The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-10-20
PULPITPRAISE OF ROOSEVELT.
DIR. PiRkHIRS THANKS GOD
ron THE PRESENT EXECUTIVE.
Says He Was Larger Than Both Parties Put
Together in the Coal Strike Problem
Calls Other Politicians Discretiited
atrtOts tod Owns the Coal Mines.

of another" He began by saying that
while it is easy enough TO he thankful that
We seem at last to be getting out of our
perple kites. we may as well make up our
minds to De thankful that we have encoun-
tered perpeXifies needing 10 be- got out of.
Nations are like individuals. in that they
have 10 be trained toward their destiny.
and there il no complete training that does
not contain in II some ingredients OF diff
Guilty. danger and disaster,
DIR Parkhur-t went on tosav in part:
The organization idea i very Christian.
because 1t involves the notion of submitting
ourselves and lett ing ourselves become merely
"A part of something that i other than our
selves and a great deal more and better than
ourselves. Substantial gain In this particu-
lar has been wrought out for us, and there
fore for the world 10y what la, been trans
plrlng IN our midst these months past. We
have Won new sense of the iutrrlaClng of
human Interests, of our mutual dependence
of tn" way m which. like bricks m "A wall,
"" are kept III place. not hy ourselves pui
by the bricks which are around III. top ana
bottom and sides New dl>tlnCtu"-~ mas
been given 10 IA" idea that II /, not what
few men would Ink" hut Nhat all men require
! and must have, TINT III the lat analysis has
TO bo GetrrmlnH'iNr that II l. lot " hat I'VE
men thing they ought TO g'i, nor what ll',wO
Iu.u think they ought TO get that l. gong 10
~.ttI, things, hut " hat TIA" general pubic L.
conscious II hu, q right to. II has been
waning 70 -wall minorttes evcrywhrrr 70
get oil tn" track when the train of public
resolution and public necessity i gong hy.
lou may have. -cen tNo boys that have been
fighting become rc,Or'ilcd Al TIA" IMPULSE
of their fathers threat that he would iog
| them II they didn't. Even that Wa better
than 20 keep on hghtihe, however deh'lent
the reconciliation may have been ia the
| uuaIitie, OF n sweet and hmpid evang. lici-m.
! II l. always we'll to stop iishttne under any
| circumstances even though the cessation OF
! ho-tilitics results from the death oil one or
| both OF the comhataut-.
Although tie present situation IL some,
! hogsiug rach other because they were
afraid their father would fog them, and
/ rlthougii one, If not both of ia" combataht-
! iu m" coal duel would have kept Ola fighting
| If they had dared 20, and although ia" genera
| utiuo>phcr" cNhaltd Icy tn" operators l. not
| what could b" exactly called balmy, and al
| though thu parting @dlut" Of the representa-
! ttvr Of thr strikers !, not precisely IN the
! spirit or the thirteenth chapter of ,ornthiln.,
| Something has been don", special ambition
ha. boon curhcd csutrlfuc"uo" has been
called tu order. "a" rights of "a" whole have
1,s'r'rd themselves lnp"r, llly. not inpcr-
/ ou,,v. over IL" wh,m. of IT." few. the soil
/ dtrIty OF tr" people has pronounced itself
! and been recognized the principle involved
| III our text has been az least half yielded to.
| oven if NOT heartily and pH~>ioua'elv adopted
Nllthut i~uecded n order to make any Christian
| hoW"y,r 'Jr "" may b" Vet from having
| gotten 'h'r"
Another point tina, has been more or less
di.tiu,flv involved Ia tn" struggle, and par
tiCulurlv in what promises TO b" the teTmi-
nation Of the -trugging. l. ~" truth that
there are psh,- PRO. to ANYTHING ComM2n,y
Thor IS ROT "a word NOR" difficult to defln"
than Ownership "" own q thing only
upto hat point where Il tpp-ar- that ONE one
one else own Il NOR" than W. DO. that - to
~ay. Al- larger claim upon II than "" have.
II YOU Own q plec" OF land that the public
wants Tor highway, the public VII! tax" II.
and We LAY has right to tax" u, however
unwilling YOU may he to part with (which
| (, 10 n--ert that the public'~ claim upon i i
prior 10 your claim upon n The -torm sink
vovr ship, the .Hrthuudk" knocks down your
hou-", "a" frost ruins your "rang" grove.
1hqt Is all there i to II II l. gone. God man
OF tho" liza b." 20 b. provItcntially mulded
Anohl Imtn o"u'f' ~ re Is -ou,t lns
very iudct"rmiuatr. something slightly
visionary. II denotes soluething relative.
not something absolute The child SAYS
Iis picture book l. mis- His father takes II
and then ." discovers That II was not his
cod owns. and owns absolutely, no one else
af" 49,. th inn Dn and # ' s Rad BEEN S
writing ~ III" day. OF htuinnoIs and am
t'r cite, he might haN" sand t'dt ~" coal
underneath tnoS" hills Is His also. Any hu-
man ownership = otcrnlllv invalid II main
tanned In disregard Of the authority. law
aud holy will of Him who owns absolutely
DIR. Parkhur,' quoted newspaper story
to IN" effect that n Bloomfield Judge dis
charged a little girl arrested for picking
tIp coal a long III" taCkawanna Railroad say
ing. In my estimation. Just al present /,
l. no CRIME to take coal when necessity
forces ono To do 50. a. in your case it did.
SAID the preacher
Some may not think II quito prudent 10
preach THIS doctrine, but there l. not one of
W. presumably that would not have dpplmd"d
IN the Bloomfield courtroom, or II too con
SrrNatiV,' to 70 ~ fgr IA that, no one of ~
that would not have wanted TO applaud
Ii | veI" dying Of starvation and had no
means of huNiug "A plrC" OF bread and We're
to 70 by boxers wh'r" bread was within
roach ! should help myself 20 i, And "a"
way should T.,sIn Would Would be- M ,Ihat
| Gods bread than il j. The bakers and ! am
| one Of God'- hulc boys lhuehtorl. and there
| iorr understand the proximity of N loaf
| 10 be an aver to the prayer offered my tth-r
| this morning Give n" this day my daily
bread Suppressed laughter
| which Is not lawful? Oh. yes, II is some
| times and We have thriSt's authority for
| could understand how an appeal could
| properly be- taken from IN" form of an idea
| or stltute TO its underlying principles
| He said unto the Pharisees: N We yc not read
| what David did when h. Wa an hungcred
! and they that we're with him how he entered
| into thu house Of God and did eat IA" >hcw-
| bread which was not lawful for him to eat
neither for them which were with him. but
This reference TO the Pharisecs. the ethical
| experts Of that day, reminds me 70 say that
| such matters are not n be settled by experts
| such matters az We have to do with Just now
! cannot be- 'gurcd to ConCl lslon by any num-
! bcr Of technical professionals The situation
| has undoubtedly It's economic features and a
good many OF them. but in this, a. ia all great
! au.pstious that agitatc the public mind, the
cont rolling principles are personal, moral and
| touch clear back to ia" throne OF cd and TO
! the ~ III and the heart Of Han who sits on that
| throne and cannot bc handled by experts and
| statistiCians any NOR" than character can be
measured 10y a tape lin" or virtue tested by a
| MICROSCOPE or = rctOrt That l. one off he
| CON mcndahl" features or IN" tribunal OF arbi-
| tration that the President had constituted.
| that. while allowing for the purely economic
| element OF the problem, II is a good deal more
! to some degree 80 composed a. to be shl" 10
| as an operator or with man as an operative
| and CON petcnt therefore to take generous
account OF underlying and eternal princi pies
AZ we'll as hard and fast account of such spe-
| cnc facts as lie out upon the surface.
Dr. Parkhur,t closed with this eulogy of
| the President:
II i right that We should. here. in the sanct-
uarr express our sense of gratitude 10 God
that at a time so involved and so critical
there was in the chair of the Chief Executive
/. man VINO bad 50 iCient hero-m OF head and
heart to hold the questions that confronted
us steadily upon high and broad lines The
mm"ns" risks hc took in assuming in an un-
constitutional way or non constitutional
way the role Of intermediary. We should
more easily appreciate II his action had issued
IN failure. for men are estimated not so much