The Indianapolis journal., 1897-05-24
A SERMON BY MR.. Spinning
THE MINISTER WHO CREATED SUCH
AN IMPRESSION AT WINONA
Preached Yesterday Morning at the
First Presbyterian Church-Rev DIR.
Ellison to Law Students.


the General Assembly meeting of the
Presbyterian Church to second the nomi-
nation of DR.. Sheldon Jackson for modera-
tor, preached at the First Presbyterian
Church yesterday morning to large con-
gregation. DR.. Spinning came from Winona
with Rev. M. l.. Haines, pastor of the
church. who presented him to the congre-
cation. He will return to-day to take
further part in the assembly proceedings
His sermon yesterday was one of the most
forcible heard here for some time, the dis
tinguished divine handling some of the
foremost sociological questions of the day
in a convincing and logical way. He
touched on the relations of capital and Ia
Dor, holding that they are interdependent
and that it is the duty of the former to
provide work for the latter, deprecating
speculation and legalized gambling of all
sorts. He has no patience with anarchistic
demagagues who preach the destruction of
capital. THE mission of capital" said he
lis to find work for labor to do. Strike it
down and you put out the eyes of labor
and blind it, like blind Samson, to grind
forever at the millwheel of poverty" The
sacredness of marriage, the duties of the
poor to the rich and similar sociological
questions were touched upon.
Alliances was the theme of DR.. Spin
mgs discourse, based the alliance of
Jehu and Jehonadab spoken of in ii Kings
X, To- is thine heart right, as my heart
is with thy heart? And Jehonadab an
swered. 1t is. If it be- give me thy hand
And he gave him his hand" After speak
ing of the historical events that led up to
the mission OF Jehu, DR.. Spinning said, in
part:
''JezebeI and her descendants are written
blood-red in Bible history. BY Jezebel
Ahab was seduced; Baal was set up against
God and the land was soaked with the
blood of Gods prophets. The day OF di-
vine vengeance had come and Jehu was the
instrument in Gods hand to accomplish
His purpose. Loyalty to him was loyalty
to God and disloyalty to him was alliance
with Jezebel and Baal and dis
loyalty to God On the way
from Jezreel where he had destroyed
stroy the priests of Baal he met Jehona-
dab a goodly mana Navarite or religious
devotee, who came in the way to meet him.
Jehonadab was the son of Rechab the
founder of the Rechabites, an Arabian tribe
which entered Canaan with Israel. The
VOW or rule Of the tribe was: Ye shall
drink no wine, neither ye nor your sons
forever; neither shall ye build houses nor
SOW seed nor plant vineyards nor have
any. but ali your days ye shall dwell in
tents that We may live many days in the
land wherein We are strangers They were
but not of Israel; worshipers of one
God, haters of idolatry, religious Bedouins,
they kept to themselves and mingled IN the
affairs of IsraeE Chief among these stern
Arabs was Jeh0nadab. q chief in whom
Jehu might find a powerful ally. Hence
the stopping of the royal chariot and the
abrupt and pointed question of the text:
is thine heart right as my heart IS rlght
with thy heart? The answer may pc rem
dered 1t is. Give me thy hand. Or, IL IL
is, give thine hand. And he said: 1t is.
And he give him his hand
:" Give me thine hand How often is TINS TINS
voice heard in the world, the voice pleading
for help sympathy and alliance-the WlqoW,
the orphan, the aged and cr1ppled-Chrr1lsso rs
tian philanthropy appealing through the
lhSo
ging but weak humanity crying. TOO often
we see only the canvasser ana not tne
cause.-the man or the woman and not the
Christ whom they represent, and Withdraw
our hand from the outstretched hanq OIL
Him who said, Inasmuch as We have done
it unto the least of these, my brethren, ye
have done it unto me-
GIVE ME- THINE HAND
'Give me thine hand This time tbs the
voice of the young man in the presence OF
the merchant, asking for position, the
voice of the father asking for work, the
voice of the young girl thrown out early
upon the world, going weeping from office
to office, from committee to committee,
seeking employment. 1 never pass a Wom-
ems exchange without thinking of genteel
poverty lying back of articles on sale of
the bravery of self-help of tears and pray
ers wrought into many delicate bit of
work. Take up one of those articles; you
know not what weary eyes nave Dent over
it. what tears may have dropped upon 1t,
what heart history IS wrought INTO II; -
a footing in the unequal struggle Tor llIe!
0 mute and eloquent appeal for helping
hand .,.. ,z, rbo Do,,as+ - Al
human alliances is that of holy Wediock. 1t
is impossible for man to live alone. what
is humanity? Man is not-Woman is not;
they are but fragments, halves OF human
ity. The halves need each other, not FOR
paternity alone. but for mutual :. Develop &
for. hn unit nj
family is the oldest institution of the hu-
man race. Nations, kingdoms and empires
pass away, deluge after deluge of change
have swept over the surface Of society,
leaving naught scarcely of social fabric or
political history, but on the bosom OF each
flood rode the ark of the family ana proved
it to be stronger than the buttreSsed fort
reSSeS of empires. 1t is the only perpe tual
institution of humanity, and that because it
is of God and bound together by laws of
necessity and love as strong as the laws of
gravitation, which secure the unity OF the
physical universe. So men and women seek
marriage as naturally as they seek any
other necessity of their being. But in this
alliance it is essential that the heart should
go with the hand. Marriages OF con-
venience, without love, are too often bound
by the mere vows of convenience also. Is
marriage a lottery? y es, and no. No, to
the wise and thoughtful; yes, to those who
rush into ii blndly and are governed more
by sensual than spiritual passion. All true
marriages are made in heaven, but a great
many matches are made on earth, ana
many of them soon smell of birthstone.
/ Give me tnlne mana, SAID a young man 10
a beautiful girl at whose wedding l ofti-
ciated. He was matured, blase and hard
ened, but elegant and fascinating; she blind
and trusting. All society was there and
the wedding bells rang merrily. The world
of fashion said it was a splendid match;
yes, a match, but was it a marriage? One
year from that day / knelt beside that
weeping bride while her husband expired
in the dying agonieS of delirium tremens.
| Read Burns's 'Cotters Saturday Night if
you would see the family as God intended
| it. That poem Is a sanctuary OF peace The
humblest cottage. where love and duty
stock a palace where these are divorced.
| Marriage is but a crucifXion within their
marble walls. Whether marriage is a sue
cess or failure, home foretaste of heaven
| or hell, depends not upon wealth or beauty,
| but upon the union of love and duty. The
| remedy for the unhappy marriage is the in
| PRODUCTION of religion into the heart and
| life"
CAPITAL AND LABOR.
| =" Give me thine hand 1t is the voice of
business calling for co-operation-confi-
dence. What is thy scheme? Is it to de-
| velop some legitimate industry or to cor
ner the market in some commodity? Is it
for gambling, square dealing? Is it a
scheme wherein the promoter pockets the
profits and the stockholder the loss? Give
me thine hand 1t is the invitation of
capital to labor. They join hands in we'd
lock, and the children of that marriage are
the Brooklyn bridge, railroads spanning
continent, the ocean greyhound, the cable
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