Morning journal and courier., 1892-03-07

s respect and honor for his greatness and wisdom and achievement; and there is love for his trueheartedness, his kindlines and broad humanity.
 May such men ever be the outgrowth of our New England life, and of the church of Christ in the world.
 TIMELY DISCOURSE Ely the Rev. Clarence Greeley of Mt.
 Carmel-Evils in Our own Day and
 Time in Our own City and State. Romans s:2s: Creation itself also shall be de | ivered from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of children of God. l
 The apostles outlook is bright. The world is made subject to vanity, but in hope of redemption. Revelation antici pates evolution.
 Whatever the literal meaning of the text may be, we are doubtless in accord with it's spirit and with the whole trend of St. Paups thought when we deduce his theme or proposition. Progress from the bond age of relatively corrupt condition, es- pecially of spirit and sentiment, upward toward the glory of sons of God (doing Gods will, is the duty and privilege of the
 
 tutions.
 An infinite and righteous God in finite snd sinful world means progress. Our government and church to-day are better than those which persecuted Jesus and Paul. Jurisprudence, customs and ideals improve, not because the king's con- science or that of any mere individual adds equity to law, or because the Greece Roman doctrine of natural state of per lection toward which we must return is true, but rather because, humilisting as the fact may be, the past and present are comparatively in state of "original sin" and bondage of corruption.
 We need not go back to the time when the text was written-perhaps the worst period morally in history-we need only to look about us to see the duty of obed- | fence to the law of progress which St. | Paul applies to all creation
 If Cato and Cicero, for insufficient ! causes, divorced their wives Gin Rome) l when Paul wrote, it is also true, as the l New Haven court record shows, that there are men who beat their wives as late as the nineteenth century. If there were 1000 paupers there, supported by the Roman government, there is a very large number in Russia, for example, to- day, and the government not only discourages aid, but reports many deaths by disease which'are really due to starvation. If the
 Roman emperors by virtual bribery divert ed the minds of the populace from the
 sense of bondage, is it not also true that
 many New York officials seek to convey
 the impression that Dr. Parkhurst had no
 grounds for his charges in regard to a
 city government in the bondage of cor
 ruption! If slavery was the great evil of
 the empire in the time of Paul, what shall
 we say of Willimantic, said to be in
 bondage to corrupt County commission
 CTS, who thwarted the popular will, as
 expressed in the "no license' vote, by re-
 fusing to appoint q local prosecuting
 agent essential to the enforcement of
 the lawa And last, but not least,
 if certain gentlemen (as it is assumed by
 the press and 1000 citizens of New Haven.
 "Sons of God," at least in regard to the
 present issue) on the board of public
 works have conducted the public service
 "to the direct and serious injury of the l public interest" we have fresh and vivid
 illustration of the need of deliverance from
 the bondage of city corruption, and the
 case is hopeful if the press light ot
 the world continues to shed it's rays for | righteousness and the pens or voices. ot
 kings and priests" are touched with pro- l phetic fire.
 The press should be, I think, one oi Il
 of the bondage of corruption. It is sometimes said that the progress of
 society is retarded by the low views of its leaders. I am made hopeful when I reflect
 that this cannot be said of the ablest dai lies in New Haven. The text insists or
 the progressive elevation of public morals
 and the press has 8 wider circle of infu ence than the pulpit. Churches, govern
 ments, all things human, are constantly i1 II of os l pers have access to all classes, faith full and gradual education might
 often prevent fearful revolutions. Since
 creation is waiting for sons of God to re deem it indifferent citizens know not what
 they do when they unwittingly support, ,as
 is sometimes done, corrupt journals anc l officials and constrain watchmen on Zion'f , walls to say
 70 night and shades, how ye joined witt | hell in triple knot!''
 3 Holding us in the bondage of corruption
 Said a leading New York daily in regard
 to newspapers "Their function has sa cerdotal character"
 The pulpit is an agency in the moral re ? generation of the individual and of soci ety.
 It is the mission of the preacher t, teach, like Paul, that the present state O
 things is not fnal-that we are subjected to the bondage of corruption in hope O deliverance. It contributes to this end t. :, "chant the praises of the good" "But i ! may be as much of debt we owe to virtu
 and as great piece of justice to explore , vicious character and paint it in it
 proper colors as it is to speak vel of the deserving. Some one has saie Z that there is all the difference il the world between grappling witt . an evil and dabbling in it. It must be tn D privilege of those who are especially callet , to plead the cause of Gods righteousness in the world and to lift men from one stag of civilization to another, to withstand th " "o kingdom of darkness and to comment . good laws and officers as real means 0 D grace and hopes of glory. It is evidentl u the duty of an Elijah or Jeremiah to war :; | an Ahab or Jehoachim. Subtract it's pow u CT in local affairs from Puritanism, and it r; light would be shorn of it's beams to a grea u extent. May 31, 1888, MT. Hooke ' preached that "the foundation o T authority is laid in the fire s consent of the people," On the 14th O Q January, 1889, the first written constitu ' tion known to history Chat created gov f ernment) was adopted. Thomas Hooker a more than any other man, deserves to b
 called Father of American Democracy. ;, admit with Davenport that Gin thi | world church-state is impossible where !, into there enters nothing which defiles, ' but do not forget that Puritanism lose :; it's savor when it ceases to be power il u human institutions and society.