The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-07
BUTTE News.
THE REV. SHERMAN HILL
An Interesting Sermon on a
Timely Topic.
LABOR OR CAPITAL--W
Servants Be Subject to Your Masters.
The Leborer Is Worthy of His Hire.
Mr.. Hill Makes an Application
OF the Golden Rule.

Rev. sherman Hill delivered another
of his interesting sermons on popular
and timely subjects, to a large con-
gregation at the Christian church last
evening His subject was Labor or
Capital-w which," For his text he took
these three passages OF scripture:
Servants be subject to your mas
ters. Peter.
THE Iaborer is worthy of his hire. =
Jesus.
whatsoever We would that men
should do to you do We even so to
them."-Jesus. e.
Mr.. Hill spoke in substance as fol-
lows: ..
1t was the wisest man of all time
who said There is no new thing un-
der the SUM- Whatever appears to be
new will, when resolved into its prim-
tive or primary elements, prove to be
but an adjustment, a REIMBURSEMENT or
a new statement of an old question.
History does repeat itself and the
thing that hath been. it is that which
shall be-" Truth is not an Isolated,
abstract or contradictory thing but a
united. concrete and consistent prin-
ciple.
we have to do with no new problems,
but with new phases of old prob
lens.
our dlrflcuiIleS are not Will new
truths, but with the present settings
Of old truths One problem compre-
hended in its entirety would not be
the solution of one truth or the solu-
ton of one phase of one truth, but the
full solution of all truth.
Tennyson not only wrote faultless
poetry. but logical philosophy when he
said:
ssElower in the crannied wall,
| pluck you out of the crannies;
Hold YOU here, root and all in my
hand,
Little fiower-but if I could under
stand
What you are. root and all, and all
in all,
should know what God and man
is
And when Jesus said. II am the
truth" He but revealed to man the
fact that all truth must be referred
to one whole.
The labor and capital problem is not
a problem of our day and generation
nor of any day or generation. We
have been moved to wonder at the re-
cital of the endless contest between
Rome and Carthage The friend oil
humanity has felt deep sense of re-
lief when. closing the study OF Napo
Icons wars. he. in imagination. saw
him borne away to st. Helena.
AS we see the months merge int
years and the years OF our own revolu
ton multiply we wonder at the flight o
time and at her cruelty. The rehearsa
of the 80 years war seems indee,
like the rehearsal of endless inhuman
ity, while the story of the war o
roses. seems like a strange minglinl
of the consistent and the inconsistent
like the union of the sad with TIL,
cruel. for what concord hath a ros,
with the doctrines of war? Can 1
dove wed a buZzard?
But we are lost in misty speculation
when we contemplate the horrors o
'the hundred years war Its months
drag on like a pestilent fever and it
years seem to be cycles of the reign o
evil.
These wars. however. are but shad
ows and phantoms as compared to tn
war between labor and capital. The.
met and clashed arms for a season
They scattered desolation in Sigh
degree. This is war, not of one cen
fury. but of so! This Is a war. not o
one nation. but of more than 80 Thi
is not a hemisphere, but a hemis
pheric war 1t isn't a war OF one, blu
of six continents.
Formerly il was war of thre
classes the laborer the middleman an
the capitalist but the ranks of tn
middlemen who have served as a bal
ance of power have been flanke
around and closed in upon until the
present but a sad spectacle of q ono
noble array. The contest is being mar
rowed to closer quarters. The host
are moving toward each other wit
rapid and determined strides.
1t Is rapidly becoming a contest be
tween the palace and the home. tn
prince and the pauper.
Scarcely a week but a labor unto
is formed and a capitalistic trust in
augurated.
The endless strikes, boycotts an
shut-downs are but the mutterng
the volcano before a terrific eruption
They are but the escapes through III