The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-03-29
SIN IN NEW YORK SOCIETY.
DIR. MORGAN DIX CONTRASTS TIME
PRESENT WIN TIME PAST

A wash,.gton's birthday Sermon That 10
. Sort OF Companion Piece to the Famous
Lenten Lecture Of Three Years Ago.
The Magazine Of American History. OF which
Mrs. Martha ]. Lamb is the editor. prints in
full in Its April number the sermon delivered
by the Rev. Dr. Morgan Dix on Washington's
Birthday in at. Thomas's Church. Passages in
1t recall the famous Lenten lecture that DIR.
Dix preached three years ago in Trinity
Chapel. in which the sins OF modern New York
society we're denounced. The recent sermon
at st. Thomas's was dedicated to Loyalty to
our Country. Past and Future" and DR.. Dix's
hearers were a chosen lot from New York's
patriotic and aristocratic families. including
the sons OF the Revolution" and their invited
guests. tho Colonial Danes Of America" The
ancestors Of the Colonial Danes were officers
and statesmen in the struggle for American
liberty and the Sons OF tho Revolution are all
descended from warriors; and among DR.. Dix's
hearers was a phalaux Of Stuyvesants. Van
Rensselaers and other proud old New York
names.
The text was from Joel. H.. %: your old
men shall dream dreams. your young men
shall see Visions, DIR. Dix began with
culogy on the patriotism. grandeur and
purity Of tho heroes who won for America her
~, And then look at our fathers il their home S,,
lie he said: how true to each other. how
nestle iiie H au went e on to give as an
devotion Of richard and Janet Montgomery.
How Janet bade farewell to her soldier hus-
tT e sns unasT tSs & walls
Quebec When. forty-three years afterward.
the body was brought back from Canada Ia, to be
Ianets house on tho Hudson. and she. seeing
the boat from the river. fell insensible to the
Is not this. asked the preacher. IAN in.
hearts. Where be ,he irl6blss 9t our gay p.
n hey the
fashionable women who must have men to
and who in the hour Of marriage. reflect with
pleasure that II things do not turn, out to their
s will and p Sos sa s he set cta as@
Of Richard Montgomery and Janet Livingston;
and II they have tears of repentance to shed
and he, told Of Edward Livingston. who died at
had her by sss
All no; it is q Islander and lie that there
is no real deyotion within tho sacred tie Of
Msrd IN iRtRin ve The fault s them
denee Of good living and tho &C corruption Of
mind, motive. and heart.
pas msS the 0t s s sns Tx
views Of the present and set the GiStnres side
the day. the neglect OF divine worship. the
popular admiration Of everything that is rad
ditions. tho pleasures taken by people in hav-
ing their names. their acts. and all that they
do made public through sensational press
the intense ,selflshness Of the rich
duct due Of the labor a unions. the Vol
untary expatration Of Americans. their
residence in foreign capitals. the apish imita-
ton OF the manners. dress habits Of other
races; the deterioration OF the womanly ideal.
the passionate addiction Of our, people to
pleasure. so that to nmuse oneself becomes
morals. the growth. Of divorce. the breaking
life Take your camera and go the rounds.
and see what a startling collection Of photo
graphs you can. with no great effort, bring
back.
resolve, and clear conscience: come. maiden.
earnest and good. not yet sulied and profaned
by the world: come. take the tiller and steer
us where we elders can see the brightness in
the skies, the shining OF the years that follow"