THE CRY OF THE WORKLESS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2444, 8 March 1909, Page 6

THE CRY OF THE WORKLESS.

SERMON BY THE REY. W. LAMB

In the Baptist Tabernacle last evening the Rev. Y. r . Lamb preached on the unemployed problem in England and tlie cry of the work-less in that country. The reverend gentleman took for his text Psalm 104,, verse 14, "God oauseth the grass to grow for the cattle and herb lor the service of man,” and said God provided an abundance of all the necessaries for the happiness ..of man, and the scarcity of bread, which was at present felt in England, was not became God had not made provision for the creatures whom he had placed upon the earth. Scientists said that it was possible, if each man- worked one day in the year, to produce enough food to keep tlie whole human family for a year, .and that there was always enough of the necessaries of life upon the earth to keep the whole world for 30 years. They knew that God had made it possible for man to live easily upon the earth he had created, and yet people in a country that had' honored God, and that had had the Bible for nearly 19 centuries were 'frying for the want of food to eat .and of the right to work to earn that food/ Such a position was terrible to contemplate, and vet the amonaly existed that England was tlie richest country in- the world and was in the present crisis appealing to -a .young country, a mere handful of people heavily burdened with a national debt, a debt owed to England. They lmd been told that success in life was the fulfilment of the doctrine- of the survival of the fittest, but such a doctrine was not just. The only way that reform could come was to teach men ahd women to live- for Jesus Christ, and that all men were brothers. Until the drink 'traffic was swept out of civilised lands men -and women won I<l never be able to successfully fight, the great battle of life. Drink was the octopus that was crushing the life out of the n,a-

ion, and unless it was. chocked in tin-, ou.ug country, New Zealand, there] ,'auld .soon bo armies of unemployed] n tlio Dominion. j A collection nas made tor uK] slead Fund, and realized the very atisfactory sum of ill 6s.