New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-20
| MEMORIAL SUNDAY.
SERMONS on DISASTER.
Congregations Of All Denominations
Unite in Ser0iccs ard Prayers.

nations held yesterday TOT me NlclllilS OF
the slocum disaster, II keeping with the re-
quest Of tie committee o. ministers formed on
las. Thursday. These services added 20 the
continuous funera! professions in the stricken
East side district and the burials at the
Lutheran Cemetery n Middle Village made yes
teraay the elimination OF the days OF mourning
which began last THURSDAY.
Churches Of All denominations joined in OBJ
serving the day a memorial Sunday. IN some
sermons on the disaster We're preached, while
in others reference 20 il was made only as the
cause for the service.
The service at St. Marks Church which lost
its officers. most OF lis choir and the greater
part Of its Sunday school is described else
where.
in many Of the churches the offering was de-
voted TO the relief fund for sufferers from the
disaster.
Some Of the sermons delivered at these SER
vices were in part as follows:
Tho Rev. Or. HUNTINGTON. Grace Episcopal
But what had these children done that they
have been the sword Of Herod. What had these
Than their neghbors2 II lacks only two years
% hundred since Fulton sent his Glermont:
hilit1 oF Sstesr1 ,esS.Is nS the Torth River il
may have been equally a part OF Gods plan
that there should come, a century later, on the
East River that washes our island, an i'm
pressive demonstration. Il has been by such
bitter experiences this that nave learned
OF self-pTotecuon against the violence OF nature;
These poor sufferers have not died IN vain II
following on their dreadful pains there come
better shipbuildiRg regulations. more rigid in
spectons Of vessels and striCter dis
ciplins aboard vessels carrying human life
rhe Rev MERLE ST. CROIX WRIGHT Lenox
Avenue Cnitarian-T7is has not been msfort-
une only; the fault lies elsewhere 1t Is fault
simple, innocent people who went TO their de
structon have any hand in il? Did God have a
hand In it? Yes, as He has in everything Bur
The culpaoiity les with those who failed OF
what they should have done. This thing was
long ga heTing II was not the work 81 an in
IN which We al are concerned 10 some extent
least through It's agents and inspectors, in view
Of the fact that # was necessary TO be walked
out Of its miserable, sleepy negligence by an
appalling horror
TIE Rev J. F CARSON. Central Presbyterian,
Brookyn--It IS for us TO accept the situation
problem ASSUMES vfvidness by such calamity
as that Of last week, but when one thinks Of il
he realizes that the calamity Of last Wednesday
on every day in the lives that are being de-
stroyed by accidents Of one sort and another.
The heart aches because OF the individual hearts
ones. We cannot tell why those eight hundred
lives We're taken away on last "Wednesday. or
made 10 suffer. But cannot think Of all their
fered VIGOROUSLY Oh not in any small mean
sense. that because they have suffered the rest
Of us VIII be safer river craft. OF that Off
Gals will be more faithful in boat inspection:
But III the larger Their suffering and
sorrow VIII work veal humanity. Every
one Of those eight hundred lives had a distinct
death When the complete story comes out in
ne other lie they and We will find that in
knew it rot
The Rev. DR.. FERDINAND G.. TGLEHART. St
PauTs On Eb-After every precaution shan hav.
been taken the clement Of DANCE Mil sun re-
nam IN the world. and man "iu be liable 70 H.
the level Of the which got jealous and angry
seen fbo s1il 1l' NM 1 Tf 54sana II u 'aIry
so close to where The internal fires reach the
TIE whole city. npt "a single one # the 5000 e.
sa'ilslS hui -. Louis wa placed IN Ligh ground
hundred people The leorIe af Jsr3e,ivr, fr
among the mountains. and "a craWtl~h started Il
atus stream IN a weak dam that burst into r.
women die like di,s in a theatre in chicago sup
tpseI 10 be hrepfoGt. and scores are roasted iu
the body Of q safe iron steamer ~ tho dock Irl
Honoken. When science ana prudence shall have
too, Will happen for the earth is a place of mai
~ncR3 implies peril. physical intellectual and
prompted. Catholics and Protestauts. Chris
have expressed their sympathy and offereI thor
charity.
1he r9 Rev NH EDWIN w =, WHITTIER cAswELL. Peek
~, mourning mat human language seems use
itSS or utterance. we have nothing to- draw
are struck dumb almost insane before ihe terri
I'D S.G,'elneSs oi me blow" Surviving Tarents.
loved ones. /. such hours 81 sIIrre,,e Io+s d',
seems L. live lifetime Hours Of suspense,
Hours Of sacred agony Hundreds Of the bright
homes last Wednesday: thcv were 5oyol!s hone
tul, happy. Some returned. Most of them viii
hot come back any more We cannot unlock Tho
gates Of death 10 bring the priceless treasures L.
under our l6Wly Intel The eynlDat ne 81 ling
eHperoTs, Presidents and millions OF our fellows
thousand back 10 our embrace
THE Rev. Dr. JAMES OLIVER WILSON. Nostrand
Avenue Methodist Episcopal, Brookyn-God did
!ndtldual ana sin In the corporation. But for sir
IN the steamboat company the sin OF greed ana
carelessness the boat would never have been
burned. -Four hremen properly stationed with
nose mar was not rotten could have stopped any
IRE thar night have broken OUT. But these men
would have cost the company $40 a day. and that
Mo9lG nave anected the profits and dividends
hundred souls do perish must not imper!l
DIVIDENDS Thus th@ sin or greed in the com
pauy overreached itself and DESTROYED nine hun
dred lives And hundreds OF rotten life pre-
SeTEeIs are chargeable 70 the sin OF greed.
II this be not enough. then bring in the Steam
p3at inspector for his shameful share OF this
ton sin n the Inspector and sin in the COW
2rdiy crew occasioned the awful tragedy
The Rev. Or. }. ?. REMENsNYDER. ST. Jauess
it!theTan; Who, as his heart has sickened an
this shuddeE1ng horror has not been hard
g es seq Dy ~, me question Is there God? Does
but the sport OF accident, with no power 10
Cod. are the Bibe and crsr ar and u 1erg BE-
lty right when they cali Him a Father? Would
watery fiery death? Then Wbv not Ibeir
SoaE or, you tell Us that there is a good Prov
why, then, were not these church people and
aoss hnoeent sunday school scholars and these
and fear no one can ever satisfactorily an
world by law. and II you are cTirninaIv re I5iz
gent OF every safeguard that God and your own
lie not Just say that tie blame rests NOT mon
you bot upon GOO. Or We may say that the age
setting aside % the order q rature 70 pesl, 5
doubt ~ Ills Troy3en We nag a5o5 say Cog has no
treasure -, eAceIsloIls. where he las allowed but