New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-12-01
THANKSGIVING SERMONS.
DIR. PARKHURST DEFENDS THE BOERs.
HE ATTACKS ENGLAND AID MUNICIPAL
AND STATE POLITICS

AND STATE POLITICS.
The Rev Or. Charles H. Parkhurst preached
vigorous sermon al the Madison Square Presby-
terrain Church yesterday lie raped the state and
municipal government and took fling al Great
Britain because OF that country's war with the
Beers. He said In part
It IS better to be thankful by the almanac than
10 omit IL altogether God rather encourages
gracious GOVERNMENTS upon us are admlmstetssa uE
a policy Of SYSTEMATIC recurrence. Even ~ God
u can be reverently said that He Is em'neh'y
a nne thing that you see forward Of you means
fairly in your hands thar It commences to cheaper
and pretty soon you VIII be sending on 10 tne
you were pawning your life for We had
rather particular instance n our own CITY amos,
liant IN the shape OF town turned topsy turNy
In IT'S herculean efforts 10 Dee decent While mat
consummauon was being reached and striVen iot'
hy day or bv night except What a great thing IL
mainly Tnc New Jerusalem above went out OF
salem that was 10 have its walls built ana ils
Of those walls and gates II was not quite so good
as the Celestial city. 10 be sure and yet 10 was
before and tho Gomorrah We have now.
II the Americans OF to-day felt as the Americans
OF 70 felt the great body ~ American citlzenship
would rise In grand protest against me sugIlns
out Of republican independ ence in south Africa
The Beers are old fashioned Yes. they TOOK pr
f:om their Dutch ancestors. who were old fasa-
Toned and obstinate and mulish. and VINO. because
of their sanctihed rnulshness were aols 10 sIaile
like wall Of adamant against the devlItry OF
Spanish Catholicism and helped TO save Europe TO
the power OF the Protestant faith. The Boers
old fashioned. but they are as good CHRISTIANS
as the hireling sodlery that are killing them
II II is civilization that England wants to pro.
mote and not her own ACKNOWLEDGMENT. why doesn
she interest herself In the butcher that sits on me
throne Of Turkey when opportunity offers, IL rs
to be supposed that the English people. who
are Christian people, are consciously crush
ing the Beers with any unchristian intent
Whether we should be justified or not In our pro
tact I had fba AMIR ~ he
ton we should make H. irresistbly impelled there
to by the spirit OF Yorktown and Bunker I'M,
Nor do We need to traverse matters so tar from pm
enfeebled sense Of civil liberty its privileges hl U
obligations. Look 10 our own state. we can
ourselves a representative democracy whcha -
true with two important QUALIFICATIONS, me uIst
Of which is that are not democracy ana INC s
second not representative. Ana the most
serious part Of the situation Is that there appears
10 be only here and there a scattered sporadic
mind taking the whole thing all 20 heart III,
Now. pretty soon what are euphemisticaIly cale e
the representatives OF what ~ known IN n PICK
wickian way az the sovereign people are going 10
gather I'm Albany for the purpose OF Interpreting
eternal law In It's application 10 ms h cOt mon
nal law. no representation no sovereign people no
commonwealth In the thing from beginning 10 end.
and almost nobody Is worrying about II or frettng
under IT, Two or three get together mere
about In a week and settle the whole lhlns ~
advance am not yiruperan st speciaed Yet
we shall have 10 do them the justice to say mat
they are not exercising authority which they nave
usurped but exercising authority that the peo-
pie have abandoned. -,
The thing most wanted in this age Of the world
Is the hero "the strenuous life. not understandings
by the phrase that passion Tor Knocking soinenouy
over or shooting somebody down that springs from
a overwrought physical development. but sucI
sense OF moral strength and SUCH an enthusasin %.
array itself against the forces That inVsloy make
for evil in this struggling world