The sun., 1907-11-29
PULPIT PRAISE FOR HUGHES
Or. MACARTHUR NAMES HTM as
THE NEXT PRESIDENT.

schOOly Other ThsnSsxINIns TOpIcs.
y Several clergymen took occasion yeeter-
day in their Thanksgiving sermons to touch
on topics Of public interest. DR. Robert =.
Macarthur at the Calvary Baptist Church,
in West Fifty-seven,h street. preached a
sermon on word politics and as a climax
nominated Gov. Hughes as candidate for
the Presidency in 1903.
1T is said that the President is the de-
stroyer Of confidence, " said DIR. Macarthur
This sta ement is true. | charge him to.
day before this congregation and before the
American people with being the destroyer
~ confidence in rotten banks, fiimfam
finance, lplnco gamesters in corporate
wealth and national honor. in dishonest
trusts and in illegal corporations. In all
these respects the President is the destroyer
Of confidence
He added:
Daniel Webster Said "snicidp is n con
fession." When certain men are in their
graves by suicidal hand and certain others
ara In prison bv the hand OF Justice and
when still other dctractOrs oi the Presiden'
are In the limbo Of political oblivion and
social insign hcance the President will emerge
from the cloud and storm. robed with
national honor and crowned with immortal
glory.
Here to-day put in nomination fOry Presi-
dent In the campaign OF 1908 man who VIII
lift the ideals OF Roosevelt to still higher
level and will translate them into actualities;
man who possesses patriotism without
partisanship: a man who unit tes clearness Of
Vision with Cooness Of judgment: n man who
IA strong of hand and clear of head and pure in
heart; a man who will add his name in imper-
ishable history to the trio of our greatest
~. e-f, tsaf md
when the names of this quartet are written
ny the historians or pronounced by the ora
tors they will be-George Washington. Abra-
ham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and Charles
Evans Hughes.
In the Marble Collegiate Church, at Fifth
avenue and Twenty-ninth street, the Rev.
DIR. David j. Burrell took as his subject
In God We Trust" After saying that this
was strictly and in every way Gods country
DR.. BurrelI said:
When We have been in trouble we have
never hestate ed to put God upon our banner.
Tn 1853 we put the legend In God We Trust
upon our coins. That was in the time OF
that terrible war. It's matter of little
moment in itself II that legend remains on
or goes on but It seems TO me in these
piping times OF peace. when the legend was
put on our coins in the time OF war. that IL
eavors OF moral weakness. If not moral cow
ardice TO take It on.
This is Gods country and that is the propO-
sition that ] want to make clear. The ten
dency Of the times is secular The tendency
seems to be to get the Bible out Of our public
schools TO get Christi mas out of the minds
OF the growing up children and the coming
generations. TO get the hymns out Of our
Achools to get God on OF our coins and to put
Iod out OF doors.
DR.. Burrell said that on three occasions
the Supreme Court of the United States
has decided that this is Christian country.
and added.
only two persons would question a de-
Cision of the Supreme Court Of the United
States: one would be a dislOyal citizen and
the other an unlettered immigrant"
Dr.'Howard Duffield. in the Old First
Presbyterian Church. at Fifth avenue and
Twelfth street. preached on tho same sub
ieCt. He said
The placing of the words In God We
Trust on the coins unique and I'M
pressive proclamation Of the nations faith.
And now II is-gone not in response to popu-
lar demand not in the exercise of Legislative
right hut in the exercise % an assumed
Presidential discretion.
This is. the time when the name of Jesus
Christ is under a ban through the efforts of
ahoee citizens Of tyrannicsl Governments
who have come to share in the freedom OF
Shis country which Jesus Christ made free.
This is the hour when many a man who has
loved. admired. followed and spplauded
Theodore Roosevelt must with wounded
heart take his reluctant place in the ranks
Of critics.
The Rev. DIR. Charles H. Parkhurst Of
the Madison square Presbyterian Church
also criticised the action Of President Roose-
welt in directing the removal OF I'm God
We Trust from tho coins. He said
That II might not be wise to inuugurate
any new limitation of our trust In God"
NAV we'll be- But n is another thing to
afIace such suggestions a. are already in
force. Done in the way II has Just been done
A. ia the arbitrary obliteTation by one ind-
vidual- for he is only one In spite OF the fact
that ne is the Chief Executive II ~ the
nitrary obtiteratiOn by an individual of "A
tradition Ia regard TO which eighty millions
OF people may be supposed 20 have some
very decided views. and views that are liable
90 be As valuable "a those of the Chief Execu-
dive: a point that Is made all the more pointed
nv the fact that the motto which now stands
upon our coin Is there by legislative action.
A 20 Christmas exercises in the public
schools he said
Warmly welcomed and hospitality enter
tanned NJ has been the imported element
~ our American citizenship. We should sup
pose that such adventitiOus citizens would
experience degree Of delicacy in crowding
their imported notions. social. moral and
religious. upon thoroughbred natives.
The INSTITUTIONS of this country had taken
rather definite shape before our friends from
C'ontinentsl Europe had begun To congregate
in great numbers on this aide Of the water.
Having forgotten. seemingly. that they
we're admitted intO the American family
only on sutIerance. they have in many in
Gtances ret about TO reOrgant1e the house.
keeping and IN some cases even gone so
far A. 10 pitch the original hOuseholders
on, Of the back door. Us in the present instance
where he protes made by parents Of foreig gn
extraction is that our schools should be regu-
lated to meet the wants of 20 per cent Of
the school children. IL is not question
OF aniTnosity on our part but of simple,
everyday fairness.
DIR. Parkhurst spoke of Gov. Hughes az
n man who minded his own business. not
mixing up in questions outside of his do
minion and man who does not think he
:. 49, ,rbrlc thing He addad.