The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-11-21
HIS TASTES UNAhfERICAH
Or. Wilding Says the Mayor
Is Not the Type of a Man
to Be at the Head of a
Christian City.

TIE Rev. DR.. George g. Wilding, pastor
of Eedding Methodist Episcopal Church,
in preaching yesterday on Sunday the
atres. said in part
III seems ike 8 helpful thing once in
a whilo for someone to lay a careless
hand upon the ark OF God. Ii sets people
to thinking and stirs minds and hearts.
In all ages of the world there has been
a periious tendency to lift pleasure above
religion. 1t still must he closely watched.
Prosperity brings money and leisure, and
yet there is much suffering from poverty
and idIeness: but this is largely traeea-
BILE to the drink curse. Prosperity has a
tendency to make people wax wanton."
1t is not a good national sign to see a
people paying undue attention to their
amusernents. When they are bent on
pleasure seeking. manhood is endangered
and conscience is likely to grow cal
Ious, and the pleasure passion greedily
absorbs the life current, till people live
for little else except amusement, and, Of
course, then they are Of little use TO
the world. Many Ask, Why is there 50
much pain ana suffering in the world2'
Human history shows that in prosperity
men lSltU ~ QiitI eI00S iACli oCNs h&AC
loss. disaster affliction seem to mel
low peoples natures and draw them back
TO their Maker. God want to save us
1t often takes a good deal Of pressure to
do It. A vessel requires q good weight
of ballast TO keep her from capsizing.
1.-THE utteranees OF Mayor Hoos in cat
erisg to the pleasure loving element Of
our city concerns us, every one. We
have nothing to dc with him here and
now, as a man or citizen, but when he
speaks in his official capacity we listen.
Their he represents US, or m~isrepresents
lis, and is open to c-ommendation or
criticism. OF course, he has a perfect
right to his opinions. 1t is the public and
official utterance of such opinions as
these under consideration that we take
the liberty to stoutly protest against
his entrance into his high office his
official ~utterances may be noted along
four lines.
sFew people would have thought of the
theatre as the head of a reform move
ment. 1t is doubtful if the theatre ever
was so badly soiled as it Is today, and Il
is evidently getting worse every day. Ihe
What a humorist the Mayor isl The re-
iation of the two Is about the same as
that Of varioloid and smallpox. The TWO
trot side by side IN double harness. What
a pair Of Heavenly Twins! Satin
laughs till he shakes his sides. No. We
do not want the Continental Sabba7n
May God and the people deliver us from
i'll Let US guard what we have as 9
treasure beyond diamonds and rubies, one
Of Gods bes. gifts 10 man, the holy Sab
bath. It is for rest and woTship; not for
amusement, but for rest Of body, brain
and spirit. All three need it. The srcaS-
est rest is to turn from the secular TO the
spiritual. No State Church, but a guar
antee of quiet, undisturbed worship Tor
all. Destroy the Sabbath. and cur tine,
nervous race would wear itself out. II IS
a physical as we'll as a spiritual necessity.
Sunday amusen1ents may cempel many
men to work who else could rest. and il
dulls the Sabbath instinct and all sorts
of Sunday labor become common.
eThe sanctuary of Coo is the sheet an
Choir Of the Nation. In its atmosphere is
fostered patriotism, brotherhood, domestic
and true spirituality. We need not far
the blue laws, and yet they were to be
preferred to AnaTchism or Nfhllism. ne
ashamed of. For one. / should prefer
Jonafhan Edwards to Herr Most II The
Sabbath is destroyed the Church OF Tod
will languisla. and that would sap the life
Of Christianity. and with Christianity
go our superb civilization, and q
civilization departs morality gees out
he Republic: SO went Babylon. Greece
Rome. May we keep our sabbath
intact Take care Of the foundations
stone. Jealously guard the small bcssn-
great an beneiicent institution
Chronic Nasal Catarrh poisons every
breath that is drawn into the lungs.
tha remedy for the cure OF this trouble.
a small quantity of Elyfs Cream Balm
placed into the nostrils spreads over an
rsedisfaixs fhn f41airfifi1 fh3aamnatian