Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-05
A CASE FOR THE COURTS.

Rev. DR.. McCrory Says the Prescribed
Women Should Be Arrested and Tried
Unlawful to Turn Hordes of Them
Upon the Streets-Christ and Sinners.
At the Third U. P. Church last evening
a large audience gathered to hear Rev. DR..
McCrort preach upon the attitude of Christ
and His followers toward sinners repentant
and unrepentant The preacher said:
''There has been great evil existing IN
this city apd it has now come to a
crisis. 1t was found that the Off
GERS of the law were nursing this
evil, but finally through the interposition of
some newspapers and 'the ministers of the
gospel the Mayor was led to do his duty.
This community has never heard so much
about the attitude of our blessed Master to
sinners repentant and unrepentant as in the
past few days. and that shall be my attitude.
Although Jesus Christ is the friend OF sim
ners, He was the uncompromis1ng enemy of
sin, as is shown when He exclaimed: 'Ye
serpents ye generation OF ytpers. how can
you escape the damnation OF hellf
"Jesus.can do nothing for men in their
SHINING except pity them. We believe that
righteousness should be maintained and
sinners punished. Unconditional surrender
offer sinners.r The preacher then spoke OF
the Church's attitude toward sinners, both
Erepentant ana unrepentant, using as an
Illustration the, y oman, who threw herself
down before Christ and breaking the box o
rare ointluelIt. poured it over His feet and
wiped them with her disheveled hair.
Jesus turned to the woman." continued
DR.. McCrory, ''and said, Woman, thy sins
are forgiven thee. Go in peace. She was
prepared. to lead-a new lilo. There is an
utter disparity between this and the case in
this city recently where the police enforced
the law and closed the houses of ill-repute.
Yet such q comparison has been made.
What comparison is there between this
W oman and the brazen wretches of this city
demanding support in their damnable
course? On account of the stand have
taken; in he matter have been contrasted
with the Lord Jesus. 1t is not only myself
who ought to be indignant, but every Chris
tian nan and woman i'll the CITY,"
Here the minister spoke of the two thieves
who were cruci1ied with Christ on Mount
Calvary. One was forgiven while the other
passed away in sin. Christ could just as
well set the other one free also,r said MIR.
iMcCrory, 'just the same us 1 could have ad-
mitted the women into my house who de-
manded an entrance in way that was
simply devilish. Yet Christian people are
denounced because we say OF criminals that
their place is behind the bars;' because swe
say that it is not our duty to protect and
iced them, but to arrest and punish them.
"It was sunpardonableandun unlawful Tor the
officers of this city to turn looss on the street
hordes of these women. They should have
been arrested and tried. There was not one
woman of these who came to see me at my
home but there were so or rs. They all had
pupers in their hand bearing my address,
which they said was Given them at the police
department. The object OF this was to pre-
cipitate trouble between these women and
Christian society. This case is for the court
of Justice. We have nothing TO DO with it."
Mr. McCrory ended his sermon by saying,
81 am not afraid to stand on the position
have assumed before the Christian world,
and am not afraid to stand upon this posi-
tiOn before NV GOd,n