Morning journal and courier., 1891-05-05
BISHOP BROOKS.
What the New Bishop Says on an
 Interesting Subject of National

What the New Bishop Says on an - Interesting Subject of National
 Importance.
 Phillips Brooks, the eminent Episcopah- an divine, now a bishop, who speaks at Yale soon, and whose eloquent voice has not infrequently been heard in New Haven at Marquand chapel and Trinity church, spoke recently in Sunday sermon on . subject of national importance. No cler- gyman can command @ more respectful at tention when he chooses to discuss any question of current interest than MT. Brooks. He does not often go out of his topic of the day. When he does do so it is obvious that he is actuated by @ strong sense of the importance of word in sea- son. He must then regard the present agitation of the immigration question as of the gravest importance. This is part of what Phillips Brooks said: "No nation, as no man, has right to take posses sion of a choice bit of Gods earth to exclude the foreigner from it's territory simply that it may live more comfortably and be little more at peace. But If to this particular nation there has been given the development of certain part of Gods earth for universal purposes; if the world in the great march of the centuries is go- ing to be richer for the development of certain national character built up by a larger type of manhood here, then, for the worlds sake of those very nations that would pour in upon us that which would disturb that development, We have 8 right to stand guard over it. We are to develop here in America type of na- tional character, we believe, for which the l world is to be richer always. It may be the last great experiment of Gods warn ing of humanity here upon the earth. We have right to stand guard over the con- | ditions of that experiment, over the deyel- | opment of the training of that peculiar and richer life, letting nothing interfere with | it, drawing into it the richness which is to come by the entrance of many men l from many regions of the earth, feel ing that it is to be perfect not by any narrow working upon itself, but as | great amalgamation of all that is precious in all the lands. There does not seem to me to be at least the theoretical solution of that which our thoughts and anxious some time statesmanship which cradles and holds up and works by the great ideas that each nation has right to develop its own life, always kept from sel6shness and narrowness by the consciousness that it if not for itself, for its own comfort or its own wealth, but it is for the great, broad | good of all the word"
 Commenting upon these remarks of MT Brooks, the Waterbury American says:
 In this noble passage Phillips Brooks makes remarkable appeal to both reason and sentiment | We have all been trained for Q century to believe that our country has been chosen by providence
 to work out the problem of the best possible gov | ernment for the people of the world; to receive | from the older civilizations those who will come
 and to give them an opportunity to develop tht
 best manhood and citizenship Of which they art
 capable. It to this sentiment, the growth o
 generations of training, that Philips Brooks ap
 pealed. But he appealed no less to reason when
 in the name of the great trust committed to th l nation, he protested that must not tax Ou
 powers of assimilation beyond what they arr
 able to bear. By so doing we may wreck no
 only our own fair future but the future of thu
 race which seems to depend so largely upon ou
 own.