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title: 'Work and Wages: A Sermon Preached in Whitesboro, N.Y., November, 1846'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
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authors:
- 'Beriah Green, Jr.'
date: 1846-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Economics, Employment, and Work'
- 'Character and Conduct of Life'
- 'Sermons'
scriptures:
- 'Acts 20'
- 'Colossians 3'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/green-1846-work-and-wages-a-sermon-preached-in-whitesboro-n-y-november-1846
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# Work and Wages: A Sermon Preached in Whitesboro, N.Y., November, 1846

A 1846 sermon urging industrious, honest labor and condemning idleness and profiteering. Contrasts dutiful 'Workers' with 'Unworkers', tying work to wages, public welfare, and Christian duty.

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