The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, November 14, 1888, Page 6

A REMARKABLE SERMON. The Bishop of London Araigns the Church. Text.—Go to now, ye rich men, weep and how! for your miseries that shall come upon you. Behold, the hire of your laborers who have reap- ed down your fields, whieh is of you kept back by fraud, crieth; and the cries of them which reap have en- tered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. Ye have lived in pleasure on earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter. Ye have condemned and killed the just, and he doth not re- - gist you. (Jas. v. 1-6.) Fellow Citizens:—The text which I have just read you, and from which I shall preach the last sermon as bishop that I shall ever deliver from this pulpit, is one which is as unfamiliar to you comfortable, well- _ to-do people as it is familiar to all those who, since it was originally Bs penned, have toiled and suffered for humanity. Although it is some- times read in the ordinary course of - our church service, yet, judging by | . your conduct, your ears have been | deaf to its terrible denunciations. From the day when I was an hum- ble curate until now, I have had a large and varied experience of cathe- _ @rals, churches, preachers and ser- - mons, but I have never heard a ser- mon based on these words, and I cannot learn from any of my broth- er bishops or priests they have so used them or ever heard of their being so used. I can seo by your uneasy demean- or that you are asking yourselves why, on this happy festal day, when in accordance with custom, I should be preaching “smooth things” to you, I should be mad enough to offend your delicate susceptibilities by quoting the saying of one of the “common people’-—words written over eighteen centuries ago—which might have done very well then, but which cannot possibly be appli- ed to you or your class to-day— you who come here clad in ‘purple and fine linen’ and who (some of you) live in king’s houses, who “fare sumptuously every day” and who | consider that you have fulfilled every - moral obligation when you haye FE dropped a small coin in the collec- tion box before you step into your elegant carriage to be driven to your luxurious homes. It is because I believe that not only James, but Jesus Christ himself, if he could stand in my place to-day, would _ hurl these words at you with a force and passions of which we of the nineteenth century have but little conception. Not asa bishop, but as a man, I repeat them to you, hardly hoping that they may touch your hearts, but more as a justification for my new and strange position. For years I have been one of you. My home has not been—where f= Christ’s home was—with the mass- es. I have an abundance of this world’s goods. I have lived with the fashionable and the wealthy, and Ihave been a dignitary of the church which is the church of the rich, and not the church of the poor. With- out a protest, Ihave mixed in the society of men and women whom Christ would have denounced as he denounced the Scribes and Phari- | sees. In the House of Lords I have silently sat side by side with whore- mongers and adulterers, and silent- ly have I welcomed as my personal friends, high-born women—some of whom I see before me to-day—with whom no decent workingman would allow his wife or daughter to asso- ciate. T have seen among you, spreading like a canker the “lust of the flesh and the pride of life,” and instead of reproving you, as Christ would have done, T have taken refuge in gener- alities and have not dared to de- nounce your individual sins. And all this time there has been going on around me, in this city and throughout the land, the surging, toiling life of humanity—the sorrow the suffering, the poverty, the dis- ease, the sin and the shame, which I ache Passio s together apart from my own ex- istence, but for which I at last see ly, you and Ihave been, up to you and to your class He would sim- realized but dimly, as something al- the present time, mostly to blame. | We and our class have kept back by fraud the hire of the laborers who have reaped our fields; we have liv- ed in pleasure on the earth and been wanton; we have nourished our own hearts while we have starved the bodies of those to whom we owe the very bread we eat and the clothes | we wear, and now we are condemn- ; ing and killing at our very gates the people whose inarticulate cry is en- tering into the ear of the Lord of Sabaoth, whose faithful servant we pretend to be. My fellow citizens, I know nothow it may be with you, but for me the careless, selfish life is at an end. Little by little I have awakened to the fact that all my days I have neg- lected my real duty to my fellow men, and at last I have come to know that my place is not bere, as a well-paid bishop of achurch which in its present condition, is utterly opposed to everything which Christ taught, but among the poor, to whom he declared the gospel should be preached, among the laborers, whose hire we have kept back by fraud. Too long have I neglected the miserable social facts of our so-call- ed Christian civilization. Too long have I spoken to you smooth things and cried peace, when there was no peace. I have known by repute there was misery among our people, starvation in our midst, and prosti- tution upon our streets, but hither- to I have taken these as something for which you and I were not re- sponsible, but which were really due to the inherent wickedness of nature. But now I have learned that our pleasure and our wantonness have been built upon this hideous foun- dation, and having learned this—as you may also learn if you wil!—I have resolved that on this joyous memorial day my new life shall be- gin. To-day I lay down my robes, I give up my bishopric, my pal: ' | | ace and my income; IT give up my seat in the House of Lords my pleasures of socie I give up y and of the world, and at last I take my place as aman among men. It is, I know, a bold step that I have taken, but I have fully counted the cost. Resolved no longer to live on the labors of others, I shali probably have to join the great army of unemplcyed. To-morrow I shall attempt to preach my first sermon tothem in Talfalgar Square, from the same text that I have used here to-day; and it is likely that I shall pass to-morrow night ina police cell. ButI shall be no worse off than Jesus Christ would be if he at- tempted to enter this abbey (West- minister) now, for he would be ar- rested and locked up as a vagabond without means of subsistence. To ply bea laborer, whose sustenence you have kept by fraud. To the abolition of this fraud, and to the misery and degradation which results from it, I shall henceforth devote my life. It will be no easy task— not near 80 easy as being bishop ef London—but the reward of a good conscience and of a noble work well done is better than a palace and ten thousand pounds ($48,000) a year. In this place I shall probably nev- er speak again. But when freedom shall have opened out her arms and gatherd all men into her wide em- brace, when justice and truth shall have taken the place of oppression and fraud, some man of the people shall stand in this temple of the dead and inspired by the best tra- ditions of the past, the noble aspi- rations of the present, and tne ideal hopes of the future, shall send ring- ing through these lofty isles that living natal message which, till then, can never have its full significance— “Peace on earth and good will to all men.” Itch, Mange and scratches ot every kind on human or animals cured in 30 minutes by Wooltord’s Sanitary Lotion. This never tails. Sold by W. J. Lans- down, Butler, Mo. 11-6m Here is a case in point: “A Cali- fornia widow had plans made for a $50,000 monument for her late de= parted, but when the lawyers got through fighting over the estate the widow was doing house work at $2 a week for the man who designed the monument.” Moral: Keep out of court. THANKSGIVING FOR ALL. The President Issues His Annual Proc- lamation to the People. Washington, D. C., Nov. 1.—The following proclamation was issued by the president of the United States to-day: “Constant thanksgiving and grat- itude are due from the American people to Almighty God for His goodness and mercy which have fol- | lowed them since the day He made thems nation and youchsafed to them a free government. With lov- ing kindness He has constantly led us in the way of prosperity and greatness. He has not visited with swift punishments our short comings, but with gracious care He has warn- ed us of our dependence upon His forbearance and has taught us that obedience to His holy law is the price of acontinuauce of his pre- eious gifts. “In acknowledgement of all that God has done for us as a nation, and to the end that on an appointed day the united prafers and praise of a grateful country may reach the throne of grace, I, Grover Cleveland, president of the United States, do hereby designate and set apart Thursday, November 29th, as a day of thanksgiving and prayer, to be kept and observed throughout the land. On that day let all our peo- ple suspend their ordinary work and occupations, and in their accustomed place of worship, with prayer and songs of praise. render thanks to God ‘or all His mercies, for the abundant harvests which have re- ward: | the toil of the husbandman duri:)- the year that has passed and for tio rich rewards that have fol- lowed the labora of our people in their shops and their marts of trade and trafic. Let us give thanks for peace and for social order and con- tent:.ent within our borders, and for our «ivancement in all that adds to greatness. And mindful of the uftlictive dispensation with which a portion of our land has been visit- ed lei us, while we humble ourselves before the power of God, acknowl- edge His mercy in setting bounds to the deadly march of pest- ilence and let our hearts be chastened by sympathy with our fellow countrymen who have suf- fered and who mourn. And as we return thanks for all the blessings which we have received from the hands of our Heavenly Father, let us not forget that He has enjoined upon us charity; and on this day of thanksgiving let us generously re- member the poor and needy, so that our tribute of praise and gratitude may be acceptable in the sight of the Lord. “Done at the City of Washington on the Ist day of November, 1888, and in the year of independence of the United States, the 113th. In witness whereof I have hereun- to signed my name and caused the seal of the United States to be affix- ed. By the President, Grover CLEVELAND. T. F. Bayarp, Secretary of State. natic Bueklen’s Arnica Salve, The Best Salve inthe world for Cuts, Bruises,Sores, Ulcers, SaltRheum Fever Sores, Tetter,Chapped Hands, Chlblains Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and posi- tively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give pertect satisfaction or money refunded. Price 25 cts per box. 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Thisis perhaps one reason why, of all things that our bodies re- quire, oxygen is the only one the regu- lar supply of which does not depend upon our own attention. The pangs of hunger and thirst warn us when food and drink are necessary, but they can only be satisfied by our putting forth conscious effort. A man may be hun- gry. butif he is too lazy to seek out food and raise it to his mouth he will starve. But it not so with oxygen. We have power, it is true. temporarily to stop our breathing or to increase its rapidity by an act of will; but even when we forget all about it the breathing con- tinues. This is one of the many mys- teries of our being always before us, but seldom thought of, and yet itis very striking. This frequent and impor- tant act of our daily life has not been entrusted to our care, but has been so arranged for that it is performed every three or four seconds from the moment of birth until death, without requiring one thought from us. The breathing apparatus never sleeps. Again, oxy- gen is so closely connected with the great vital processes upon which our growth id daily energy depend, that food itself is use- less unless accompanied by alarge sup- ply of it. Indeed, when the quantity of oxygen which a man consumes in his lungs daily is calculated, it is found to be greater in weight than all the dry food he requires during the same pe- tiod. Yet again, if we wish a house ind clothing and food, we must work for them, but for oxygen there is noth- ng to pay. Itis free to all, and lies: around us in such abundance that it never runs short. Here, then, we see avery means taken to insure that all’ our demands for oxygen shall be freely and fully met, and yet we are assured by medical authorities that a very large proportion—s fourth—of all the de: s caused, directly ov indirectly, by oxygen starv- ation. 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