The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-10-20

who l cannot suppose agreed with all
my utterances, took occasion to express
his qualification that workingmen had
been invited and had sat down with him
in his pew. and that social topics Of
great concern to US all had been intro
duced into the house Of God. Real per-
lis threaten now the very foundations
of our institutions. In these days
when man, the individual, is in peril of
being crushed between the upper and
the neither milestone of capitalistic mo-
nopolies on the one hand, and of
great labor trust on the other; when the
state is in danger of falling into the at
titude of suppliant between contend
ing industrial forces, and of losing its
old time voice of authority and of pow
er; in my judgment which may be mis-
taken, the need and the lack of political
courage on the platform and in the
press in declaring before labor unions
the law of liberty, is greater and more
ominous than any lack of fidelity on
the part of the pulpit in preaching to
capitalists the law of social righteous
ness, or in rebuking the frivolity Of a
society which can dance and be merry
when our country, the mother of us all,
is in the throes of new births of free
dom, while the prophet of the Lord,
sees upon the world-horizon the dark
ening shadow of a Goddess and adulter-
Gus civilization.
3-This church has maintained a mis-
sionary activity wide as humanity.
Other forms of Christian activity may
come and 60 but the missionary zeal
In this church, like Tennyson's brook,
flows on forever. :
At has stood for the best possible
religious education. When this church
was first formed it had a teaching
pastor as we'll as preacher. We have
maintained high standards of Sunday
school work; and for years when we
could not find lessons up to the stand
ard we prepared our own lesson papers.
5-This church has recognized also the
need of worship for the people, and at
the same time it has sought to dis
charge it's obligation to the community
from it's central position, by keeping up
for these past fourteen years its after
noon devotional service.
1--WE have stood by our congrega-
tionalism. Not as sectarianism, nor
merely because it is our inheritance of
religious liberty, but also because it is
our contribution to the coming unity
of the church. The principles which our
long history represents must all be taxi
en- up into the catholicity Of the one
true church which is to be. Our con-
gationalism is therefore with us not
a question merely of individual taste
or preference; it is our worthy loyalty
to the past, and our best service for
the future. 1t would be faithlessness
to our great religious trust for us or our
children to forsake it. Not until We
can take the riches of our inheritance
with us into a church at once simple
enough and great enough to compre-
bend us all. shall we cease to be con-
regationalists-but- may God in His
gracious providence speed that day.
This church has stood TOR charac-
ter in it's Christian spirit and ideals.
DR.. Smyth dwelt in closing upon the
life Of Christ as the interDreta ton of
cur lives. and in the effort to bring
that life to ours. and our lives to His.
Ere would find the best inspiration and
hope Of future ministry.