The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-12-06
The Offices Of Christ and Of Man
and Woman.
How tho Parsons In the Pulpits Treat the
Recent Richardson Tragedy.
Discourses by the Rev. MessrA Pullman,
rockingham, Beecher, Hepworth,
Armitage and Others.
SIXTH uNxsasAus1 CHURCH

Tho Late Richardson Tragedy.A Libertine
Worse than an Acknowledgement by tho
Rev. James M. PalImann.
At the Church Of our Saviour in Thirty fifth street,
besween FIFTH and Sixth avenues, ~ Rev. James
y. Pullman preached . sermon on tho all-absorbing
topic Of the Richardson Mcfarland tragedy yester.
Gay during the morning service. Because OF the I'M
propttious weather few were present. The preacher
selected hts text from Daniel ", 5:-'In the same
hour came forth fingers of mans hand.n One
subject, he said has In all ages been closely veed
Intemperance in all its FORMS slavery In all its hor.
rors and oppression with all Its abuses we discuss
openly, but the one abuse referred to, which has
more evil In 1t than all these combined s kept away
nom our schools, from our churches, from our
libraries and can only force public recog-
milton by public denoument. As the
Alpine traveller is led through all the tor.
tuous wndings of the glaciers he 10 remind ed by his
careful aaide to speak lowly ana softly, lest his
voice, producing Q conclusion in the atmosphere,
win loosen the vast mountains of snow and ice and
Drecpitate the avalanche into the valley below pro-
ducipg disorder and ruin. Thus 1t il with the evil
We are considering Men may be SILENT but God
says that the evil snail work to the surface has
the tube OF pistol In newspaper office and 1t
echoes throughout the land Society is agtated, the
body polite Is wounded and . clinic must be held
over she injury. The wound must be proped; social
away . clamor SETS In. man has been killed.
whose Ia9it Is itS answers pour IN from all craar
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pI Fra, 'c.0e ..so three classes;1 e Z.
.s6sed, OF whom there are many. Second, those
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1s T ina sas feeling sd ,Ss snS tn
Sn nnoo9 Tne1 ACTS ana e1oss were
their sentiments and they exhibited . feeling THAI
there was something to atone for. And believe
something does need defence. BY acting as they
have stain has fallen upon themselves and their
class, VINO proclaim advanced principles ana reform
These men sometimes stop at nothing; they invade
the marriage tie. But won't speak Of lunatic
with respect, not Of q man who advances
the idea that an old ordinance must be re-
formed snI because is an ,,, old ordinance
against all things old. These phases Of opinion
swell the black current OF damnatlon running
through the substratum OF New York society. And
here comes up that class Of men OF strong minds
who tell the sancy OF the marriage state is fool
isn. How woulo society be II we needed their
adviccf But will not argue with mad dog.
When one attacks the hottest Of all institutions he
cannot be argued with except with the same logic
President giving his name to the sympathy Of the
deceased. the fact is significant. There rs
! lay down the proposition that the worst
roe to social order Is the libert!ne and not the
assassin. Human life has ever been held the most
sacred Of everything earth, stand here 70 coh-
trovert that view. OF all beings the deliberate
hDertlne 10 the vilest He enters happy homes
creeps like q snake and skulks like fox into the
domestic relations. He succeeds what is the con-
sequencei The wife Is driven from her home, loses
her sef-respect follows the street and closes her In
famous career in potter's field. Had ne
been killed would the result have been
Worses The story Of all family wrongs
shows that we living wrongly in the cities. We
dwell In boarding houses, we introduce men who.
far without are rotten Within and they spread and
disseminate the poison OF q baneful wrong. the
average sentiment Of s that II he gets hurt no
one cares, for he ia q social outlaw. Though don't
say that the killing OF the man whose cOrpse ID now
before the public eye was right we oil say that II was
natural justice which overlook him. The lnnuence
Of unbrldIed passion, OF literature, renders social
tragedy like this possible. Our rock should De the
family relation ordained OF God.
The reverend gentleman closed his discourse,
which was delivered In q very positive and emphatic
manner, by reassertng by quotation, the invio-
liability Of home happiness. There was no manifes-
taon during his frequent declarations that murder
was inferior In degree to seduction save in the de-
pnrture OF one gentleman from the middle OF the
congregation IN high dudgeon.