Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-15
TELLS WHY WORKERS
DON'T ATTEND CHURCH
DIR. BURpETTE SAYS TROUBLE is
IN PULPIT
Declares More Workinemen Would Go
to Church If More Working-
men Were Among
Teachers

sermon yesterday before leaving for his
vacation in the east. His topic in the
morning was Hands, Head, Heart" the
text being taken from Acts 1873: And
because Paul was of the same craft, he
abode with them, and wrought; for by
their occupation they were tent makers.
And he preached in the synagogue every
Sabbath" DR.. Burdette said:
Wrought with his hands-this great
apostle in obedience to Gods first great
ordinance for the government of the life
of man. Here Is the world ready for a
tenant-the seas and the forests swarm
and the air swarms with multiplied life.
But this Is animate chaos. Give it a
government, an intelligent head, human
brain. That was the thought of God
Let us make man our image, after our
likeness And in his own image, in the
image. of God created he man. Now
what?
"Subdue this unorganized earth, have
dominion over 1t, over every living, ami
mated thing on it and In 1T. And God
breathed the soul of life, the spirit of
divinity, into the man of clay, and 1t was
the figure of God on earth.
"'And this is all mine, Lord? All
yours, man; / have given you unmeas-
ured dominion over 1t all. And L shall
have a throne and scepter since L am
king? Yes; here is your throne-this
garden; here is your scepter-this imple-
ment of toll. Dress the garden with your
hands and keep it with your daily toll
So shall you subdue the world and make
it glorious and beautiful and fruitful
Hail, Gardener Adam, first of glorious
line of workers! Sower Of seed! Reaper
of harvest! Subduer of the earth. His
descendants to this day reply like gods
to the daily prayer of the world: Give
us this day our daily bread
Clear the brown path to meet his coulter's
CLEAN!
With tolls bright dew drops on his sunpurnt
brow,
The Lord Of earth-the hero of the plow!
These are the hands whose sturdy labor brings
The peasants food, the golden pomp of kings;
This is the page whose letters shall be seen
Changed by the sun to words or living green
This is the scholar whose immortal pen
Spells the first lesson hunger taught to men;
These are the lines that heaven-commanded toll
shows on his deed-the charter of the SOIL
1.-The first born of the race was tiller
of the ground; and the second born OF
woman was shepherd. Then Tubal
Cain stood before his anvil and cling,
clang, cling, the flying sparks are stars
on the armament of history and the ring
ing hammer makes music of toll through
all sthe ages. Then Tubal catches note
signing in the reeds beside the river anu
fashions a pipe-a droning pipe-that Is
ancestor of all the melody and harmones
that the master can draw with hngers OF
magic and soul song from the mystic
rious heart of the great organ; he hears
the staccato notes of the tiny cascade
in the brook and reaches across the ages
to lay in the hands Of the royal musician
the. harp that charmed to peace and love
the stormy soul Of Saul.
Noah, with echoing mallet builds the
first model for the ocean liner and the
triumphant battleship. Elijah, the
prophet, is looking for a successor. The
land is filled with priests-priests are
everywhere, but no prophet. Maybe Oba-
diah can find you one; he has hidden halt
hundred at a time from the wrath OF
Ahab. There is one-the very man.!
| That man. Lord? That farmer, plough
ing behind the teams of all his husband
men? He doesn't look as though he had
seen the outside of a seminary Try
him. He looks like a man who does
things and does them promptly
1.-THE mantle of Elijah is thrown over
the shoulders of the plowman. Half a
dozen words; the amazed laborers see
Elijah slay the oxen at his plow, and
with the broken yoke and plow burn them
on the altar of the furrowed ground, an
offering of conservation before Jehovah.
Call Amos from the f1ocks and syca-
more trees of Tehoah-call David from
the Sneep 1Olu OF betnleneHl-Cdll JoHll
from the army-call Gideon from the
threshing of Ophrah-it is the voice Of
God calling the laborers into the world
wide harvest fields. Call me a man to
stand before Ahab-call Elijah! But,
Lord, he has never been known in the
schools-we never saw him before here
in the capital. No. have had him alone
with me all his life up to this day-now
you will see enough of him-you will hear
30 k.,
God
Listen! The voice of prophet has not
been heard in the land for nearly 400
years. God has been silent. There is no
prophet-there is no open vision. But
the temple never was so crowded with
priests in all the history of tent and tenn
pie. They have to serve by courses-well
nigh do they outnumber the worshipers.
''Lo, voice-a voice-a voice, ringing
in the wilderness. Only voice-John the
Baptist calling to repentance and baptism.
A prophet! Yes, and more than prophet!
Comes to him carpenter from Nazareth,
his hands hard and calloused with the
toll of his trade. 1t is the Son of God.
Win the World for God
'Come to me, my disciples. and we will
win the world for God the Father-come
Peter and Andrew. James and John,
rough handed fishermen. Come, gather
about me- unknown men of the plain peo
pie, and in three years 1 will teach you
all that any man may need to know to,
revolutionize this world and turn 1t to
God and righteousness.
HE gave them a three years college,
university and seminary course among
men, teaching the truth and applying it.
Casting out devils; feeding the hungry;
healing the sick; preaching the gospel to
the poor; opening the eyes of the blind;
preaching the gospel as they went, and,
like himself going about doing good
when the accursed avarice, the devil
of greed, drove him out of the life of
one of his chosen twelve, Jesus from the
heart of heaven called to the apostleship
this tent maker of Tarsus. There was a
man with an ideal education-a tent
maker with a college training! He has
been called to his ministry by the vision
of light and the voice of Jesus.
He preached at Antioch and in leo
mum; he has healed the crippled impo-
tent from Lystra, so that man who
never stood upon his feet leaped and
walked; he has preached Christs word
in Pysidia, Pamphylia and Pergia; he has
stood before the counsel in Jerusalem; he
has gone through Syria and CECILIA con-
firming the churches; he has seen the