New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-09-26
DR. PARKHURSTS HER.hOA.
HE INIIMATEs HOW NJ NAY BE EXPECTED ~
CONTINUE his COOP FIGHT.

HE INTIM,TEs HOW IL NAY BE EXPECTED u
CONTINUE HIS GOOD FIGHT.
Madison souare Presbyterian Church va5 cr'wted
Yesterday At the morning services by large conEi'
CATION eager 70 welcome back TO bis pn'"'"l ou''H
the Rev. Dr. CHARLES II. rarkhurs', VINO mas W.
spending his vacation In Europe. AZ tnc U.s. -
the services many Of the congregation went w. wa
10 greet DR.. Tarkhurst. who arrived in THIS Guy "'
the Gcrmanic on Friday morning. To reporters "n'
asked him 10 outline what he would do TINS ldh' ne
answered that he regarded II as extremely uhW'S' -
say wbat he was going 10 DO. what have d'h' u
quite another matter. and am ready TO taik ap W
that II YOU wish he said The results oil ms s''''"
and observations on morals and municipal purity ~
government abroad, he explained would lie err "i
in a course Of lectures az an carly DAY III III o.
mon, he said in part:
In resumIng Ibis morning the relations which have
been interrupted for a season. Il Is impossible not 10
have an earnest and burdcnei sense oil coming u'e
this sense OF a trier truth into which we want 10
enter, Of fuller life I'm which we aspire 10 p'Vo"i0
merged and OF stronger action In which II Is oouo ="
he our Christian ambition to enlst-all Of this tells
back upon to-day, and upon this morning, ana com
pcls us to seek after some foundation deep and gus
tanning enough TO undcrlc all, broad enough to ri"
out measurement, sclfassertive enough to exciude
Quibbng and debates. and sufficiently massive I" up
hold whatever this pulpit may have. In the months 10
come to lay upon IT, Entering our new church year
Is In that respect something like gong 10 WORN W p
house you must start In large. 1t IS then not s'u
py with q keen sense OF this morning, but win
lively prcscience OF the entire year before MS that
have based pres, NJ study upon the words ~ our
Lord.
4 large thing you cannot reach except IN mrTc
way You can have suggested TO YOU By actions III"
even by processes Of nature more than can ever se
taught YOU by word Of mouth. however tongncy the
mouth elaborate the word.
f,,fr. opdI liz Wor1 btfn m I
10 saw that nj bottom Christianity cannot be anything
cl-c or ANYTHING other than for man be dlylnely
alive: no sentiment about II, Int prosdlc and
straighaway n use Of terms as plain Spreading knows
souarc.toed OH the basis Of It, And mean, as
already intimatcd to preach theology tina, Is broad.
but not one that has had to get means to pay for lis
breadth by going through chanccry with It's thickness
and cubical contents
Il know that Christianity would become much
greater thing to US II dared to think how great a
We preachers are much TO blame anybody FOR the
religions cOwardicc Of the pew, I'm tbs particular. II
among u.s. who Christians. there Is to be developed
character that shall make us essentially distinct from
those who arc not Christians. then there has go 10 be-
preached that which II Itself essentially distinct from
every system OF faith practice aud life that /, com
pctit.ve with H. | devOuy pray that this year
NAV lie myself 50 Thoroughly and consciously held
under the living Christie uic kcnng power Of the Gospel
that may bc spared The iooi>hne>> AMI IN" niquiiy
Of trying TO preach low. grade Gospel. and Of irving
10 make it, supreme realizes popular by Alternating
them the taste Of men and women whose roll -lnts
ambition finds Itself comtcncd with the best natural
oucOmc> Of history and the best natural isu"' If their
Cmlsanitv IS rather "a form - human Thinking than The
art Of divine living