The sun., 1903-11-27
ON MARRIAGE AND FIDELITY:
THANKSGIVING OBITER DICTA BY
THE REV. DIR. PARkHURST.
Chiidless and AtheistIo ConJusal DeVo'
tion Won't Last--WOmsn Shoppins
for bargains Like the Attitude OF
G,anltal tn Labor-Other sermons.

Capital to Labor-Other sermons.
The Rev. DR.. Charles H. Parkhurst
preached Thanksgiving sermon yester-
day in the Madison Square Presbyterian
Church on the subject Of universal orotner-
hood. In the course Of the sermon w.
Parkhurst expressed the belief that II
husband and wife are childless and neither
has suoh faith in God as to regard Him as
q father, conjugal devotion will not last
Ave years. Children and the Church, ac-
cording to DR.. Parkhurst, are the only AIDS
to lasting conjugal felicity.
Il want to talk about one blessing that Is
purely Gods gift" said Dr. Parkhurst.
1T is the theory, or, rather. living prlnci-
pie, Of human brotherhood. Christ came
to earth to show us that we had iather
In Heaven. There is no frdter without
pdter Men are only as fraternally close
together as they are filially close to their
Father-you can call it a philosophical or
theological abstraction, but calling names
does no harm, and an abstraction is dis
titled truth.
"A husband and wife are said to love
each other with such fidelity that each
can be trusted to be faithful to the other.
The premises don't guarantee the conclu-
sion. man and woman may come to me
with bridesmaids and flowers, orange bios
SONS and presents, but l wouldn't issue an
insurance policy guaranteeing conjugai
devotion for five years to any who came
to me to be married If they remained with
out children and without belief in God.
Childless and atheistic conjugal devotion
will not last.
DR.. .Parkhurst drew a parallel between
filial and brotherly love. Look at Asia,
he went on to say. Every big nation in
Asia is looking out for its own interests.
and we think that there will be convulsion
which will tear Asia into flinders There
is no brothery love there
He spoke OF a woman going shopping
and buying piece of hand made goods,
wondering at it's cheapness when she ought
to know that some poor woman has been
underpaid for it. He said that this illus
trated the attitude of capital toward labor.
Fully half the blame for the present strained
relations should be laid on labor, he said,
and he continued:
1T 10 a pity that some one has not laid
before the poor men, to relieve the stress
Of the situation, what a tremendous amount
of money rich men spend on them There
are some men who would be poor in what
ever situation the good God put them.
Il am not arguing for the gratuitous dis
tribution OF coal or for any pooling OF
interests to relieve the situation. That
would only complicate it, and 1t is bad
enough now. There should be mutual
brotherhood, as much on one side as on
the other. This is good Christianity and
good political economy. We should thank
God that We got through the straits without
o national disaster"
DIR. MAcKAY THANKFUL FOR PANAMA ACTION.
The Rev. DR.. Donald Sage Mackay,
pastor OF the Fifth Avenue Collegiate
Church, preached Thanksgiving sermon
on Making the Best of Things" Some
of US, he said, are past masters in making
the worst of things, but it requires neither
EyAce nor brains to do that, Tss-lessop Of
aktpg the best Of things applies to the
problems Tfi eur national life. Then DR..
Mackay went on to say:
Take, for instance, the action Of our Gov
smsnt within the past I fey days in reG9g ips
cited to prove. that our Government in any
have indeed been criticised for refusing to
and and .hs9 relasai has been denounced T as an an
Why. Is it an unchristian act when a
strnhs man refuses to permit two small boys
il It an unchrist Ian act, for \ great Power
to refuse to permit bloodshed and Wholesale
destruction Of property between two smaller
Powers, when the question at issue has been
already decided by constitutional method?
Panama Of her own act joined the Federation
she bs denied the right to leave that fedora
ton by her own vote in zoos? Her revolt
from the misrule and corruption Of Colombia
nent the prompt recognition of her right
to be free and independent by the Govern
uent OF the United States WAS emphatcally
IN line with the principles of American dlpio-
NJ one, think. can doubt that. whatever
peaceful, recognition Of Panama Is a cause for
thankfulness and that in this oir instance our
for all parties concerned
TALKS OF A UNION WITH CANADA.
Tho Rev Dr. George c. Lorimer preached
in the Madison Avenue Baptist Church. at
morning from the text, Let
me depart thai / may 60 to my country
In part he said:
1t is reported that the French people do
not understand our spirit OF Thanksgiving on
this day / read in foreign paper that it
country like ours, where, State and Church
Do not hold The same ne relations @ as they do with
them. the Cnlet Mbg1Strlte snOulu appoint tI
a day for thanksgiv ing. In the French.mind
democracy seems almost synonymous with !
infdeity. Loubet goes to church rarely, !
except on state occasions Liberty in America |
was born of religious oppression in Europe, |
so that to us 1t seems quite natural to respond |
to such an appeal of our Chief Magistrate. |
And so 1t has been with us that in all the |
traditions OF our nat onal life we have remem- |
bered this day. Next to religion our chief |
Inheritance is freedom, l remember as IA |
lad to have read with the greatest pleasure |
books on the subject of liberty. / believe |
that the first condition Is the opportunity |
that freedom. in its widest conception. gives. |
John Bright fifty years ago had vision. |
He thought that the day would come when |
Canada would be united with this country,
under one fag--our flag. Rosebery tried |
to imagine what might have happened but |
for the mistakes of George Ill. II ever the |
dream OF John Bright Is realized and the union
OF the two countries becomes fact. II will
be under an ethical government and We will
be bound together without force, compulsion
or coercion. The United States Of America 10
but q model OF what Europe may some day be.
and ! may, add, why not the United States
of the World? Never forget this country of
ours--a country Of opportunities such as are
found In no other country under heaven,
BENEVOLENT SOCIETIES AT MASS.
81. Patrick's Cathedral was filed yester-
day morning at the memorial services held
at 10 o'clock for all the Catholic Benevolent
societies in the city. Most Of them were
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