The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-06-19
NEW FOURTH OF JULY
MORAL AND CIVIC RIGHTEOUSNESS A
FEATURE IN. ITS CELEBRATION.

Opiutons W NohcEc ITsbiucutny NuuIci
} Dignitarios and Others.
The Christian Citizenship league Is
endeavoring to establish "a new Fourth
OF July" along christian citizenship
lines" all over tho country.
In order to further this idea, the league
asked leading men Of the country to
send an expression of their thought on
the subject to The Christian Citizen.
Below will DO found extracts from
what they have to say:
DIR. John Henry Barrows, President
Worlds Congress Of Religions Il have
come back from a trip around the
world not less but more Of an Amer
ican. / have returned with q deeper
and more intelligent appreciation OF
the vast and incalculable influence
which America Is sure to WELD for good
or for evil over the future Of mankind.
It seems to me that the great war that
must now be waged is q war against
lawlessness--no merely the lawlessness
of the poor, but the more demoralizins
lawlessness Of the rich.
M. Woolsey Stryker, President Of
Hamilton College. -One year of absolute
fidelity to the gospel OH the part Of its
alleged Christians would bring any ma
tion to TRANSPORTATION. What sight
-''theater to men and angels
be real nation full of Christians. Sa.
vorless salti Judgment shall begin at
the house Of Godl God or mammon!
Answer us. "even by terrible things In
righteousness, o God, SO thou save
as from the leaven of the Sadducee and
the Phariseel The day Of smooth bore
preaching ia gone-rifed guns with ut
most penetration! 1t is time to remem-
ber Michaiah, the son of Imlah. Oh, that
America might become more than nom-
inally Christian and make q new dec-
laration OF dependence upon God.
Bishop John p. Newman of the Meth.
odist Episcopal Church. Law, learning,
charity, are insufficient to save our ma
tion from vice, ignorance and infdel-
ity. All have been tried and found
wanting, but add to them the practical
morality of Christianity and pure and
honorable citizenship is assured beyond
all fear. It is hard to convince people
of this tremendous fact, sustained by
all history, ancient and modern, Jew
ish and pagan. ] believe in churches,
colleges and houses Of mercy and sup
port them all, but my hope is in citi-
zenship born of Christian faith and
nd t1,xar ~ IA,
will live forever.
Bishop Samuel Fallows of the Re-
formed Episcopal Church. The duty of
the hour is unceasing vigilance in the
performance Of every duty demanded
by society Of the Christian citizen. The
foes Of good government are ever on
the alert. Self1shness is sleepless Cor
ruption, stealthy and open, is stretch
ing out the unclean hand before and be-
hind, filled with bribes. Corporate con.
sciences, scared as with hot iron, are
leading astray and to destruction the
individual consciences of the men who
constitute them. Anarchy more destruc-
tive and farreaching than that proclaim
ed by hungry, starving, work seeking
and work denied men, or by blatant,
lawless agitators who vociferate their
utterances in un-American babel
tongues, is being preached and practiced
by men of respectability and influence,
who will trample upon law or evade
law, or who will make law to suit
themselves, for consideration given
to the lawmakers.
Professor @. r. Henderson, Univer-
sity of Chicago. and state
ownership or control is coming to be
practical. Progress waits ON intelli-
gence, character and social spirit in tho
people. Municipal and state control or
ownership would divide the profits Of
enterprise among the people instead Of
giving them over to few. What is the
obstacle? The people are afraid to trust
corrupt and incompetent councils and
Legislatures. The primary step to bet
terment is, therefore, education in
righteousness and in popular knowledge
of economic and other social sciences,
with actual training in cooperation,
building and loan associations and farm
colonies.
General O. O. Howard. neglect to
vote and to attend to the duties OF cit
izen; to neglect to give thought and
study to the great questions Of econom-
les, currency, finance and all that enters
into the politics of the day and hour is
to stab tho nation in the dark. Christian
principles applied to the citizens duties
under our government Of the people, by
the people and for the people will per-
NIT no drones, no sluggards. 1t calls for
study Of our system and Of our indi-
vidual obligations, and sympathetic
interest in our neighbors of all classes
and occupations.
Charles II. Blanchard, President of
Wheaton College. How can just God
permit nation TO live and prosper
which works men seven days a week in
defiance Of the laws Of God and the die
tates of humanity, which legalizes the
cause of poverty, disease and crime,
which consents by an awful and shame