The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-18

travel before we reach the ideal state There
are great wrongs on the part OF some corpora
tons- God forbid that should lit nv voice
Tor these wrongs. They must be righted, but
anarchy Will not right them. Yes, and there
are other wrongs which the wage-workers OF
this land are suffering, none more grievous
than those false hopes which are kindled by
misguided or designing agitators TO preach
IN this land the overthrow of institut tons is to
o aeny enat americans are capable OF sen1goV.
eminent, for our institutions are what we have
Voleq they should be. Such doctrine would
mana over to despair the last hope OF the toll
ing millions.
1 shall ask no mans pardon for defending
the INSTITUTIONS of my country. Those lnstltu-
uons VIII stand. This nation is not going to
begin It's funeral march" at the bidding OF
mysue ana theoretical anarchist. Our 1nst1tu-
tons will continue to guarantee the rights I'M
der winch the majority of the American people
own their homes. These millions of toilers
VINO own their homes are not heard from In
noisy denuncations of rights. They are heard
from IN the sober judgments which must be
reckoned with after the agitator has gone and
the froth has subsidized. They know the worth
OF that freedom which helped them to acquire
and which protects them in the possession of
their own hresides. Our institutions will con-
tlnue TO protect the colleges OF this land in
lheir property rights and Will secure TO their
professors the enjoyment OF their salaries,
which are derived from interest on their en-
comments All this is as it should be.
But destroy our institutions, and after the
bloody reign of anarchy you would have such
despotlsm as we had taste of last summer. for
the nrst time under the flag, when one SELF
constituted ruler in Chicago ordered the stop
page OF nations traffic; when California
IaQy was compelled 10 ask OF this DebS the
privilege of travelling in her own State.
belleye as thoroughly as any man in the
cross OF Jesus Chrst-in the ajesty OF its sac
rlhce in the tenderness and power of its love-
l believe that Jesus Christ through his gospel
Will yet rule this world. But his cross will
would tear down our institutions, nor any pro-
cesslon which includes the majority of those
VINO come forth from the saloons.
Institutions will be reformed by the gospel
but the triumph of the gospel will not be the
overthrow of institutions. The gospel OF Jesus
christ Will continue to triumph as hitherto by
the progressive realization of righteousness in
the institutions which made men free and
which stand as the security OF social order
Thus shall be made possible that sublime
conception of Elisha Milford in his "Nation."
He saw for this nation no vision OF ruined lib
critics and crumbling institutions. He saw
rather in the nation the great and growing
substance of a divine thought. He saw the
whole pervaded by vast personality, moved
on through all its changes by one controlling
splrlt-the soul of the nation. This sublime
personality he saw to be capable OF a growing
purified at length and rising to the fulfllment
of a divine destiny, may be glorifed. In this
living soul of the nation the principles of the
gospel will yet be realized Then shall the
Kingdom have come Then shall Gods will be
done on earth as it is in heaven.
DR.. Brown promises to review Professor
Heron more fully in his own church next
Sunday evening.