Evening journal., 1892-05-17
ONE CENT
PARKHURST ON HIS PLAN.
Modern Methods Needed to
Combat Modern Vice.
TAMMANY HALL AGAIN ATTACKED.

The Famous New York Clergyman Lee
lures at Washington on the church's
Duty Concerning Municipal Regenera-
tion-Hc Defends His Course.
WASHINGTON, May i7--Long before tho
hour fixed Tor the beginning Of the lecture
by Rev c. H. Parkhurst, Of New York, OF
the Church OF the Covenant, the doors were
closed by the police to prevent further
crowding of the room. About 800 per
sons heard the lecture and half as many
more failed to obtain admittance. OF the
list of signers to the invitation upon which
DR.. Parkhurst came to Washington only
two were noticed in the audience, senator
Hawes of Massachusetts,, and Gardner G..
Shepard. Rev. Dr. Scott, Mrs. Harrison's
father was present in pew. On the plat
form were President Rankin, OF Harvard
university, and a number OF the local clergy.
Dr. Rankin presided and read letters Of re-
gret from Cardinal Gibbons, Bishop Paret,
OF Maryland Rev W. A. Bartlett, d. d.,
and others. He introduced the lecturer in
few words Of commendation for the work
he had done in New York.
The Church aud Municipal Reform.
In his lecture, which was upon the work
Of the church IN municipal regeneration,
DR.. Parlzhurst referred only briefly to his
experience in New York, and attacked
Tammany only as the manifestation of tho
spirit in all cities and in all parties which it
Is the duty Of Christians 10 combat. Many
OF his points were warmly applauded, and
It was apparent that the audience gave tho
/ speaker their sympathetic support Speak
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world, he said 1T is ecclesiastical and
clerical cowardice to go slSyarking after
antedeluvian iniquity. IL is evasive and
cowardly. What is the use OF malgning
David for his vices and vitnperating poor
old Solomon for his Irregularities II we
are going TO bless today's world, we have
got 10 take todays world 10 work on IL
your boy has a leg that needs TO be ampu-
tated, you are not going 10 cure him by
getting the surgeon TO operate on some old
Egyptian mummy that has been lying for
1900 years under the ground. II you are
going TO cure today's boy you viii have to
operate ON todny's boy. Drunken Noah,
tricky Jacob and hbidinous David have
been immensely overworled. 10 is an at
tempt on the part Of the church to satisfy
its conscience without doing its duty.
He Admires Tammany.
"Other things being equal, II is as urgent
ly the obligation of Christian to 60 to the
polls ON election day as Il is for him to
20 20 the Lords table ON communion day.
3 ] admire Tammany for It's unswerving fldel-
ity TO its own aims and purposes The wig
wan has earned It's position Of power.
There are a good many lessons which the
powers OF darkness are competent 10 teach
the children Of light, and that is one OF
& ! them. Vice is good deal spryer than vir-
tue has better staying power, can work
longer without getting tired, and has less
need of half holidays. o.
1--WE easily get accustomed to the con
{, scious presence Of iniquity. In nmy own city
4 il is such an understood fact that every
I crime has its price that mems ethical sensi-
bilities have in the course Of time grown
numb to its touch, and the partnership that
exists between the authorities and the cr1mi-
nal Glasses had become such a familiar tru-
I ism that no ordinary statement Of the situa-
tion would excite the first rifle of ethical
4 indignation.
1T looks a little now as though the general
conscience were recovering from it's nap
and when the general conscience gets started
IL makes hot weather for the sinners. Hence
! the almost ferocious jealousy with which
, Tammany hall and the journalistic organ Of
n tnht gang OF Tree DoultIc hiudlouhil dcpIc-
cates pulpit interference with the concret
1 iniquity and solid rot that has accrued as
, the result Of Tammany's long lease Of power.
Regeneration for cities.
r During the last three months they have
expended more agony and perpetrated
more tears over one moral leper who pre-
sumed 10 pluck the mask from Tammany's
j. dirty face, and TO use his pulpit for the pur-
I pose of displaying the mask and the dirt
p under il, than they have shed over the moral
l. filth Of all the rum holes, gambling houses
4 and brothels Of Manhattan island in all
?. these last ten years. With them the one
4 only crime is 10 uncover crime.
a 1T is not changed political methods that,
but new political spirit that is needed
The doctrine Of regeneration is just as valid
for cities and states as for individuals, and
n II can be done. Grace, grit and sanctihed
l. obstinacy are all that is needed. Give me a
a thousand young mon in New York city,
IS with good heads and good hearts and sol
/. idly consecrated to the city and to the LORI.
!. who died for them, and l would give my
]. bOnd TO whip Tammany every November
a until there was nothing left OF Tammany
but a sinking memory. have referred "a
Tammany only as illustrative Of what Ii
transpiring in greater or less degree in al.
II most every large town among us"
is At the conclusion of the lecture DR.. Park
D. hurst held quite reception scores pressing
u forward to be presented.