The Progress., 1897-09-11
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
Interesting Discourse on the Rele-
tons OF Capital and Labor.
That which Human Wisdom Can Not
Achieve VIII He Accomplished BY
Christianity-Chriss Has shown
tie Solution Of the Problem.

Rev. T. Dewitt TAlmage. in the fol-
lowing discourse, sets forth the plan
he would adopt for settling the indus
trial troubles The text is:
Whatever ye would that men should do to
you do you even SO 10 them.-Matthew vii, T.
The greatest war the world has ever
seen is between capital and labor. The
strife is not like that which in history
is called the 80 years war, for 1t is =
war of ceBturieA it is a war OF the
i've continents, it is a war hemisphere
The middle class in this country, upon
whom the nation has depended for
holding the balance OF power and for
acting AS mediators between the two
extremes, are diminishing. and il
things 60 ON in the same ratio as they
are now going is will not be very long
before there will be no middle class in
this country. but all will be very rich
Or very poor, princes or paupers, and
the country will be given up to palaces
and novels.
But that which human wisdom can
not achieve viii be accomplished by
Christianity if 1t be given full sway.
You have heard Of medicines SO power
full that one drop will stop disease
aud restore a patient, and / have to tell
fou that one drop of my text properly
administered win stop all these woes
Of society and give convalesence md
complete health to all classes What
soever ye would that men should do to
you, do you even 50 them"
shall first show you how this quar-
rel between monopoly and hard work
can not be stopped, and then l will
show you how this con troversy will Be
settled.
/ Neither will the contest be settled by
cynical and un&y mpathie treatment Of
the iaboring classes There are those
who speak Of them as though they
were only cattle or draught horses
Their nerves are nothing, their dones-
tic comfort 10 nothing, their happiness
is nothing. They have no more SYM
patty for them than = hound has for =
hare, or hawk for a hen, or n tiger
for . calf When Jean Vatican, the
ereatest hero OF Victor Hugo's writ
inRs after life of suffering and brave
endurance, goes into incarceration
and death. they clap the book shut
and say: Good for him," They stamp
their feet with indignation and say
just the opposite of Save the work
ing classes" They have all their sym
pathies with Shylock, and not with
Antonio aud PortiA They are pluto
Gratis, and their feelings are internal.
They are filed with irritation and
Feasibility on this subject TO stop
this awful imbroglio between capital
and labor they will not lift SO much as
the tap end Of the little finger.
Neither viii there be any pacifca-
ton of this angry controversy through
violence God never blessed murder.
Ehe poorest use you can put a man
20 is to kill him Blow up tomorrow
al the country seats on the banks of
the Hudson. and all the fine houses on
Madison squire, and Brooklyn Heights,
and Bunker Hall, and Rittenhouse
square. and Beacon street and all the
bricks and timber and stone viii just
fall back on the bare head of American
labor. The worst enemies of the work
ing classes in the United States and
Ireland are their demented coad tutors.
Assassin alton - the assassination of
Lord Frederick Cayepdish and Mr.