The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-11-17
REV. DR., SMYTH SPEAKS.
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ing chasm, at the bottom of which lies
nameless woes, chasm In which, If it
be not abridged, If it be not filed, all
our institutions, with our liberties may
be engulfed. DR.. Smyth with repeated
and urgent force asked the question,
who in these industrial confusions shall
bring judgment forth in truth? The
other instance, to which he referred
was the dismissal this week of a work.
ingman from his employment because
he had served in the militia. He said:
If this be only single and isolated In
stance, the courts in the ordinary pro-
cesses of the law may be able to deal
with it as with petty treason, or any
other conspiracy against the sovereign
ty Of the state, But sharp issue is
Joined, and a momentous one, If the po-
sition taken by the president of a pow
erful and intelligent union, the Litho-
graphers' association, becomes widely
adopted, that union men cannot join
the militia, because they would be serv-
ing two masters. Does it mean that a
man cannot to-day serve his class, and
at the same time serve his country;
that he cannot belong to some union
without ceasing to be a patriot? Must
man be loyal to his trade interest
even though he be disloyal to his coun-
try? If this be so, IL such is to be the
issue, we may wonder whether we are
not now cultivating our fair Industrial
vineyard on the slope of a volcano
Here may be one of the new occasions
to teach new duties to able bodied men,
Let us turn to another feature Of
Isafah's portrait of the man for the
people. These verses describe the tenn
per in which he is to do the work that
must now be done. He shall not cry,
nor lift UP or cause his voice to be
heard in the street. A bruised reed shall
he not break, and the smoking wick
shall he not quench." We are looking
into the very eyes Of the portrait When
our sense Of right burns within us, we
need to catch the glance from the eyes
of this divine face, kindled with no
earthly passion, but lit as with a celes-
tial grace. This man with this temper
in his work, is no Weakling. It is
strong face marred with the lines of
combat, which Isaiah portrays. Neither
is mere aniability sufficient for service.
Mere good nature is so much protoplasm
good material for life, but needing to
be set in fixed lines, and developed into
definite organs-that it may become
strong body fit for human USE Nor is
the man for the people recluse The
Son of man, who fulfilled this picture of
the servant, did not wander as an
Essene into the wilderness; the highway
of the nations along which went the
retinues and all the news of the Roman
empire, passed under the hill Of Naza-
reth, from which He looked down Just
above his mothers home.
One common disposition is excluded
in this Characterization; that is, the
temper of the denunciator. 1t does not
forbid denunciations at times. Isaiah's
words were sometimes as sharp arrows
aimed straight at the mark. But even
in needed invective the temptation of
the denunciatory temper is to be re-
sisted. AM illustration of this differ
ence is at hand in our recent history.
Whittier's anti-slavery poems burned
with a fierce. flame, as with the anger
of the righteous God. And Wendell
Phillips denunciations were not mere
ly the Hastings of brilliant rhetoric,
like lightnings in the sky; they were
bolts which had power to blast the
rock Of ancient wrong. But Phillips
did not escape the temptation of his
own fatal facility of invective, and in
his later years We went to hear him as
we would go to spectacle, or be en-
tertained by a play; he was no longer a
power among men. But Whittier sang
on after the conflict was over; he gave
'his country's natal day to hope" and
his sweet songs of clear-eyed faith and
charity--are they not in all our homes