The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-10-02
SCHOOLS And THE Bible
Pastor Houston Urges the
Mechanics to- Fight Inf
de1S and RomanistS.

AT the request OF the members OF
Clinton Council, Junior Order of Ameri-
can Mechanics. the Rev. Thomas Hous~
ton, Pastor OF the John Knox Presby-
terrain Church, last night addressed the
members of that council and a host Of
thsir friends from other councils Of the
same order.
The pretty little church was tastefully
decorated with flags aud bunting. and its
appearance was a pleasant welcome to
mechanics VIII crowded the church to
the OVERLOOKING. The address, which was
an interesting one, delighted the MechaE-
les, VINO were not long in ascertaining
that the talented speaker WAS in accord
win their work.
Your order is a mighty one," said he,
tits growth has been phenomenal and
the secret of its growth is the principles
you adopt aud the objects for which you
are organized. Yours is certainly an il
lustrious body aud to you one and all i
import words of encouragement n good
cheer. The motives whlch have actuated
and iinpelleu you are known and IL your
objects are adhered TO they are calculated
to make your members true Christians.
l wish you a glorious, numerical, financial
aud Influential future. Your growth has
been like the acorn into the powerful
oak. Everything about you has been all
American.
PROTECTION OF THE BIBLE.
Your CHIEF object has been Gne protec.
ton Of the Bible. 1t is a good book, aud
The task of destroying it will be a mighty
hard one. IL has always bsen a harOin-
ger of peace. civilization and education.
1t has been ridiculed. There are those
who have attempted TO eject it from the
public schools. Inidels aud Romanists
hounh anr Fvio,,da in uAa tyin ~ lee rafn1fTnr
We can understand why inddels should
object to 1t. 1t is dead against immor-
alJy and Kindred vices. Why should
Rome object to it? They claim to be the
only church, and IL so then why should
they not encourage the reading of it in
public, in private, and promulgate and
enforce its teachings. Fear compels her
to antagonize it. lest her policy. theology
aid money-making schemes should be
exposed. She has no Bible for her in
fallibility; she has purgaGory, prayers to
saints ana confessions.
CANNOT BE SURPASSED.
II "Our pubic schools and Institutions
are the best offered in any country. and
our system of quantity and quality can
not be surpassed. It is almost a crime
TO be ignorant in these days. Education,
however. in q limited degree is danger
Gus, and the control OF mouey in public
schools is injurious. You noble hight
against the rejection OF the Bible iu the
Bayonne schools nay repeat itself. and
l hope that you will all be ready to meet
The emergency IS you did in
hat case. and come OF vic
Lorious, You have undertaken
many glorious and praiseworthv tasks
and 1 hope that now you will take a hand
III checking the making of bad laws. /
say America for Americans aud also for
those who cop here, but leave their
mouarchial and anarchistic notions be-
hipd them and ADOPT everything hat is
American.
BAD LAWS OF LAST WINTER.
Vote tor the repeal of the bad laws of
last wiuter and WORK for the proper OBJ.
servauce OF the Sabbath aud prevent it's
further Dissertation. I wish you aud
YOU order unlimited success and power.'
Next Sunday night Mr.. Houston Will
address the knights of Pythias. the fol-
lowing Sunday the knights of Malta,
then the Young Peobls's Society OF
Oh istiau Endeavor, and following that
will be the celebration of the Fourth an
niyersAry of the Sunday school,,