The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-10
DIGNITY OF LABOR.
The Honest Toiler Is Before All Others
Chosen of God.

The Honest Teller Is Before All Others
Chosen of God.
The sermon of Rev. Mr.. Custer last
night at the NJ. T.. church was on the
subject Dignity of Labor and the La
boring Man" and the text used was
from Matthew, -, Sd, Is not this the
carpenters SOM" He said in part:
Labor has been dignified by the Son
of God coming to earth and choosing to
live His marvellous life up to the time
of His public ministry at the carpen-
ter's bench. God has all through the
divine word exalted labor. Every Jew
ish child in ancient times was obliged
to learn some useful trade, and II was
accounted disgraceful to not know some
useful manner of labor. Paul was
tent maker; Peter was "A fisherman, and
Jesus chose His disciples from the
walks of labor. God honored labor an
GENTLY by arranging that those who
obpyed the command of God, given in
Eden that by the sweat of his brow
man should earn his bread. should
never be deprived of their land or their
homes. for every 80 years, If not sooner,
all lands reverted to the name of the
original owners. II was this that gave
Henry George the key to his scheme or
land ownership and new arrangement.
Labor is digniiied again by the fact
that there can be no development with
out it, Brain sweat is just as real as
with arm or with brain, there is deyel-
opment only by means Of this. All
the progress made has been by labor.
The idle rich who labor neither with
brain nor with hands soon run out i'll
the family name.
Labor is dignified again by the fact
that it owns honest money Money
earned can be called honest money, but
ii would hardly do to question too
closely the money in possession OF some
gambling combines whether on Chi
cage change or Wall street, nor would
il be pleasant to ask how jay Gould
now feels about all the money he was
compelled by death to leave behind him.
His memory now is keenly alive TO the
manner in which he obtained il, and
the tears of sadness caused To flow from
many an honest eye because of his
/ devilish Vaccinations.
There is great satisfaction in know
/ ing that the money you possess YOU
/ have a right To. and that IL Is honest
/ money Labor is dignitied by the fact
! that God hath chosen 1t nearly always
/ when advancement We're To be made.
i Look over the page of history and tell
me how many farmers sons. and those
! Who have come from the homes Of hon
f est toll have been great educators
great statesmen, great Legislators and
great reformers. | do not know one
/ Methodist preacher in all my acquain-
/ tances who did not come from the home
Of honest toll: most of them have
worked their way through college. ana
/ have seen the ups and downs Of life
+ Christ chose the honest fishermen oi
+ old. and He il stiil doing the same
thing.
Whenever the time shall come thai
labor is despised in this Land, then tbs
beginning Of ihe end viii be. and thai
end viii be about The same as vas the
end If the Roman empire. is to b.
foprd that such VIII never be. II Il
sand that society is about like the PR
made IL tough dough-each crust WA.
exceedingly thin and haru. The iiilsns
Was good fruit the upper crust repre-
sents the idle rich Of q speculative ten.
aenry the lower crust the rfimina
classes. and tha filling the great cias:
IF common people and honest I8ll*rs
!. Is neither they labor behind the counter