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1W? MT.WRA8KA. CHIEF 1 KID CLOUD, NEBRASKA, CHIEF . .- i i " ! "'' r t ir ----- 11 Y 2SW or LABQBDW Its Origin And Things; It Stands For HEN, on that Sep tember day thirty two years ago, tho scattorcd groups of wayfarers along Broadway watchod tho ranks of working men march down tho street, but a fow thousand In number, with lit- tlo of noise and less of pomp and display, tho man must have been a dreamer, Indeed, who could seo from that small begin ning America's great Labor day of the present. But, as far ns can be learned, this parade, Sept. 5, 1882, was tho first time that tho labor unloiiB set nstdo a specific day dovoted to tho goddess at whoso shrine they worshiped, and turned out iu full forco that all tho world might see. And this demon stration was confined solely to New Vork city. Time Was Auspicious. , It was on tho occasion of tho an nual mooting of tho Knights of Labor, which was held thero that year. This organization of labor had been founded about fifteen years before by bo mo striking garment workors of Philadelphia. It was born at a timo when tho laboring man was beginning to do a good deal of hard thinking for himself and wonder quito a deal whether all this talk about the bless ings of poverty and the lowly poor being God's own was quito na truo as Its smug-faced teachers had, for gen erations, been dinning into tho ears of the man behind tho hammer and the shovel. And eo the Knights of Labor, filled with thoso doubts, throve amain. At their head was Terence V. Powderly. now occupying a responsible position In the new Department of Commerce "It has been stated at various times that Labor day bad this or that man for Its father," said Mr. Powderly, when asked concerning this occasion of momentous birth. "But tho day bad no father, or rather," he corrected with a smile, "It had many fathers, and I think I should know, having been present at the birth. "Labor day, ns wo know It today, was a growth, born from the percep tion of many men at tho samo timo of tho need of such a day. Of such movements, It Is always hard to fix nn exact moment when they spring Into being when, from a vague Idea they becomo tho practical thing. But of Labor day It can be said with cer tainty tfcit It was born In New York city Sopt. 5, 1822. In Honor of Knights of Labor. "At that timo tho Knights of Labor, of which I .was grand master work man, were holding their annual con vention in that city. The labor unions of Now York determined to glvo a demonstration In our honor, and so, on the afternoon of tho day mentioned, thoy paraded to tho number of several thousand. "So eagerly had tho Idea been grasped by tho labor folks of Now York that the whole day was prac tically given over to labor Just as the Fourth of July is given over to GUIS MlKflintf j!ji Br 4BBBfs': "" BBtftiBBBBBBBBBBBBBBVw W' 'j u. '' 'sbbbbbbbbbbbk dftWB s 'i iBBBBBBBVBBBuifljSBBBY v ''!? '''' zmBKBt!sitK t -&& bbbbbbbbbbSe&bf sV vSsSssbbbbbbv' .BBP?,i SiT Ibbbbbbbp'x Terence V. Powderly. tho consideration of our national in dependence. "Wo wero deep In dcliberationa on that day. I well remember, for tho causo of labor, beforo that timo an Infant In swaddling clothes, was begin ning to walk erect, and Its inarticulate cry of tho past was framing Itself Into sentences for tho world to listen. Therefore, when wo woro Informed that tho laboring peoplo of New York had mado tho day a virtual holiday and would parade In our honor, wo adjourned to review tho procession from tho stand erected in Union Square. "Upon that platform were, among others, Hugh P. Pentecost, Robert Prlco, a coal miner of Pennsylvania and member of tho Genoral Executive Hoard of tho Knights of Labor, and jGonoral Worthy Foreman Richard iGrifllth, a veteran in the causo. "As tho procession passed by, IU numbers, few for these days, but im posing then, so aroused tho feelings of Price that he leaned over to the rest of us and, addressing Richard Griffith In particular, exclaimed: "'This is Labor day, Uncle Dick! Labor day now and hereafter!' "That moment I havo always consld--ored to bo the Instant when Labor day was born. Tho Incident, trivial In itself, was tho nucleus of many a conference. Each of us worked to the end of having a particular day set apart by law dovoted to tho consider ation and Interests of tho laboring classes." But It was not achieved immediate ly. Each year moro and more lodges In moro and more cities of tho coun try foil Into line with tho suggestion nnd set apart a day. Thero was no ac tion taken by tho states. Indeed, tho movement for a Labor day had roached contlnent-wldo proportions be fore It was ovon broached, with any result, In tho legislatures of tho va rious states. Typically American Idea. But tho genius of tho American peo ple was behind tho Idea. Oliver Wen dell Holmes, greatest of genial phil osophers, in speaking of the inborn dcslro of tho American peoplo to per pctuato somo idea that Is dear to them by tho dedication of n special day to it, says somewhere that If a party of Americans woro shipwrecked upon a desert island tho first thing they would do would bo to hold a meeting and organize Their proceedings they would then ratify in a formal banquet, oven though thoy feasted on nothing but raw crawfish, and thoy would con cludo tho wholo thing by sotting apart that day as hereafter to bo annually kept holy(ln memory of their adven ture. And so, In keeping with this Ameri can spirit, tho leaders of labor, backed by their followers, moro and moro spread the propaganda of Labor day; each year thoy held their day holy, demonstrating tho faith that was in them by n parado of all tho crafts. f Samuel Gompers. President American Federation of Labor. And this grow until tho lawmakers of tho country must needs tako no tlco of such an Insistent call. Accordingly, on Jan. 4, 1887, a bill was Introduced in tho legislature of Now York Btato, providing for tho sot ting aside, as a legal holiday, devoted to tho interests of labor, the first Mon day In each September the first no tico taken by any state of the Labor day movement But though New York was the first to tako up the matter, she was not the first state to formally adopt It Into her laws. For faraway Oregon, In whose legislature a Labor day bill was Introduced January 17, passed It Into a law by the slgnaturo of its gov ernor February 21, thus writing her name at tho head of the states In adopting the movement aa a formal state measure It was not until May 6 of- the samo year that tho New York bill, Introduced In January, waa passed and signed by the governor of that state. Two States Divide Honor. Thus New York and Oregon may bo Bald to divide between them the honor of first formally recognizing Labor day New York by Introduction of the first bill, Oregon by tho passage of the first law. After theso two states had formally set aside a day tho others followed with moro or less alacrity. It should bo said, In justice to thoso latter states, that their delay In passing a measuro which, It was then clear to tho world, was desired by a large body of deslrablo citizens, was not duo to any organized opposition against such a measure on tho part of any political party or class of peoplo, but was duo to two natural causes. One, tho congestion of many bills In the various legislatures, whoso consider ation, from local causes, was a matter of great urgency. Tho other, that, as tho day had becomo, by common con sent of the peoplo throughout tho country, a day of holiday, any ratifica tion of such adoption by tho peoplo was a matter of puro formality. It was much like tho case of Deco ration day. Tho spirit and sentiment of the peoplo in tho South, whero most of tho gravoB of the Civil war wero dug, crystallized upon a certain time In tho early summer to honor tho memory of tho dead by decoration of the cemoterles, alike of Confederate and Union dead. In tho courso of years a certain day was formally adopted by law by tho various states; but few people can recall when their particular etato passed such a law. viiBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBu SB 7BBBBBBBBH E? . V BBBBBBBBBBT .' ' sJtbbsP A ' BBBBBav Jsf i ''', fr iBflBByXSSyJ Fj8tjv ii s SBBBBH jNILTOriONAL SBNMrsaiooL Lesson (ny K. O. BRLLKtlS. Director of Evening Department, Tho Moody Illblc Inntltuto Chicago.) LESSON FOR SEPTEMBER 6 THE GREAT C0MMANDMENT8. LESSON THXT-Mnrk 12:!S-44. GOLDKN TEXT "Thou hhult love ths lionl thy Hod with nil thy heart, nnd with nil thy soul, ami with all thy ntrcnKth, nnd with all thy mind: and thy neighbor ns tlosclf." Uiko 10:27. Thiu lesson considers a third ques tion asked of our Lord; two others In this connection wo studied last week. It was not so much a ques tion of placing ono commandment In competition with another, but rather vrhich commandment most clearly epitomizes or roveals tho final prln clplo in law. It was tho business of this scrlbo to know tho law and to Interprot tho commandments. Jesus In IiIb reply quotes from Dcut. 0:4, and from Lev. 19:18, which are both In a sense an exposition of tho Deca logue. Love the Basis. I. The answer of Jesus, vv. 28-34. Tho scrlbo's question Bccmcd to bo quito specific nnd so tho Lord strikes at onco nt tho heart and by his quota tion roveals to us tho fact that tho principle- which is tho inspiration of tho law Is that of love. In passing wo havo hero another Illustration of tho master's ready uso and knowledgo of tho Scripture Jesus makes a four-fold summary. Man must lovo God with (a) tho heart, c, g., in sin cerity and uprightness; (b) with tho soul, with tho warmth of tho emo tions, and tho feelings; (c) "with nil thy mind," tho intellect, not nB n blind dovotee; (d) with "strength," viz', with Intensity of Bcrvlco, with energy. "To lovo God with all tho heart and soul and mind and strength Is to have supremo dcslro for and delight In God's glory, making everything elso second to that." This statement Ib but half, for tho complement of our lovo of God Is to lovo man. Man created in God'B Imago was "so loved" by God that ho gavo his son (John 3:16); man can do not less and must expresB that lovo In service to others. To fall in tho first is to break the greatest of tho commandments and therefore to bo guilty of all, Rom. 3:23. Hurnan and Deity. II. The question of Jesus, w. 35 37. Our Lord's question In return was a Messianic ono and ho grounds his argument on tho 110th Psalm, a Messianic ono. Jesus Is Inferior to David as his son according to the fleBh but Buperlor to him as lord of tho kingdom of which David himself Is a subject and not tho sovereign. Christ 1b both 'human nnd deity; his kingdom is spiritual and earthly sov ereigns aro honored If thoy ato hla subjects. ' III. The teaching of Jesus, vv. 38 40. Tho word "doctrlno" in verso 38 is translated "teaching" In tho re vision. TheBO words of warning are full of solemn significance The Bcrlbes, nnd they havo their Imitators today, sought tho places qf prefer mont, tho seats of honor in tho syna gogue and tho chief places at the feasts. Tho motlvo that governed them was a selfish ono. They de voured widows' houses, and sought to cover their covetousness and dishon esty by long prayers and a pretense of piety. This brought upon them the "greater condemnation," Matt 24:51. Law and lovo is hero again in con trast Law must become life. IV. The view of Jesus, w. 41-44. Jesus had ono look of love and com passion for hlB friends and tho needy and another that was exceedingly ter rible for his enemies. Thus it was as a master teacher that ho saw right at band an Illustration for his les son, an application of the truth in the. case of tho widow who gave out of her penury and because of her lovo for God, supporting these carping, selfish scribes. She had two miteB (about fourth-fifths of a cent) and might have withheld one except that tho rabbis forbade tho offering of a single one. Her lovo, however, went beyond tho "tenth" and she gave "all," therefore In proportion to their means she "cast moro than thoy all," Beo II Cor. 8:12. Offerings aro needed still for tho Lord's work. Jesus 1b "over against tho treasure" and "sees" who It la that "casts in" how much thoy cast and tho motlvo behind tho gift Tho master's standard of a commendablo offering is not according to our super fluity, but our deficiency, not what will bo missed but what of eacrlfico and in proportion thereto. Not to pleaso man, but God. Read II Cor. 8:1-3. Our Lord's valuation of gifts cast Into tho treasury remnlns for all time tho truo standard of measure ment Tholovo of God unifies a man. Wo lovo becauso ho first loved us, and In proportion as wo truly approhendf his lovo, all that wo have of heart,' Ufo, strength nnd mind, yea, our wholo naturo will unlto In lovo. It la thla which unlfios society. To lovo him that begots is to lovo him that 1b begotten. To lovo God Is to lovo roan and to keep all of tho dlvino com mands that concern our relations to him. As this woman loft It Is posslblo that alio Was ashamod of tho small nosa of hw gift but It pleased tho Lord. 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