The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-04-09
oUALNr sNNMON.

cused of Observation-Disclosures Discourse
Remarkably Like One by the Rev. Mr.
Putnam Published in 1S1S-Whata New
ark Preacher Says-What DR.. Morgan
Says,
New York, April S.--The Rev. DR. d.
Parker Morgan, rector of the Church
of the Heavenly Rest, says that he
has no idea of plagiarism when he
preached his Easter sermon, although
he is accused of it.
A morning paper published a YER
batim report of the greater part of DR..
Morgan's Easter sermon, and this hap
pened to come to the eye of the Rev.
T. j. Lee of the First Reformed church
of Newark. The sermon looked IA
miliar to Mr.. Lee, He found another
sermon remarkably similar to 1t In a
book published in Boston in 1878 and
entitled Sermons Preached in the
Church of the First Religious Society
in Roxbury by George Putnam, Minis
ter of the Society,""
The eighth sermon in the volume
was preached on the same text as
DR.. Morgan's Easter effort,
The Tribune, in telling about the
matter, said this morning;
with the book of sermons, Mr..
Lee sent a statement that he was in
terested in the way that his brethren
who had become eminent in the min
istry prepared their sermons He had
found that the Monday morning re-
ports of sermons preached in this city
are sometimes a revelation to one who
is versed in homiletical literature, He
has a good reference library, and after
he had read the report of Rev. DR..
Parker Morgan's sermon on Monday
he took down from a shelf the copy
of the book of sermons by the late
Rev. DR.. Putnam and prepared the
parallel which is here appended:
THE text is Matthew xvii. T. go
quickly and tell His disciples that He
is risen from the dead
The similarity in wording and the
sequence of ideas is noticeable through
out the whole of both sermons.
In the use of this passage DR.. Put
nam got little credit for his elo-
quence and ideas by being referred to
by DR.. Morgan as "a quaint old writer"
The quaint old writer said THE
movement Of human life is so adjusted
in relation to the movement of time,
nature and Providence that the har-
mony of things is disarranged, SO far
as we are concerned, by all our stop
pages and delays. We have to move
quickly if we would keep step to the
music of the universe we are placed
in"
The modern metropolitan preacher
had this passage in his sermon: HUI
man life is so arranged in relation to
the movement of time and of Provi-
dence that the harmony of things is
disarranged, so far as we are concern
ed by our haltings and delays. AS the
quaint old writer says; We have to
NOV quickly if we would keep step
to the music of the universe we are
placed in
When Mr.. Lee discovered the SINH
larity of the quaint old writer's"
sermon with the Easter discourse of
DIR. Morgan in the Church OF the Heav-
emily Rest he called public attention to
it.
The Evening Sun says; A number of
years ago Mr.. Lee discovered and made
public the fact that several pages of a
book of sermons on the Proverbs pub
lished by an eminent bishop, had been
taken bodily from a lecture by a plain
country parson who did not get even as
much credit for his brains as the
quaint old writer
DR.. D. Parker Morgan is one of the
most prominent of Protestant Episco-
palian ministers in the city. He is
fifty years of age, and a Welshman by
birth. He has been connected with the
New York diocese for many years. He
was assistant rector at the Church OF
the Heavenly Rest when DR.. Robert s
Rowland was rector. Upon Dr. How
lands death DR.. Morgan became rec
tor. He has always been prominent ir
the work of the church, and has serv-
ed on several important committees
DR.. Morgan made the following writ
ten statement about the matter this
morning:
The explanation is very simple. In
the eall Of last year, in the course oil
my reading l lighted upon book OF
old sermons, one of which sermons i'm
pressed me very deeply as setting
forth the necessity of our doing all ir
our power to relieve those in distress
at the arliest possible moment. Last
week being holy week I was so over
whelmed with my work-especially the
work which / had to do on Good Fri
day-that I found it impossible to fin.
ish sermon which I had in prepare.
ton for Easter day, and l then recall
ed the interesting sermon which I hat
read last fall and hunted up the book
and made use of such portions of it a.
seemed to my mind best adapted to en-
phasize the sweet truth-namely, o.
our trying to comfort those in trouble
as soon as we possibly could do so. L
to do this be a wrong, did wrong A.
to the publication of the sermon, il
was done much against my desire, ant
| only at the earnest entreaty of the re-
porter, who pleaded very great need o.
matter. I never dreamed of any moro
than few lines being inserted, setting
forth the sermon"
When asked what he thought of Rev
| Mr.. Lees criticism DR. Morgan said
1T would be extremely unbecomins
| in me to criticise Mr.. Lee"
DR.. Morgan intimated that Mr.. lie,
was fond of notoriety, and chose hin
| as an object of attack, recognizing hi
| position. DR.. Morgan declined to say
whether he would answer Mr.. Lee
| attack on him in a formal way.
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