The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-12-01
THE rev, Fn LOS POLITICAL SERMON.

UNo. there are no less than a half
dozen falsphoods n the article, purport.
ing to report nv 81 rmon. The NEWS
DFMoCRAT can mak the most misrep
reservations to the 50 uare inch of any
paper | ever saw, an, a this instance
seems to have broken its 'ecoro."
The above extract is fro m an inter
view in the Evening l,'ep. with
the Rev. J. N. Field. 1t dOeA not read
much like the talk of a ministe r, but 1t
is. Owing the more important m, alters,
we have allowed the Rev. y ield's
political talk to lie dormant Oh our
desk for over two weeks, while we hay g
been busy in noting the Democratic
Publications, and sizing up the i'm.
mensity of the all absorbing Democratic
victories. The above extract, from the
Rev. Fields interview, is in reply to a
report of the Rev. Fields political SER
mon, delivered just before the recent
terrible cyclone struck the g. o.p. The
substance of the Rev. Fields sermon
was reported to the NEWS DEMOCRAT
by one of Mr.. Fields congregation, a
gentleman of high intelligence, 1t was
written out, just as it appeared in the
NEWS DEMOCRAT, by another gen
tlemaD, who is q Prohibi.
ZIONIST. We printed it as
as a matter OF news, and had no idea
that the article misrepreSented Mr.
Field in any way. Hence the interview
printed in the Eve Rep. Is an unjust
reflection upon the character of the
NEWS-DEMOCRAT Since the puOlica-
tion of the Rev. Fields interview in
the Eve. Rep. we have interviewed sew
nf "a nE fg
church, on the report printed in the
NEws-DEMOCRAT, and without excep-
tiOn, every member has stated that our
report of his sermon was fair and cor
rect. One prominent member of his
church said, only last evening: at is
true that Mr.. Field did not mention
Bidwell, the Prohibition candidate for
President, but l understood, and so did
others, that he stated his intention Of
voting for the Prohibition candidate
We believe munster has perfect
right to state his position on all vital
questions of morals, statecraft and soci-
ETY., and when the Rev. Field proclaim
ed the Prohibition doctrine from
the pulpit, we did not aim
to critiCise him, but simply to
state his attitude, as a matter of news.
And we now have the satisfaction Of
knowing that we reported Mr.. Fields
sermon correctly. If he did not vote
his convictions, but threw his vote
away on Harrison, that is not among
our regrets.
When we first heard of Rev. Fields
sermon we bad hopes of Mr.. Field. We
thought perhaps he had concluded TO
follow the lead of those distinguished
christian gentlemen, like Prof. Elliot,
of Yale, Prof. Cooley, of Ann Arbor,
e8-Gov. Cox, of Ohio, Gen. John =.
Rea, of Minnesota, and thousand
eminent scholars, humanitarians ana
divines, who shook Quay, Dudley, Dave
Martin, Frick, Carnegie and the Pink
ertons, and espoused the cause of that
great reformer, devout patriot and
robust American, Grover Cleveland.
Many of the Rev. Fields best friends
now regret that he did not renOunce
the g. o. p. before the campaign, and
come out boldly for Cleveland, pure
ballot and an honest government.
Protection, as interpreted by the mod
ernizEd Republican is narrow, selfish
and un-Amerlcan word. 1t is anti
Christian. When Christ came to teach
mankind the grandest moral lesson of
the centuries, He did not say: This is
grand thing, but 1t is only for Gods
chosen children. He did not place a
picket guard at Dan and another at
Beersheba, and run line of armed
sentines around Judea, but He preached
TO the multitude OF the mountain tops
and allumined the coming aurora, with
the blazing sheen Of glUriiied, i'm
mortal sentiment
Go into all the world and preach the
| Gospel to every creature.
There is no Chinese wall of exclusion
about this doctrine. This doctrine
crossed the Atlantic with the good
Christopher Columbus, and it took deep
root, when the author of the Declara-
ton of Independence ard the father of
the Democratic party, set the young
| Republic on its career of Empire.
The result of the November election
shows that this doctrine is still with us,
and that it has come to stay. In the
meantime we have the largest charity
for all that rapidly narrowing class,
whose grasp upon the selfish and Venal
affairs Of earth has dimmed their vision
to the wide open glOries Of an all alb
sorbing humanity.
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