The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-07-03
REV. THOMAS HAMBLY DECLARES
THAT LOCAL CONDITIONS
ARE VERY BAD
ARMY CHlPLlINS ARE SCORED
WEST SIDE PASTOR SAYS THAT
THEY ARE DESPICABLE
BEINGS
NATIONAL POLITICS PURER

Country at Large to Be Congratulate
ed on the Christian Character of
the Men at the Head of the Two
Leading Party Organizations,
Even Though the Local COndi-
tions Are So Blue.
During the past three months the
civic unrighteousness and impurtty In
the city of St. Paul have been worse than
during any time IN the preceding twenty
years" declared Rev. Thomas Hambly
in a sermon on True National Great
ness" delivered yesterday morning at the
Clinton Avenue NJ. E. church. The
speaker generalized a great deal on his
subject and took occasion to severely
score army chaplains in the course of his
address.
Dr. Hambly too his text from Daniel
vi, g: Because an excellent spirit was in
him"
The spirit that made Daniel prince
would make any nation princely," he
said. Whatever our sentiments may be
intellectually, scientifically, mechanical
ly or politically, they are nothing unless
combined with the spirit of God. If there
were more men with a spirit like that
Daniel possessed the world could see
more to applaud. The epoch makers
have all been men of religion. All great
revolutions were born of divine ideas" "
Dr. HambIy cited Charlemagne, Gus
tavus Adolphus, oliver Cromwell Ed
mund Burke, Washington and Lincoln as
bearing out his statement. Then he drew
a striking contrast with Louis XIV, of
France a reign of immortality, when the
courts were controlled by women of
questionable character. There were no
schoolhouses and the people, because Of
lack of educational ideas, could not rise
above the level to which they were born.
"Our national politics are gradually be-
coming purer" he declared. "At the
head of each of the great parties is
man of spotIess, Christian character. The
people should inject this spirit into our
national life.
THE tendency of the times is towards
the Capitalization of everything, but
there are Christian men bold enough to
stand up as Clem Studebaker did
when J. D. Rockefeller, through his Chi
cago university, attempted to gain con-
troll of the immense ChaUtauqua printing
interests
THE address delivered by the Japanese
gentleman recently before the CONNER
ciaI club was one of the greatest that
Americans ever listened to and he gave
us as our shibboleth Remember the Pa
cific." 1t recalled to my mind the pas
sage of the Chinese exclusion bill passed
by a Republican administration and
fathered by Geary, Of the sand fats Of
San Francisco. All the time allowed for
the discussion of that great bill in the
United States senate was twenty minutes.
The bill was railroaded through and the
only objection raised was by Senator
Davis who declared that the senate was
standing in the face of the future COM
merce of America"
Touching on the negro problem, the
speaker thought as the only true solu-
ton the government should provide funds
for the education and uplifting of the
colored people of the South. Then Mr.
Hamby paid his respects to the city ad-
ministration, which he declared to be the
most corrupt and immoral for the past
twenty years He referred to the con-
ditiOns at Minnehaha park, Minneapolis,
and said the dance halls had become
such stencil in the nostrils of the people
that the residents of the locality were
forced to hold meetings in protest The
conditions he described as so bad that no
newspaper would publish them
THE regular army chaplains are, from
my observation, the most despicable be-
ings among men," said Mr.. Hambly
They get their positions by pulling wires
and when they get there they are a bur-
den to the country Religion is no quail
fication and that consideration never en-
ters in. At Fortress Monroe, the great
artillery school of America, the chaplain
breaches to q few officers wives and
children in a. little building that will seat
probably $50 souls The subordinates
have not respect enough for him to &c
and hear him. He will walk out OF
church after his service and if a private
or non-commissioned officer fails to sa-
lutte him he will have the erring one court
martialed. AT the soldiers home in Vir-
ginia the chaplain is nicknamed HOLY
joe He is the greatest curiosity I ever
saw.
q know of no field on earth where g
fresh animated preacher of the gospe
can do more good than in the army and
l would urge the department to look fol
some gospel qualification in the incum-
bent of the Office"