The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-11-09
"QUENCH NOT THE SPIRIT"
POST ERECTION SERMONS BY NEW
 HAVEN DIVINES.

SPhNAb HI the tilyb 2oWu ana SauCuS Ni- fairs Says Rev. Newman smyth-Rev. Dr. Twitchell's Sermon
 The significance of the results of the | recent election was touched upon by ! many of the pulpits in this city yester- | day morning. As the pastors of these churches were fearless one week ago | in holding to their congregations the | truths the campaign in it's progress | had impressed them with, so they pointed out yesterday the lesson to be | learned from the victory achieved, | "Quench not the spirit was the shib- boleth of their cry. But not only this 1 was advised some also applied the same test to the individual action of the electors in town, city and caucus affairs. The victory of the people, and not of the party, was that of last Tues day, said one of the divines
 "Quench not the spirit" Thess., chap 5, verse IS, were the words upon which the Rev. T. T. Munger pastor of United church, based his sermon. His subject was "The Value of Great Movements" In the course of the sermon he said:
 Before any strong feeling can be Justified, it must be noble, and must play about noble things. Then, it makes the man good, and it works good. Look at 1t in connection with political life. The impregnable argu- ment against monarchy and for democ- c thpt the other calls 1t out. When men are governed they ask only to be governed well-that is, well fed and well cared fora new feeling. When they govern themselves, all the mighty interests in- volved in government rest upon them; and the responsibility arouses feelings of the noblest kind. Every man owns the country and he governs 1t, because it is his own. Whatever feeling a sense of responsibility can awaken, what ever soberness and intensity of thought can be called out by important ques- tions, whatever love can be kindled by having great and glorious object of love-such are the results of self-gov- ernment
 '.But as with all good things and all great duties, we become used to them, and patriotism grows dull; we neglect our dutiesa and pass them over to traders in politics; we give ourselves to our private affairs. and almost forget that we have country. The flag hardly moves us as in our daily walk across the green.
 Hence, the unspeakable value of such an experience as that we are now passing through.
 ''The European nations have long been concerned over our fierce political settlements and wonder how long we can stand this strain. We would not get on without them. The feeling en- gendered is just what is needed to blow out of existence all the evil things of the -partfsanship, rings, sell fish ambitions, wild schemes, plot tings-and let in the free, cleansing wind of patriotism. The election last week was not the triumph of a party; it was the triumph of the people. It was not due to party spirit or party discipline; not was it due to money legitimately or corruptly used;-it was due to the fact that the patriotism of the people was so enkindled that they
 
 they believed to be the country's good
 "The line of history In this nation does not run through parties If it did, there would be little hope of it. it runs through the hearts of the people. Par ties play their part; but the govern ment wears them as vesture; it takes them up and lays them off as gar 1nent, and not 1nfrequently tears them in tatters and cast them to the winds. One great party has just met with such fate; and nearly everybody is glad of it. And as for the party that has come into power, its thoughtful men are too serious and too busy in probing the whole business to indulge in jubiliation. They know very well that the success is not due to the de- thronement of one party, nor is 1t an endorsement of the other party They hear the voice of the people, and they know it is not the voice of a party, nor even of a majority. They know very we'll that the party must be a new party, with new measures and the rec asting of old ones. This upris- ing of patriotism has brought to the surface questions that must be settled 5oOIHe Have diTSduy DeeI SeCIl6Q, SuCn as honest payment of debts; the per- manence of the judiciary; the powers of the chief executive; but there are others that are now fairly before us and must be met in a large and gen. erous way. They came in very ques- tionable shape, and in such company and in so crude form, that it was necessary to set them aside. But we must not forget that the early anti slavery movement called for dssolu- tion of the union, and defied the laws and the courts. It cannot even now be justified, and can only be excused on the ground that the war began twen- ty years before the firing on Sumter. At the south, abolitionists were hung, or would have been if they had gone there; and at the north the fugitive slave law was broken-conspicuous by a pastor of this church. But right or wrong, it brought the great question into the field where, at last, it was properly treated. There was no hope, and there ought not to have been any hope for the anti-slavery movement so long as 1t was in the hands of Garri- son, and Wendell Phillips. Their only merit lay in bringing forward the sub ject. Its proper treatment did not be-