The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1898-12-09
FROM the PULPIT
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Greater New York PaslOy On The
Live Issue.
MAJORITY ARE FOR EXPANSION
Rev. Robert 5. Macarthur -Rev. Ly-
man Abbott-Rev. Psrshurst
In pposIton.

NEW YORl<, Nov 2i--lmporial,sm
and expansion we're the themes In
every prominent pnlpi, In Greater
New York today. The majority were
for expansion, but few were against.
Prominent among the latter was Rev
Charles II. Parkhurst.
At Calvary Baptist Church Rev. Rob-
ert $. Macarthur said: Expansion has
been the fixed policy Of the nation
since its birth. The thirteen organ
lied states were not long satisfied with
their limits. They insisted on the ac-
.quisitiOn Of additional territory. First.
they acquired the great Northwest Ter
ritory, consisting of the present States
OF Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan
and Wisconsin. The acquisition OF this
territory was the foundation Of our
present greatness What would this
country have been without It.? But
were they satisfied with this? Ger
tainly not. The acquired by purchase
from France in 1903 the great territory
of Louisiana, and on December Goth OF
that year our flag was raised in New
Orleans.
"Think OF the heroism Of that day,
when the men OF the nation dared 70
take upon themselves such responsible
tiles II 1t had not been for that |
should be speaking to you today in the
French language, and that would be
the Language OF you and your child
ren. Wolfe's victory at Quebec and the
Louisiana purchase decided that this
country was to be an English speaking
republic, dominated by the Protestant
instead Of the Catholic religion. When
think of this ] am amazed at the
cOwardice of some Americans who hes
itate now at the acquisitions of such
comparatively insignificant terr.tur-
les"
At Plymouth Church, Brooklyn,
Rev Lyman Abbott said: "If the op-
pOrtunity and clpabilhty of rendering
n great service to the world are offered
then ii becomes duty To perform that
service. \ great opportunity Is pre-
sented this Nation at this time in the
new relations II sustains to the other
nations of the world, and particularly
TO Cuba and the Philippines. The war
was fought and the results involve Us
in new obligations which We are
bound to face. We have destroyed the
government which existed in Cuba and
the Philippines, and now II is our duty
to see that another government is es-
ltablished In its place"
DR.. Abbott said certain Congress
man had declared recently that the
United States shonld abandon the
Philippines, and mind its own busi-
ness. The preachers comment on this
was that it did not seem possible that
there was man who could entertain
such views in this enlightened age.
| Rev. Lindsay Parker, speaking at st.
Peters Protestant Episcopal Church,
Brooklyn. said: Never in the his
tory OF the world was there a more
wonderful campaign than that which
places America today in the opening
gates OF God-designed expansion and
advance. Our losses were insignificant.
Our most notable and splendid vic
tories were at most bloodless. God hath
done great things for us."
At the Scotch Presbyterian Church
Rev. David j. Wylie said: AS Colum-
bus opened q new world to Europe, so
Dewey has opened a new world to AM
erica and the American flag will soon
he flying in the Philippines and Porto
Rico. over thousands of schoolhousss
in which dusky lads and lasses VIII re-
ceive the blessings of an advanced ed
ucation and religion
Among other things Parkhurst said
The verdict of history lin regard TO
the cause OF our war with Spain) Will
probably be: Passion, piety, politics
How We should have come out II we
had taken, as the boys say, one or our
own size, cannot easily be asserted.
Il am not arguing that George Wash
ingtOn was anything other than lhe
dearest old fogy, incapacitated by nm
litations of experience and endowment
for forecastlng our national necessities
in generations 10 come.
Did Dewey's guns, that knocked the
Spanish fleet to pieces, blow up all the
Declaration of Independence?
Having started out a hundred years
ago with the idea that We were going
TO discipline the world by the tuition
OF our intelligence and our morallty,
we drop from our high pedestal ana
enter the lists on the basis OF our
scientific brutality and establish Dig
standing army and create navy
When a man takes what Is not MS
own we ordinarily call 1t stealing. we
wish we could have a ringing WORD
from the President on this matter. we
are some OF us tired OF seeing him put
his ear to the ground in order to eaten
the reverberations that roll in from
the Wild West. .
"I would rather he MALAY subject
IN Snain than an American Indian SUD
ject 10 the Indian Bureau