The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-05-16

Labor SUNDAY was observed in
Lincoln with special services Al St
Marks Reformed church A male
Quartet sang Jesus Saviour. Pilot Me-
and Nearer My God to Thee and the |
pastor. Reverend p. NJ Orr. delivered
a union labor sermon 50 full Of rich |
thought that the brief synopsis that
The wSseworSer is able TO give but
teeely sets out its real worth The
union men and women who tailed 10 !
hear Reverend Mr., Orr missed . rare
intellectual and spiritual refreshenins
Rev Mr. Orr said in parSs
Bear se one 2nother1s burdens and
20 falnll the law OF Christ Gal So,
The opening chapters Of the Bible
Srs. mainly narratives Of isolated in
SiSieaAis. They deal with their for
tunes Snd nisfortunsss their virtues
and their sins There 5 no attempt
to relate the Individuals with organ
iEed society In Holy Writ the re
lated organized social life begins with
Moses
When Christ came, His own people
hsd almost lost the individual in = naui-
tiplicts of religious ceremonies SER
vices and r>acramentSl' He introduced
a new conception Of the value Of the
individual 10 society, That is He
placed personality in the foreground
and made things subordinate to per
sons.
In spite OF the teachings of Jesus
and the sccepsioa of His principles
the faul, Of the present sge is TO ens-
phSssre things to the neglect Of per
sons This is the age of production
and accumulation We are making
nsones-sre we making naens
Scholarship is often sought irrespec-
tive OF character The last census
tells US thar about one and half mil
lion OF children under fourteen years
OF age are earning their own living in
our cotton mills, mines and sweat
shops, 4 PeansylVaria Official went
before committee that was consider
ing Asll 10 prohibit child labor in
glass works and coal mines and made
the plea that child labor was necessary
in the production of glass and coal
What does this meane I, means that
We. in this enlishtened age, think more
Of glass and coal and cotton than We
do OF boys and girls of manhood and
womanhooS
Jesus Christ placed the emphasis
on persons rather than on property.
. Paul expressed the spirit Of Christ to
the Galatians, Bear We one anosher's
burdens This message is 10 the
Christian church. but il is applicable
to all Soeial groups Society is 80 com
pleN that We are dovs~SSileI in aspea-
de0ee> Every trade is depending up
On the other trades for its existence,
In cur planetary system change IN
the movement of one body efscsS
every other body OF the solar system
and 81 the trades are 50 related and
bound together by common ties that y
rupture or shock TO one means isSs0r~
ASnSe to all The coal miner is ia~
deAseI TO the blacksmith and the
blacksmith 10 the miner. while both
are dePe@6hns upon the farmer The
farmer needs the mAchsniS1 and the
nsachinsss the boiler maker. and we
all need the tailor, al least under pres
eat social conditions We are 50 re
lated that in bearing the burdens of
Others we bear our own, and in neg
lectins TO bear the burdens of others
we ourselves must also suffer. For ex>
ample, We are urged TO pay a fair price
tor clothins that men may receive a
fair wage, But we insist upon cheap
articles and seem TO care not how they
are made Listen, In the tenements
of our large cities. persons in all
stages OF sickness are found at work
fnishins clothing up to the very day
OF their death. The poor. sick. con-
sumptive. white slave has sewed his
poor life into your cheap clothing. And
with every stitch ne has sewed mi.
crobe of death The insistence for
cheap goods cheapens life. We must
pay the penalty of neglect The guide
So~0uS1uS - k@AS Wy Al kStAAu0> -
cent ropes each one to the other an
to himself Each one feels more Sc
cure. bur he also feels that his care
lessness or neglect will endanger
every other one of the party The care
lessness of one means danger and per
hapS death to all
The above illustration has a par
ticular application to union men. la
hor unions are social groups bound to
gether by common ties and what is
detrimental to one is ruinous to the
Others and that which tends TO the