The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-03-05
SOME UNIQUE THOUGHTS
ARE EXPRESSED BY REV. r.. III.
MOORE IN HIS NIGHT SERMON.
He Has Little Use for the Woman Who
Combs the Hair of Her Poodle
DOg-Other Expressions.

The Rev. r. II. Moore, pastor OF the Mad
ison-avenue NJ. Z. Church, began last night
series of sermons for working people.
The sermons will be four in number. The
subject last night was Christ and the
Common People; is the Modern Church
True to His Ideal?'' There has been con-
siderable publicity given to the proposed
sermons by church members. and the at
tendance was large and great interest was
shown.
In his opening remarks the pastor said:
eff there is any one despise it is the self
appointed champion of the workingman.
The man who least needs champion is
the workingman, and do not like the in
situations that the workingman is under
meath the rest of his fellow-men." Mr..
Moore argued that the workingman was
able to care for himself. and. belonging to
the greater mass of the so-called common
people, was clearly able to define his posi-
ton in the world and make himself recog-
nized as the great power that he is. Con-
tinuing, he said in part:
WHO is 1t that has made this country
what it is? The workingman, of course;
the politicians, the rich men and others
not workingmen have had something to do
with 1t. but 1t is the workingman who
has been In the front rank in our country's
development. 1t has been the working
man who has fought our country's battle
and been chiefly instrumental In the devel-
opment of civilization.
II do not like Edwin Markham's poem
The Man with the Hoe nor some of Mil
let's noted pictures. for they represent the
xiro orx he
under man in the worldly conflict.
what do we mean by the workingman?
That probably is a question that needs
defining. We are all workingmen; all but
the fellow who has not enough energy to
earn his daily bread 1 want to say to
you that the man who Is living without
making TO the world some return for what
he receives IL dishonor TO himself. his
man who is making his way in the world
is workingman. A preacher even is
workingman If he does his duty as he
should.
What is the relation of Christ to the
common people? Jesus Christ was a work.
ingman. He belonged to the common peo-
pie. He was the son of a carpenter. The
thirty years of His life before He began
His ministry were years of hard and un-
ceasing toll In His day they did not have
the machinery which to-day does a great
deal of the work formerly done by car
penters. We sometimes in this country
like to refer to the fact that Abraham
Lincoln was a workingman. 1t was Lin
coin who said God surely loved the COM
mon people because he made so many of
them.
Jesus Christ Is one of us, friends He
called upon the common people to be His
disciples. To the last man those He gath
cred about Him TO save the world from sin
wero working people: one-half of them
mon people. In the great kingdom OF Jesus
Christ the salvation of the world was not
turned over to the rich man to be accom-
| plished, but was put into the hand of the
common people. When the Sermon on the
Mount was preached Christ looked over
the multitude and said. 'Ye are the salt of
| the earth To whom was He talking? To
the common people. L doubt If there was
| rich man went up on the mountain. And
| 1t was to the common people, to the work.
ing people to whom He said, Let your light
/ so shine Why was this? 1t was not a
| disposition on the part Of Christ to show
partially. He was of the common peo-
pie and chose His followers from them. 1t
was because Jesus saw in the workingman
| a man whom He could trust. What Is there
In this man He can trust? In the first place
there is the good sense of the working
man. We sometimes get the idea that
| brains are always associated with silk
hats, fine clothes, soft skins and white
| hands. Do you know 1t takes brains to be
| a workingman? 1t takes brains to shoe a
| horse, and oftentimes We find more brains
| in the horseshoer's shop than in the shop
| finely and clearly furnished where gold
| is put into fair ladys tooth. The serv-
| ant girl in the kitchen who knows how
/ to make good bread and pies has often
/ many times more brains than her mistress
who Is upstairs combing the hair of her
| poodle dog"
| In regard to the evident estrangement of
| the workingman and the church Mr.. Moore
/ said: What is the remedy? 1t is for all
| of us to come back to the plain teachings
| OF Jesus Christ. 1t Is the church of Christ
| that has made the common people what
we are, and the trouble seems to be not
( TO get the working people back to the
| church, but to get the church back to the
1 common people"
| The series will be continued next Sun
| day, the subject being 1.-THE Relation Of En-
/ vironment and Associations to Morals and
/ Wages"