The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-06

| employers cannot. without much loss, pay
! the wages fixed by the board, which neith-
| er employers nor employed have the power
| to change. To avoid this difficulty, the
| workmen in one of the largest steel works
| in Sheffield hit upon a device as rare as
| it was generous. They offered to work
| for their employers one week without any
| pay whatever"
| But you go with me and I will show
yOu-not so far off as Sheffield England
| factories banking houses, store houses,
| and costly enterprises where this Christ
| like injunction of my text is fully kept,
| and you could no more get the employer
| to practice an injustice upon his men, or
| the men TO cOnspire against the employer,
| than you could get your right hand and
| your left hand, your right eye and your
| left eye, your right ear and your left ear,
| into physiological antagOnsm- Now, where
| is this TO begin? In our homes, in our
| stores, on our farms-nOt waiting for other
| people TO do their duty. Is there a d.
vergence now between the parlor and the
| kitchen? Then there is something wrong
| either in the parlor or the kitchen, per-
| haps in both. Are the clerks in your
store irate against the firm? Then there
| is something wrong, either behind the
| counter, or in the private Office, or per-
| haps In both.
The great want of the world to-day is
! the fulfllment of this Christ-like injunc,
| tion, that which he promulgated In his
| sermon Olivetic. All the political econo-
| mists under the archivault of the heavens
| in convention for thousand years can
| not settle this controversy between mo-
| ncTOlv and hard work, between capital
ana labor During the revolutionary wan
! there was a heavy piece of timber to be
| lifted. perhaps for some fortress, and
| corporal was overseeing the work, and he
was giving commands to some soldiers as
| they lifted: "HeaVe away, there! you
aIT taars 10
| they could not get it up. There was a
gentleman riding by on a horse. and he
| stopped and said to this corporal, "Why
| don't you help them lift? That timber is
too heavy for them to lift" NO" he
said, Il won't; I am a corporal" The
gentleman got off his horse and came UP
to the place. Now" he said to the
soldiers, all together-yo heaven ana
the timber went to it's place. Now
said the gentleman to the corporal, when
| you have piece of timber too heavy for
| the men to lift, and you want help, you
send to your commander-in-chief" 1t was
Washington Now. that is about all the
| gospel l know-the gospel of giving some
| body a lift. a lift out Of darkness, a lift
out of earth into heaven. That is all the
gospel l know-the gospel of helping some
body else TO lift.
oh" says some wiseacre, talk as you
will, the law of demand and supply will
time" No, they will not, unless God
dies and the batteries of the Judgment
day are spiked, and Pluto and Prosperine,
king and queen of the internal regions,
take fun possession of this world DO
you know who Supply and Demand are?
They have gone into partnership, and they
propose to swindle this earth, and
are swindling it, You are drowning. Sup
ply and Demand stand on the shore, one
on one side the other on the other side
of the life-boat, and they cry out to you:
Now, you pay us what we ask you for
| getting you to shore, or go TO the bot
TOMB If you can borrow 5000 you can
keep from failing in business. Supply
and Demand says: Now, you pay us eX-
! orbitant usury. or you go into bankrupt
| Cyl This robber firm of Supply and De
mand say to you: THE crops are short
We bought up all the wheat and it is in
our bin. Now, you pay our price or
! starve." That is your magnificent law Of
| supply and demand.
| Supply and Demand own the largest
| mill on earth, and all the rivers roll
| over their wheel and into their hopper
! they put all the men, women and children
| they can shovel out of the centuries, and
| the blood and the bones redden the valley
while the mill grinds. That diabolic law
! of supply and demand will yet have to
| stand aside, and, instead thereof will
| come the law of love, the law of coop
eIallOn, the law Oh klnQneSS, the law OF
sympathy, the law of Christ Have you
no idea of the coming of such a time?
| Then you do not believe in the Bible. All
the Bible is full of promises on this
| subject, and as the ages roll on the time
| will come when men of fortune will be
| giving larger sums to humanitarian and
eVangelistic purposes, and there will be
| more James LenoXes and Peter Coopers
| and William E. Dodges and George Pea
bodys. As that time comes there will be
4 more parks, more picture galleries, more
! gardens thrown open for the holiday peo-
pie and the working classes.
1 was reading In regard to a charge that
| had been made in England against Lam
| beth palace, that it was exclusive; and
! that charge demonstrated the sublime fact
/ that to the grounds of that wealthy estate
eight hundred poor families have free
| passes, and forty croquet companies, and
on the half-holidays four thousand poor
| people recline on the grass, walk through
the paths and sit under the trees That
| is Gospel-Gospel on the wing, Gospel
| out-of-doors worth just as much as in
doors. That time is going to come. That
is only hint of what is going 10 be. The
time is going to come when, if you have
anything in your house worth looking at
pictures, pieces of sculpture you are
| going to invite me to come and see them,
you are going to invite my friends 10 come
and see them, and you will say. "see what
! have been blessed with. God has given
me this, and so far as enjoying it, il is
yours also" That is Gospel
In crossing the Allegheny mountains
many years ago, the stage halted and
| Henry Clay dismounted from the stage,
and went out on a rock at the very verge
of the cliff, and he stood there with his
cloak wrapped about him, and he seemed
| to be listening for something. Some one
said to him, What are you listening for?"
| Standing there, on the top of the noun
tain. he said, 81 am listening TO the tramp
| of the footsteps of the coming millions of
this continent" A sublime posture for an
American statesman You and 1 to-day
stand on the mountain-top of privilege
and on the Rock of Ages, and we look off,
and we hear coming from the future the
happy industries. and smiling populations,
and the consecrated fortunes, and the in
Vulnerable properties of the closing nine
teenth and the opening twentieth century.
The great patriot of France, Victor
| Hugo, died. The ten thousand dollars in
his will given to the poor of the city were
only a hint of the work he did for all ma
| tions and for all times. 1 wonder not that
they allowed eleven days to pass between