The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-09-28
TWO FAMOUS PREACHERS.
Express Opinions on the Political
Situation.
DR.. PARKHURST AND DR.. TALMAGE
The Former breaches a Gold Sermon and
Displeases Some of His Congregation.
DR.. Talmage Opposed to Politics
in the Pulpit

NEW YORK, Sept. 2S.-Rcv. DIR. Charles
II. Parkhurst signalized his return from
Europe to the pulpit of Madison Square
Presbyterian church yesterday by preach
ing a sermon on the political situation
The church was filed, a number of silver
men who disapproved of the doctors views
being in the congregation. Some of those
made un1lattering comments on leaving
the church after the sermon When the
doctor was told of these comments he re
marked:
"There is more in this thing than the
silver question: and some Sunday in the
near future am going TO speak my mind
about the treatment of labor by capital. I
will not mince words, either"
One of the visitors to the church was
Treasurer William p St. John, Of the
Democratic national committee He did
not wait to hear all the doctor had to say.
MIR st. John is one of our deacons,"
said DIR. Parkhurst after the service.
The preacher led up to what he had to
say about the campaign by an argument
in which he tried to show that it was i'm
possible to make anything without ma
terial and impossible to build a structure
without a good foundation. Among other
things he said:
eve are building forward into the
future without knowing what we are
building upon, or knowing whether we
are building upon anything in particular
that contains in itself the indispensable
elements of permanence. Material COM
modities in the shape of stocks and bonds,
products of the soil and manufac lures
have the same intrinsic value in the United
States as they had six months ago. But
the idea is in the air that all this is pres
emily to be dumped upon foundations too
fictitious to sustain themselves, a nd still
less to sustain the enormous weight of our
national economies that it is proposed to
place upon them.
There is feeling that there arc eternal
principles that it is proposed to mix with
an alloy of chiefly human invention, and
that this incOherent conglomeration is to
be used in mortaring up underneath the
terrific weight of our national veal and
destiny, and stocks go down, OF course
they go down, and they will continue C
60 down till there is restored the convic.
ton that the government is to be set VI
on bottom that will not give.
81 am not here to argue financial ques
tiOns, but the present situation in Oul
| country is an illustration on Il portentiou,
scale OF Uhe truth am trying to QrlVt
home that you cannot move with vigol
nor strike with effect except as you feel or
the instant the everlasting fiXity of the
rock your foot is planted upon.
National prosperity will come bach
when confidence comes back, and conf
dence will return when the nation gets Its
feet out of the quagnire and back to gran
ite. Traffic not only but all the relations
of our great communal life are conducted
on the credit system, on system of mu
tual confidence, and today that mutual
confidence does not exist. That is the Sc
cret of our disquiet. And attempts are
being made deliberately and in hot blood
to crush out all lingering remains of that
mutual confidence, and such procedure
dare to brand on this altar of God as thor
oughly false to the spirit of the gospe
and accursedly reasonable to our collec
tive interests and national destiny"