The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-12-01
Business and Politics Must Be Puri-
fled, He Said, or the Judgment
Day Is Near at Hand.

Boston, Dec. President William III. T..
Naunce of Brown University occupied the
>ulpit of the Central Congregational
hurch yesterday morning, and preached
rom the text, Prepare to Meet Thy
BOD, o Israel" saying:
"A thousand times we have heard these
kords repeated as referring TO hnal
Judgment, but In the mind OF the first
'peaker, Amos, there was no thought or
3ny Judgment in the hereafter He saw
srael in the eighth century before Christ
tnnerved by luxury and wrong. and tax
.ng his stand on the street corner he cried
o the astonished multitude, Prepare, -
Israel, to meet thy God.
"A few years later the tramp OF the AS
3yrian armies was heard through Pales-
line. and few years later stu the proud
|eaders of Israel had gone into Assyrian
{aptivity.
do we not all hear this summons TO
meet with God in the great battles at the
kreat crises OF our human history? These
esting times strip us of our sslf-suri
Iiency They tear away the superhcially
happy, until IL suddenly the divine right
Iousness into direct contact with our hu-
Insn life. The life OF nation goes on Tor
] time smoothly and supcrflcially happy
Ylntll IL hBaihSA SphV
basal moral principle OF the universe.
lis every battle a triumph OF the truth?
Does right always win overvwrong? Alas,
ho We have seen Poland partitioned by
her stronger neighbors. We have seen the
heavy hand OF the Turk laid upon Arme-
hia Nevertheless, taking the centuries
together In the end the true thing be-
ZONES the strong thing. right does gather
10 itself might, and because there Is a
tlod in heaven right shall not stand for
ever upon the scaffold, wrong upon the
Throne.
''The battlefields OF today are not on
the plains, but mainly I'm the great office
We may weld the swords into
but the battle OF the plow-
khares still proceeds. Every political
broblem has become an economic problem,
bnd every economic problem Is a moral
problem.
"1ne emphasis OF modern study has
been wholly transferred. and the young
Smen of our times are entering into quite
hew provinces OF investigation and re-
kearch In the last half OF the 18th cen
hurry. physical science was drawing all
bur brightest minds to itself. Huxley and
fryndall were the spokesmen OF the move
Bmcnt. and our young men were following
IN their lead.
To-day. the emphasis IL passing from
to biology and from biology ia
the study OF human society, poittical econ
|omy. social science. the structure of our
human life. its history IN the past and
|the present relations OF men in the great
human brotherhood these are the fas-
|cinating studies that are drawing the
strongest intellects OF our day 10 them
|seives.
when we stand face TO face with the
|grcat economic movement. there are three
ATTITUDES that q man may take. He may
|say, How am I concerned In this7 IL j.
lone more fight between labor and capital
|>nd suppose the strongest viii win, and
u do not care That Is the attitude OF the
parasite and the coward or man
might say: This new movement threat
lens me and my methods
1T ~ a criticism on my friends, an at
sok on my property. and | resent H.
|fhat attitude means insolence on one side
|And violence on the other. Or man may
|hay-and II is the province of the church
10 teach every man that he should say
where n God IN this great STRUGGLED
What doee divine righteousness demand
What does the real brotherhood Of mer
|hnpiy7'
no 7 act on the same principle IN the
ohurch on Sunday morning and on Mon
DAY morning In the stock exchanee7 Are
the Christian business men and the Chris
tan workingmen Of this country really
issorins 10 make the kingdom Of God
|coms and nothing else7'
"If not. then our Judgment day is com
3ng-not In the clouds " heaven. milleni-
bms from now. but here IN America,
>oewssu the Afiantic and the Psctno. here