The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-11-21

when he got enough to live on he
would quit work and enjoy 1t. He did.
and his program is all wrong, his chill
dren are filled with false ideals, and
scout the church with it's plan of help
ing others.
David, king of Israel, was a mighty
man of valor until one day he stayed
at home and slept on the house top
While his lfeutenants went out to bat
tie, and when he began to indulge
himself he fell into a sin which blotted
his character and weakened him for
ever.
The orphans raised to work and en-
dure hardShips in our institutions turn
out to be stalwarts often whilst molly
coddles from opulent homes are weak
lings.
The idle rich and the idle poor are
the most dangerous strata of society,
and the conditions which make them
are powerful arrangement of the
Christian age for many who hold the
reins are members of the churches.
1t is high time the churches were
coming down with some of the old
dynamic on wrong in high places, and
upon the perversion Of judgment.
Christianity stands as arbiter between
two classes, and differs in this way
from Socialism. 1t Is rising to this
duty and today is the best friend of
the laboring man, for il can take him
by the hand and carry him before the
very man who Expresses him and
bring about a reconciliation and ad-
juStment.
How much money can one rfghtfully
collect from society? Not more than
he honestly earns. How much ought
he desire collect? Not more than he
can wisely spend.
Work is the great panacea. No sor-
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ployment, and no trouble that may not
be alleviated by honest labor. Work
is the key to human happiness.
The law against Vagrancy ought to
be offset with law against plutocracy
and monopoly. Whilst the honest, in
dustrious negro is at his pillow or his
task, the idle negro will be burnt at
the stake for fiendish crimes and law
will be powerless to prevent it entirely.
The adjustment between labor and
capital must include right division of
hours. An eight hour day is sufficient
10 produce all the worlds necessities,
and give proper amusement to all men.
and will not grind down in bondage
the overworked bodies and brains of
men, women and children. Strikes
will not need to occur, Sunday desc
Grafton for amusement will be Spurned
by the working man as much as by
the consecrated Christian for it will in
the end heap up his woes. One SEN
sible workman saw this recently dur
ing our baseball trial and came to this
church, giving as his reason that he
could see that in defending a proper
Sunday the church was comforting
benefits upon the workman, and the
working man ought to share with the
church.
In penal matters it has been found
out that work houses are as much SUI
jnT% To he al call tor INF
ment as electric lights are superior to
tallow dips! I know man who went
to the penitentiary for counterfeiting.
He came out not only master me-
chanic but a man with a new dignity
and an ennobled outlook.
One hoy is in the penitentiary from
Pensa cola today. His mother is here
from Kentucky again seeking to, get
a petition for his pardon. Why is he
there? He had gotten out of work
and was here, idle. Many do not know
how to helpfully employ their leisure
hours, and so alongside of the better
hours and the holidays must be places
of proper amusement. parks, and in
struction.
We ought to do something for our
working women, and see that they
have good surroundings and oppor-
tunfties in Pensacola. I am ready any
time to step out in new work. There
is fertile soil here for down town mis-
sion work. There is golden opportunity
for the church in bringing about
proper employment for the unemployed
who want to work but cannot find it.
Many one would prove a jewel.
Ebert Hubbard has many curious
notions about religion but he is sound
on the gospel of work. He founded the
could go to work in shop or foundry.
Thousands have been put on their feet
and the institution is one of the most
beneficent. One day a big awkward
looking fellow strolled in and asked
for work. They put him to making a
pair of brass andirOns. He had never
made any, but he took his model and
his time, and went at it, For days
he worked, the object of humor from
his fellows, till at last they were
finished. They did not look so pretty
but when exhibited they attracted at
tention for the honest work put into
them. They were hammered and
shaped out of good brass, and sold for
fifty dollars. A demand started and
the fellow who took his time and did
honest work had life trade at once!
There Is Joy in Creative Work.
God must have looked with intense
joy upon His earth in the beginning,
and the laboring mans sleep is sweet.
No money not rightfully labored for
ny dltl vi DId" o1IAoLclNIlOlA
like that which costs sweat and blood.
The little vine covered cottage
which represents the savings of the
young married couple is of more joy
to them than a brownstone front
which they may later inherit.
To be able to make a good biscuit,
to build good house, to make a snug
coat, to write a good book, or improve
a government, are among the guide
posts to the greater joy on earth.
If you can do any of these things
excellently the world will make a
beaten track to your door," though you
live in desert!
Let us be thankful for work, and
look upon it not as drudgery but as a
choice blessing.
Heaven at last must be a place Of
intense activity, of frfctionless move
ment, of perfect adjustment and har-
mony, where the infinite longings of
the soul may be INDUCED and devel-
oped without handicap, and life, death
and the vast forever may be one sweet
song of action,