The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-07-18
Rev. John RicheIsen breaches
Third Sermon of Series.
SAYS POOR ARE OPPRESSED
DECLARES BALLOT BOX Is
THEIR RECOURSE.

cal Aspect of Labor Problems"
Mr.. Richelsen said:
III there be any part of our previous
subject which does not require review
surely it is that labor needs protec-
ton This statement is not a tribute
10 the strength of the argument pre-
scented, because it does not take an
intricate and complex course of reason
ing, or any recourse TO sophistry, to
demonstrate the need OF protection to
labor. Light merely is needed-argU-
ment is almost superfiuous.
Nor is more than light needed &c
recognize the vast proportions 10
which the industrial problem is grow
ing Thousands of men went on strike
this past week IN one line of business.
We have noticed the fact that, for the
protection of labor, unions. OF some
kind are needed. The value and force
of labor unions is in proportion 70
the perfectness Of the Organization
the conServativenesS OF its leadership
and the introduction OF high ideals
raising the great industrial problems
to an elevated plane. In proportion as
these elements enter the labor union
VIII it be effective-either having Httle
force from lack of harmony, or being
the greatest possible force in the az
fairs of men.
Says Politics Should Figure.
The second instrument for the pro-
lection of labor and the forcing for
ward Of better industrial conditions Is
political organization. There is a politi-
cal aspect to labor problems. In
making Industrial conditions a politi-
cal issue, interest in industrial prob
lens is enlarged. The scope of labor
unions must by the nature of things be
somewhat limited. \ great many SUI
feTerS under the present Industrial and
economic system are outside OF the
sphere OF labor unions or unions OF
any kind. Men in the more unusual
businesses. professional men, men in
small independent business ventures
these are really outside OF the sphere
Of labor unions and yet would benefit
equally with union men under a more
Just industrial system. The political
aspect of the labor problem therefore
appeals TO even a greater class than
the union aspect.
The advantages of our institutions
seem to be prOvidentiaI preparatiou
for the ushering in of a better day
God moves in history No history is
wasted History repeats itself in an
ascending spiral. Ali things move for
RaA0 NONdIu d SEdttu contamination.
As we look out on the broad river OF
history we see that it is msiestically
flowing onward. 1t is only when we
are sitting by the bank, detected. that
We notice the straw in the eddy float
ing backward and imagine the river Is
not going onward From the larger
vision given on a mountain peak We
see the steady onward move. A stone
thrown in a pond makes a create
connection for the frog than all ths
nor westers' that ever blew on Ire
ocean. Perspective and proportion. by
showing objects in their relation to
each other give US a more discrimina-
ting vision of the real size Of indi-
vidual objects.
Preparations For Great Event.
Coming events throw their shadow
before them, because the Creator and
UphoIder of all things is shaping
events TO meet the coming. conditions.
And there was such preparation in
the history of the world for the usher
ing in of the Christian dfspensation.
You are mindful of that movement in
history which bound together under
one government and zone law all the
peoples of the then known world The
Roman legion bound all nations to-
6ENAANA WIN a was "a nun AlIl LlAE
city Of Rome as the heart. ran the
arteries and veins in TIE form Of mill
taFy roads to ali the vast empire The
many nations were bound into the one.
And as Rome bound into one political
unit the nations of the world 50
Greece, though conquered, extended
her intellectual supremacy cO-exten-
sively with Rome. 1t was nearly one
law and one medium of communication
11 I 4
when mems minds were not distracted
by wars. when the fUIlness of the
times" was come on distant Bethle-
hens hills was heard the song Glory
to God in the Highest and on Earth
Peace, Good Will Toward Men" That
message was not confined to the mar
row bounds of one nation. because all
nations were one. laws were one. LAM
guages were one, and the most perfect
system of communication had been put
into operation. God is in history. The
world was being prepared for the re-
ception of Christianity
The political institutions OF the Ro~
mans and the. mental requirements Of
the Greeks and the religious traditions
of tie Jews were all levied upon to
give currency TO the Christian dispen-
SatiOn. Rome and Greece and Juda j
wrought the vessel in which Christian
ity should be borne to the world.
PrinSing Spread Religion.
Many see in the life OF Gutenberg
and the perfection OF the art OF print
ing the preparation for Luther and the
reformation and the spreading of the
Bible in tie native languages Of the
people
It is remarkable that the Jews have
been preserved through countless ages
as separate people, though without
country and organization and scat
tered among al nations. yet they re-
main separate from them all Students
of history find it easy to believe that
some great mission is still IN store for
this people
If historical facts dare thus be inter-
preted and events do throw their
shadows before them; if there be al
ways a preparation of the world for
the coming event. we can look with
joy to our Lord for signs OF coming
events.
Meaning in Union of States.
Is it not a marvellous thing to see
nearly fifty sovereign states united in
peace and harmony under one central
One language and one
law predominatingly in force in all OF
them?
is there not preparation OF history
in this democratic form of government
that casts shadow into the future2
/ wish we had time tonight 70 tell
the story Of democracy II is the story
Of failure I'm tie past. But it is also
a story that holds out hope for the
futurel
The story of government is fsscinat-
ingi
No one can be a wise leader amid
the industrial problems of our day and
IN our land, who is not cOnversant with
the history of the past.
Rome comes into history as a mon