Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-01-04
DIR. TALMAGES SERMON.
SUNDAYS DISCOURSE By THE NOTED
DIVINE.

Subject: Victories of Peace-The Many
Blessings For Which We Should BE
-Machinery Has LiGhtened
Burdens-God Sent the Wheel.
Copyright, Louis Klopsch. 1891
WAsHINaToN, d. C.-Thls discourse ofDr.
Talmage is u sermon OF preparation for the
national obser vance and in an unusual way
calls for the gratitude OF the people; the
text, Ezekiel K, 13, LAS for the wheels, 1t
was cried unto them in My hearing, o
wheel!''
The last Thursday of the eleventh IN onth,
by proclamation OF President and Cover
nors, is observed in thanksgiving for
temporal mercies. With what spirit shall
we enter upon it? For nearly year ani II
half this nation has been celebrating the
terry. We have sung martial air, and
cheered returning heroes and sounded the
requiem for the slain in bnttle. Methinks
1t will be a heaithful change IL this Thanks
giving week. in church and hom estead, we
celebrate the victories OF peace, for moth
ing was done at Santiago or Manila that
was of more Importance than that which
in the last year has been done in farmers
field and mechanics shop and authors
study by those who never wore an epaulet
or shot u Spaniu:d or went u hundred
miles from their own doorsill And now
l call your attention to the wheel OF the
text.
Man, small speck in the universe, was
set down in big world, high mountains
rising before him, deep seas arresting his
pathway and wild beasts capable OF his
destruction, yet he was to conquer. 1t
could not be by physical force, for COM
pare his arm with the oX's horn and the
elephants tusk, and how weak he isl 1t
could not be by physical speed, for COM
pare him to the antelope's foot and ptar-
mi }Uup 20 wi md a hn iat
could not be by physical capacity to soar
or plunge, for the condor beats him in one
direction and the porpoise in the other.
Yet he was to conquer the world. Two
eyes, two hands and two feet were INSULT
cient. He must he re-enforced, so God
sent the wheel.
Twenty-Five times is the wheel men,
toned in the Bible, sometimes, as in
Ezekiel, illustrating provdential move
ment; sometimes, as In the Psalms, crush
ing the bad; sometimes as in Judges, rep
resenting Gods charioted progress. The
wheel that started in Exodus rolls on
through Proverbs, through Isaiah, through
jeremiah, through Daniel through Nahum
through the centuries, all the time gather
ing momentum and splendor, until, seeing
what 1t has done for the worlds progress
and happiness, we clap our hands in thanks
giving and employ the apostrophe of the
text, crying, 30 Wheel"
call on you in this Thanksgiving weel;
to praise God for the triumphs of machn.
cry, which have revolutionized the world
and multiplied its attractions. Even para
disc, though very picturesque, must have
been comparatively dun. hardly anything
going on, no agriculture needed, for the
harvest was spontaneous; no architecture
required, for they slept under the trees; no
manufacturers loom necessary for the
weaving of apparel, for the fashions were
exceedingly simple. To dress the garden
could not have required ten minutes Il day.
Having nothing to do, they got into mis-
chief and ruined themselves and the race
1t was IA sad thing to be turned olt OF par
adise, but, once turned out, a benelcent
thing to be compelled to work. To help
man up and on God sent the wheel. If
turned ahead, the race advances; If turned
back, the race retreats. To arouse your
gratitude and exalt your praise l would
show you what the wheel has done for the
domestic world, for the agricultural world
for the travelling world, for the literary
world. las for the wheels, 1t was cried
unto them in my hearing, o wheel!'
In domestic life the wheel has wrought
revolution. Behold the sewing machine! 1t
has shattered the housewives bondage aud
prolonged woman's life and added immeas-
urable advantages The needle for ages
had punctured the eyes and pierced the
side and made terrible massacre. Te pre-
pare the garments OF the whole household
in the spring for summer and in the au
tumn for winter was ar exhausting pro-
cess. "Stitch, stitch, stitch! Thomas
Hood set IL to poetry, but millions OF per-
sons have found it agonizirg prose.
Slain by the sword, we buried the hero
with the Dead March" in 'Saul" and flags
ut half mast. Slain by the needle, no one
knew 1t but the household that watched
her health giving way. The winter after
that the children were ragged aud cold
and hungry or in the almshouse. The hand
that welded the needle had forgotten its
cunning. Soul and body had parted mt the
seam. The thimble had dropped from the
palsied finger. The thread OF life had
snapped and let n suffering human life
drop into the grave. The spool was all un-
wound. Her sepulcher was diSged not
with sections spade, but with sharper and
shorter implement-a needle. Federal and
Confederate dead have ornamented graves
at Arlington Heights and Richmond and
Gettysburg, thousands by thousands, bat
1t will take the archangel's trumpet to find
the million graves OF the yaster army OF
women needle slain.
Besides all the sewing done for the house
hold at home, there are hundreds of thou
sands OF sewing women. The tragedy of
4 the needle is the tragedy OF hunger and
cold and insult and home sickness and sui
cide-nve acts.
But hear the rush of wheel. woman
puts on the band and adjusts the instru-
ment, puts her foot on the treadle and be-
gins. Before the whir and rattle pleurisies,
consumptiops, headaches, backaches,
heartaches, are routed. The needle, once
an oppressive tyrant, becomes u cheerful
slave-roll and rumble and roar until the
family wardrobe is gathered, and winter is
defied, and summer is welcomed, and the
ardors and severties of the seasons are
overcome; winding the bobbing, threading
the shuttle, tucklng, quilting, ruffling
cording, embroidering, matchmaking set
to music; lock stitch, twisted loop stitch
crockett stitch, a fascinating ingenuity.
No wonder that ut some Of the learned
institutions, like the New Jersey State
Normal school, and Rutgers Female insti-
tute, and Elmra Female college, Ncquaint-
nnce with the sewing machine is II requisi-
tion, a young lady not being considered
educated until she understands It, Winter
is coming on, and the household must be
warmly clad. "The Last Rose of Summer"
will sound better played on sewing ma
chine than on piano. Roll on, o wheel
| of the sewing machine, until the last
shackled woman OF toll shall be emanci-
pated! Roll on!
Secondly, l look into the agricultural
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