot get we'll because
Of too many doctors IT. IS
with sick nations as with sick i'm
d5viduals Here IS man terribly dis
ordered as 10 has body. "A doctor is
called Ill., and ne administers a febri-
fuge. a spoonful every hour But re-
coverv is postponed, and the anxious
friends cali ito another doctor. and
he says. what this patient needs Is
blood letting; now roll up your
sleeve and tho lancet flashes. but
still recovery IS postponed. and
homeopathic doctor is called in. and inc
administers some small pellets, and
says. '-Au the patient wants is rest
Recovery stin postponed. the family
say that such small pellets can not
amount to much anyhow and am allo-
pathic doctor is called iu. and he Says.
What this patient wants IS ealomel
and jalap Recovery still postponed.
4 bYdropathic doctor IS called in. and
he SAYS: What this patient wants Is
bot and cold baths and he must have
them right away. Turn do the faucet
and cret ready the shower baths.