New-York tribune., 1896-11-02
FL1YED BY DIR. P1RhHCKSI
THE BRYAN MOVEMENT STRONGLY DE-
NOUNCED.
II HAS IN IT THE LURKING HATRED OF ALL
AUTHORITY. THE PREACHER SAYS.

;heScoun;ry has 10 do ms week Il 20 ro,s W bnad
re!anessly and unpynsly into the vper1as
nox-oniy to his Government. but IN Venomoos an
taGQnism 20 all governments o
f~he text selected by DR.. Parkhurst was On 'hat
there were such an heart in them, that 'hey "ou'o
feaT Me and keep all Nv Commandments always
trat +. might he well with them ana win 'ner
children forever"
lie said further:
There has beon growing up in tie minds OF some
OF us during these last days ana very recGh !,aiS
natural lie We are coming 10 the parting OF me
ways we are moved TO this by aAy laiiufe i., 10
the beauties and amenities OF our eXishg
ciyiiza don TO the great majority that civ izaton
is fraught with very much of comfort ana even OF
enioyment Of feches SUCH as were no. poisessed nx @
make the lives OF so many of US in a measure
patadac there are hose Weans n OF 10 make
our civiza,ioa as t'rtyt ana beau'eous as II IS
comfortable.
INDIVIDUAL AND PUBLIC CHARACTER.
When, however. turn from the grace and
deciousness OF our to the matter OF its
wholesomeness and robustness confront another
and distinct feature OF the situation. and feature
witch cannot contemplate intcligently and crit
ical.y without measure Of misslvinS. We 90 not
mealr,so be hynrcrticaI. and cannot be pessmisic.
but there arc symptoms betrayed first Of all by in
by the body SOCIAL and body pohec, that. make
a'Sa % ~ s n fSe order o.
statement just made we held individual char
sSe pubc Sharcsr t a large Il is an easy thing
10 talk about the crimes Of society and the knavery
monweaith Sauon. ' and there often con-
venience IN bring abe thus TO summarize the s!tua-
careful and not let disguise 10 us the fact that
society is criminal only in 50 far as It is made up
corporation falsfes It's accounts purchases egsla.
5op and n iha5 way praeisss refined S form . OF
sonai depravty IN ITS individual members. that con.
en show esDs Of
orgsnized lfe that are morally questionable or even
number Of sitizens indvidIaiy DIV Corrupt is so large
as 10 leave the impression OF a National complexion
% %ruption Of Of men and women that are individually
corrqp There is no corporate knavery distinct from
corporation, and there Is no political debasement
s4si Is any other than hs debssed hearts Of
happen to agree to work in concert.
,ona guilt we shall haVs to- intend by it Simply
me sun total Of the contributions OF guilt made by
not contribute in the same degree but what we
mean mean 70 say is that contributions date, each Of
great heart. there is no organized moral sense.
Such phrases as corporate conscience may be con
Vemient. but there is no fact that answers to them.
There may be great many people doing the same
kind Of wrong thing and doing it at the same time
and with common purpose. but each does II for
himself. and really each does it by himself They
never cesse TO be individuals. and their depravity
cever ceayes 10 be individual depravity.
We are saying that however small might be our
q the and Of
the stswart right of that civilization without
want to submit is whether there Is among us,as a
people-that is 10 say. whether there is among us
makes us competent TO weather the storms that al
ways make out part OF our National and indi.
sail under which as a great Nation. the timber and
cordage Of our tempest-tosscd craft are straining
and creaking?
Now this is the question We have to face 1t IL
not affair primarily OF territorial extent, nor Of
our harvests. CT the activity of manufacture
ers All Of these things come in as elements; but
constitute the foundation masonry of nations
resh sTr a eH is be ha
touching the issues OF the present week. but at the
the Sc So 50 er sDd h
depths Of lying lawlessness and obstreperous An
cavernous and black that with all our devout
pectaton OF being able TO praise God with patriotic
acclaim before the week is out. all quieed with
a condition Of sobriety under the crushing weight
of the crisis, and all are in condition to think and
ness concerning the interests that are at stake.
THE SAFETY OF THE NATION.
There is one fundamental fact related TO every
individual and any organization OF individuals
upon which 1t seems TO me the most Of men. even
Christian teachers have nothing like an adequate
grip and that is that the veal and the safety Of the
individual and the Nation depend upon the tena-
cious adherence TO that which is dvinely laid down
and everlastngly fixed That is the only kind Of
durable hold in place that softer tissue that is
laid upon IT and to withstand the strain II is GER
moves through everything with which God has to
do. and which far antedates in point Of disclosure
amd S loving Endness"nameiy the idea that every
thing that transpires Is an impertinence except it
in the time that Is eternally engineered for II.
1t means that TO Gods thought there Is no such
thing as fast 1o and loo loose ihat there re m
at Us appointed Place on ,ne rs dag d hor m
against
The first thing God said TO Adam was to command
n to on nd sm To tell him @ m did not
wear that harness and pull in it he would die The
first sermon God preached to Adam was tipped
with menace OF damnatlon
Dr. Parkhurst then said that men wanted to do
tust what they wanted, and not what others wanted
them to do He then told Of an address recently
delivered by Andrew d. White. formerly president
of Cornell University, in which Dr. White said that
when a Michigan schoo-teacher attempted to whip
a boy one OF the other schooboys threatened to
shoot the teacher With a pistol. When the re-
mainder of the boys were searched thirteen Of them
were found 10 have pistols. DR.. Parkhurst con-
tinued:
time. and whether. next Tuesday they, will cast
their ballots in the interest OF law or VIII line up IN
oure very ordinary sagacty to forecast Now, as
Mr. White intmates in the passage Just auo,ed IT
Is pervasive factor in the thought and actions OF
M hot Is ii IS ues nd
naby wrong. . 49,. 80:
In the Bible history of the Hebrew people God
promised a brilliant future to them II they would
behave themselves and keep His commandments;
He threatened them with national perditon II
they did not behave themselves and keep His COM
mandments. They decided to do as they pleased.
and perdition came-came just as 1t has come to a
great many nations since-iust II will come to
our own great Nation we fool with realities, play
economic tricks with what is immutable, and mix
divine determination and human caprice in ono in
discriminate tumble The wholesale overthrow OF
the Hebrew people as a consequence of their be-
having as though there were law In the world
except the law OF their likes fancies is brilliant
object ssop broad enough TO be visible to honest
eyes that keep themselves open 300 years later: q
sublime iesson OF truth that the lines are to
tread in our thinking feeling and acting lines
laid down for us and that the supreme duty OF
man In his every day relation whether to himself or
his neishbor, is 10 tread them.
sct><., In. 4ho =ocoad rnca host nf our chdren