The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-11-18
New Addresses by rev.
Wallace Nutting
Begun Last Evening at Union
Congregational Church.
First Discourse: 1.-THE Advantages
and Disadvantages of Work."

Despite the STORM n gOOuly audience
heard the opening address which was on
s'The Advantages and dvantages OF
Work" The text was from John x:4:
"The Night Cometh," and the address in
full follows:
Since most men have some wickedness
most need some work. Ii is the best pol
icy OF the State to see that men have
work, because they are better men at
work. Suppose the evil passions of a
weak man were clothed with the power
OF an %archangel he would do the world
more harm than the thousands OF average
mortals could counterfeit. One sinner de-
stroyeth much good. A holy man and a
redeemed world are the conditions neces-
sary for a life OF safe leisure. Were strik-
ers to spend their idle day in prayer and
singing hymns unto God, like Paul and
Silas in prison, the justice OF their cause
would be examined more sympathetical-
ly.
You and / think we are safe people to
be at large but / shudder to think what
wickedness we should fall into'without
anything TO do. The test OF character is
found in this question: To what does the
mind revert as soon as work ceases? I'm
til we can live like angels it
DOB US rood TO WORE
like men. IL as soon a. our labor ends
we find ourselves thanking God and
blessing men we rave reached a stage ut
which we do not need work for our own
sakes. Stop at you work a m and
drop a plummet into your heart. Do you
find it full OF good sentiments, or is
there a readiness within it to break out
In condemnation of something or some
body? The good man 10 not the one who
wants to swear and doesn't, but the good
man has a heart SO full of Kindness that
when the hammer comes down on his.
finger he feels just as sweet toward
everybody and everything. To throw away
the hammer is TO evidence badness IN the
heart, aud such people must keep ham
mering away, until when the blow comes
down they thank the Lord that ii was
no worse rather than wish the imple-
ment in the internal regions. Work Is
a curse provided for our benefit, il you
choose That Is, ii would be very blessed
IL men could plant and reap without hoe
ing, provided they were occupied in the
noblest ways between the planting and
the harvest. The Lord could have ban
ished weeds as well as mastadons from
the fields.
The man Adam acquires by his own
fault a tendency TO evil. Ii Is no longer
safe for him to be free. lie has made
himself a slave in soul and he sinks TO be
a surf in body. He Is tied TO the ground.
This is a curse for past sins but q preveD-
tative as regards the future. Redemption
from toll will be an Ultimate
RESULT OF REDEMPTION FROM SIN.
Evidently il is not an ideal condition
TO be kept at tasks that largely shut out
from life culture, fellowship, leisure. A
life without leisure or at least change of
occupation is generally narrow, often
brutalizing, Away deplorable.
In the temperate zone, supposed TO be
the most highly civilized. the average
man rises as soon as he wakes, to i'm
MEDIATE labor. IL there is any time before
the morning meal 1t Is occupied with
IL D.t NEa hnpan Az HFnagfoat hA
does two things at once as well as man
~can-reads ana eats, with the result that
murders and mutton, pop overs and poll
tics are all swallowed in an rDmasticated
state together. This modern process
finished the next proceeding is to catch
the car or the train--for what proportion
of the people think of praying in the
morning? A recent paper pictures Shake
speare as he would look running for a
train. The play of his feet il fully as re-
msrkable as the plays of his head. This
over, he has the first opportunity and
perhaps the last that day of standing
stili-or trying TO do so-in a moving car.
Then begin mis- efforts TO write an insur-
ance policy for the man who doesn't wan
any; 10 sell a home to a man who has no
money ito collect a bill from a debtor who
"isn't i'm; to write an editorial on a
news item which turns out next day to
be untrue, or TO make haste in buying
a commodity in the morning which has
fallen in price by the afternoon. All
which is wearing work. When lunch
time arrives there is no time for lunch.
Hence
HELP-YouRsELF RESTAURANTS.
are insugurated, and the awful product
of our barbarism called the 'sstand-up.p
A millionaire i'm New York having in
his office at lunch time a friend FROM the
West, actually took him to lunch in an
atAr xrhnra NJ nm ntant Stand thai. hA-
gan and ended with the favorite New
England dessert, and milk-I hope it
was not condensed.
Lunch over, the work began again
and at the evening hour the citizen is
too tired to go out, or to read and con-
sequently to pray. Indeed many kinds of
business continue into the evening or
the night and some of us do not reach
home until Sunday morning-perfectly
sober but utterly fatigued. He really
has not time for anything. 1t has been
mooted as a possibility to condense the
entire nutriment needed for a day in a
vessel the size OF a snuffbox, to be car
ried in the vest pocket. Even the SER
mons are fatal to a minister IL they ex-
coed a half hour, and some one at the ma
tionaI ounci said this age desires, 1t is
true, the sincere milk OF the Word, but ii
wants Ii powerfully condensed. Work
would be more satisfactory were il not
often spent on things that nobody needs
ana nobody ought to have. To make
something plated that shall answer the
demand OF a gilded taste is the sad lot of
many. To sell goods all day long at one
half the value, as SO many merchants pub
liclv state they are doing, cannot be ex-
hllarating employment. A friend OF mine
lives opposite a hospital for incurable
patients. Think OF n life spent minister
ing to those whom nothing but death or
q miracle can relieve! In the presence OF
the curse OF disease living under the
curse OF toll!
The number OF men who have no day
of rest IS very great. Persons who wish
TO worship on the Lords day meet with
the cold
ALTERNATIVE OF LOSING BUSINESS
altogether. This is. 10 my knowledge,
keeping many persons out OF connection
with the church. A kind OF toll demon
settles down OVER the world, ana grips
US I'm his claws or implies as on his
spikes. The generation ieeis The curse OF