The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-04-29
B|GELOW SPEAKS ON
LABOR AND RELIGION
The Deeper Needs Of Mau'i
Nature Make Religion
:: a Necessity.
Those Who Insist On Social
Justice Are Friends
Of the Sour.

Cincinnati, o., April 27.-At the Vine
Street Congregational church, the pas
tor, Herbert s. Bigelow, spoke of ths
deeper needs of mans nature which
make religion a necessity. He said in
part:
1t was not said, Man does not live
by bread" He lives by bread and
something more.
It is tragic thing when man must
choose between the satisfaction of his
body and the integrity Of his soul.
When this choice must be made, man.
kind are a unit in praising those who
starved in their garret or died on .
scaffold rather than save the body at
the cost of the soul. If the soul is the
immortal part and the body but ths
tenement Of day, then, if both can
not live, it is better for the body to
die.
In a well-ordered society, however:
there could be no such discord. Both
soul and body would be nourished
There can be no health of one without
the nourishment of the other, az
Browning would say: nor soul helps
Those who insist upon social Justice
that all may have their daily bread
they are the friends Of the soul. More
over, when we insist upon the needs
Of the soul. we do not deny the needs
of the body.
First among the needs of the soul IN
clean conscience. It is mans glory
that he knows the meaning of that
word, Ought. Guilt is a yoke that
enslaves him. Remorse rises like tide
within him. He alone is free who car
look his fellow-man full in the face.
who hides no ugly secret in his heart.
who respects himself and has none ta
fear in all the universe. -
Starving With Broad.
A man may have bread enough and
to spare. but he will starve without
that inward peace. He may have linen
and fine rainent, but he will be
naked, shivering soul, If the sense OF
wrong is ranking in his heart.
The salvation OF the soul, what can II
mean but the normal life and growth
Of the soul? Conversation, what Is that
but the discovery that a man has q
soul which must be- fed with It's own
food? There is no true life until ths.
soul comes to q realisation ol tn
6feigntys 1ssnp Hon
OF the desire and determination 10 s..
I, man, not a wolf nor swine, but d
man, conscious Of his divine heritage
and his lofty, purpose on this earth.
Such a man cannot live by bread
alone.
For for Hungry Hearts.
Another need of the soul which bread.
cannot supply 10 LOVE. Love, ALSO.
Is meat and drink and without it the
gifts Of the world are dry husks. The
wife has put the house In order. She
has removed the dust from a hundred.
places which might have been passed
over. She has created an atmosphere
Of welcome by countless little obscure
services. Does the husband take 1t all
as q matter Of course. Has he no lov-s
ing sign Of recognition Of that thought
full, heartful ministry? A sign Of ap-
probation may crown the labor. Of Z
day and a grateful word feed the heart.
with happiness. SIS
Another need Of the soul is Religion.
Man may live without creeds and wfth-
out churches, but there come times
when the asked themselves sad ques-s
tions and they would give much to
know that life has a rational meaning
and that man ID not Knocked by his
immortal hopes. -
The atom trembles at the thought Of
the infinite. The mind Graves a reason
for things. The heart cannot become
reconciled to a loveless universe. The
rl,ilo~nY1he. wha fraon~. $hA nos1S~A ~
the stars, the martyr who bears witness
to his truth on the uplifted cross. these
mighty thinkers and lovers of man
kind, those august souls,-are they all
the prey Of maggots in the end? That
thought would kill humanity. Bread
alone will not do. We cannot cease to
ask the questions. We cannot Mve
without hope.