New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-18

SERMON BY THE PASTOR OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH
AT ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS CRIME CHARACTER
IBr TELEGRAPH THE rRrBUNEI
WASHINGTON, July 1.-THE Rev. r j. Power.
pastor OF the Christian Church I'm this city, the
sect of which President Garfield is "A member.
preached sermon to-day upon the subject of the
attempted assassination of the President taking
ms text from Deuteronomy xxx. ~ and 20: call
heaven and earth TO record this day against
you, that have set before YOU life
and death. blessing and cursing therefore
choose life, that both thou and thy seed nav live
that thou mayest love the Lord thv God. and that
thou mayest obey His voice, and that thou mayest
cieave unto him. for He is thy life and the length Of
thy days; that thou maycst dwell in the land which
the Lord sware unto thy fathers. TO Abraham TO
Isaac and TO Jacob, to give then.D
The following extracts contain the chief features
of the discourse
One OF the mghtiest powers IN all the land educate
prompt, just thorough application and cnforcen~pt
Of the law Let feel t6at his forced entrance into
fever bilrgaries than are now rrcorS.d M ar
pistol or gun or any other weapon whether il &c
in fun in earnest. viii be met with a heavy me
w Sn% n,ptS4 9 s ana we NH have fewer men,
Ignorance than al present Let society declare and let
mere carrying of concealed deadly weapons Is prima
iace evidence OF intent to eommi. crime IL! the laws
shooting and rta6bing in every moment of tenn.
in and Of service for game bur has only NO
Fourf5 81 INV " hi one gay % all The year .he
OF mnooents ana every other day IN the day of
weapon he egslated against aud condemned
The second tsudeney OF the times. which would
| in criticism OF pubc men, which has des,.ne-
TO sit high time is to be lied about our public
men may be ever 50 chsste. they MAJ b. chaste
escape the t9nsnes Of caluInny. There
thinS mar il nouI sns e i hin thiHs n,isr
Nation, and 1t must break out in passions. dis
The very course OF some Of our newspapers
Is such a. to mlane men like Guiiean 10 do ust such
1,eds a. ms, ana to think themselves heroes and
air of this very citv for tbe Mt ~, NJ
months has had much of this very criticism aoat-
my ahont Noris oi public Nllldc8ti0n and defracln
were rife in the last political campaign aud the very man
and who wrote to tie National Commute ihs SIt
hoycd mo campaign OF lss0 would he free from
TINS cine has fallen martyr at It's hands No public
man no man connected with OF the great measures
interruptions and shameless ATTACKS are MAJ.
be- he fG up P0p to pn sS @@TEs ogS6 a to
Men ought 10 be know thar they are r.spon.i
bic FOR What they say. what They write Tor What
S Of G'n the ~nF people AMI rFd e at 5hs lead
The great head and heart OF thS
prerogatyes OF the Ixeeanye there would have b.cn
no sncn assault upon the Presidents life Guiteau's
iitier, lnhammaiOry attacks ndugcd lersiStentiv
10y those who have only personal ends and via
were dissatisfied with executive scton-not because IL
affected the interest Of tie country. because IL was
not IN accord with their precious cour-
sells. liz not the an irresponsibe
mailman Il il not a faction or con
hut, the lightning stroke that shvers the falit
monarch Of the forest but tie eulminang vengeance
of the distempcred air, the murderous report
OF Guiteau's pistol on the % of July was
but the final eruption Of diseased
pohlch atmosphere, atmosphere poisoned by the
pesnentlal Napors from the ccsspooS OF facfon and
nom the Venonous breath OF SANDER.
IL Is but the bitter ruit OF the SYSTEM IA t
the representative work of the psceen; Il is bur the
product of the reckless and defiant boaSf ulur,rr
OF Law and OF the public honor and OF every of
public virtne to satisfy self. III is the action OF
demoniaeal wretch, of a brute in human form,
nnpersonatlng ia himself the atheistc, nhflisic
the COMMUNISTS the anarchc the thugglsh the pistol
and blood ideas OF the Old World Ii National il "a
not American, II Is not the 1uit OF Institutions in "a
hut the work OF terrible. bloody man IN AIMED 10 his ct
by eoMar1ly faetion spirit and sanderous breath and
II Kills the name stalwart for all time to come h NJ
teaches people TO speak reNcrentlaly who are IA
authority III 1t breaks the spirit and power cton "a
heals scctlonalsm, II II impresses
OF great life with the dignity OF the Presidential ni,
with the necessity and majesty of law with the glory 81
Union, aud, above ALL with the omnipresent rule f
the divine Providence, then Will say !" Let God
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