Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-11-30
IN GOD WE TRUST
Father Crowley Takes New York
 Ministers 10 Task.

heISlOn ana pOllIlCS were lue themes ventilated Thursday in many
 of the New York pulpits. The re-
 marks made furnish the subject mat
 ter for some very pertinent com
 ments. Dr McArthur evidently
 thought it was a political campaign meeting he was addressing, CT a | meeting of national delegates to a nominating convention, and with much hysterical rhetoric nominated Governor Hughes for 1908. I won der what would happen if Archbishop Farley did something like that in his cathedral. WhGw! The mind grows dizzy at the very thought of the re- sounding clamor of righteous indig- nation" that would pierce the heavens and the most vivid lmagin- ation can hardly picture the wave of angry protest that would sweep across Manhattan. And none would be more righteously indignant nor more angrily denunciative than Dr McArthur himself. But circum- stances alter cases. ..... ..>
 Tn God We Trust" was the bur den of Dr Bunnell's jeremiad as it was also the topic of many others. It is somewhat amusing to listen to the denunciationS against the presi- dent by men who would rather see our schools secularized than 10 see adopted the only method by which the seculariZatton can be stopped. Dr Bunnell himself seems aghast at the secularizing tendency. "The tendency" he says, ''of the times is secular. The tendency seems to be to get the Bible out of the schools
 * to get the hymns out of our schools, to get God off our coins, and to put God out of door," In sys- tenn that makes it it's strongest boast that it is non-sectarian, what Lusi- ness has the Bible or religious hymns in our schools? In a cosmopolitan city like New York, where every school is likely to be frequented by believers of all shades and unbelieV- CTS and Jews, the Bible, and the hymns must of necessity be offensive to many. If men will insist on these things, let them come out frankly for a denominational system of schools, In theory and within limitation that seems to be what they want. Why keep up this hypocritical cry of non sectarianism and then below ike bull because it is needed? God has certainly been put out of doors, and the only way to get him back again is by religion which, if good for Sun day and Sunday schools, ought 10 be good also for the other six days.
 Says Dr Duffield: This is the time when the name of Jesus Christ is put under the ban through the ef- forts of those citizens of tyrannical governments who have come to share the freedom of this country which would, I think, be difficult proposi- tion for Dr Duffield to prove that, only in an indirect and very remote way, did Christ make this country free. And the freeing of it was cer- tainly not done in its entirety to the natives. The bitterest enemies of it's freedom were the tories, Anglo Saxon to the core of their hearts; and, on the other hand, if it were not for the aid of France and Spain and other foreigners, it is question if it ever became free. Its freedom should be respected by those who come, but is it violated when 2 pro portion of the foreigners ask that we at least be consistent with our sacrosanct principles that for Cuar- ter of a century or more we have been laundering from pulpit and ros- trum?
 Dr Parkhurst thinks that 'the ad- ventitiOus citizen should experience degree of delicacy in crowding their imported notions upon thoroughbred citizens" He was speaking of the Christmas exercises and from the context he referred to the Jew. Ad- ventitious citizens they may be, but, whether so or not, they have all the rights of citizens and their notions in this case are not imported, but are the notions of the native thorough breds carried to logical conclusions. Dr Parkhurst seems aggrieved that they have in some cases gone so far as to pitch the original househo olders out of the back door" Well, that is rather rubbing it in," but the pity is that in some other cases the orig inal householder had not been taken by the scruff Of the neck and landed behind doors that would be strong enough to keep him in. We had then been spared some of the insur- ance and other scandals of the last few years.
 To Dr Wylie ''it is most unfor- tunate. it is most deplorable, that race prejudice should be stirred up in America" No truer words were uttered Thursday. but the deploTable feature Is that the rule does not al- ways work both ways when the for eigner, in pursuance of his legal rights. as Rabbi Goldstein called them. only incidentally stirs up race prejudice, it is deplorable and damnable and a crime crying to high heaven for vengeance: but when the thoroughbreds do the same thing and. it is to be feared. not always i'm cidentally-then it is virtue that ShnuId make inc angels pazn radiant