Third Sunday After Easter.
Socialism.
"Be ye subject to every human creature far God's sake." — I. Pet. ii. 13.
SYNOPSIS.
Ex. : I. Joseph and Jesus. II. Coming conflict III. Abomination of desolation.
I. Dangers : 1. Infidelity and credulity. 2. Golden mean. 3. Infidel, socialist.
II. Socialism: 1. Its speciousness. 2. Private property. 3. Labor leaders.
III. For poor: 1. Extreme necessity. 2. Eminent domain. 3. Occult compensation.
Per.: 1. Alms-giving. 2. Christian nobility. 3. Time and eternity.
SERMON.
Brethren, what a lesson for strikers and socialists is Jesus, the carpenter's apprentice! What a model for masters is the gentle Joseph! What a proof is each of the power of faith! What a commentary on the evils of infidelity! The abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, were the Pagan unbelievers, whose entry into the Jewish Temple was to be the signal for the destruction of Jerusalem and the overthrow of the Jewish nation. Brethren, he that heareth, let him understand. In our own nation, to-day, there is abroad a feeling of anxiety concerning the stability of popular government — the permanency of republican institutions. Men — leaders and followers alike — instinctively feel there is imminent a conflict between the two great forces of capital and labor, and discuss the abomination that is to precipitate
