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"How much then is a man better than a sheer
ception of a man's value. The Pharisees, offended
began to pluck the ears of corn, and to eat" on th
tion of Jesus. "Behold, thy disciples do that whic
they say. The answer, a complete refutation of the
also "the priests in the temple profane the ?nhhiit
the necessary work, they are but carrying out the
greater than the sabbath day. The sharp edge of t
ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mere
demned the guiltless."
His critics, silenced for a time, withdraw. But
found a man having a withered hand. His enemit
it lawful to heal on the sabbath day?" These word
Jesus: "What man shall there be among you, that i
on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and li
than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on
heals the man with a withered hand, whereupon tl
him, "how they might destroy him." There are s<
time, set forth in this short but wonderful parable
the sabbath day, more valuable than any law even 1
and cattle upon the hills are of value. That is not d
despised; even the inanimate things, such as silver
of all these is not to be compared with the value of
cottage door on a grape-ladened hill in Judea is hi
in all the pastures of Palestine. One humble womai
of Jerusalem is of more value than the temple sitting
?wly, a mertiber of the throng journeying up to the
ble, than the temple, the roof of which gleams in tt
Through the ages succeeding the day in which
mia+ulro +J"? i. 1
....u^nv vMiuaauuii nuts maue, is now making, is in
than the man; upon property rather than upon h
as necessary today as ever it was that we come to th
a great civilization, and one that will endure. I am
welfare workers, philanthropists and all others engaj
remind themselves again and again that a man is be
fice is God's first desire, that things are mere thinja
If I am correct in my judgment, the present en
khan it does its children. The cattle has a stricter s
?rnment is more solicitous about the sick hogs than
sheep and cattle have value?no one denies that; but
khe value of the children?the boys and girls. Prope
lared with the value of our men and our women.
V In the enforcement of the law, our civilization
r,*her than the man is emphasize^. .A jfnan who stei
ie eJf. the man ittfeaBafierac1.# The! thief who st<
?\1 "IS weakest. Tru^hp sticks a k
Round. The State is awakening to the race una w
jg revealed in the building of schools, the regul
!de of mind which the public is coming to hold towt
imanity. But it is yet a far.journey, a thorny w,
ilue our boys and girls, but our valuation is far t<
man is better than a sheep, but the theory needs b
ted out the whiskey traffic because they are begin
e than the revenue. We must now go turther a
reason?our boys are of more value than our busines
miquity for the reason that we have lost all sight of
t> us, enabling us to correctly value our boys and gi
$en his birth, is of more value than all the revenue
yer bring to us. One girl, however humble her bi
lore value to a community than all the rentals that
go there were men who argued: "Let us license
vil." 1 do not believe there are any now who would
fact: If there is a man with a vision so distorted,
words of The Great Teacher,-"How much then is a
upon the threshold of a new day. a better, bigger c
rectly estimate the value of a man. When we do, t
will the licensed houses of infamy. Along with tf
for everywhere the school house will lift its head ai
ture of his own offspring, will be forced to give the i
and more our civilization is coming to the view that
child at least a fair show, has committed a crime ii
possible, the State must step in and force the unw<
chance. That chance, without education, is sadly ir
more to the idea of compulsory education. A man wl
crime by becoming a father; the State commits an
the opportunities for education. More and more o
spite of the selfish demagogue and spieler to the galle
worship; in spite of men and devils. A new day i
the first feeble rays of the ascending sun. And n
monv of an advancing civilization is vroinc to he "
because when a nation reached a high degree of ai
nation of idlers means a nation hell bent; indeed tl
of despair. They will become the prey of vice and
tion of poverty stricken, ignorant and superstitiou:
It used to be an idea that education was the si
was too refined to work, certainly too refined to d
passed, thank God! More and more there is being ii
of work.. Better a nation of ditch diggers than a n
bued with the faith that honest labor is a crown o
fools tipping lightly along dressed in the latest ft
to do. The nation has more to fear from its idle r
be born. It has more to fear from the follies of i
women in all the red light districts in its bounds,
not the garb a man wears, not the figure he cuts i
matter how beautifully they dance, nor how exquisit
dam to a State. It is the worker who counts?the c
mill, the toiler in the store, the hard-working horn
world. The people who can and who do work?the
will prove to be the real defenders of the nation in t
These ideas are ideas that go hand in hand with
man. He says: "My Father worketh hitherto, an<
that labor and are heavy ladened, and I will give >
working man ever had. He is the one teacher 1
work. It is not an accident that he was the son of
penter. It is not an accident that his disciples wert
the garden of Eden. After the fall he had to worl
thereto. Slowly and surely, under the new awakeni
ing to its first blessed estate?work, but work \
that do not crush. The sweat and tears are gradual
in the world to come we must work. There will be r
"Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord; they i
low them." Anyway, I am sure that this world <
trifler, the tramp. Their "occupations" are fast pa
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of a Man! $
>?" The Great Teacher is expressing his conbecause
his disciples "were an hungered, and
e sabbath day, were bold in their condemnah
is not lawful to do upon the sabbath day,"
charge, was: David "did eat the shew bread."
h"?both are blameless. They are but doing
commands of one greater, than the temple;
he defense is seen in this sentence: "I?ut if
y, and not sacrifice, ye would not have connot
for long. Going into the synagogue, he
is, that they might again accuse him, ask: "Is
s call forth one of the matchless parables of
shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit
ift it out? How much then is a man better
the sabbath days." The Great Teacher then
le Pharisees go out and hold a council against
?v?ral fundamental ideas clearly, and for all
\ A man is better than a sheep, bigger than
that of keeping the sabbath day. The sheep,
lenied; the observance of the law is not to be
and gold, are not without value. P?ut the value
a man. One little child, playing around the
gger, better, of more value than all the sheep
1, engaged in sweeping the house in the city
! on the hill nearby. One man, however
temple on a feast day is bigger, more valuale
rays of the morning sun.
i Jesus spoke, down to the very present, the
placing the emphasis upon the thing, rather
umanity. The need is just as insistent, just
e view of the Great Teacher, if we would build
i sure of another fact, also: The churches,
?ed in the regeneration of the world need to
iter than a sheep; that mercy and not sacri;s,
but men are immortal.
/ilization safeguards its pigs more carefully
supervision than have the children. The govit
is about the sick children. The hogs and
; they are of little value when compared to
rty values are real, but. are not to be com
again shows its weakness in that the thing
Us a pig is more certain of just punishment
iais a sack of corn is more Hancer of just
nife in V-ra.n. /kthe two above titles.
CI 't)mi?miUt 2tre orC taiuw vuau Viiv a ii i?v.'
ations governing ctiild labor, the general attiirds
the children, the men and the women-*?
ay, an uphill climb that lies before us. We
x> low. We are committed to the theory that
0 become more definitely a fact. Our people
ning to value our boys as being richer treas,nd
suppress blind tigers for the very same
s. We must suppress places of vice, dens of
revenue in the larger vision which has-come
iris. One boy, however humble may.have
j that the whisky traffic, legal or illegal, could
irth, however lowly her surroundings, is of
come from a red light district. A few years
4 houses of ill fame. Let us control a necessary
1 thus view the question. I am certain of this
he never yet grasped the significance of the
man better"than a sheep?" 1 believe we are
lay. I believe that we are beginning to corhe
legal and illicit liquor traffic will go, as
lem will go that handmaid of Vice, Ignorance,
id the worthless parent, indifferent to the fuchild
he has begotten a square deal. More
the parent who will not. or cannot give his
l becoming a parent, and, in so far asfit is
irthy brutal parent to give his offspring a
npaired. Hence the State is coming more and
io will not educate his child, committed a
other when it allows the father to withhold
ur people are coming to see these things, in
ries; in spite of the selfish greed of mammon
s dawning, albeit one cannot see more .than
lark my words: The new word in the barwork."
Civilization has perished heretofore
ttainment they became a nation of idlers. A
ley will raise hell before they reach the world
folly more exquisitely thought out thai > nas
people could ever invent or create.
ire road to an easy life; that the educated na.
0 any kind of physical labor. That day i
n.jected into our educational system the gospel
ation of educated idlers; better a country imf
glory to any man than a nation of fops and
ishion and groomed perfectly, yet with nothing
ich men than from all the safe-crackers yet to
ts idle rich women than from all the fallen
Our education must emphasize the worker,
ipon a ball room floor. Society dandies, no
ely they are groomed, are not worth a tinker's
1 itch digger, the plowman, the worker in the
lewife?these are the people who count in this
ty are the real builders of our nation, and they
he day of stress.
the teaching of Jesus in his valuation of a
[1 I work." He says: "Come unto me, all ye
rou rest." Jesus Christ is the best friend the
ivho first injected into education the gospel of
a carnenter nor that he was himself a car
> fishermen. Man worked before the fall, in
( with the penalty of tears and sweat added
ing to the gospel of work, the world is climbthat
does not burden; activities, but activities
lly being eliminated. But work?never! Even
10 idlers in heaven. Else, why the statement:
rest from their labors, but their works do folioes
not need, nor will the future tolerate the
ssing.