The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-11-05
PULPIT POLITICS.
DR.. Scudder Says the Chris
tian Endeavor Union
Will Be a Political
Factor.
WANTS WOMEN TO VOTE
The Rev. Mr.. Vail breaches on
Female Suffrage-Seryices in
Other Churches.

ri. paw Dr .Tohn T.. Scudder at the
Tabernacle yesterday, In a preiuoe ~ nag
| sermon, said -
almost every church in America mas
its Young Peoples Society Oh Chrlstian
| Endeayor, and these societies, extehoihs
into every hamlet in the land nave oe-
c,arad their intention to enter poIi9ics.
This is a significant fact when we reileln-
her that these organizations 'nuinper
several million followers n are coih-
nosed of young people full OF energy
an5 enthusfasm. This means that the
| church is going into politics n Is going
| tbera ia stay. Furthermore. 1T means
that the Church is to become a power
fuI n~olitical factor, for in these socie1ies
- hos a nerfect and permanent orsani-
zation extending through county eia'e
and NATION. and will act as d 0H
all great moral questions
NO CHURCH PARTY.
.I do not take 1T that the churehes arr
to form a separate political party; on Tug
contrary, they will stand OUTSIDE an
narties. but they will cooperate anu as
one prodigious organization make thei
emands upon existing parties anu ha'e
their wishes fulfilled. Before election
averv local union will assume temporal
ily the annearance of a political conven-
+ton ratifving such candidates only as
will carry out the desires of the respect
able portion of the community. lhey mMi
secure written pledges from 9he az dnes
dates. and hold them to their plsuses,
ana if they fail to keep their pleasss
those particular politicians will be DOOM
ed. WON DooJS
,I III r.itb the utmost 10y the coming
Of This eyentful day in the history OF inc
Church. At last the politicians VIII 1i
that we Christian people are not pc CO.
of fools; that we know enough 10 60
onerate. command several million Vo!ers
and hurl our combined forces agallsS
the enemies of righteousness, law III
order, The reason the Liquor dealers
Association is such a power an inns Sotb
trv ard obtains recognition from poth
the Republican and Democratic parties,
is because it is a unit ana acts o.1se
thew place the liquor interests flrst n
party second. Now. when Chrlstlan PEI
BE combine and hold an verwnelIhlt
balance Aof power, when they pun 70
gether and refuse as a body TO vote l9r
Shy man who will not carry OUT tneir
principles, then, and then only, VIII .ney
nowerful. Why should not there be
Christian halls Is we'll as Tammang
Halls? What objection to a sanctl1eo
caucus? Why God not + pun Sinners wlres stand to-
k1n2lOIIl u ~ l. u
gether and protect their interests, why
Should not the saints do the same thing,
and whip old Satan QUIT?
TALKING POLITICS..
Another refreshing sign of the times
is that the ministers are beginning TO
talk politics from the pulpit with a VIII.
! The day was when they thought " OUT
| of place and felt constrained to be silent.
| They were victims to those an cne
| churches who wanted the simple Cos
| pel.' Today they are applying the Gospel
to politics and everything else: They are
| determined to destroy as well as TO re-
generate. The popular clergyman OF to-
| day is something more than an annex to
| the ladies' sewing society, a piece of holy
| bric-a-brac or for an AFTERNOON
tea. In the evolution of the Church ne
is becoming a Colonel of a regiment,
| ready at a u notice TO iead ms
ness. His pulpit is being turned oc-
! n~asionaIly unto a battery, from which
| he pours shot and shell into the ranks
of the foe.
ministers are 10 longer good little
kittens, with eyes unopened, mewing
| about apostolic succession other
| trivialties; they are developing into
| formidable Parkhurstian cats, with backs
| high up in air, splitting vigorously at tne
! political dogs that surround them and
keeping them at bay with claws that
| cut. AS a profession we have worn BIND
ers long enough, which allow US to look
straight ahead, yea, even into eternity,
but prevent our noticing what transplres
| about us, The modern dominic can make
the saints comfortable as heretofore,
| but anon he can make the sinners squirm.
| He is prophet as well as preacher, and
when he has something to say the news
| papers put wings upon his messages ana
| and set them flying all over the land.
| God bless the press of America in their
| generous endeavors to help US in reform
| ing our city governmental