New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-11-29
DR.. P4RKHURST SOUNDS A FARMING.
pERI1S WHICH HE BELIEVES THREATEN THE
CITY AND STATE.

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CITY AND STATE.
In his Thanksgiving sermon in the Madison Square
PRESBYTERIAN Church Dr. Parkhurst chose his text
from " Philippians. 6, as follows: with Thanks
giving let your requests be made known unto
God" I'VE must allow" said the speaker, our
thoughts TO go into the future while we are utter
ing our Thanksgiving for the many merces that
we have received in the past. The actual condition
If New-York causes painful thoughts to the MORAL
element or the metropolis. TIE actual question at
the present moment is. VIII the community at
large act with discretion In view Of existing con-
tingences?'
Politicians were then denounced as the greatest
causes of danger to the Commonwealth Speaking
Of the derailment OF a New-York Central train by
four boys as illustration of the lawessness that
Is abroad the Doctor said: at was the worst kind
of an atrocity 1t shows the temper that is proba-
bly, existing in a fourshing state in the minds OF a
good many youths but which has not yet reached
the point Of killing.
II would like to see those four boys convicted in
side Of a week and executed inside OF month.
Crime is TO be summary dealt with. for leniency
TO criminals only breeds criminals.
Il have no sympathy with inspient mawkshness
that sends flowers TO Murderers Row. We reside
in city where questions concerning right and
wrong can be adjusted by the payment Of dollars
and cents. The moral bedrock is found with lit
lie difficulty II there is any moral commodity that
charge OF being a Puritan idiot is thrown At
YOU How frequent the Illusions made TO May
flower association Plymouth ancestry,
why the people that say these things seem 10
have become utterly paralyzed to the eternal sig
nihcance that Puritansm has lodged in it, wish
there was Plymouth Rock In every State. | wish
there was a whole ledge of them. running from the
Battery Westminster. / believe in breadth of
view but some people regard breadth as something
tina, runs everywhere and nowhere in particular
righteousness in civic structure is the plumb
line; twist it or make 1t crooked, and the building
falls | am not here just now to urge civic moral
ty for morality's sake. but as "A safeguard against
National damnation. simple patriotism puts us i'm
an attitude of strenuous insistence on what is
right
Speaking OF the Police Boards work he said: eft
makes beauteous red-letter chapter in the city :
history 1t has been splendid bracer to our con
sciences II has stirred up the consciences OF some
people who had been carrying them in their pockets
and bellies
The speaker desired 10 see proper observance OF
the laws Some would flee from a gorilla" he
said las fast as their legs could carry them but
would think nothing Of fondling an Italian sietto
Our fathers died for their country. and you and
ought be willing to give our lives in preserving
It,"
In closing the speaker said II would have been
easier for him to have preached an old-fashoned
Thanksgiving sermon, with theological hymns from
Watts's Treasury. and sermon reminding the Lord
of his goodness. but he felt that II was his duty
warn the people of the perls that threatened our
beloved city