The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-06-30
DEMANDS ON Youth.
Nation and Church Need
Young Men, Says Mr..
Ha11eron.

Let no man dispise thy youth. TIMOTHY, w., II.
This was the text which the Rev. Mr..
Halleron, of st. Paul's M. E. Church,
chose for his discourse on Demands on
Young Men" last evening. "First," said
the speaker, ''let us discuss the demands
of posterity. We are not only related to
all the past, but to all future time. The
race is a chain whose links, though COM
plete In themselves, are part of a com
mon whole. The 10y laughs at grotesqae
figures thrown upon the canvass whilst
Sir Humphrey Davey, the inventor OF the
camera, is Forgotten. The stream coming
to our mill ought to receive sufficient i'm
petus from us to u h faster to sne
next.
He is q traitor whe mars the statue
whose pedestal even he had no hand in
q~uarrying. He is untrue to his race n
his God who dies content with leaving
the world as he found it. Another de-
demand is that which the nation makes
upon young men. Men are the makers
of the nation after all. No man asks his
wife howhe shall vote. wish sometimes
he would. But upon us men rests the
responsibilities of the franchise. Noduty
Is treated with less conscience by many
than this, and yet, next to the demands
of heaven, nothing is more sacred"
The preacher said that the ignorance of
the people at large is simply astounding.
In 1870 there were four million five hun-
dred and twenty-eight thousand and
eighty-four'persons, 10 years of q and
over. of a population OF a little over
~thirty-eight and a half millions who could
not read, while there were over five and
a half millions who could not write, and
this with all the advantages of our
common schools and high colleges.
PRoMIsCUoUS IMMIGRATION.
another u for alarm is that which
arises from promisouous Immigration.
Russia, Germany and France have re-
lieved themselves of of the fearful
incubus of Nihilism and Commun-
ism by heroically throttling the evil
and expelling the leaders. They tread
our shores as to the manor born with
hatred in their hearts to all institutions
OF civilization that prevent the gluttony
OF their fiery passions. Freedom in their
estimation is slavery
Another evil the preacher mentioned
was the venialty of fraud. 1T is now the
CUSTOM" he said ito charitably look
upon certain crimes with large allow
nouncing a kink in educational methods.
and this specially when wealth garnishes
the home OF the culprit. But the DOOR
man is consigned to the limbo of public
scorn for evils which would easily bear
charitable construction. Some of these
AA2A-tOa0A AIduO5 ctCQI6 bd6 U66u btdUS IN
our churches; are captivated by the
horid rhetoric of the pulpit, and the
grand oratorios from the choir, thereby
TOO often silencing the pulpit that should
ever be the exponent of the highest
type of character.
.'The church demands young men now,
and must perish without them. What
ever In the nation is pure, ennobling and
of good report finds its warmest support
at her affairs. Our nation was founded in
prayer. BENJAMIN Franklin and even
phomas Jefferson bowed as meekly as
any in b~eseeching the favor of Heaven on
$heir measures.
aThe church is in a conflict deep, pro-
tracted n violent. Young men, we.
need your STRONG arm and your noble
hearts in her defence. The Shiny fea-
lures of vice cannot bear the spotless robe
OF so pure a virgin. She is a singing
invictive, a whitening blight on which It
.instinctively recoils.
''Ih1qk not, young men, that the
beauty OF your surroundings comes by O
fortuitous course of events. Nor even
from parental sagacity, or through edu-
cational advantages. but by Almighty
God. He comes to ask his own, but
makes no demand without sufficient
grounds. And fnsyielding a compliance
you deck your own brow with more thar
u 1eWeled c~orOnet.n