The Penn's Grove record., 1903-11-13
A SERMON FOR SUNDAY
AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE BY THE
REV. M. w. STRIKER.
Democracy and Christianity the Sub
ject Of q Forceful Argument by the
President of Hamilton College,, C1in-
ton, N. Y.-The Peoples Day Advances.

"Democracy and Christianity the Sub
ject OF q Forceful Argument by the
President of Hamilton College,, Clin-
ton, N. Y.-The Peoples Day Advances.
NEW YORK CITY. Democracy and
Christianity was the subject Of a forog
sermon by the Rev. DIR. M. w: Stryke11
Y, in the Brick Presbyterian Church, Sum
day morning. DR.. Stryker said:
1t is not always remembered that, on its
human side, Moses founded q republican
form of government. It was to be main
tanned through popular representation. The
failure was in Israel, not in the idea. When
Samuel anointed Saul he did it under sol
emn protest. 1t was q relapse from privil-
ege. Kings were a makeshift and it turned
out badly.
Seeking q sound philosophy of man and
his affairs, and distinguishing humanity
from its utensils and furniture, ] would
earnestly attempt the connotation Of the
two words which state-each in it's own
way, but with the strongest mutual bear
ing-the whole hope of mankind: Democ-
racy, Christianity. You may run out, in
their reach and width, the many PROPOSE
tons which | can now only utter, not ann
pity. | have only time for the broadax
and the adj.
I used the word smankind"-that Is,
m~an-kinned - related, cousined, brothers.
When Paul, the apostle, speaks literally
of "the whole fatherdom in heaven and
earth'-he affirms the broad and elemen-
tai 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 9 body'-such phrases characterize
this whole new covenant and contemplate
the Encouragement Of the world.
A 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 ~mutuality, this cohesive and integral
ing impulse, working its way steadily, how
ever slow its stages, or at last a sterile race
and a shattered start
Economics? It is the law Of the worlds
housekeeping. Politics-it is man. COM
mon citizenship. Philanthropy, equity, law,
ethics, religion-these are the bonds that
transcend race and region and date. Be
fore their scope provincialism passes into
insigniicance. History is the record Of
the painful but steady evolution Of human
INDEPENDENTLY. 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 OF
worse, the assertion of partnership and
federation, in whatever degree of wisdom
the assertion Of a common veal Cor Woe)
this is government.
However they have b~lundered, or slut
tered, or fumbled, the experiment toward
the organizing of human life and its aetivi
ties have been experiments in search 81
fair and fruitful terms under which mer
may live together. Perceived or unseen
the ends of government are to secure The
well being OF men as men, and that. mus
be the best government which most ef
fectually seeks the utmost welfare of al
within its control-which seeks a righ1
and equitable society. As a means to thii
end it is strong and sacred, as a means t.
any other ends it is stultified.
1t concerns us, then, at once to note tht
names and essential iHaphcatiurs T0f th
several schemes and forms of government
Tor ways of getting on together) which
men have attempted and exhibited.
Autocracy-the rule of one man, cen
tering all power in his own person ant
| responsible only to himself. "Ietat c'es
moi" Absoluteism-an imperfect maj
cannot, a perfect man would not; fol
either way individually is frustrated. Des
potism is misanthropic.
Monarchy-which ordinarily implies
degree of consent and delegation Of pow
er, and has wide limits according as th
subjects have great or small influence
The forms of monarchy are not inconsis
tent with real popular power, only thel
their TECHNOLOGY is an anachronism ant