New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-18
LETTERS FROM THr,s PEOPLE.
DR. NEwMAN'S Alta ~ Upon PROFESSOR
ADLER Ae

IN OfON EhOI GccOn
adler. ~
nv VII The Tribune.
SIR: Whep' che amenities of the pulpit are
violated as the were in recent sermon By the Rev
,, man, Of this city, the offence against good
strikes right. minded people with peculiarly
- Jant shock DIR. Newnans language In speaking
70 Professor Adler such gentleman would use
Honest variance OF opinion Expressed in proper terms
Is one thing; abuse without argument Is another and
very different thing For the latter, the offender de-
serves only to be called to order in the Of public
decency Professor Adler the subject Of this coarse
sau stands at the head Of society the inception OF
which marks new in humanitarian progress. Be-
sides Its public lecture system the Society for Ethical
Culture maintains free Kindergarten and Working.
,encol, in both OF which ednc"t,on Is directed
toward the development Of the ognatlve or creative
faculties OF the pupils. This is entirely new depar-
ture In pedagogy and one value OF which has been
abundanty proved by the results thus far attained In
addition to this system OF district nursing has been
inaugurated and successfully carried for some years
by means Of which hundreds OF the sick have re-
ceiyed the priceless boneat OF home attendance and
Of life and health These enterprises 10 which there
no Interior motive attempt to proseytize under tho
only CHARITY bat simply their h Ssp SssS
owe Their origin to the warm human sy%pa NTH 81 rT
ness OF pp- aud the devotion OF an earnest life,
been attempted hitherto has secured him the respect of
those who differ most widely from him In religious be-
recent lecture made it the text several minutes Of
abuse that would have dsgraced caucus OF machine
The lecture referred TO- from whion the misquoted and
garbled taken, was, throughout glowing
teacher the world has yet SEEN From beginning
TO end there was not word that dd not express MS
deep and strong admiration for the founder OF Christian
ity DIR. Newman's language would have been in
excusable under circumstance; IL becomes sun
II is Impossible believe that the ladies apd gentle
men composing DR.. Newmans audience approved ms
coarse and yug uterances IL Is impossible to believe
serespect Christian public viii sanction
tns attempt to Introduce the style OF the barroom INTO
No. I6i West Eleren1h-st. Yec- YORK, April Ia 1888.
III must be confessed that for writer protesting
against the of strong language by others, our
correspondent contryes TO use good deal Of strong
language himself. For example: DR.. Newmans
words were such as no gentleman would use"; be
made gross assault " he abused Professor Adler
in way that would have disgraccd caucus OF
machine politicians" used coarse and vulgar ut
terancesp introduced the style of the barroom
into the pulpit" etc. What DIR. Newman saiC &C
cording TO The TRIBUNEs report, was:
don't know that ought 10 be surprised at anythh
Jew does especially jew who has become an atheist
Ho Is like that man described by the SAVIOUR ont OF
which devil cast and WHOM toe deYl was cast out
Lie multiplied by twelve aud became twelve times as
Dad o. he had been an prepared to expect anything
from Jew who mas become ath .ist, and tns
Jew Proposed TO criticise the morality OF Christ he
said that Christ had called the syrophenician woman
dog. lie did nothing OF the kind. In accordance Win
tne usHs oqicHdi he spoke Of her all pagans We're
spoken at tue aud place. aud DID " 10 test ner
laith The jew is fool II he did not know that the
Syroohenician was n Gentle ami that IL the Ian
guage of tue time call all suon dogs II lie had Iet
her afflicted after learning now strongly she ala Deneve'
then charge OF harshness would nave held against HIM.
but lie did not, aud so say crown Him -,
Perhaps the meanest part OF the alheisnc Jew WHO
sets himself up 10 be religious teacher In New 1ork
CITY Is that he indebted to tue Holy Scriptures for MS
religious hgnt and does not acknowledge H. lie Is hn
cccslasca robber; has stolen from CHRISTIANITY us
great thOughGJ elevate himself and, VITA the mean
mesa of on ap1sate Jew, he rejects the authority " us
guide Away with such Jews. Wo have no room Tor
them among the OF religion IN this great CITY,
altogether, the impartial reader may conclude
that as between the correspondent and the clergy
man the honors are now about easy, anu award
each Of them credit for unusually copious aud
vigorous yocabuary.-Edl