The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-09-19

jury, the lawyers and many of these
witnesses, including the beloved pas
tor of my church, will have to appear
before a righteous God to answer in
part for my crime"
Here we have a practical illustra-
ton of the fact that man cannot live
unto himself; that no human being
shall suffer alone; that we are all re-
sponsible for our brothers woe; and
this is why we should emphasize
more strongly the cry of enslaved hui
manity. Our brothers are in bond
age, and you and l are called to de-
liver them. If we have hearts within
our breasts, we will heed the appeals
of the millions of homeless children
and degraded fathers, enslaved wives
and broken hearted mothers, whose
degradations are appealing to us to
organize a crusade that shall quench
the fires of the nine thousand six
hundred and fifty breweries of the
nation.
Silver bills and tariff bills may
shake confidence and brighten cap
ital for a little while, but it is the
whiskey bill that brings hard times
and hunger to the nation, and we are
all called upon to suffer its effects.
1t has already enslaved the largest
part of the human race; it has substi-
tuted shame for honor; misery for
happiness; weakness for strength;
sickness for health; poverty for
wealth and death instead of life. 1t
retards our progress mentally and
morally; it blockades our prosperity,
both national and personal; it stops
the enterprise of our merchants; it
quenches the zeal and aspirations of
our students; it counteracts the eff
fects of the Gospel; It is filling
the nation with paupers and giving
us a system of trusts by which
we are feeced on everything we eat
and drink, and yet we seem blind to
the great and all pervading law of
heaven and earth, which is vocal with
condemnation, and whose every ut
terance declares the inseparable unity
| of the race.
Do you wish further illustrations
of this principle? Then turn to the
little things of life and ask yourselves
the question,-Why do you copy so
closely the fashions and follies of
others? 1t is because we are SO
closely allied to each other that we
cannot endure ostracism in the
slightest degree. Take the hermit in
the wilderness who subsists on game
and never sees the face of white
man.
He is not troubled about his toilet
nor the architecture of his dugout.
He lives to himself; there is no one
in the wilderness to criticize his per-
sonal appearance nor comment on
the beauty and symmetry of his
dwelling.
DR.. Talmage wrote book, after
making tour around the world. He
first knew that he was dependent up
on the reading public for an audience
and recognition. He knew that his
book would be read by thousands of
strangers who would hear of his
fame. He had need of the reading
public; the reading public had need
of experienced writer's; none could
exist without the others. So in every
direction you turn you are confronted
with the unalterable fact that we are
all dependent on others for what we
are, for what we have, and what we
are to become. We need our fellow
beings as much as they need US.
Without them we could not exist.
Should not this fact inspire us to live
for others, seeing that others have
lived for usi
During the Worlds Fair at Chica-
go, l was forcibly impressed with the
interdependence of the race while
sitting in the dining room of one OF
the hotels of the city, waiting for the
morning meal to be brought on. ]
remembered that l did not and could
not make the costly table on which
my food was placed. That mahogany
table was covered with rich, Irish
linen, and made in the old world
Almost every article of food on that
table came from a different quarter
of the globe. The bananas possibly
grew in the West Indies, the oranges
in Southern California, the grapes in
Spain, the -four from Missouri, the
salt from Syracuse, the coffee from
Brazil, the pepper from Borneo and
the meat may have come from Texas
Tue man who served the table was d
native of the sunny South. So you
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