Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-15
GOLD Is STANDARD.
REV. w. II. HORNED DECLARES
MAN HAS SET UP WRONG
STANDARD OF VALUE.
"Man" is the Standard Set Up BY God
Pastor of East End Presbyterian
Church Delivers Strong Address Be-
fore Laborine Men.
From Mondays Daily.

From Mondays Daily.
The trouble with the world today
is that gold is the standard Of value,
while God has made man the stan
dard," declared Rev. w. H. HORNED
pastor of the East End Presbyterian
church in an address delivered for the
especial benefit of the laboring man,
and in the presence of many
delegates from the Ottumwa Trades &
Labor assembly The laboring men
were in attendance at the service at
the special invitation of the pastor and
the congregation of the church.
The representatives of the Trades &
Labor assembly met at Labor hall and
marched in a body to the church in
the East End The central portion Of
the church was reserved for them, and
the services were of especial interest.
Rev. HORNED according to his own
statement is especially well fitted to
speak of the value of the Christian
life Of the laboring man for he him
self labored with his hands as a la
borer for a number of years. Since he
entered the ministry his work has
been almost entirely devoted to the
good OF the laboring man. His address
proved of great interest to all pres
ent and was in part as follows:
I thank you my brothers and sisters,
in behalf of this church for the honor
whichSyou do US by your presence here
this morning Our welcome to you is
most cordial, for we believe that you
with us are earnestly engaged in the
common cause, of humanity.
The constitution of the Federation
of Labor clearly sets forth the object
OF organized labor. The men who join
the federation take the following
pledge: I'VE are pledged to eman-
cipation Of our class from poverty,
ignorance and selfishness; to be re-
spectful in word and action to every
woman; to be considerable to the
widow and the orphan, the weak end
the defenseless; and never to discrim-
mate against a fellow worker on ac-
count of creed. color or nationality.
To defend freedom Of thought, whether
expressed by tongue or pen. To edu-
cate ourselves and our fellow workers
in the history of the labor movement.
We promise that we will never know
ingly wrong a brother, or see him
Wronged, If In our power to prevent it.
We will endeayor to subordinate every
selfish impulse to the task of elevating
the material 5i1ltellectual and moral
conditions of the entire laboring
classes
Every believer in the Bible can sub
scribe to these principles For we are
all with you in this good work.
count myself happy as believer
In the Bible, to bear witness to you
of what the Bible has for working men,
For eight years I toiled with these
hands at hard labor. During this time
~ was in closest touch with all kinds
|Df working men.
l know the thoughts, problems and
burdens of the laboring classes. I saw
In myself and in others the, mighty
power for industry, sobriety, reliability,
morality, and noble ambition the truths
4 the Bible can sustain in a working
man. Surrounded daily by many men
who knew not God, neither respected
The Bible nor reverenced the Sabbath
nor the house, of God, I realized that
through the Bible God had given me
an indwelling power which enabled
me to move upward and onward, daily
to better things, and that all of the
powers of the world and the flesh and
the devil could not hinder me.
When I saw that God had entrusted
me with this knowledge of the might
lest power in the daily life of man,
! forsook money getting professions
that might devote all my life to the
preaching of the Bible. For fourteen
years, Ishave shared nv life and home
with the working man. / have laid
down my life upon the altar of service
for you that you may have better food,
better clothing, better homes, and God
and heaven besides. So / feel t,-at
have a God-given right to speak to
you upon this theme.
have chosen my text from the
words found in the gospel according to
John ks, 1.-THE thief cometh not, but
that he may steal, and kill, and de-
stroy; came that they may have life,
and may have it abundantly."
Working Men.
Jesus obeyed the law of God given in
Eden:7 I'm the sweat of thy face shalt
thou eat bread until thou returnest to
the ground" There is only one honest
way to get bread this side of the grave,
and that is by the sweat of your own
face
The model man of the Bible and of
The world is Jusus the toiler, the car
penter of Nazareth. The man who
stands next in honor is Paul, the tent
maker. who urged upon the churches:
If man does not work, neither let
him eat The Bible recognizes idlers
only to condemn them, but from the
beginning to the end OF the book, God
pleads the cause of the working man,
the poor, and the oppressed. Only two
GLASSES are recognized: The idlers and
the workers. There are the idle poor,
and the idle rich. The idle classes are
always to be found upon the backs Of
THE working classes All those who
come, "but to steal, kill, and destroy
belong to the idlers. These must all
be set to doing some honest work. be-
fore the labor question can be settled,
for the great problem of labor is the
ldlers. Therefore the model man of the
world was found among the working
classes. He could say: My father
worketh hitherto and work.
God the Father Of All.
Jesus Christ came to reveal God as
the Father of all men. He said HE
that hath seen me hath seen the
father All that may be known Of
God can be seen in Christ Paul says;
In him dwelleth the fullness of the
God head bodily" So closely is man
related to God that he may reveal him
self in man. The one important thing
for the world to know is, that God is
the Father of all men. Jesus said:
TO know God and Jesus Christ whom
he hath sent Is eternal (indestructible)