The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-01
3RADY'S IDEAS.
Wherein He Agrees
md Disagrees With
Senator Hoar.
HELP THE WEAK.
esus Spoke Not Of Mod
ern American
Gunnery.
HELP THE WEAK.

l., Rev. DR.. James Boyd Brady made a
iiftrong address at Grace church last
= }vening upon Wherein this pulpit
1differs from and agrees with Senator
Hoar."
VI The speaker had over 800 interested
'eauditors. He thanked the press for
THE courteous attention received in the
,Icity, and said that he was going to
preach upon events of interest to the
lefty, not on events occurring five hun
tdred years ago. Either he would die
( in the effort, or someone else would
AS regards Senator Hoar, the speak
er's words were as follows:
1t is not with the trifling garrulity
of a frivolous cavalier that l call at
tention to the things wherein this pull
pit agrees with and differs from the
present senior senator of Massaehu-
sets. This pulpit agrees with Senator
Hoar in his reasonable adhesion to
precedent We should not hastily de-
part from the practices or principles
of the fathers of this republic. They
should continue to be made the sheet
anchors of our procedure in all time
to come. unless they shift us from our
duty. We should continue to be care
full not to jeopardize the liberties that
have made us great by grasping terri
tories outside to make us grand.
1t is no part of our mission to
slaughter and enslave other peoples
because they happen to be less favored
than ourselves.
Thus far this pulpit agrees most
heartily with Senator Hoar. But this
a. al
Hoar claims. If I read him rightly, he
designs to teach that we shall not be-
come mixed up with other nations
that we are shut off here by the en-
hracing seas afar from the rest of the
world; that our chief and indeed only
business is to take care of ourselves
and let the other nations do the same.
The pressure of providential claims
upon us forces me to say that in this
respect l differ widely from your hon
ored senator. The genius of the divine
structure of this universe is that the
Strong shall help the weak" Mechan-
ically, educationally and evangelist
cally. the United States today frame
the strongest nation on the globe. /
remember too, that Great Britain lis
on it, God bless her. 1t would be bad
for us if she were off 1t. And since it
is an omnipotent and omnipresent law
OF this universe that strong beings or
the same nature shall help weak beings
of the same nature, l therefore an
nounce in the face of all opposition
from whatever quarter that it is the
|evident and inevitable duty of this
great commonwealth to lend help
ing hand to any nation or to any peo-
pie who are yearning and struggling
under the harsh hard heel of old time
tyranny for life. liberty and the pur-
suit of happiness"
And if such pitiful and dutiful inter-
ference shall bring young America into
conflict with the powers of exaeton
and imposture, why God has given
Uncle Sam the guns let him stand be-
hind them and let them roar till all the
enemies of humanity are scattered,
whether in Orient or Occident.
Some of you will say, Did not Jesus
forbid the use of the ?" Yes, but
he did not say anything about modern
American gunnery.
No Ill can come to this nation from
either God or man by giving the whole
earth notice that henceforth America
feels it to be her divine mission to be
the champion defender of the human
rights that hitherto have been des-
pissed by the wicked rulers of the earth.