New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-03-13
TABERNACLE GETS $4,000.
DIR. HADLEY,S SPEECH.
Church to Try to Raise Ea'do1oment
Fund of Million.


Tabernacle Day was celebrated yesterday at
the New Broadway Tabernacle. Broadway and
56th-st. The pastor the Rev. Charles E. JEFF
ferson, delivered address on The Taoer-
nacIe; It's History and Mission in Christian
Work"
He announced that during the present CEN
tury the church would attempt to raise a mil
lion dollar endowment fund He also announced
the gift Of $4,000 to the Tabernacle from Cor
nelius N Bliss to furnish the floor above the
Bible school as womsn's parlors.
Two other gifts were announced from the pull
pit. One of $4,000, TO furnish the mems par
lors from Sarah NJ. Alternately. and another, Of
5000. from Mrs. F. F. Thompson. to complete
the Thompson Chapel
The pastor referred to the Rev Charles G.
Finney, the founder of the Tabernacle; David
Hale, who took the Tabernacle through its hard
times and was the pastor said, the founder OF
New-York Congregatonalism, and DR.. Joseph
P. Thompson, whose influence and power made
the Tabernacle known from end OF the
country to the other. To the Rev. William NJ
Taylor should be accredited the great religious
undertakings which had made the Tabernacle
so well known.
He denied reports that the church was to con-
tain a theatre. Pilgrim Hail. to which they
refer" he said "is for religious purposes only.
ana not Ior the exploitation OF pays.
He announced that Lenten services would be
conducted by laymen who would preach the
sermons and that DR.. Gosson, the London
evangelist. would arrive in this country this
month and. beginning April 2, would conduct
mission daily for nine days.
At o'clock a vesper service devoted to
an INSTRUMENTATION meeting. Among those
who spoke were the Rev. W. NJ. Smith, the Rev.
Dr. Robert S. Macarthur, the Rev. Henry Luz
beck the Rev. D. A. Blackburn, the Rev. B. @.
Denham and the Rev. Abbott E. Kittredge.
At the services in the evening addresses were
made by President Hadley of Yale and the Rev.
DR.. Lyman Abbott DR.. Abbott was I'll in the
afternoon. and was obliged to cancel an engage
ment to speak at a meeting of the Young Mems
Christian Association. He was sufficiently re-
covered to be in attendance. He spoke on
Puritan Democracy" He said, in part:
We have recently taken over the Philippines.
and the question now arises as to how We shall
govern them. Shall rule them selfshly and
for advantage, as Spain did, or shall we
wash our hands of the whole matter and leave
them to shift for themselves? 1t seems to me
that neither of these courses can be right. we
should educate them in our advanced civil1za-
ton; should protect them and develop their
resources, and in time seek to make them self
governing. There are carpers who say that We
cannot do this. But England has done this
thing IN the past, ana we can 90 II. rms
American democracy, with all its faults, has
done a great work for humanity In the past
Witness, for example, the redemption of the
Southern negro.
In comparison with the age of the Crusades
these modern times are much more religious,
though the Church longer sees fit to make
the unbeliever.
President Hadley of Yale in his speech said
The difficulty of keeping our standards Of
business and of politics pure to-day, is, think
greater than it has been in any previous genera
ton. The task of convincing people in democ-
racy that liberty brings duties as we'll as rights
is harder than the corresponding task under
an arstocracy. A privileged class has re-
ceived many special faVOrS that you can ap
peal to the common spirit of Justice among Its
members to show them why they should accept
self-imposed obligations of duties in return for
these faYOrs. But when you make that appeal
to man who has taken his chances with every
other man in power and privilege, you have no
such basis upon which TO work.
Our industrial machinery and our political
machinery both excellent in their way; but
no Industrial political machinery, however
good, can take the place of public spirit and
self devotion. And when the existence of such
machinery is made an excuse for letting public
spirit and devotion go unused 1t constitutes g
menace instead OF safeguard to the future OF
the body polite.
Here is the great vital need for the Church
rot TO make the American people lava biding
and intelligent-that it Is already; not even to
make it kindly and courteous and industrious
these virtues have, If not IN ideal measure,
at any rate sufficiently for the very practical
purposes of life; but to fight with all it's heart
and with all its soul that dangerous spirit Of
whatever the law allows, and most approves the
man who has taken most. There must be a
sense that power is trust and not privilege;
that life is to be valued not for what it enables
enables US to give the people in the way OF
service.