The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-12-18
A SERMON FOR SUNDAY
AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE az THE
REV. NJ W. STRIKER.

REV. NJ W. STRIKER.
Democracy and Christianity" tho Sub.
1oct Of a Foroefui Argument by the
President Of Hamilton College, elm
ton, N. Y.-The Peoples Day Advances.
NEW York CITY. Democracy and
Christianity" was the subject of a forceful
sermon by the Rev. Dr. M. w. Stryker,
President q Hamilton College, Clinton, n.
T., in The Brick Presbyterian Church, sun
day morning. DIR. stryker said:
1t Is not always remembered that, on it's
human side, Moses founded "a republican
form Of government. 10 was 10 be main
tanned through popular representation. The
failure was in Israel, not in the idea. When
- q anonted Saul he did IT under sol
2test. II was a relapse from privil-
rigs were q makeshift and it turned
a sound philosophy Of man and
ID, and distinguishing humanity
utensils and furniture, / would
attempt the connotation OF the
3 which state-each in its own
with the strongest mutual bear
whole hope of mankind: Democ-
rstianty. You may run out, IN
Nch and width, the many PROPOSE.
mich can now only utter, not am
VI nave only time for the broadax
sid the ada.
~ l used the word "manlind"-that is,
man-kinned - related, cousined, brothers
- When Paul. the apostle speaks literally
" OF the whole fatherdom in heaven and
earth"-he atirms the broad and elemen-
tel gospel theorem of the common origin,
the common opportunity, the common con-
Germ of all humanity. God hath made of
one blood '-"ln one spirit all baptized
into one body''-such phrases characterize
this whole new covenant and contemplate
the Encouragement of the world.
Il unity Of privilege, duty, Affection
common derivation, development and goal
- the doctrine OF the essential solidarity of
man. To affirm this is the instinct, the
intangible purpose of the gospel. Either
this mutually this cohesive and integral
> ing impulse, working its way steadily, how
ever slow its stages, or at last a sterile race
and a shattered star
Economics? 1t is the law of the worlds
housekeeping Politics-it is mans com.
mon citizenship. Philanthropy, equity, law,
ethics, reEgion-these are the bonds that
transcend race ard region and date. Be-
tore their scope provlnclalism passes into
insignidcance. History is the record of
IN the painful but steady evolution of human
unity homogenelty. Sociology Is ethics
This Is the increasing purpose" of time.
Mans nature involves society. He is en-
vironed by his fellows. He is born into
and constructed for their close relation.
This is his irrevocable constitution-the
means toward it, better or worse, are but
bylaws, The one inevitable, the others
provisional and tentative. These are
changed and shaken, that remains. The
definition and practical ordering of this
relation, whether by means better or
worse, the assertion of partnership and
federation, in whatever degree of wisdom
the assertion Of common veal Tor woe)
this Is government.
~ However they have blundered or slut
II tOAUo I'd
the organizing of human life and its activi-
ties have been experiments in search of
n fair and fruitful terms under which men
may live together. Perceived or unseen,
the ends of government are to secure the
well being OF men as men, and that must
be the best government which most eff
tectually seeks the utmost welfare of all
within its control-which seeks a right
and equitable society. AS means to this
end it is strong and sacred, as a means TO
any other ends it is stultihed.
1t concerns u.s. then, at once to note the
names and essential implications of the
several schemes and forms of government
Tor ways of getting on together) which
men have attempted and exhibited.
hAutocracy-the rule of one man, cen
tering all power in his own person and
responsible only to himself. "Letat c'est
moi" Absoluteism-an imperfect man
cannot, a perfect man would not; for
!, either way individually is frustrated. Des-
Asn potlsm IS mlsanthroplc.
Monarchy-which ordinarily implies a
degree of consent and delegation of pow
Ger, and has wide limits according as the
& 1subJects have great or small influence
The forms of monarchy are not inconsis-
tent with real popular power, only then
their terminology is an anachronism and
their retention a superfuous and absurd
expense.
Plutocracy is the rule of wealth-the
power of money holders as such. 1t is
SUBTLE and subversive of men. That il
goes by Community of interest" by 81
lent arithmetic, does not indeed necess
tate, but makes possible expressions not
less actual because insidious and una
vowed. 1t has ruined great peoples. Fol
Community Of the interested" is widely
diverse from the interest of the communi
ty. The peoples also cannot serve Coo
monwealth. Veal itself is not mere
wealth The word wealth" begs tn,
question. Plutus was blind!
-. Olgarchy, the few" in power, whether
- Ma clique, bureau, machine" or a ring
Mud by whatsoever means installed and tol
akated. It's selectness and separatenes
lad virtual assumption is its odium. 1t
Responsibility is its vice. It's selfish
less is its defeat. 1t refuses to share.
- Aristocracy, literally the rue by tn
best, ideally an excellent term and thing
practically, however, the seifelected a
their own Tating-what one has called eth
fhe irony of an entailed nobility" Here
ditary privilege tainted with pride ant
superciliousness and snobbery and the DIR.
n rot of these-a non-sequitus, still exploit
II ing the many for the few class preroga
~ i've and the non-human prescriptions o
ste The "best" should rule in the ia