New-York tribune., 1905-04-14
AMERICAS CHIEF NEED
Dr. Lyman Abbott to the Ministry Conference New

Dr.. Lyman Abbott to the Ministry Conference. New
Hagen.
daa5 there IS nothing America needs so much as the
LsHe4oIinent or earnest and loving obedience to
enough It does not need more commercial PROSPER
we nave got il in abundance 1t does not chiefly
Feeds is earnest and loving obedience to law. and
own Vs,i I Tb are iaWless people We 50 our
So Every individual thinks liberty is acting ac-
cording to his sweet viii What more than
anything else We need in this country IS the infusion
INTO the whole natiOn-black and white rich and
and earnest obedience to the law Of man because
that at IS the exponent and expression OF the law Of
and the educated need it just as rluch as the ig-
the worst forms Of law brean se ace [f b55s I bv the 6s
Ileh b ana educated-not those by the ignorant and
America, every now and then. suffers a break
Gown IN some part Of its machinery. What causes
way in New York, which is. on the whole The graat
seen Win & aO[ 14plG 4 transit the world naS esss
electrical apparatus, and such rapGity that can
Station. think in seven minutes: ana vet the other
cay We an walked. Why? What the trouble!
norant; they knew how TO operate il. and they
@ si4d SSnsines S Sn9Hgh. There was lack OF earnest
discuss tonight whether that Iack was in the en-
ing 70 do with that Ii was a breaEdovr Of hurlan
chaTacter-that was the failure. We are not Law
We have plenty Of coal in Pennsylvania to keep
Us an warm and plenty to Keep an our factories
the coal from the mines in Pennsylvania ard brias
II TO the great ds5r.butng points. Vet tarse
years ago We were in danger OF treezing. and l 90
NOT EnoW but We should have frozen IL 10 bad not
eeen for the unconstitutional Interference hy the
PRESIDENT. What the trouble therc2 IL WIS
not cOal-there plenty OF it. it not tnSt
the men didn't know how 70 mine cOaI-they di9:
lt was not that had no raiiroads-they were al
there II lack Of earnest and loving obedience
10 the great laws Of the social order that the
trouble, II we look back across our history from
the civil War down 20 the present time, see tht.
every great trouble in America has BEEN not 49, -
OF intelligence, not lack OF sTaartuess not lack 81
knowledge Of law. but lack OF rehgion-th2t A.
tf you give religion a broad enough meaning lt has
been lack OF loving and earnest obedience 70 ne
laws OF God This lack is the great need to-day o.
the Anne gicar people.
And the American people are beginning 70 waA9
up 10 this fact They are beginning % see lt 9Al
realize IT, Underneath this spiritual movement Es5 -
We call revival. that Is cropping up here 49, 80
there In America is the underlying sense taSS STs w
have got 20 have better men, Merchants w.
better cleFks-yes, and clerks want better H..
chants. La0Orers want better employers. anu - -
sure employers want better labOFers. We az ~ ~
better mem And the that after gu thS.s thS,S-
q great fundamental need OF a higher LIE. eeS.st
life. purer life. nobler fe underlies thS S,Sissl
cropping for some spiritual vitality. some $3.50
impulse, That Is the nrst tact. that 49,. ~ Aad
greatest need to-day Is the need Or et.l-.e.S..-s
the tgnctiol 0e ministers = 60 make cl=&esssA'