The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-09-18
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. PAXTON.
re Finds dat the woris IL at rts Best New
In snIte Of the BnsIness Depreseion.

For the first time since the latter part Of
May. tho Rev. DIR. John II. Paxton occupied
| Yesterday his pulpit in tho West Presbyterian
| Church, West Forty second street. which Jay
| Gould used to attend Since undergoing a
| surgical operation in tho early summer DIR.
| Paxton hns been summerlnR Mt Eastman pton,
| and he returns in vigorous health. His text
was: And when lie had come out OF the ship.
| Immediately there met Him out OF the tombs
! a man with an unclean spirit" In the course
| u his remarks DR. Paxton said:
You can come out OF n ship. stop of at n
station. or 90 anywhere-to the east side. or
| Kansas. or Colorado meet peorle.just out
OF the tombs. crying for bread. or milk. or
cursing Gods robber barons. the landlords.
Iiark from the tombs of financial distress q
doleful sound the world around. And yet
there is no famine in the land On the con-
trnry, too much OF nil kinds OF products.
There is more stun and goods and furni-
turc. -four. and upholstery than IRE wanted.
or. II wanted. people in need OF them have no
money to buy them with. And go tho cry from
the tombs will grow louder. probably. and lots
Of honest and true men will let their hands
hang down In idleness and consume their saw
ings: others will cat their houses MP waiting
for better times and still others will play the
rogue's part. pay 10 cents on the dollar. and
lay II off on owing to the financial stripgency
we are compelled 10 suspend How familiar
those words have become. And there Is no
usc OF buster and threats. Of appeals to Mayor
or Governor. to set idle tallors at work on
wharvrs or canals.
This is not paternal government There
ing their rent. for landlords must pay the
butcher and baker. as well az other people.
gross and out of 1t these hard times. as II the
world or the state owes any man living. BY
your leave. II does not, any more than God
r..
tunity Of salvation to every man. SO the world
owes 1T environment to every organism t.
he can't, steal i. 4 he must. # charity grows
hunger desperate and drives want to riot.
You see We are big family in this world.
we can do is to have compassion on the multi
tude. as Christ did. to help one another all we
our overprodnction. worn out our old clothes
carpets, and all. and then We shall rejoice in
The world was never so worthy Of God as
in this last quarter Of the nineteenth century.
for there were never so many honest and good
who adorn society with culture. charms. and
beauty, SO much difu ed prosperity. so few
grievances to complain Of In ali the checkered
history OF mankind as to-day.
10 the ts Is
forty minutes. the telegraph. which the news
paper puts on our breakfast tab everv morn
HALLIDAY murder the train held up. 1t does |
not tell us that BA John Smiths were honest |
men. loved their wives. provided for their fam |
II es. went to church. weregood citizens. and paid
their debts; The newspaper docs lot tell us that |
!H' j ohm Smiths were exemplary clergymen. |
upright cashiers. honorable physicians. reliable |
clerks. But II one John Smith goes wrong. in |
q thousand: then the newspaper gives head
the one John in thou sand who defaulted or !
eloped or got into trouble. But you read these
things and you toll your wife the world is 60
ing to perdition. 1t is not So in fact"