A LAY SERMON.

(1886.)

Prayer of King Lear--When Honesty wears a Rag and Rascality a Robe-The

Nonsense of "Free Moral Agency "--Doing Right is not Self-denial-Wealth

often a Gilded Hell--The Log House--Insanity of Getting

More--Great Wealth the Mother of Crime--Separation of Rich and

Poor--Emulation--Invention of Machines to Save Labor--Production and

Destitution--The Remedy a Division of the Land--Evils of Tenement

Houses--Ownership and Use--The Great Weapon is the Ballot--Sewing

Women--Strikes and Boycotts of No Avail--Anarchy, Communism, and

Socialism--The Children of the Rich a Punishment for Wealth--Workingmen

Not a Danger--The Criminals a Necessary Product--Society's Right

to Punish--The Efficacy of Kindness--Labor is Honorable--Mental

Independence.

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