The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-10-21
ADDRESS BY H. E. BENEDICT
SPLENDID ENLARGEMENT OF FIRST METHODIST CHURCH.

Mir. Benedict Brilliantly Speaks of Na-
 IIonaI Questions and Christian Effort
 First Church Trustees Vote Yester- day to Recommend the Church In- provement, Cost Not to Exceed Sa5,O0e Grand Coming Celebration of the
 Lifting of S75, 1000 of Indebtedness on New Haven Methodist churches by the New Haven Twentieth Century League The admirable address delivered by Henry H. Benedict, president of the | Twentieth Century League of New Ha- ven, at the First M. E. church Sunday ! evening is published in full below. It l awakened great interest and a general 1 desire for it's publication. It treats up- | on many burning questions of the day and hour, and it's lofty sentiment, clear 1 and pungent .utterances and large minded views stamp it as an address of remarkable interest and power. It also l foreshadoWed an important building l project in New Haven which will, no | doubt, result in the notable enlarge ! ment and Identification of the First Methodist church at an early day. The | location of this noted Methodist church is unsurpassed in the city, and although 1 fine offers have been made for it's pur- l chase, the church people feel that they ! cannot part with their sanctuary, which is so endeared to them by so many ties.
 Furthermore, at a meetingof the trus- | tees of the church yesterday it was rec | commended by the trustees to the church's official board that they rebuild the church at a maximum expenditure of $25000, if such subscription can be secured.
 These are red-letter times for the Methodist churches in New Haven, and the great burden-lifting campaign be- gun a very few years ago by the New Haven Twentieth Century League, and so signally successful-the aggregated mortgage debts in the New Haven Methodist churches of $75,000 having been extinguished-will be appropriate | ly celebrated November 23 at the First church with great rejoicing, and that splendid Methodist bishop, Bishop ! Goodsell, a former pastor of the First
 church, and that noted orator and de- batter, Rev. Dr. Buckley, will deliver
 orations in honor of the grand work
 accomplished by Mfr Benedict, MT. | Manson and their co-workers of the
 Twentieth Century League.
 MT. Benedict's address follows:
 MT. Benedict took for his text for the
 occasion: ..-
 l Blessed be the Lord God of our fath-
 CTS which hath put such thing as this
 in the Kings heart to beautify the
 house of the Lord which is in Jerusa- | lem"
 It has been stated that enthusiasm was one of the principal watch words l of the eighteenth century. Progress was the outcry of the nineteenth cen- 1 tury. Consolidation is the watch word
 of the twentieth century.
 These are eventful, progressive, com-
 petitive days. This is a remarkable
 century. The full dinner pail was a
 party battle-cry at the dawn of the
 century. The full water pail is to-day
 the equipment of the persistent, per-
 suasive, progressive promoter.
 Trusts appear with the rapidity of
 Jonah's gourd. They may disappear as quickly as did that memorable plant.
 or may largely remain controlled by
 the strong arm of the nation-a bless
 ing to the masses-a profit to the class | es. They assume remarkable preroga- I tives-attempt to change economic con- ditions--to regulate prices and control
 labor, and to defy the venerable laws of supply and demand.
 Labor unions exist and increase. They evidence the power of the masses disturb the politician-sometimes cre- ate suffering and occasion violence, at tempt to regulate wages and to control
 personal action. They will be effective
 when judiciously managed, and influ-
 ential if considerate of individual | rights.
 | It becomes every lover of the repub- | lie to think carefully, to speak delibe- | rately, to act conservatively.
 Dr, Parkhurst may predict possible
 revolution. Others may assume that our social conditions are similar to those 1 that existed in France prior to the | French revolution. but 1t must be re- membered that we are Americans, not 1 Frenchmen. Washington and Lincoln to-day exert real. felt influence in po- litical and economic domains.
 The other day in large northwestern
 city I listened to great preachers S
 public recital of his parting words to Tom, his only boy, whom he left at Yale
 to commence his college life. Tears
 came to the orators eyes when he said:
 "Tom, wherever you are, remember
 whose boy you are.''
 Wherever we are, whatever we do, let us remember who were our sires. Our fathers were not volatile Frenchmen, l but sturdy Americans.
 There need be no apprehension of se- l rious prolonged evil resulting from the possible despotism of the classes or the
 anarchy of the masses. You and con- stitute the great conservative force of the republic. Are we not between the man at the top and the man at the bot tom?
 If we are loyal to our Christian iT1-
 heritance, if we stand firmly for com- mercial integrity, if political bias does
 not swerve our judgment, if we feel the God-touch this Sabbath morning, if our association with Almighty God is as in- innate as our Father in Heaven desires, | if upon our pended knees we ask, be- | lieve that God will guide the nation in