The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1896-09-23
THE PREACHER IN POLITICS.
Interesting Sermon Delivered by
Former Wilmingtonian.

On Sunday evening last in tho First
Baptist Church Of New York City Rev. I.
M. Haldeman delivered an interesting
sermon, and chose for his theme, Neither
silver nor gold, but medium infinitely
superior"
Rev. Mr.. Haldeman was for several
years pastor Of tho Delaware Avenue Bap'
tist Church Of this city.
In the introduction to his sermon Mr.
Haldemnn said that the issue now before
the country was whether we should have
u single or double standard OF value;
whether the standard should DO local or
universal, for one nation or for all. The
actual question. he said, however, was
whether this nation should maintain IL
standard Of uniform morality Or set the
example OF organized dishonesty by
standard of repudiation.
He said that three things ought to be
self-evident. The first that the world is
one. There was time, he declared, when
this was doubted; q time when every tribe
or nation supposed its boundaries were
the limits Of the world. Tho second was
that the responsibility Of nations was not
local, but world wide.
"a nation or a people," he said, "can
no more set aside a law of the country
and Of responsibility in the affairs of the
world than an individual can sot aside
idea that tho moral obligations of the
world arc as one"
For the third self-evident fact Mr..
Haldeman said this: "Thc nation that
would do business which would in
clude civilization, honor and progress
must recognize the general unity of
things, must recognize single standard
of value. The recognition of this unity
must be found in a common standard OF
hat In1l r's worth Now
York would mean dollars worth in St
Petersburg or London, or in the deserts
If needs be-
"a common standard of unity Is no
more than common standard or moral
ity. More and more the world is coming
to demand n uniform morality. And mo-
rally cannot be local. A man cannot
have one set of virtues for private life
and another for public; he is under obli-
CATION to pose as honest in New York as
he is i'll Paris or London or anywhere.
Gas gold is the worlds standard, rs it
is the symbol in the word of God Of the
divine character and the standard for
that which is good and pure and clean
universally; as it is tho medium in which
we have pledged our commercial obllga-
tions to one another and to other nations;
then for the nation to set aside the SUI
prcmucy of the better metal, to attempt
Himself has drawn the llnu-woulu h5
to dilute virtue minimize honesty and
laccrate every hope OF righteousness for
which this country might stand
''It would be declaration that the
Bible which had come over in the May.
flower had ceased to DO tho standard OF
truth with the ajorty; that the Bible
conception of just weight and oven value
was not popular. Such declaration
would mean that anarchy and lhwless-
ness had become accepted in this land
ut would build Chinese wak about
America and make the name of American
nolonger stand for all that is broad and
true and sincere, but, instead, synony-
nous with all that is narrow, provincial
and suspected. For this nation to set
aside the gold standard would be to open
the door for fraud, both public and private.
1t would prove to the upcOming gcn-
Grafton that lying and robbery in con-
tract and commerce were legitimate, and
by this it would open the door for the en-
tranc, of all evils The very fact that
such an issue can be received in this coun-
try shows tho perilous condition Of hui
man society.
: Mr.. Haideman then likened the blood of
Christ to medium which there was no
chance to lepudate or affect in value,
The man who sought faith was not the
one TO worry about this situation; the way
was plain to him.