Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1899-05-03
pleasures. Of The average English.

iANur UlthchAtag III NAo tlN1Adk1 AAhb AHA-
man.
Dr. Parker's remarks, apropos Of the
Sultan Of Turkey, are stale and unpront-
able. Indeed. the reverend gentleman's
remarks are so caustic. 50 opposed TO |
anything savoring OF a Christian spirit, |
that II the author had not been the great |
Rev. Dr. Joseph Parker, OF the City Tenn |
pie. London. but merely plain Mr.. Par
Ser, Of Cheapside fame we might have
been tempted TO believe that he had APP |
piled for admission to the Sultan's pre-
mier harem-and been turned down"
Now, all the world knows who and what
'our old college chummy," the Sultan.
Is. We have hopes that the Devil. In his
own good time, will attend to his case.
We believe he will Meanwhile Dr. Par
ker need not wish to take a brief for the
prosecution-the sultan's case is black
enough already. Even Mr.. Gladstone,
the most powerful of all the sultan's
avowed enemies never thought it neces-
sary. when discussing the evil machna-
lions Of the Sultan, to drag In the Holy
| Trinity i'm the same highly ridiculous and
lbasphemous manner adopted by the Rev.
| DR.. Parker 1t Is exactly men OF the
| Parker calibre who excite, In the breasts
Of others, a more or less distaste for all
religious exercises. 1t Is exactly men of
the Parker species who bring into ridl-
Guile not thes Christian religion. but its
vainglorous, notwithstanding expo
nents. And It is exactly such men as DR..
Parker who do much to generate and
keep alive that mutely-expressed feeling
Of contempt for things spiritual
Grounds more relative than the narrow,
blgoted and clrcumscribed structures OF
DR.. Parker must be advanced before
those who advance them can ever hope
to prejudice the English people against
the Prince of Wales. Peevish protests
against race-meetngs and card playing
will not succeed in SO doing: neither will
ten thousand Cromwelllan panegyrics,
delivered at the expense Of the Prince Of
Walesmeet with anything but an ephem-
eral success. We all know how fierce
and magnHying is the light that beats
upon throne. We all know how "un-
easy lies the head that wears a crown"
Knowing all this. and knowing how the
accident of princely birth is hedged
around by a thousand and one tcmpta-
lions. temptations Of which we who
tread the humber and perhaps more
peaceful walks of life know nothing, we
x are confident. very confident, that the
English-spealklng people, the world over
1.-The United States included-are praetl-
cally unanimous IN thee desire that the
Prince OF Wales will not only live until,
but far beyond, the time when the con-
tngency Of his reigning shall have be-
come an actuality.
We hold no retainer in the case OF
Parker versus Wales: neither have we
the honor or Observation-Disclosures may be
the correct or orthodox vicw-of the ac-
quainanco Of His Royal Iighness
Therefore, our remarks are perfectly dis
Interested, altogether untrammelcd MOI
do we 'crook the pregnant hinges Of the
knee" when we assert that our remark.
are equally applicable to any man born
to the purple. OF to a similarly exalted
position as that inherited by His Roya
Iighness, the prince of Wales
We would cIte-for the especial benefit
Of the Rev. Dr. ParlSer-the following
anecdote taken from real life. A gradu.
ate OF one of the American Universities
was somewhat partial to the ambrosa
liquid and was DESTROYS Of keeping q
plentiful stock ON hand of the same ir
his dormitory. The powers objected, bu
the graduate bearing in mind the fac
that the days OF slavery had passed, con
celved the brilliant idea Of paraphraslnf
a certain well-known verse, and, quietly
placing his literary effort under the door
Of the boss" withdrew to await further
developments We subioin-ths also foi
the sole benefit of DR.. Parker-the para
phrase in question:
l do not like thee. Doctor Fell
The reason why know full WELL
This also do l know. dear Doctor Fell
Whenever I like, III drink my beer,
And you can go to hell.
Au revorl dear DR.. Parker; Of the cit,
Temple. London. But don't forget {,
z take for your text, some fine sunda,
Z morning. the following meaty and phllo
sophlcal quotation-"Some things are "a
and some things are not so. But tn
things that are so get so mixed up wild
II the things that are not so that we don
g know whether we know anything or not.
u ERNEST ISITT
+ Philadelphia, May ?, 1899
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