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Show LIVING ISSUE Warren Fosters Paper. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, FRIDAY, MARCH u, VOL. 4. SERMON ON MANNA. BY Text THE EDITOR. But some of them AND til THE MORNING, Exodus and stank. left it un- IT BRED WORMS 1 6th chapter, part of the 20th verse. to the Biblical story the children of Israel had just thrown off their Egyptian bondage, and had taken up their weary march through the Wilderness, which was to at last land them in the earthly Canaan, "a The land flowing with milk and honey. manna on which they were to be fed, and According; were fed, is given in Bible language as follows: Beginning at the i ith verse of the same chapter we read: Lord spake unto Moses, saying. it And theheard the murmurings of the 12 I have children of Israel; speak unto them, saying. At even ye shall eat flesh; and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know that I am the Lord your God. 13 And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and covered the camp; and in the morning the dew lay round about the host. 14 And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground. 1 5 And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is maina; ,for they wist not what it was And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat. 16 This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded. Gather of it every man according to his eating, an omer for every man, according to the number of your persons; take ye every man for them which are in his tents 17 And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less. 18 And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating. 19 And Moses said, Let no man leave of it till the morning. so Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank; and Moses was wroth with them. 21 And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating; and when the sun waxed hot. it melted. It is not our purpose to discuss the authen-tica- l or historical correctness of this story. It has nothing whatever to do with the idea suggested in our text. Tae first thought that suggests itself to our miad is that every man of the children of Israel had a right to gather of the manna. There were no restrictions whatever. It was .for all alike according to his needs. The man with the small family gathered little, while the man with the larger family gathered more We have no account given anywhere in the long journey of forty years through the Wilderness, that the humblest Israelite was not supplied by nature, or natures God, with an opportunity to gather enough of natures food to supply all his' wants. There is no account of thC.fich and prosperous monopolizing this opportunity. It would have been useless for them to do so as we will see later I . over the morrow or until the next day or the next week. Had they succeeded in this no doubt much the same conditions would have ootained then as now. A system of trading, trafficing, speculating in manna would have soon sprung up Ihe ground on which it fell would have been bought up and monopolized and the bread of Israel would have been cornered the same as it is now done. But this was a knock-oublow to speculators. They had no chance to either monopolize the natural opportunity or to compel others to gather food for them. The Almighty seems to have fully understood the disposition of the people as well as their needs, and set bounds beyond which their greed could not tempt them. Another thought comes promptly to the front Fresh manna is better than old It seems that manna does not improve with age as is said to be the case with whisky. The manna of yesterday was not fit to eat. It was wormy t and stank. This teaches us that we should live up to the opportunities of today, and applies with great aptness and force to our every day life. It was one time thought that the world was flit and stationary and that all the other planets revolved around it. The people believed it. It was the manna that fell from the intellectual heaven ot that day. It answered the purpose then, but not for today, It is full of worms and stinks. The manna that falls today tells us that the world is round, and revolves around the sun instead of the sun revolving around it. That is the manna we want to gather and eat of today. There was a time when we were taught that the kings and rulers , of earth ; ruled by Divine Right;! that theonly place reserved for the masses was to obey these kings and rulers; that the people had no voice, and of no voice, in the chosing ot right should have " these rulers, or in framing the laws tinder which they were to live. That was the manna that came down to them in that day, but we cant eat it now. It is too old; it is wormy. The newer manna that comes down today declares that the power to govern must come from the consent of the governed. The ramers of the constitution of the United States did a great work. Considering their environments, prejudices etc., they did a most wonderful work. But their work was imperfect, but it was the very best they knew. That they believed that their work was succeptable of improvement is evinced by the fact that they left the way open for improvement in the way of amendment to the constitution, fifteen of which have already been added They gathered the manna as it fell. There was a time, and not long ago either, when the only means of transportation we had was the mule team or ox cart. That was manna, but it is wormy now. The iron horse has displaced them. But even the iron horse needs looking after. He ought to be the greatest blessing of the age, and so he is, but it so happens that all these blessings go to, and are enjoyed by the owner of the horse instead of all the people as they should on of today says hat a change The second po:nt that presents itself is that be. The manna made. The old idea of private should be every man gathered according to his eating control of these great public institutions is exPlease note Uie word every. The man who and the manna of that day stinks. did not gatner for himsell had nothing to ploded, One man Let us cast it aside and gather the new. There was no shirking. eat. Thus might we go on almost indefinitly could not send, hire or force any other man instances where people are eatto gather for him. Each man had to do his enumerating the wormy, stinking manna of the past own gathering. There were no drones in ing while they tread the fresh acd newly fallen the camp of Isreal; at least if there were, "for he that gathered manna of today undr their feet. they were hungry ones, much ha nothing over, and he that gathered A JAY IN NEW YORK. The demand for each little had no lack. There will be a good show at the New man to father his own manna was as imperaGrand all next week. One of the leading tive as the opportunity was general There features of the show will be Miss Nugent in were nolemployers or employees; each man other man, her new and favorite songs, Mamie Reilly was on equal terms with every Miss Nugent lus and Rosie O Grady. and there was no chance to get an advantage. in ooo royalties from her claim to the land received over $10 No one bought up or laid demanded a publishers for Mamie Reilly, and it is on whidii the manna fell, and as is done now. Hence there claimed that her last song will prove equally portion as rent, A over fed rich or starving poor as is popular. One verse of which is as follows: Sweet Rosie O Grady, my dear little Rose, so coinVon at this time. Shes my steady lady most every one knows; Th: ilmciple point, however, that wt de- And when we are married how happy well the text: But sire to d cu i suggested by be, ol l iem left it over until the morning, For I love sweet Rosie O Grady and Rosie some and i and stank. The ti A shows plainly that ' ted then, much the averice ht to gather enough Thev ' brl woims, i Successor to THE 1898 INTER-MOUNTAI- ADVOCATE. N THE HEATHEN CHINEESE. 0 13 1 Not contented with doing up the Ameri- can workingman with his cheap labor, the utterly unprincipled Chinaman has invaded the domain of invention ai.d threatens to outdo the American inventors in the producwhich is really labor tion of labor-savincheapening machinery. The American workman has learned to quietly submit to the innovations of the American inventor and has patriotically agreed to starve or freeze to death in the interest of American progress, but now the question whether he should show the same docile submission to a heathen Chinee inventor of labor-savin- g machinery is open for consideration. We have chosen to regard the Chinaman as a mere imitator, a mao lacking originality or creative faculty, and have fondly believed that if we could keep him out of our territory he would give us no trouble. But it seems the heathen rascal is not to be gotten rid of so easily, for, instead of quietly accepting the world's verdict that he is a plr.yed out institution, he sits down, goes into a brown study and in spite of our protests begins inventing. A villain bearing the abominable name of Ding Ge Sui, hailing from Foo Chow, a place that could only be in China, not only invents a greatly improved cotton spinning machine, one that reduces the cost of spinf, but has the audaci ning more than his make application to attorneys ty through for a patent in these United States for his atrocious invention. Are our inventors, the men in whom our nation prides itself, to be compelled to compete with cheap Chinee brains, just as our workingmen are to compete with chdap Chinee muscle? The men of muscle gave it up, and demanded protection, why should not our men of brains do the same? Let the war cry be, No cheap Chinee brains. Pittsburg Kansan. We are not a little surprised at reading the above, coming as it does . from a Populist newspaper. Had we reaid it in a it down sheet we would have-se- t as pure buncumbe and would have paid no further attention to it. We claim that a Chinaman has the same right to live as any one else. As a nation they are about thirty times older than we are, which certainly gives them the right ot priority if nothing more. We also believe that he has a right to Lave brains, and the very same right to use them that we have. The right to progression is certainly, or at least ought to be, open to him the same as to us. If a Chinaman has the brains to invent a labor-savin- g machine he ought to be allowed to do so, whether he hails from Foo Chow or Pekin. If a Chinaman invents a machine that will remove a part of the drudgery and increase the production of labor he ought to be looked upon as a benefactor, his yellow skin and pig tail Bro. to the contrary notwithstanding. of the Kansan, is registering a useless kick. Let us have all the labor-savin- g machinery possible, and let it come from China or where ever else it may. What he should do is to study out some plan whereby the good results of the machine may be felt and enjoyed by all the people instead of a few as is now the case. The fault is not with the machine but with the system that enables one man or a few men to monopolize the machine. Tnis fight against Chinamen and their cheap labor, is political buncumbe of the very cheapest sort. It comes from cheap John politicians. They center their fight on the heathen Chinee because he has no Let these same Chinamen become vote voters and these same politicians would at once begin to refer to them as our honoraIt used to be the ble Mongolian bretheren. damned Nigger; now it is Our esteemed Our advise to Bro. colored brothers. Buchanan is to stop wasting his energies, his brains and his space on this sort of nonsensical rot, and turn his attention to something tangible and sensible. g, one-hal- four Hama, u bad better renew uicbtr quwk. m that I ia tha number of the next No papw will be Muittfur a lunjter time than paid lor, nor on credit, except by qecial arranpeuimit. biaue. N MORE KINGS. the blood of Father Adam, first of men to toil and perjsh, By the sword and scales of Justice where the hope of nation clings, By the memory of t ke Christ-mathat all By n, human r We have swor shall be jtill cherish, 7111 have it, that there hre Kings. In the vast a Iplendid dawning of th6 led to morrow, I sovereign, if the nations worlds If the people are not Let the sands iut the cities, as died om and Cut the dykes junta r..ze the sea walls and all let flootnthe sea. Ayel Sod-Wra- h, oer e mean jtl we, your Masters; have you, then, fco soon forgotten How the condor! Revolution, spread abroad his mightj? wings? the By dripping j head of Louis, the reviled and misbegotten. We assert it who denies it? that there shall be no jQdre Kings. God of hosts Pad God of helpless, you shall of battle, yet bd In the future! b we seek you, in the distance do ytl Lome; Not for ages! 111 the people wait the ax like ld suileix 1 1 tie. Not foreverl fill the visage of the mystic Sphiij I be dumb. No! by torJ land sword and rapine, by our heart Istones, wives and daughters, By the whiJ Ing winds of prescience that the gathering tempest brings, We have gnawed our list of black-breadrank our fill of bitter waters; Hear it, heed it as we say it, there shall be no mfre Kings! d, Ernest McGaffey. ' . Demo-Republi- NO 9. &t - But, 0,'God, if war lhere be, he prayed, Be victory for the stars and stripes. "let there May the thje glorious stars and stripes never or be trailed in the dust, but may the flag of our couBiry be born aloft in triumph until all lands shall be inspired by it and enjoy liberty and all patriots obtain freedom. The above is an extract from the prayer of Rev. A. Nelson Hallifield a few days ago at the opening of congress. It inspired the congressmen to applause. That is all right too, for the American God, but how about the Spanish God? Are not the Spaniards praying to their God for the same kind of favors? Now it happens that the protestant God of America and the catholic God of Spain is one and the same. Which will He favor? Or will He tavof both? Or neither? Or will He do as He always has done, favor the one that has the biggest guns and the most men? fall Bu-chann- an it so that the bond boodle gang could get a billion of United States bonds without impairing the value of their Spanish bonds, war with Spain would be declared before sundown today. The whole question has simmered down to one of dollars and cents. Were Say, you fellows You who run a patent out side. We aint going to scold you for running a patent, cause most of you have to or quit, but please I for the sake of the busy editor, make your outside over into your inside, so that the inside will be outside, and your outside will be your inside, and we then wont have to turn your outside inside so as to bring the inside outside, for we read the inside, but have to turn the inside outside, before we can read the inside. See? Red1 lands Citograph. We concur. San Francisco Star. The Appeal to Reason last week published a list of trusts in this country. It comprised nearly a whole page ot the paper. By looking it over, one can see that there is a trust on everything of use or comfort that The page enters into the human make-up- . awful tells an story. Oh, well, we are glad to see it The harder the storm the sooner the calm. It must come, and it will come, so let it come. When a deserving person tion in this land of plenty, dies of starvathe crime lies at the door of somebody. It were better to be a dog and bay the moon than be the one upon whose shoulders rests the responsibility of such a crime. Pacific Union Printer, We hope Commissioner Hall will again and takw up, push to a successful issue, his is never turncoat a a Herald Pingree potato patch plan this spring. The says, O'Grady loves me. crank. The Herald ought to know for There are plenty of vacant lots in this city if the spirit of to use to feed every hungry man, same as now Living Issues and the New Time both for certainly no one ever has or ever will accuse put and child in the city. woman it of being a crank. today to last one year for $i-7- |