The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1921-04-28
WEEKLY SERM ON
By REV. D. J. QUILLAN

sequence, but in the life OF God IL Is
a fact fraught with very real and very
earnest consequences. That He was a
workman that hardened His hands up
on rough materials, worked to earn
His daily bread. living from day to
day at His trade, suffering alike from
the inclemency of the weather and the
many other Inconvenience arising
from His employment-this is a thing
of very great Importance. 1t is i'm
portant, first of all, because He that
was God and had the infinitely wise
mind of God chose i'm the world that
calling which at first sight seems to
be the most %repugnant to ma
ture, the calling of a hired laborer. 1t
is important, too, in times like ours
when the problems of work and wages
are SO much before the world; for no
matter how opinions clash or theories
be roared upon the matter, n soil
tary and now eternal fact remains:
THAT Jesus Christ, the Son of God. was
La worker who was not in rebellion
against the yoke upon His shoulders.
who cursed neither His employers nor
His tools, but who day by day accom-
plished His task with dignity and self
respect. 1t is safe to say that every
employer that He had-and that He
had an employer shows that not all
employers of labor are entirely outside
of the scheme of Christianity, for the
story of employer and worker, OF Cap
ital and Labor is as old as the world,
and in spite of all arguments TO the
contrary, will grow old with it-every
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employer that Christ had must nave
been charmed with his d~iligences, His
gratitude, His peace of mind. And |
think were | to meet Him arrayed in
soft garments" in kingly robes and
crown, He would pass me by
ed and unknown, but / think | would
anywhere recognize my Christ in His
working clothes. And oh! workers,
whoever you are-workers who build
and hew and carry and dig, workers
who scrub and clean and wait and
serve, workers of the soil. workers OF
the office and the store-you have been
told often that you are n great
brotherhood, one great family, but
they forget. to tell you that you are a
holy family. Leave the rich, the proud
the overfed, leave them to the justice
of Cod: do not suffer yourselves to be
tempted to soil your hands, consecrat-
ed as they have been in the workshop
with Jesus Christ, by ever lifting them
against those who are their own en-
emies and the enemies of Christ. who,
traitors to Him who was God, although
a workman, have gone over body n
soul to the enemy of God, to him who
offered even to Christ himself, the
~fulness, the riches, the powers of the
earth If only falling down He would
adore Him. Leave them TO Christ;
but come, come you all, toiling and
suffering hosts of humanity-in you
who toll on from day TO day to earn
honestly the bread for those you love;
in you who ZEAL upon you the stigmata
of your kinship to Christ, the marks
of toll, of suffering, OF sorrow, in you
see the salvation of the world again
accomplished; you are other Christs,
and you hail, like Him and in His
name, other reg%enerators, other Saw
iours of mankind. Show us then the
home which like the home of Christ
shelters the working nan or woman
conscious of his and her dignity. with
!, all our hearts we will salute 1t as a
sanctuary, as ashrine, nay even as 9
/. temple of the Most High God.
TO be Continued