Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-23
CHURCHES ANSWER
GALL OF HOMELESS
AND HUNGRY ONES
PRACTICAL CHRISTIANITY PREVAILS
In Eloquent Words Priests and Pastors Move
Congregations to Greater Love and Pity for
Earthquake Sufferers-Creed and Color
Forgotten in Bond of Sympathy

have meant the loss Of hundreds of
Causes for Thanks
THANK God, I say, that the earth
quake came at $50 a. m. instead of
1880 a. m. When the last Brooklyn
tabernacle was burned, the great au-
dience had been out of the auditorium
fifteen minutes. When father saw the
leaping flames, he said, God be praised.
the people are safe even though the
building is gone God be praised we
say. San Francisco walls have top
pied, but San Francisco's fathers and
mothers and children live. Even the
blackest clouds may have the brightest
of silver Innings.
Second fact for congratulation.
Though the city of San Francisco has
fallen, yet the city of San Francisco
shall arise again. The future city Of
San Francisco, which shall arise, will
be as much ahead of the old city as
the modern locomotive is better than
the old prairie schooner or canal boats.
Like Galveston, it's streets will be
broader and lined with more noble
buildings. Its palaces shall be richer.
Its stores shall be filled with better
goods. Its people shall have better
homes. 1t is all nonsense to talk about
this being the end Of San Francisco.
Cannot Blot City Out
'You can no more blot out San Fran
cisco then you can obliterate New
York. 1t belongs to the United States.
1t is the port of entry. All the eastern
parts of the United States pass through
its harbor when they wish to send their
goods to or receive their goods from
Europe. San Francisco does not belong
to California. 1t belongs to the whole
United States. Most of the goods which
are to be sent to or received from
Asia must pass through its Gates OF
Gold" Then as the country grows to
the west, San Francisco must continue
to grow. AS we said before, the earth
quake which has torn down its build
ings once, may never return. And this
one setback can no more retard it's on
ward progress than st. Louis bright
heaven of hope could be eclipsed by the
dark clouds of one fatal cyclone.
And, Finally, Congratulations
'"Then, lastly, / congratulate San
Francisco because this great sorrow
is going to be the publication and the
cleansing from sin and the conservation
of its people for the services of the di-
vine master The city of San Fran
cisco has been filled with eastern people.
Most of these people came from
Christian homes. But after many of
these people left the old homesteads
they broke away or rather drifted away
from their old spiritual moorings.
'"They did like so many of the eastern
people who have come to Los Angeles
have done. They put their church let
ters in the trunks and never took them
out They spent their week days IN
making money and their Sundays in
sport and fun seeking. In other words,
they have not been children of God as
their forefathers were children of Cod.
"But now by the broken fortunes and
the new-made graves, these people Of
the northern part of the state will sur
render their hearts to Jesus Christ.
They will renew their pledges to the
savior. And thus with the right hand
they will reach out to the east. And
with tie left hand they will reach out
to the far west. And in each of these
hands, San Francisco will hold a sacred
bible in which are recorded the prom
ises of the true God upon whom they
will throw themselves in Christian love
and alteration"