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“WHAT WOULD JESUS DO?” 
If He Was a Working Man, Says 
Rev. F. H. Brewster, He Would 
Do Honest Labor and He 
Would Not Bea Grafter. He 
Would Get Out Among Men and 
Save Souls. 
“What would Jesus do if He was 
a workingman?” was the subject ofa 
very interesting talk by Rev. E. H. 
Brewster at the Baptist church in 
Manchester last Sunday evening, 
the first in a series of sermons on 
“What would Jesus do?” He se- 
lected for his text a passage from 
the sixth chapter of St. Mark: “Is 
not this the carpenter’s son?” 
“He would be frugal and econom 
ical; He wouldn't be out nights 
with the ‘fellows’; He would do 
honest work; He wouldn't be a 
grafter; He would save souls; He 
would be a member of a union and 
above all He* would observe the 
Sabbath.” These were some of the 
thoughts brought out in the course 
o* Mr. Brewster’s talk. 
“T believe we must go back to the 
time of Jesus to answer some of 
these questions that come up before 
us today,’ he said. “We know He 
has done much for religion, for 
poetry, for music, and He has done 
a great deal for the working man. 
“First, He gave the working man 
an ideal. He presented to us the 
unique ideal of a prophet and a la- 
borer. The hands that have for 
centuries been lifting up the world. 
these same hands worked at the 
carpenter's bench. 
“He gave us the working day 
But today we have no such thing 
as a working day. Go into the 
great cities and we see men work- 
ing at all hours, night and day, Sun- 
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“He gave the working man the 
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meaning of the Sabbath day. 
“Now what would Jesus do if He 
was a working man? I believe if 
He were in the world today He 
would be a working man. I believe 
He would detest this attitude of to- 
day toward work. It is a glorious 
thing to labor. I believe He would 
work, but He would put the proper 
dignity on it. I believe He would 
work for a purpose, because He 
wanted to earn His livelihood. ! 
admire a working man who earus 
his livelihood by the sweat of his 
brow. He is better than the man 
who takes the efforts of his fathers 
and lives on them. 
“He wouldn't be a machine. La- 
bor today makes machines of men. 
And we would have certain princt- 
ples and adhere to them. He 
would be frugal, economical; He 
would be at home nights and not - 
out with the ‘fellows’; He would 
do honest work and do it honestly; 
I don’t believe He would be a graft 
er—He would not enter into any 
scheme; and I think He would ob- 
serve the Sabbath. Above all 
things, He would keep it because it 
was a principle. 
Our ideals have changed con- 
cerning the keeping of the Sabbath. 
It you hush the tones of the church 
bells, and take away the shadow of 
the church spires, the day will go 
from us. 
“Would He be a member of a 
union? In its ideals the labor union 
represents two grand principles; it 
represents fraternity, and it is for 
mutual protection. Capital or- 
ganizes to combat labor; I think 
labor has-a like privilege. 
“But more than being a carpen- 
ter, He would do good work and He 
would take pride in it. If you have 
pride in your work, you have a 
source of contentment nobody can 
take from you. 
“The American working man se- 
cludes himself too much. Get out 
among men and interest yourself in 
the problems of living! Man was 
not made for the Sabbath, but the 
Sabbath was made for man. Christ 
worked at the carpenter’s bench, 
but He saved men, also. We should 
all have some vocation. Realize 
that all your labor is but a means 
to an end. Jesus worked at the 
carpenter's bench to pay his ex- 
penses,—that’s all. His main ob- 
ject of life was to lead men in the 
right way of living.” 
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