The Washington times., 1902-09-22
Upholds Dignity of Labor
and Urges Need OF
Cancellation.
CRIME TO STIR UP ANTAGONIST
Criticises the Different View Taken of
Combinations Of Capital and of Labor,
and Says: "God Pity the Man Who
Says There Is Nothing to Arbitrate."

DR.. Frank NJ. Bristol, pastor of the Net
ropolitan Methodist Episcopal Church
delivered a very forcible sermon last
night on the far-reaching evils of con-
| flicts between capital. and labor, having
| special reference to the present coal
strike. He gave glowing eulogy of
| labor, emphasized the interdependence
Of labor, capital, and thought; pictured
| strongly the wrong, misery, and suffer-
ing caused by strikes, and held up the
Golden Rule as the efficient guide in
the settlement of troubles such as those
now causing SO much distress
| Beginning with the scriptural passage
| relating to the building of Jerusalem
The people have a mind to work"-Dr
Bristol elaborated the idea of the dig
nifty, the sanctity. and Importance of
labor. He said every high record of
virtue intelligence, progress. and grand
achievement of any people came be-
cause the people had mind to work.
From the opposite condition. when peo-
pie not of mind to work enslaved
their fellows, have proceeded the idle
ness, sin. misery, loss of influence. and
collapses in the history of the world
Civilization is product Of labor--the
result of toll from the time the world
emerged from the hand of the great
Creator, the God who labored and who
enjoined labor on all who should come
upon the earth.
Labor Makes Happy State.
When the people are busy there is an
incorruptible nation. a happy state; but
when idleness is the rule there is stag
nation, degradation, sin, and ruin. In
this land, where opulent soil and gra-
cions sun freely make for the well be-
ing OF man; where the foremost citizens
of the Republic are the sons of toll;
where the flag cf the free is, as power
ful to protect the poor as the mighty;
where the ballot from the grimy hand is
as potent rs that from the jeweled hand
there should be no conflict and strife,
no suffering caused by the disagreement
Of the men who are here 10 share the
blessings and responsibilities OF the
aristocracy is that of labor. Creative
energy is divinely appointed. God Gre
ated man, and man must follow the di-
vine plan and create subdue, and de-
velop. Man is laborer in The pursu-
ance of the heavenly plan. The real
nobility of earth has ever been engaged
in labor, and only rascality, meanness,
and selfishness have avoided toll.
The Mighty of the Earth.
DR.. Bristol gave an inspiring list of
the mighty of the earth set to their
appointed tasks from the ranks of la
Dor. When God wanted great diplo-
mat, he went to the bakers shop for
Joseph: when he wanted a glorious
prophet, he went TO the brickyard for
Moses; when he needed a mighty king
-or his chosen people. he took the sheep
lerder. David: when he wanted TO in
,arnate his glorious gospel, and en-
shrine it in the hearts and conscienccs
)f men, he set his son In the home of
he carpenter. Christ took for his dis |
,iples, to spread the glad tidings over
he world, company of fishermen. The |
writer of the enlightening epistles, the |
,reat preacher of the centuries, was a |
Snt fnaheT- III the lRter Gays sGOJ s |
vord was made plain to all the English |
peaking people by an English tinker;
sod went to the cobbler shop for the
rst modern missionary. Cary; to ex-
lore the great African continent, he
ent a cotton spinner. The laboring
eople, world subduing. earth-enriching.
ave from the first fulfilled the divine
The Leisure Class.
In speaking of the leisure classes the
linister became sarcastic and severe.
The leisure Glass; he said, has ever
cen the viper's nest. where liberty was
tung to death. The upper class, the
lie rich. the Four Hundred, the New
orters. are comparable to the people
Babylon. Athens, and Rome Such
state is sure to breed wrong. bnsfial- .
y, and decay, perhaps induce extinc-