New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-12-23

THE REV. DR.. STIMSON'S CHARACTERIZATION
Following extracts from
by the Rev. DR.. Henry A. Stimson. pastor of
the Broadway Tabernacle Church. yesterday
morning:
1t seems Ike a travesty on Christmas that we
should find ourselves in the Lords house to-day
WIN our minds and the minds of the people filled
WITH the talk Of var That Christian nation
Peace in the same breath with which 1t is utter
ing ar Ssf Thch If i \. e
worship one Wonderful. Counsellor in the very
m T ba we SpT plane TO 0y so
time OF extreme national strain, when anxiety
two years and business has been paralyzed and
industries have stood STILL and the fields OF the
no market AID when our whole financial system
Is built upon a basis so unstable that 1t has not
peril attending such a task; that at such time
this Nation should be suddenly diverted from its
involves even as a remote possibility, the hor-
rors of war Is a situation so amazing, so prepos-
ferrous that one finds 1t difficult to get speech that
The one hundred thousand dollars precipitatey
concern, and the outcome Of which has no Wis
9 a Which EXCEPT w 10 get o us o Of DIM
the one hundred millions of dollars lost as a con-
sas woud aay w arrest bu
midsummer madness"
And what is it all about? boundary dispute
In which we have not the remotest concern. a
question of fifty years standing, to be precipitated
was intended or not. brings the alarm Of war
ard hurs not only the business interests of our
own country, but the business interests of the
into innumerable homes.
1t may not be for us laymen in matters OF pub
lie affair to pronounce upon positions taken off,
cally by the representatives. of the Nation. and
] would show all personal respect to the Pres
dent and Congress: but when such an authority
as the great constitutional historian OF the United
states. Professor Won Hoist. who has shown his
love for this country and his admiration for our
Institutions by devoting his life to Their eluclda-
ton and by removing from Germany to America
TO make his home with us; when such man
speaks of the Presidents message as the most in
famous public document since Napoleor's day.
certainly the common people are justified In their
criticisms upon it. And when so learned a pub
ner. OF Yale. says; Il dissent from every state
ment of history or law contained in the President
message. and ! regard all the proceedings in
OF better warrant for the crisis which is
thrust upon us than that which appears.
among great nations is fast Secomn sn obsocs
Would to God that rs very dialect should dis.
appear from the English speech. But when all
and the Industries OF the civilized world are con-
sumed in maintaining standing armies large
fifty characterize the reckless folly that would
hur even an apple OF d.scord into the arena of
speech that would precipitate strife?
Some of you well remember the day when Con-
gress cast everything aside that 1t might pro-
claim It's reckless admiration for the bold act OF
Commodore Wilkes in the Trent affair: and how Il
was the steady good sense and intrepid courage
promptly released the captured commiss one RS
ss9 and and Ss SSd and spoosz
thus saving the, country from double peril
and rolling quickly away the burden that FOR
the hour stopped the Nations breath. Alas! the
the instIgators OF the bunder that is worse than
crime.