The sun., 1904-12-10
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PLAIN TALK TO CHURCH FOLKS
M'ADOO TELLS OF THE CITY'S
POLICE AND PREACHERS.

The Former Aren't a. had a They're
Painted and the Latter-Well, They
Have 10 Speak Frankly-But After
All the City's Faith Keeps It Decent.
Police Commissioner MoAdoo stirred
up the animals at the annual dinner OF the
Mems League Of the Broadway Tabernacle,
held at the Hotel st. Denis last night.
The Commissioner talked about as plainly
to the Tabernacle members as any after
dinner speaker has talked to an audience
in long time The church folks liked 1t,
evidently, for they applauded vociferously.
and all kinds of bouquets were thrown at
Mr.. McAdoo by the speakers who followed
him, especially by DR.. jefferson, the Taber-
nacles pastor.
part OF the male members OF the Taber-
nacle congregation, and has for its presi-
dent the Rev. DR.. Charles R. Seymour, the
assistant pastor of the church. 1t gives
dinner every year, at which some topic
of current and church interest is discussed
in sections by. different speakers: The
topic OF last nights discussion was Chris
tian Influence in Our Public Life.
Dr.. Seymour, as toastmaster, started
the discussion. and he was followed by
the Seventeenth district, Prof. William H:
Burr Of Columbia and the Isthmian Canal
Commission, State Senator-elect Mervin
G. Stanley and Noah G. Rogers: 1t was
while Mr.. Rogers was speaking that Com
introduced at once. The Commissioner
buckled right down to his business as
follows:
Il have broken all traditions OF the police
tonight BY foregoing free dinner laugh,
the sense Of being loyal to some traditions
| | hated to have to let the dinner 60 by,
but had to. II anybody in this audience
| or in this town has a notion that Police
Commissioner doesn't have to work for a
| living I'd like to have him take my job
off my hands.
Il know it's a popular notion that the
average policeman is pretty tough GUS
toner but want to say that he is not as
bad as he is painted. -
jected to the daily scrutiny Of the ever
vigilant. ever virile anda always truthful
metropolitan press; IT, besides, you were
watched by the District Attorney laughter;
by about $50 independent, extremely indie.
pendent. societies, and seven or eight OF
the leading clergymen OF the town--it's
Just possible that you wouldn't stand up
under the strain much better than the
average policeman.
There are some persons in this town who
think the police are all bad. A few take
them at their own value. There ought
to be a middle class. As rule, a police
man is Just what you make him. As rule
we get lust the kind Of government we
want. II a policeman is asked TO enforce
law which is against public sentiment, he
will enforce it perfunctorily; and If your
conscience is no more active than that Of
the rest of your fellow citizens you needn't
be surprised II the polioeman's conscience
is no more active than your own. -
But speaking OF the church and OF
preachers there are two kinds OF the latter:
One the kind I used TO know in my boy
hood-I was brought up Calvinist.-the
men Of sound doctrine. That kind j. old
to date acher-and ! have, no quarrel
with him-is the preacher who must do
things He must get right down and wrestle
with evil. with particular evil. and he
calls it by its particular name: The devils
laughterl
"1ou people go up there, or will, TO that
nv apartment and shut of my view of
Jersey, and you sit on soft: decorated
listen to how wicked the town is. take it
all in, and 60 home thinking you re all right
and the officials the rottenest ever. But
on Monday morning you go down into
Wall Street. meet few of the Shylocks
there and to them you say:
Come. brethren; let us foregather,
and we'll do few lambs to-day
my friends, that sort Of thing. leads
you to acquire what distinguished pred
eoessor once called intellectual chestiness.
[Applause and laughter Now the chesty
viii never inherit the earth or reform New
York. II you are not willing to do your
duty. don't you expect me to DO mine
You're not the elect. and il you think you
are you've got another think coming.
There are probably few up there at
the Broadway Tabernacle that might he
better than they are. II you know them,
don't go up and call them Brother. but
call them just what they are. Laughter
and applause
Il have been asked to say something
about religion in the cities. You mean,
Of course, religion in general. Brought
up Calvinist, want to tell you tonight
that were II not for religion and the faith
behind it there are not enough policemen
in all the world to keep order in the city
of New York"
other speakers we're Lieut. Gov: :-elect
NJ. Linn Bruce, the Rev. DR.. Fifeld Of Kan
sas City, Mo-, William Ives Washburn, the
Rev. DR.. Cooper and Pastor Jefferson.