The sun., 1903-11-09
ONLYSEYEN WEEKS FROM HE'LL
SAYS PARKHURST OF TAMMANY'S
APPROACHING RETURN.
sterniy Rebukes Church Folks Who litter
at Thistle Thinks That the Moral
sentiment OF the Community Is sasging
and Sneers Mt Halfbreed Integrity.

ana SneeT6 Ut IbuuUTctu huttBTlty.
The Rev DR.. Parkhurst announced in the
course Of his sermon in the Madison Square
Presbyterian Church yesterday morning
that New York is only seven weeks from
hell on earth. The mild laughter in the
congregation which greeted this announce
ment was instantly hushed by the preacher
"A he leaned over the pu pit and said
How any one can laugh at that l don't
understand, God have mercy on him."
Dr. Parkhurst told his hearers what he
considered to be the real cause Of last Tues
DAVIS defeat He didn't get it from either
II Republican or a Democrat, he said, but
the result wa sn't due to the great ignorant
foreign population or even to the multi
tudinous class of reprobates," and "thor-
oughbred depravty in the city.
The ultimate cause. he continued ais
our halfbreed integrity, integrity that is
dreadfuly mortified and distressed by in
iau,v that asserts itself under forms that
are coarse but which gets along with perfect
comfort with identically the same iniuuity
when tnseed with touches Of the aesthetic
and gotten out in an edition de luxe.
Il am not here to plead for the wretches
that gamble away their money and their
souls on the Bowery. but I wish there was
some moral system Of Pinkerton detection
that would let in the light Of publicity on
the gentlemen and ladies who gamble up
and down our central avenues, and who do
not call it gambling because it is done at
home and in company with nice people,
This is time when moral sentiment In
tho community is sagging, according, to
DR.. Parkhurst. One indication is that
marriage is becoming an amusement
ypea m n y plea ba rra for a vi fo
by worrying the present wife into, the
grave" he said. we cut the Gordian knot
by pushing the case before a divorce court,
a species of Mormonism that might have
brought bushes to Brigham Young
In the course Of his sermon DR.. Park
hurst referred to Commissioner Greene as
christian official" 1T is not always
Street for ethical illumination, and it will be
some time before it is possible again. but
from the nature of the case when light does
radiate from there it is very luminous"
Here are some other sentences from the
sermon
WITH VII Jan. will commence twS years more
S15 sSas m9o's so saSs %, sb psoPh
Want. % and they want a good deal. The new
administration comes in with the deliberate
intention of promoting drunkenness. gambling
and lechery as SO much material to be con-
verted into dollars.
Before the two years are out. unless there
is moral deadness here that is deader than
] believe it to be. the eloauence Of wide open
crime, liquor, sodden w,retchedness and ad,
vertised and bespangl voluptuousness will
begin to tell, and while the moral enthusiasm
with which the recent campaign closed was
mostly superficial and manufactures en-
melted by the. devils own prolific minstra
tions. that will put the platform and pulpit
oratory Of October TO the blush, and the rising
tide swelling from this coming, two years
Of pit will once more tumble tho city out
again upon the green grass.
The policy Of the churches to move up
town came In for DR.. Parkhurst's con-
demnation. In an announcement in re-
gard to church finances he said that the
Madison Square church would need lots Of
money in the future, for it would soon be
about the only church left on the west side
of town between Twenty-third and Fifty
first streets.
sThey are getting out helter-skelter,
he said They are moving up-uptown,
/ mean It is wicked policy"