The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-12-09
The Pastor Speaks
Unto His Flock

The pastor of The Wageworker flock
desires to take for his text this MORN
ing the words OF the famous mission
ary:
Whose looi1eth into tho perfect law
OF liberty and continueth therein, the
same being not a forgetfll hearer, bur
4; doer. of the word, that man shall he
blessed in his deeds"
Dearly beloved. the missionar'
meant what he sail, and knew what h,
was talking about The first thing,
therefore, for us to do is to ascertain
what doing the We rd' means. l went
to another church last Sunday ana
listened to the pastor of that flock.
He was preaching what he called mis-
sionary sermon. and he made tear
fui and effective plea for the benightcd
heathens of far India AMI China who
knew net Goa. His plea was very ef-
fective, too. 1t drew from my pocket
the dollar | had set aside for union
dues. and as a result | had to hustle
fer another plunk before went 70
uniCn meeting. | don't begrudge the
dollar buJ I've been thinking a whole
since.
Right here and now permit me to
say that those who think they ought
to give their spare change to the
heather. cs India and China have ny
gracious permission to 10 So but rs
for your pastor, dearly beloved, he j,
going To pass up the heathen of foreign
lands for a, while and devote his feeble
efforts in behalf OF charity and BROTH
erly Kindness to the unfortunate oucs
& blamed sight nearer home. After
laying him down ro sleep last sunday
night your pastor began thinking.
something that he does every once III
& while He tried to think about the
unfortunate heattens o. india and
Japan, but just as he pictured in his;
imagination a Sepoy CT Ii Chinamar
wandering around in ignorance and
superstition, the pinched and starving
faces of little children wori'ins in the
cotton mills of Georgia an New Eng
land obtruded, and presto: The Sepoj
end the Cninaman were gone.
The pastors OF the orthodox tlocNs
love to talk of foreign heathen who
have never heard OF God. That's all
right for them, reckon, but your pas
tor hasn't got time for that sort Of
Thing. He has perigripd;ed through
the East Side sections of New York
city and met thousand of children
heard the name OF God save in bias
rhemy. He has net children with
starved and oinched faces whose
sunken eyes had never seen green
grass growing, who hal never seen
the salt water although the ocean lay
within a mile who never saw flow
e. bloom on its native stem, and whom
the sight of COW or a pig runnins
about alive would be better than anF
circus to YOU or me. He has seen hot
low-checked widows worn 10 skeletons
working in soul tenement rooms or
sweatshop work. striving TO keep the
wolf c. starvation from the throats of
herself and little ones, and earning
the munificent stipend Of 20 cents in
sixteen hours in this beloved land f
liberty and great opporr mites.
Not every one that sayeth, Lord,
Lcrd.' That's what the Master said.
And it gives your pastor deep paln
to hear the preachers of the orthodox
churches growing eloquent over the
woes of the Sepoy and The Chink, bnt
with never word for the starving anu
dying ones just around the corner OF
the next block. Your pastor accumh
lates feeling of weariness in his lum-
bar regions when he hears an ortho-
dCx minister pleading FOR the be-
nighted in foreign lands and forgetting
to thunder against the hypocrisy OF
the snug g-faced bloodsucker in the
cushioned pew whose every dollar il;
red with the blood of slain innocents.
Not that / love the Sspoy and the
Chink less, dearly beloved flock, but
that | love my neighbor more. My
fellow worker in the vineyard, Brotl-
er John Marshall, says he can not
Join a labor union because it would
yoke him up with unbelteyers. All
right for Brother Marshall. The ouly
difference between lis is that we don't
interpret our bibles alike Blu. I'm
ready to Join anything having for its
object the betterment of my fellows.
i'd join anything that fed a starving
man, lifted child from degradation
to hope, lighted with joy the eyes OF :,
widowed mother or put fellow man
on the road to happiness. | think a
whole lot CT Brother Marshalls SINGER.
ity and admire his courage, but ! still
believe that he IS built on such mar