The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-07-05
Rev. pr. chapman'a Sermon.

evening the pastor, Rev. Dr. Chapman, preached patriotic sermon from the text, Psalm 1S7, 5, If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning"
 The pulpit was draped with a large flag. Dr. Chapman spoke Of the lil- portance,. upright consclentlousness | and Christian citizenship, and said that l in loyalty to this lies the guarantee or our future greatness. He then sald: Tt seems that the diffusion among | the majority of what has heretolore and elsewhere been ditfused among the | few Is the characteristic of our country | The French revolution had as one or | its principles a career open to talent. 1 We go deeper; we say q career open 10 all, to every sort. class and condition of people. This is the commanding characteristic of our type of civiliza- | ton. There is here civil freedom TOT which other nations have suffered and battled. This diffusion of liberty Is the | continuation of our Anglo-Saxon civili- l zation. In other countries classes of so- ciety are fixed, wealth and poverty are 1 hereditary Children inheret their con ditions in life. Here society has nobil- l ity because so many doors of opportu- | nifty are open. We give all men the op- | portunity of ownership in the soil There Is also here a diffusion of educa- tion. Education is not an American | idea, or an American monopoly. They have always had education in Europe | The difference is that they educate the l higher classes. We try to educate ev- l erybody. We put under the structure of our country the 1ackscrew of the 1 common school.
 | There are those who say that there should be still wider diffusion of prop erty and these people figure out the millennium with the ease of a lightning calculator. We find a great many men
 who say that diffusion of liberty, property and education is a sufficient guarantee of the nations right and des-
 tiny, but we begin to suspect that this is not enough; we begin to suspect that
 we diffuse liberty too widely and feel
 that perhaps we can't give to every one
 the same political liberty that we give
 to the best, because of all will become government of the worst. I don't be- lieve this. believe that the many by their aggregated intelligence and vr- tue Will diWd pC SiOo eAitAi e4iS
 few. We see that diffusion of wealth will be a guarantee of a splendid fu- ture. we find that diffusion of education is not making the best men. The rich rascal and the educated rascal are the worst rascals of all Who are these ivultures that feed on the municipal and national treasuries? Are they the poor. the ignorant? You know better. They
 have abundant opportunities because they have great power
 l We begin to see that these things are lhindrances unless they are used rightly
 and we'll We see that we must not on- l 1y give men a wider freedom but we
 must make honest, upright, patriotic
 men and until we have these, the other
 blessings will prove harmful and hurt full rather than helpful. We need then the diffusion of conscientiousness, nor
 al virtue, loyalty to ethical law, fidelity to the best we know, and that vividness
 of moral perfection that not only
 claims its rights but sees its duties. We
 must have a sterner code of morals as
 applied to public life. Anything that
 diffuses conscientiousness in the rank
 and file of the people is idolizng the
 dreams of the fathers.
 | Christianity Is the hope of this coun-
 try and the hope of the world, Chris
 tianity that not merely gazes into oth-
 CT realms, but has good strong grip
 on the world that not only gives itself
 to a divine worship but works out it's
 ideals by honest zeal in every day af-
 fairs, that compels loyalty to the best
 in all to whom it gives power, a Chris
 tianity that chases the money changers
 out of the halls of legislation.
 Jesus Christ owns this land and we
 need Christianity that reveals Him as
 its master. He knows how to utilize all
 these new problems, He knows how to
 utilize all these new forces in his inter-
 ests to bring about that glorious king
 dom that is yet to be-