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Some great cause, God's new Messiah"

MESSIAH PULPIT

NEW YORK

(Being a continuation of Unity Pulpit, Boston)

Entered at the Post-office, Boston, Mass., as second-class mail matter

NOTE.

With this issue begins the twenty-eighth year of the continuous publication of Dr. Savage's sermons. This publica

tion has entailed much care and labor; but it is desirable that their readers should know that neither Dr. Savage nor his publisher has ever expected or received any pecuniary return. The one object always kept in view has been to preach to as many people as possible.

Those who believe that the distribution of these sermons is an aid to clearness of thought and righteousness of life can help in the matter if they will. The best way to help is to subscribe for them, and so lighten the publisher's burden.

Hundreds of copies a week are distributed free in the mission fields. But somebody has to pay. The larger the regular income, the more can be done.

THE ETHICS OF THE COAL STRIKE.

I TAKE as a text the words to be found in the fifty-sixth chapter of the prophecy of Isaiah in the first verse,— "Keep ye judgment and do justice." Keep ye judgment and do justice.

It is not an infrequent thing for ministers to be warned. away from the Sunday and pulpit treatment of themes which are supposed to chiefly concern the political or business interests of society. I frankly confess that I have no right on Sunday morning and in this place to discuss business problems as business problems or political questions as political questions.

And there has been always a certain section of the religious world which has turned aside from dealing with any of these things in any of their aspects. The priest has always been inclined to be quiescent, to care for the institution and the ceremony, and to let the great practical problems of life be settled without his help; but the prophet has always been meddling with these other affairs. John the Baptist lost his head for meddling with the condition of things existing in his day; but he has been mightier from that day to this than has Herod, who was able to take his head. Jesus lost his life for meddling with affairs that the people of the time thought did not concern him; but Jesus is to-day king of the world in a sense of which it can be said of no other, however mighty he may be.

I believe it is the duty, not only the right, of every minister to discuss great practical problems of righteousness, whether they be mingled with political or social or industrial affairs or not, his right, his duty.