New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-05-09

HE COUNsELs MODERATION IN SER.
MON AT OLD TRINITY.
SERVICES OF TIE CHURCH ASSOCIATION FOR
THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE INTER
ESTS OF LABOR.

THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE INTER-
Esrs OF LABOR.
IN the course OF q sermon before the Church
Association for the Advancement OF the Interests
OF Labor last night. in Trinity Church. bishop
Potter spoke with characteristic force OF the re-
ce..,ty OF moderation in the heated controversies
which periodically occur between capital and LABOR
Taking his text from Philippians ~, 5. Let your
moderation be known unto all men, the LORD IS AT
hand" he said. among other things:
Our popular notion Of a reformer Is ore who VII
have no nalf measures, who takes no coTlsei WIN
timd prudence. VINO has no use for cnas' I ivi
or individual there Is no anguaeg 700 zoo sreen-
which TO dcnounce 4, no line OF action 700 s"ee,
ing and iconocastic with which to det nasened
We are apt. indeed. In reforms TO nate
speech. and 10 regard with something o. p,ras
and contempt one who counsos nscribed as
moderate man: II loathe a moderate man, ,,o
Apos.l 81 counscs here. The Greek word 80 trans
lated means rather what Bishop Eillcou. WIN "a d
fine dscernnent has described as ahs SmT
which in all those matters which divide men may
fact does it stand? In the controversies that
divide men. however largely they may lean IN one
ter OF fact ali on one side No nequy. no APP
parent injustice no disorder or dsplopoo ou,a ~
Tho relation OF men TO one another ever came lo
pass wlthou. there being considerations on e',er
hand which needed to b" taken mo aeeon no ond
Influence without having az part OF IL cer'' H.,
considerations which r. they GA roy al nmafv
sU,i'e noemnef,on Of H. In almost all the issues
which haye Gyded n al, 'er on n boh sides It
time. think that this was iranh'y Is, -
s sd tH to be- in gard to those questions which
concern the work to ba done by the ,nurcn ~ ~.
soca lion for the Advancement ot the interests Vi
Labor
But what docs this involve? Plainly. THINK tha'
we should be Influenced and controlled by thoso
principles which those Of the Founder or the
Church What are they Fraternity. most surely;
rkaar
persuaded that however widely in any good cause
wo have departed from their message. we may now
wisely return 10 them. There Is time undoubtedly
for strong and vehement speech. and 1t may be
also Tor extreme and. as II may seem TO some peo-
pic almost revolutionary modes OF action but such
times those. submit when there is concern
Ing a situation. tendency. tyranny Of whatever
sort profound and widespread apathy. indifference
and hear,lessncss With reference TO what to-day
ing island. ong the victim OF precisely such in
justices, it rests upon This basis but In the mat
ter or those great Industrial questions WIN Whch
pre-eminentiy the Church Assoelation for tho Al,
the case IL very different one.
In tho conferences. controversies and collisions II
agains, each other there have been some things on
both sides to regret But not without recognizing
Lessons are TO he drawn one or them Is that brute
force Is the poorest Of all arguments 70 be nd
In orc mans shutting shop door In another
mans face or IN tho other mans breaking the skull
or scAD WIN Dflcko*t OF ciuD. ouch h't"-
DDS away down at tho bottom in the reckoning
OF "A civilized much more 81 Christian, people,
AMI trust that shall be content 10 let them
stay there on the other hand. those other meth
DDS which have been growing In favor among us
lately have Increasingly demonstrated their value.
As have said more than once in all such arbitra
lions OF which have had any personal knowledge.
the representatives % workingmen have shown, BY
virtue OF their sefresraint their patient courtesy.
their love OF FAIR dealing their open mindcdness 70
n just argument. their cheerful readiness To meet
with concession and their disposition 10
make n bridge over which order and harmony might
orti.o gh ~, v.h AZ
what they claimed do not say that u has always
been go only speak OF what. myself have seen and
known. but I am persuaded that the time may not
ho far distant when eycrywhere Il shall be 10 In
larger and larger degree and with more and more
blessed and happy results.
Delegations from various labor unions attended
the service