The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-27
REV. MIR. KRANTz'S PLAIN TALK.


He Whacks Office Seekers in His Ser
mon on Memorial Day.
There was no sleeping under the SER
mon, or rather oration, which the Rev.
John Krantz, Jr., delivered last evening
to the old vets of the Henry Wilson Grand
Army Post, No. 10, at the Centenary
Methodist Episcopal Church The
beauty of the custom of decorating with
flowers the graves of fallen heroes was
admirably set forth; but the new minister
did not dwell long upon the sentimental
side of the subject He turned it squarely
over and discussed the practical.
Iheard one gentleman say on leaving
the church after the sermon, that "such
talk was well enough on the stump, but
entirely out of place in church pulpit.
Judging from ''the cut of his jib" be held
Office.
Mr.. Kranty began his discourse by in
stituting comparison between the obsero-
ances of Fourth of July and Memorial
Day, and said one was characterized, at
least in some localities, by frivolity, drunk
enness and disorder; the other everywhere
by veneration, tears and the recalling of
tender memories; the placing of garlands
upon the brow of self-sacrifice. Its effects
were salutary lessons to future genera
tions.
In reference to the old animosities be-
tween the soldiers of the North and the
South, the speaker expressed his joy that
they had died away, and that the rose and
violet were now scattered side by side, not
only over the known dead, but that count
less number staked off and marked Gun
known" The time was coming when
that name would be replaced by the better
title, Defenders"
Old soldiers, he said, knew how to
settle their quarrels, and had forgiven one
another long ago; but it was the crank
~ nj !,
stitutes to fight for them, who kept open
the old issues. With them it was per-
sonal ACKNOWLEDGMENT and not patriotism.
And It was just here that the reverend
gentleman said the very plain things to
which the objection which l overheard
must have referred. While discussing
the difference between living on ones
country and living for it, he lowered his
voice to harsh whisper, and leaning his
head far out over the pulpit desk, with
ewes flashing and contempt portrayed in
every line of his features, he asked
isn't it shame shame !
established by Washington, Jefferson and
Adams the man seeks the office, instead
of the office seeking the man? That weeks
before the election the positions of trust
are already filed; sometimes from this
corner grocery over here, oftener from
the corner liquor saloon over there, here,
All arOuuQ, dutl, uC e1StQO0 WIN u ollcCI-
ing emphasis, ''they must have the rec
ommendation of the County Committeer'
A horrible series of cat yells at this mo-
ment fioated through the open windows,
and the excited speaker was led to re
mark:-"Even dumb brutes applaud the
idea!''
'HThe citizen who refuses to go to the
caucus. the primary and the polls" said
he. 'should be disfranchised.
The speaker closed with q glowing
tribute to the heroism of the old vets and
concluded by saying:-"I never could
look upon soldier without feeling that
he was crowned with halo of glory. All
hail the soldier in times of peace as well
as warp
The services closed with the singing of
america" J" after which the Post went to
its headquarters.
A Sermon to Van Houten Post.
Tho Rau Daniel Halleron naatnr of ST