New-York tribune., 1900-09-17
BROOKLYN NEWS.
GALVESTON THEIR THEME.
PROTESTANT AND CATHOLIC
PULPITS.

Several Brooklyn ministers yesterday spoke In
their Of the terrible calamity at Gal
weston and drew from 1t the moral OF the un-
certainty of human existence and worldly posses
sions MANY churches expressed their sympathy
| in q practical way by taking up Contributions 1Or
! the Galveston relief funds.
The Rev Dr. Jay Benson Hamilton. in the De
| Kalb Avenue Methodist Church. in the morning
| spoke on THE Southern Cyclone: Voice from
! Galveston The Rev. Frederick Campbell. IN the
| Westminster Presbyterian Church. in the evening
| took the subject "Galvestons Calamity Inc
| Rev Daniel H Overton, pastor of the Greene Ave
: Presbyterian Church. spoke OF the Galveston
storm in his morning sermon under the topic sur
| fering and Sympathy or, Needs and Neishoors.
Several other ministers touched on the subject In
the course of their sermons.
Pursuant TO a request from Bishop Mcdonnell
contributions the Galveston sufferers We're re-
ceived in all of the Roman Catholic churches
At the services in the Central Presbyterian
Church, jefferson and Marcy aves.. it was an
nounced that the church would be open all day to-
day and tomorrow receive gifts of food and
clothing for the Texas sufferers Tomorrow after
noon the goods received will be sent to some or
the distributing agencies in Manhattan for ship
ment to Texas.
The Rev Cortland Myers in the Baptist Temple,
Third-ave. and Schermerhorn-st., in speaking on
Sudden Disasters" in his morning sermon. said in
part:
This the for hs Pulpit ta s to Rs Silent
The question upon every human lip ought to be
messengers.
word?' Surface reasoning and sudden disaster
the ghost of Jobs wife and say. Curse God and
die The worlds heart has been shocked by the
march Of death in the city OF Galveston But God
has not left His world. 1t Is not mere piece of
machinery with no hand on the throttle Force
and law are great words, but there is greater
mind for that which may be the result of the
lessness or ignorance or negligence of man himself
The laws and forces of this world known, and
their effect should always be reckoned with. Negli
condemnation. The city of Galveston should have
been fortified against the storm. The possibility
always there 1t was understood by most men.
1t was great expense to be prepared. and selfish
wanted to keep the money. and the probable
has at last come to dreadful reality. Thousands
of living under the very shadow of
Vesuvius. and who will be to blame If the
rected Pompe is buried again? II the ship goes
on the rock when the warning signal is out, blame
not your world the God who made It.
When the Infamous Ice Trust murders babies and
brings disease into the food of poor people and
Mayor, and have never yet punished him When
your children are uneducated because there
schoolhouses condemn not your world. You
now permitting politicians to become enormously
rich out OF public money and to steal your school
houses If injustice causes strike in the coal
mines and employers and employes-more likely
both-are to blame. remember that good God has
filed the heart of the earth with coal for man.
The forces of the world all under the control
that 1t does.
But beyond and above this is that power Of mercy
purposes of civilization and Christianity and the
salvation Of man. The philosophy of Providence is
not to hinder but to overrule and to make for
righteousness in the earth. "All things work to-
gether for good of them that love God" never
be taken out of history or religion. The heart
coils from the thought of the living stealing from
the dead but that is only small snoT On tbe
bright sun OF human sympathy now manifested
This whole Nation has revealed one heart. Beauti-
toward Texas II is like unto that silver stream
which flows by the throne of God.