The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-08-14

for office themselves They can do bet
ter. They can sell out judgeships at ten
thousand dollars apiece, and other Of
fees at proportional rates. We haven't
learned the tariff for the first mayor
ship of Greater New York" yet, but
there undoubtedly was one, and we may
see the sworn schedule for it yet, when
King-maker Dick Croker next goes on
to the Messy gridironl
And now what a tremendous thought
1t is that, at the present ratio of pro-
gress, our ignorant and debased city
masses, that have made d Dick Croker
! possible i'll the great city of New York,
may make Dick Croker possible as
president of the United States In less
| than thirty years!-or. If not president,
then president-maker and Boss"
Nay, more may make the Sabbath a
! pandemonium Of Internal revelry may
throw wide open the hood-gates Of
crime for brides, and may levy a high
wayman's blackmail upon every honest
trade and occupation. until Sodom were
| honest and Purtanical compared with
such city life.
| The more we study these problems the
more loudly will they thunder in our
ears the lesson that the salvation of
our cities is to be the only salvation Of
the nation.
And now the practical and vital ques-
ton arises, What is our duty, as Chris
tians and patriots. in this emergency?
We may well adopt God s own words in
Isaiah's parable of the vineyard Elsa.
5:4), and ask What could have been
done more to my vineyard that I have
not done in it?" And we must reply
that We have no new Gospel to preach,
no new or additional revelation from
God to proclaim unto men. We cannot
like Mormonism. announce a pretended
bran new revelation from God to order,
to meet either the political or moral
emergencies of the times. We say with
Paul Gal is, 81 Though We or any
man, or an angel from heaven, preach
any other gospel let him be ac-
cursed" But still the applications of
the gospel to the wants of the world
must always be in some sense fresh and
new, If they are to be effective in meet
ing the demands of the ages as they
arise. Whenever new demands have
arisen new Pentecosts have always
been given, new agencies raised up In
the church, and new forms of activity |
been developed. The Dorcas society
was as truly a fruit Of the Pentecost as
was Peters preaching, or his restoring I
Dorcas to lifa,s
And so it must be in our own times.
There was never any other age in
church history when the church needed |
to work in such numerous ways, and to
pour her fertilzing influences through |
such various channels, as in this age.
1t would seem that the churches
themselves, within their own folds, need |
nothing else SO much as divine quick
ening, energizng and intensifying of
their spiritual life and power. We of
the ministry need this first and most of
all, as the appointed guides and leaders
of the work. Unless we are all alive
and filled with the zeal, the courage, the
sagacity, the gumption needed for our
work, our churches will be like the Sew
entyfirst New York regiment of volun-
teers at the battle of San Juan hill,
They will be idling in the rear, break
ing up and demoralizing the line of adj
vance, wasting a whole day within the
sound of the thunders of a great histor-
ical battle, compelling other regiments
to march through them and right over
them to do the work they themselves
ought to be doing, and all because we
colonies and lieutenant colonies and
majors are skulking behind heaps of
blankets to avoid the song of Mauser
bullets, when we ought to be leading
our regiments like whirlwinds, winning
victory for our country and brigadier's
stars for ourselves! If any of us are
thus showing ourselves inoompetents
and towards In Christ's battle line, then
hope that the brave men and women
Of our churches will do as part of the
men of the New York Seventy-first vol
unteers did-leave us in our ignominy
where we are, and rush on to the fight
ing line with anybody who comes along
and means to fight! The quicker such
4 regiment mutinies en- masse, deposes'
ts cowardly officers and elects new
,nes on the spot, the quicker it can
charge on the enemy and carry its ban
aers to victory. So it ever has been,
and ever will be, in the campaigns of
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