The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-04-23
ON TIMELY TOPICS.
4 SERMON OF POWER AS TO SAB-
 BATH OESERVANCE

By Rev, Dr, Brown at the First Pres
 byterian Church Yesterday--sunday
 Day for Moral and Spiritual Uplifting
 Words as to San FranciscO and the
 Great Testimony to Christianity's
 Power as shown in the Streams of
 Aid for the Sufferers-Sunday and
 the Recent Ministers Meeting-The
 Sunday Baseball Games In Hamden.
 A very earnest and very impressive discourse was delivered yesterday fore noon by Rev. Dr. Brown at the First Presbyterian church before large congregation. His text was The Sab bath Was Made for Man, and Not Man for the Sabbath" Once a year in all Presbyterian churches sermon is de- livered on Sabbath observance. pr, Brown deprecated the tendency of the times to laxity of Sunday observance. We needed the Puritanical Sabbath, not in its over -strictness, but in the sense of cultivating and developing on the Sabbath our spiritual natures and what was highest and best for our souls interest, with attendance upon divine worship as a means of grace For the nations highest welfare it was inperatively necessary that every in diyldual should aim for what was high est and best morally and spiritually. Presidents, senates, representatives, municipal governments, could not alone bring the nation to high standards of morality. The individuals composing the nation must be trained to honor religion-to honor God.
 The pulpit should be honored and re- spected for here was a great uplift- ing force composed of men trained to the study of the word of God, and whose life work was to point men to the worship of God. The lawyer, the physician, the chemist, the scientist are looked up to as authorities in their respective professions; so it should be as to the clergy.
 Dr. Brown alluded to the Gorky ho- tel episode in New York, speaking in terms of warm approval of the attt- tude of American sentiment in disap- proval of Gorky's immortality as re- gards the marital relation, to say noth- ing of his bad taste in openly at tempting to defy the moral sense of Americans on the subject
 Dr. Brown also spoke with deep feel ing of the catastrophe which San Fran cisco has suffered. He spoke also with doy of the streams of aid flowing from every section of the land for the re- lief of the distressed city, which was a glorious testimony to the power Of Christianity Never in the worlds his- tory was Christianity more glorius in ;ts humanity and philanthropy than to- day.
 pr. Brown spoke with satisfaction of +he efforts of the ministers of New Haven at the recent meetings in behalf nf better observance of the Christian Sabbath, and of the solicitude lest this day of worship should be desecrated. He would not at this time give his opinion of the civic betterment Sunday meetings, but added that when the ac- hion of the clergy at the metings was made known 1t would gratify all who prize the city's best interests, and who nrize the Sabbath as day of worship and spiritual betterment.
 He alluded to the baseball game of yesterday, saying that the end did not Justify the means. The taking of a collection at the gate for the sufferers fin San Francisco did not atone for the disregard of Gods holy day. As well might the saloons all have opened on the Sabbath yesterday on similar plea of raising money.