Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-08-23
TALMAGE'S SERMON
INTERESTING THEME BN THE
MN WORN PREACHER.
snhIect: ..The wor.t Doc OF Lahor. !,

which he speaks through tht press may not
lie disappointed. a famous and always-time-
" sermon delivered 10y him on previous
occasion is supplied for this week.
TIKI: ale that earneth wages. earneth
varrr To put It into bag with holes."-
Haggai l., q.
In Persia. under the reign oi Darius Nv
stasnts, the people did not prosper. They
made money, but did not keep II. They
were like people who have a sack in which
they nut money. not knowing that the sack
Is torn. or eaten Of moths. or in some way
made incapable oi holding valuahles. A.
| fast as the coin was pat in one end OF the
! sack it dropped out ol the other II ms L.
( no difference how much wages they got, TOR
1 they lost them. "He that eTneth wages,
earneth wages to put it into haS with
/ holes"
What has become Of the billions AMI BIZ
I lions of dollars in this country paid to the
! working classes? Some Of These moneys
/ have gone for house rent. or the purchase 90
| homesteads. or wardrobe, or family expenses,
! or the necessities Of life. or to provide COM
I forts in old age. What has become of other
billions? Wasted in foolish outlay. WASTED
( nj the caming-lahln Wasted in intoNicants.
I Put into a bag with hundred holes.
/ Gather up the money that tue working
/ classes have spent for rum during the last
.
mgn,an house. and lay ont for him a gar
/ den. aud clothe his sons in broadcloth and
hi- daughters in silks, and stand at his front
! }onra praucing span of snrrels or bays, and
. secure him a policy Of life insurance, so that
. the present home may be well maintained
after he is dead The most persistent, most
/ ovprpnwering enemy Of the working classes
/ Is intoxicating liquor, It is the anarchist oil
the centuries, aud has bOyrottrd and il now
buvcotting the body and mind and soul Of
American labor II Is To il worse foe than
MONOPOLY and worse than associated capl-
tai.
1t annually swinlles industry out Of
large percentage OF its earnings. 1t holds
ont its blasting solicitations to the mechanic
or operative on his way 10 work, and ut the
noon-epeI, and on his way home at even
tide: ON Saturday, when the wages are paid,
il srmtches q large part Of the money that
might come to the family, and sacrifices II
among the saloon keepers. Within elght
hundred Yards Of Sands Street Methodist
Church. Brooklyn, il has tifty-tour saloons,
and is plotting now for another. stand ne
saloons Of this country side by side. and 1t
is carefully estimated they would reach from
New York to Chicago. Forward, march,
saws the rum power, and take possession OF
the American Nation! The rum business "
pouring its vitrioic and damnable liquids
; down the throats Of hundreds Of thousands
. OF luhorers. and while the ordinary strikes
. are ruinOus both TO employers and
employees, | proclaim 4 strike universal
. a,ainSt strong drink, which, if kept
! up, will be the relief of the working classes
ana the salvation of the Nation. | will I'M
dnrtaka to say that there is not healthy
p, IahOrrr in the United States who, within
the next ten years. ii he will refuse all intoX-
i icatiug beverage and he saving may not be-
:. come a capitalist on Il small scale. Our
. country in a wear spends one billion live
hundred million and fifty thousand dollars
for rum. or course the working classes do
n great deal Of this expenditure. Careful
statistics show that the wage-earning classes
OF Great Britain eXpend in liquors one hun.
dred million pounds. or five hundred mill
ion dollars year. Sit down and think, q
workingman. how much you have eXpend-
! ed in these directions. Add it all up. Add
) up what your neighbors have expended, and
realize that instead of answering the bech
of other people You might have been your
own capitalist. When you deplete work
ingmans physical energy you deplete Ii:
capital.
The stimulated workman gives out before
the unstimalated workman. My father said
81 became temperance man in early life
because | noticed in the harvest field that
7 though | was physically weaker than Other
wOrkmen, I could hold out longer than they
They took siimulants | took none 4
, brrkmaker in Engrnd gives his experience
: in regard to this matter among men III hi
:. employ. He says, after investigation: "Iht
beer-drnkers who made the tewcst brick
| made six hundred and iiity-nine thousand
n the abStaner who made the iCwest bricks
. seven hundred and iorty-siN thousand.
The difference in behalf of the abStainel
Is over the indulger. eighty-seven thousand
3, There came a very eNhausting time in the
British Parliament. The session was pro
longed until nearly all the members got sicl
}. or worn out Out of six hundred and fifty
:. two members only two went through un
damaged; they were teetOtalers.
. When an army goes out TO the battle tn
soldier who has water or coffee in his can
: teen marches easier and fights better thar
II the soldier who has whisky in his canteen
a Rum helps man to fight when he has Onl.
!, one contestant, and that at the street cor
II ner. But when he goes forth to maintail
= some great battle for God and his country
he wants no rum about him. When tn
- Russians go to war Il corporal passes alon
the line and smells the breath of every sol
der. If there be in his breath Il faint Of in
. toxicating liquor, the man is sent back t
5 the barracks. Whyf lie caunOt endure IN
IS tigue All our young men iinoWt this. Whe
they are preparing fora regatta or for q bal
club, or for an athletic wrestling, they al
stain. Our working people will be wiser al
Ter u While, ana lut money IHbN hing AVA
~ on hurtful indugences they will put into co
operative associations, and so become CAPT
talsts. If the workngman put down hi
wages and then take his expenses and sprea
them out so they will Just equal, he is nc
e wise I know worktngmen who are in
l. perfect tldget until they get rid Of their las
IL dollar.
), The following circumstances came unde
|, our observation: A young man worked har
e 70 his al hI1p lral lnl lar
# yearly. Marriage day came. The bride ha
f inherited five hundred dollars from he
grandfather. She spent every dollar of ii 0
J. the wedding dress. Then they rented tw
70 rooms in Il third story. Then the young ma
y took extra evening employment; almost e2
'r hausted with the days work, yet took ever
# ing employment 1t almost eXtinguished hi
$ eyesight Why did he add evening emplo,
If ment to the day employment To get none,
l. Why did he want to get money? TO lay IL
something for Il rainy day2 No. To get h
- life insured, so that in case of his death h
wife would not be a beggar2 No. He pit
the extra evening work to the day work thG
he might get hundred and fifty dollars
get his wife a sealskin coat. The sister
the bride heard of this achievement, and WI
not to be rclipsed. She was very poor, an
she sat up working nearly all the nights fl
Il great while until she bought 4 Sealski
coat. have not heard of the result on thu
street The street was full of those who al
on small incomes, but | suppose the col
tagion spread, and that everybody had
sealskin coat, and that the people came OF
and cried, practically, not literally: "Thoug
> the heavens fall. we must have a sealsEi
coat"
q was out West and minister OF the Go
pei told me, in Iowa, that his church and Il
d neighborhOod had been impoverished by Il
8 fact that they put mortgages on their farr
n in order to send their families to the Phil
! delphia Centennial. 1t was not respectful
q not to 90 to the Centennial Between SUI
evils and pauperism there isa very short ste
The vast majority of children in your all
9 houses are there because their parents a
d drunken, or lazy. or reckle5sly improvidel