The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-01-22
w. H. H. MURRAY,s PLEA.

Lelter 10 New hnglahu ioF 0lu lllHs
I4yeeum,
w. III. H. Murray former pastor Of
the First Congregational church in this
city. writes from Guilford, this state,
an open letter to New England, plead
ing for the old time lyceum platform:
He says: "We stand blindfolded on
the crumhling edge of an abyss. We are
an empire of inconvenient size, hetero-
geneous in population, whose different
sections, industrially, are at many
points antagonistic, governed by politi-
clans, and not statesmen, with q eiVili-
cation that abnernlally Develops the in
diyidual and denies the communal
with the conservative Influence Of land
ed estates and home life wholly lost 70
Us; with capital and labor distrustful
and helilgerent; with the marriage con
neetion 50 flckle that many are actual
ly proposing to make, what is often a
feels act, q sacrament, and compel
people to love each other by law! And
worse than all, perhaps destructive
criticism of the Bible already carried so
far that the once crowded churches are
as empty as country barns in spring
time and men of ability by the thou
sands who live All around the empty
| churches which they support from hab-
| it, don't know hat to believe.
| Is this the time when God, across
! the irnpsnetrable darkness Of the future
prints a huge Interrogation mark and
! calls upon us to translate the answer
/ into act and statute, to give UP one of
the chiefest methods Of instruction and
the noblest avenues along which to roll
truth and right onward to their triumph
ever in vogue among a people? In truth,
| such folly is too apparent to be done
while so many yet live who can remem-
Der what the lyceum was in the days
preceding the gerat revolution Why,
1T might also be said that the lyceum
between 1850 and 1866 was the reyolu-
ton.
There We're Clay and Giddings, and
Corwin and Garrison and Beecher, and
he of indescribable force and charm,
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