Morning journal and courier., 1891-12-21
THE CRIME AGAINST CREATION.

I Abstract of a sermon Preached In Hamden by Professor Clarence
 Greeley, Lecturer (Elect) on Social | Science.
 Text-Romans s:12-21-implies that the l bondage of corruption is crime against creation.
 "Tell me why you proceeded not against those feats so crimeful. Shakespeare.
 What was the crime of Floyd Iresons He simply did nothing to save the leaking ship, but
 Sailed away from sinking wreck
 With his own towns people on her deck
 "The effects of weakness are inconceiv- able''-of Nero fddling over burning Rome. Evarts says that the League found in Boston 15,000 children systematically corrupted by the silence of the citizens concerning one class of child-stealing es- tablishments. 'From their young chil- dren ye take away my glory forever" (Micah). "Unfortunates" are from the homes of bankers, merchants, clergymen, physicians, manufacturers, lawyers, gro cers, all classes. Phillips Brooks thinks it an arrogant and insulting demand that selfish interests should prevent the execu- ticn of the law. Why contract Democrat and Republican into Demi-rep? 'tIn one sent to moral suicide (by the bitterest drop from the chalice of the destroying angelo; in nine States the age is ten, in only one is it as high as eighteen" In covert places doth he murder the inno- cent.
 He taught me all the mercy for he showed me all the sin.
 Spence of Toronto states that street. walking and houses of assignation are less prevalent then they were before the league suppressed the houses of ill-fame. Law and Order means the welfare of criminals Justinian was merciful to Magdslens but not to child -stealers. "We do not give the criminal himself his rights unless we main tain Law and Order." Why insist on the systematic slaughter of the innocents-of Preston Mansfield, dead by the hand of his father. Someone has sung an anthem over every criminals birth. ''The women of my people ye cast out from their pleas ant houses; from their young children ye take away my glory forever" (Bible).
 The social vice was once practical under the guise of religion. 1.-The plague was among the congregation of the Lord" (Bible). The temple in the time of Maccabees was a brothel. ''The atheism and infidelity of France were due chiefly to 8 licentious priesthood and licentious court" Said Milton: "Timorons and un grateful the church of God is again at the foot of her insulting enemies"
 Isaw the house of heaven
 Leagued with the house of hell.
 John the Baptist would have been a zero Said Lyman Beecher: "The exposure of guilt and danger brought out and arrayed before the public eye is the appropriate work of ministers" And Logan: "The only question is whether this subject shall bs brought to the minds of the young by the friends of vice or the friends of vir- tue." And the elder President Dwight: ''Shall we be awed by the cry of indeli- cacy, originally raised by the most indeli- cate of mankind, only to keep the field open for it's own malignant occupancys Shall we not infinitely rather lay hold on every opportunity, and all the means fur nished here as well as elsewhere, to rescue our fellow creatures from destruction? l subject into the pulpit without hesitation, and to treat it in the same definite, earnest manner which is demanded by the precepts of the gospel"
 Perhaps the press (admitting the tend ency 10 news) exists to Champion those measures which seem calculated to pro mote the interests of the whole people" Said Henry Varley of London: ''It is a mere prudery to effect delicacy for and silence concerning that which is certainly producing more immortality, immodesty, and indelicacy than all other causes put | together" Some Egyptian women, other wise entirely nude, conceal their faces with veils. "To such grievances as soci- ety cannot readily cure, it usually forbids | utterance on pain of its scorn; the scorn
 being only tinseled cloak to it's deformed l weaknesses" Dr. Currier states that in l New York city 10000 of the persons l guilty of the social evil are dangerous tc the physical health of the citizens. ''Sin is
 infamy, reformation glory" Phillips referred to the Washingtons and Hamp
 dens whose root is not ability but charsc
 ter. "Take away public spirit and invisible | principles and Hamden becomes noisy demagogue." (Robertson): The sin against
 Hamden is 8 crime against creation. the single note
 | From the deep chord that Hampden smote Will vibrate to the doom.
 l For what physicians call the 'American l sin'' is national evil. Hamden, New Ha
 ven, New York, America are related. 1 Back of the Jacobins, according to 6 | careful writer, the real cause of the French l revolution was Louis XIV with his cour | of panders and prostitutes overwhelming | throne and altar in ruins, making Parit | almost one great stew and gaming house, | licentiousness unsurpassed by any former 1 age.
 | Would bs content to stay in Galilee l And preach in country towns
 | should not heed him.
 l But when he comes up to Jerusalem, l Riding in triumph, as am informed, I That is another matter.
 That thinks Elijah, on Mount Carmel 1 the trouble in Israel; but the real difficulty
 was in the sensual prophets of Bael Theirs is a crime against creation
 (Which have made all the world druncker
 and mad with her poison and mad witt
 her infectious drincke.
 l Sur le pout d'Avegnon Tout le monde passe. The average duration of the life of Gun | fortunates" from the beginning of thei | career is said by surgeons to be only fou years Nearly one-half of the unfortu
 mates in New York admitted when ques
 tioned that they were suffering from
 malady never healed OF earth. And l This fearful curse
 Shakes the great universe.
 'sI have told you what I have seen ani QearQ put IaluIly, uOUn1ug llke Lue lu6g'
 and horror of ii" Shakespeare. | Wait a little, wait,
 Cuckold- makers are not Fate. But wait not to see whether Israel 0.
 Amolek prevail.
 Mo- Hampden They
 1 Have halfway conquered Fate | Who go half way to meet her, As will I.
 l Choose Jesus the Son of God instead O
 Barrabas, called the Son of Shame. Mora unbelief is fatal. In Faust's Margaret
 the fend says '1ost," but the angel crie' out "saved."
 1 On the whole the Orpheus of Law and Or der sounds better to our citizens than tho
 siren songs of sensuality. Civilization has
 arisen out of savagery. The temple o Mylitta was once compulsory; now Con.
 necticut punishes reputation" Silence
 on the part of "Son of God" has landed
 nation in child-stealing. But to-day suct
 men as Mckenzie, Abbott, Meserve, De
 Forest, Patton, Hale and Gladden. (as vel
 as twelve legions of angels) have indorset | this particular local movement in Hamden
 Milford, Orange, Willimantic, New Haver and other places have made prog
 ress in reform. Judges North
 Pickett, Futile, Andrews, Smith
 and the rest have achieved results. Tn,
 first grand juror in Hamden thinks tha
 the moral effect of the election has beer
 very significant. There has been a peace l fn1 ravolnfiop and fa11en fal1an i,