Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-06-02

Now and then one hears good
thing from pulpit orator, and one
OF these came tho other day In the
form Of a new and original suggestion.
II hints of condition that holds in
New York as perhaps nowhere else in
the world. The minister in question
suggested home for broken-down
politicians, where they might be SUP
ported by public subscription instead
OF loahng in public offices. New York
city alone could afford to contribute
literally to this movement. 1t ia more
cursed by broken-down politicians
than any city In the world, and they
belong to both the great parties. Ad-
illustrations come and go, Repub-
hcan ana Democratic, but the hacks
stay ON forever, and the Governor, the
Mayor-yes. even the President, who
does not recognize what they are
pleased to term their claims" Is at
once read out of his party, whatever
1t may be. For year after year they
bob up with their demands. They
want this commissioncrship or that
consulship or secretaryshlp. and what
Is more, men elected TO public office
ind themselves 50 annoyed that they
give them places merely to get rid OF
them. as General Grant used to when
he was President. The beggars OF
Rome and Jerusalem are not more
arrant nuisances. Yet they manage
TO live we'll wear good clothes and
to get their names In the newspapers.
a home Tor them that would suit them
would outshlnc the palace OF solomon.
home that they really deserve would
more nearly resemble penitentiary.
Did you know that In these late days
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that, that the new preacher is going
out and the old-fashloned one Is coming
inP You know the new preacher, of
course. He Is the preacher with II fad
and sensation on tap every week.
He would criticlse the Lords Prayer
or the Sermon on the Mount as being
tame. He can tell you more things
that you don't know about politics, and
that he doesa't know, either. than
could Thomas Jefferson. Preaching
Christ and Him crucihed is lost art
to him. His sermons are modelled after
newspaper editorials. but not so we'll
done Between us, the new preacher
was a humbug, and IL is a good thing
that he is passing. Meanwhile the old
preacher Is doing business at the same
old stand and in the same old way.
DR., John Hall, DR.. Robert Collyer, DR..
Morgan Dix OF Trinity Church, Bishop
Henry e. Potter and others are draw
satisfied with the old Bible truths and
the lessons that may be deduced from
them. New York Is, in spite of its
faults, common sense at the bottom. II
has grown tired OF preachers who. ON
each Friday or Saturday, would adver-
tlse in the public press that on Sunday
at certain hour he would pulverize
Tammany Hail. or pnralyze ex-senator
Thomas c. Plat and the Republican
Legislature, or scarify Congress- or
nnnihilate President Cleveland and his
foreign policy or lack OF one as the
case may be. Really the new preacher
was too Intense, too rapid. The old
style Is better. Some of us stlll admire
the Lords Prayer and even like to
hear old Hundred" sung. 1t ia a
tribe old-fashioncd and barbarian per-
hans, just as loving your lther and
falling to admire the woman with a
past Is, hut It still obtains The new
preacher did not appreciate this.
Ono Of tha rno,,1fo rtNIo, - ~.