The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-07-30
TABERNACLE BAPTIST CHURCH.

REV. J. STANFORD HoLME.
The Rev. J. Stanford Homc, d. D., preached yester-
day morning in the Tabernacle Baptist Church, Sec
ond avenue and Eleventh street. taking for the subject
OF his sermon "lhe Mob at Epnesus-How 1t was Ex-
cited and How Queled" In the course OF his obscrva.
tions the eloquent preacher said in substance that
Ephesus was chief city under proconsular Roman
rulo Her civil liberties and municipal institutions
were lett untouched by her conquerors Probably tho
republican citizens Of Ephesus had great control in her
domestic affairs. is interesting circumstance that
the great Temple OF Diana burned the very
night when Alexander the Great was born but the
OF the city contributed their Jewels in
der erect u more magnificent temple than the pre-
vious ono TO the goddess so great was this temple
held in public esteem that Alexander offered to give
large part Of his acquired wealth to the temple pro-
vded the Ephcsians would allow him to inscrbs his
name upon II. But whether owing to Paus preaching
in Ephesus, or TO depre ssion IN general, times
wcro hard thorc, ana one Demelrius, dcma-
gogue and siversmiih, called the people together
and said that owing to the preaching OF one Paul,
Jew, the city and temple Of the great Diana were about
to la into decay. This ncendaTy spark ghted upon
innamma6le materials ana as the theatre was situated
mil. where IL could be IRON all parts Of the
CITY, great was the alarm ana conf caused by Sec
Ing many people running toward IT. Paui's first im-
puise rush 70 the aid OF MS ASSISTANTS, whose
lives IN DANGER but he prudenty rclrained from
doing SO. Tho enraged people consrcgated together
and shouted with ali their VOICES ''Greu rs Diana OF
the Ephesanal !" The speaker who on that occasion
addressed the assembled multitude adroty appealed
10 thor religious and ponica sympathIcs, aud In
moment ali was quiet. mere can be no doubt that
the NOV, ment which then took place u labor
movement, because the work then was dull. IL Is
melancholy TACT that u, 600 IN this cry are
Obliged to work Tor dollar and sometimes Tor sixty
cents day, and that 80 900 people this city
aUc to get work even AT these starvation prices II u
hard for mon TO quietly endure such prvauons. YET
riot and blooGshed on, aggrRvae the existing wrongs
without being aUie To obtain The rights sought for.
Demetrius is type OF a OF men that found
IN all ages and countres he concealed his nccndiary
ideas under the cloak OF rcii gious zeal
60 Tho dcniagoguts of our own time act; they hide
their uefAroas designs under the cloak OF the popular
cry oil Tue mob Tno adroitness OIL The town clerk OIL
Ephesus was more than equal 10 the emergency dc
irst obtained hearing, then took the people their
weak SIDE appaudcd Their goddess, but showed that
They might be called by Rome 10 an account oil Their
proceedings and the not was quciled. Tncre are
times when the surgeon, TO save life, must ener-
getieally and sklIully use the knife. Hence,
and ball gwen the mob may havc been
a charitable thing 1t was necessary that lew should
sunor tuat the many might be protected. Human ma
lures suscapti0iiIties are the same Il Wo
forget that great agtat0ns may pege great exccses
that the Dtdteriet oil the nUton yearly changing
that many Of the incendaries who burned the beaut
iu CITY oil Paris are here among We may De W IL
ing and yet unable now 10 govern ourselves Our
theory OF government may be all right, but tho ma
teriais OF winch our communities COMPOSED may
no longer be able 10 MAINTAIN the oil civil
lbcr In view Of the present critical position oil the
nation the Christian citIzcn must work us he has
never before worked 10 give the people not only an
education, but Christian education. The particpa-
tors IN the late riots were inndes aud believers in.
the Bible and Its teachings These are u dangerous
element III the body polite, al element that can only
De couneractcd by the faithful efforts OF Christian
workers whose deeds to be ia favor OF
the spread of The gospel and the COMMENTING together
OF all those materials that may be conducive tho
building up Of the Christian temple ia this great land