The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-20
LIFE AND HOPE
FOR 1.-THE MAN
WITH THE HOE"
TWO Boons for the
Cherries Worker.
TIGHTEN LABoR's BURDENS
MISSION OF ALLIED AMERICA
AND ENGLAND.
The Man without a Hoe, Without
Friend or Penny More to Be
Pitied, Says Rev. William
RAIDER.
TIGHTEN LABoR's BURDENS
MISSION OF ALLIED AMERICA
AND ENGLAND.

'aThe Man With the Hoe" was the topic
of the morning sermon by Rev. WllhaIl
RAIDER in the Third Congregational Church
Yesterday. The speaker took for MS text
the very apt command contained in Cen
esis. in:I9: In the sweat OF thy race
shalt thou eat bread" DR.. RAIDER spoke
in part as follows:
.aTbere are three instruments of civillZa-
tion-the hoe, the pen and the sword.
They symbolic, respectively, labor, express
sion and force. The hoe is the symbol OF
the REDEMPTION of the soil, the recovery
of the earth under our feet. This was the
first dream of the earliest barbarian-the
mastery of the field
1.-THE pen is one Of a trinity. The pen,
the brush and the chisel sympolize ex-
preston in literature and art
.aThe sword stands for might. 1t is in
vested with government, law and force
The pen. il is said, is mightier than the
sword, and it may be truthfully said that
as an actual force in the civilization OF
the world the hoe is mightier than the
pen.
''Millet has painted picture called The
Man With the Hoe He describes a
French peasant leaning, with horny
hands. on the rough implement of labor.
He does not own probably the clods under
his feet or the hoe in his hands. There
he stands in the field, the embodiment Of
~ 10 Professor Markham of Oakland be-
longs the honor of giving to this picture
its most perfect Interpretation. am sure
you who have read his lines will not &C
cuse me of extravaganza when l rank his
poem with Kipling's 'RecessiOnaP and
THE White Mans Burden
The artist has put into this face the
idea of work. Work says Ruskin, is re-
ligion.' Carlyle, too, called it religion. So
does every man who has honestly and
cheerfuIly labored. Men may work by
1t. III
are not fitted for manual labor. The work
of the higher man is the poorest paid.
Witness Dante and Milton and what they
received for their dreams. Dungeons and
bitter salt, says Ruskin Stephen was
paid in stones for the greatest of sermons.
Goodyear. who gave the world the use of
rubber, died pauper.
Labor is religion, laziness a crime. The
busiest people are not always the great
est workers. They are sometimes like
wheels, spinning without fax.
Work without hope is put into this
man s face. Under the sunburnt skin is
drudgery. In the wrinkles are laid
away the noblest passions of the heart
as in graves. 1t is the deadly routine,
without hope, that brushes. Thousands
of people work hard without any hope of
getting rid of debt, lifting the mortgage
or giving John money to go to college.
Hard work with nothing ahead but pow
erty takes the light out of the face. 1t
takes away imagination, self respect and
1.-The duty OF the Christian nations is
not 10 conquer the world, but to elevate
the world already under their flags. The
duty of Christian America and England
is to restore to the face of labor the light
of imagination, respect and religion. Let
US Irvine our flags together for this di-
vine purpose.
Professor Markham has called this
man a thing. There are no things in
a land of free institutions, free schools
and ballot-boxes. and yet some of our
laboring men have almost been reduced
to the level of the European peasant.
Even our negroes had sunshine back Of
their black skins. They believed In soul.
There are three lessons to be learned.
First, the deep tragedy of the labor
world, q tragedy enacted all about us, in
the battle for bread. Second, that max
ing a living is not the end of life. Work
is not an end in itself You who educate
your sons to make a living only make
mistake. Life IS not meat and drink and
houses and carriages. "A living is some
thing man places under his feet and
reaches the stars. 1t is an advantage.
1t is an opportunity. Third, the man with
out the hoe Is more to be pitied than the
man with the hoe. He who died IN a lodg
ing-house last week without hoe,
friend, q penny, and was laid away in the
potter's feld-oh, he is the pathetic pic
ture Of civilization