The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-10-10
SGJDDER'S Discoveries.
Fantastical Sermon Apro-
pos of the Great Work
of Columbus.
MECHANISM IDOLIZED
The labernacle's Pastor Bwells on
Material Prosperity aud Jests
at the Past.

The Rev. John L. Scudder, of the Tab
e~rnacle, last night preaehel a sermon
commemorative of the discovery of
America by Columbus four hundred
years ago. The audience overfio@ed the
au liz rum aud the gallery. The biz
choir under leadership of Professor VIC
tor Baier, sang anthems by Sullivan aud
Taylor, aud u Te DENIM by Jordau. The
rostrum and ulp desk were embellished
with flowers and autumn leaves, and the
inscription, .sl4S2. Columbus. 1892" in
large gilt .~-ietters, was suspended above
the
Mr.. Scudder's text was. "By faith,
Abraham, when he was called to go out
iuto a place which he should after receive
for an innerItadce. ooeyed; and lie went
oui, not knowing WHITTIER he went'-He-
hrs WIS. Xxi: s. The minister maintained
that there WAS a marked similarly be-
tween the lives of Abraham aud Coluln-
bus, though one was an explorer by and
ami the other by sea. Abraham dlscov-
cred the promised land of Canaan and
became the tath-r of d mighty VA ion.
e. lumouS discovered America, aud this
laid Il foundation Tor the greatest nation
on earth. Columbus typi6ed human
DfOXgSSS-uOW LHG hdlGuhOlu il Uu0
world.
vAsTNEss OF AMERICA
In discussing the features OF the great
coutiuentth he doors of which were opened
by Columbus, Mr.. Scudder mads the
startling assertion that while the land
area was not halt SO large as the old
world, the territory is SO fertile that it
eau support a larger population than all
Europe, Asia aud Africa combiued; tor
cutting away The mountainous II
fiozeu parts of these regions, it had Il
NIL ion more square miles of fertile land
tean they. "As to the United States"
sand the speaker, lit Is Almost Impossible
TO ealiz how great aud goo1ly a land
Providence has given us as a nation.
Men may talk about the magnidcence of
the old Roman Empire and its boundless
domain. but the Roman eagles never
few over as much ground as does the
American eagle in lis flight from Ply
mouth Rock to the Golden Gate. We
have a land upon which the sun never
sets during the summer months. In Au-
gust the sunset has not ceased to flash
upon the spears of the fishermen i'll the
Aleutian Islands of Alaska before it be-
gins TO CLINT and blaze on the axes of
woodsmen in the forests of Maine
The speaker ins,itd ed many COMPARE
sons of the area of territory of our single
States with that occupied by powerful
European nations. With these comparl-
sons the American school boy is familiar.
AS TO material prosperity, The speaker
maintained that it WAS never SO great AS
1t is today. w have so much" he said,
THAT we do not know what to DO with
it, and are shipping our products to every
conceivable portion Of the globe. Money
is flowing in upon the Government so fast
that we are paying off our national DEBT
at the rate OF millions a month" And i'll
this connection the speaker facetlously
PANS rk o6 that the p0nnfrU WAS QhlQ In
pension even old soldiers who were sub
jsct 10 toothache.
MECHANICAL PROGRESS.
Zone peculiar feature of our age" said
Mr.. ScuddeF, lis The rapid development
of machinery. The progress Of the race
is in the direction of labor saving"
The speaker, by way of contrast with
olden times. diiated Upon the marvellous
work of electricity; the steam printing
press: the cotton gin, that does the work
OF 5000 men,; the steam plOw. preparing
an acre of land for seed in less than six
minutes; the monster harvesting ma
chimes, and other mechanical mArvels.
He dwell uDon the wonders of the micro
phone, which magnifies a whisper into a
roar, that enables one to hear flies walk
six hundred feet away. their footsteps be-
ing as loud as the noise OF the gnawing of
rats; of the photograph, upon the cyliu-
defs of which can be recorded spoken
words, "a dead thing speaking with a
human voice"
"What will man do next?" the seeaker
asked. Il believe it will only be a short
Zine before we shall rave regular lines of
flying ships between here aud Chicago.
" ell have the Eagle line and the COM
retitive swallow line. Before you and l
b come an-els, perhaps. We shall have
wings rtiiciai wings"
MIR. Scudder found much material for
an exio mon of wit in contrasting busy
lite of he present with that of our fore
fathers. even hens," he said. ''are not
allowed TO hatch their eggs. Chickens
re Matched by the incubator. a sort OF
patent mother" He closed with a refer
ence to the rapid advance of edu-
cation and religion. :" There is no
country on earth" he maintained,
where the average nan is so well eiu-
Gated. As t. churches we have 40. 900 of
tie u, with nineteen lnitlioh conmuni-
capts. With a new theology we are TAX.
ing on new life. Dur population doubles
every quarter of a century; at this rate,
on- buDared and fifteen years hence, the
population of the Unired States will
reach the hign figure Of foar hundred
millions Snail The sturdy New England
ideas of intelligence and morality prevail
Throughout the land, or shall tile Ameri-
en- ST. OK degenerate aud become uufit to
lead the worid?'
~nED nuADANTINH