The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-04-30
AT THE HOTELS.

4 Z IL ~ 1890
Can you tell US the reason why such a
comparatively few men attend church,"
asked a Herald reporter Of that amlable
and scholarly preacher, Rev. John Cor
nell. Of the Cathedral Of ST. John the
Divine. who Is at the New willard with
his wife.
Il think the causes are not hard to find.
at least so far as our church is con
oerned, replied Dir. Cornell I believe
that rituaIism has much 70 do With the
small attendance Of men in Episcopal
churches. That and long sermons are
mainly accountable. The growth Of rit-
uaiism since I entered the ministry forty
years ago has been great In that ear
Ier day we had no burning OF candies
or incense; no crosses or crueihxes; no
i bowling before the altar. The rubric by
the omission OF these things was regarded
as prohibiting them. and so our divin-
1 ity students were taught Ny preference
/ is still for that earlier and simpler form
Of worship.
| But To get back 10 your question. there
/ is no doubt in my mind that long sermons
/ keep many men away from church serV-
/ ice. A sermon Of twelve 20 fifteen min
utes IS Of ample length, and yet many
/ able men in the ministry seem 10 fail TO
comprehend this and tire out their audi
ences BY their pr0lixity. \ short sermon,
/ like a short, snappy editorial. is what
/ the man Of to-day greatly likes How
| many Of your readers would wade
] through an editorial were it a columns
leRgth2 They would read the first dozen
/ lines and then turn TO something else.
ANY preacher who lets his discourse go
/ beyond twenty minutes makes q blum
der"
1 Mr.. D. ". Burrows, a prominent ciu-
+ zen Of Chicago, who Is a New Willard
/ guest. passed his boyhood days in the
/ little town Of Plymouth n II, the town
in which the great Daniel Webster made
/ his first legal argument. 4 have never,
/ said Mr. Burrows. lost nay boyish ad-
miration for Webster, and still think
/ him the greatest orator and the greatest
statesman our country has produced. In
stead Of diminishing with the fight OF
years. his fame viii continue to grow
brighter"
Mr.. Burrows, on being asked his opin-
ion as 10 the probable continuance Of
/ national prosperity, said: Nothing but
a succession Of bad crop years can check
| f. The failure Of the harvests would.
Of course. hurt, but the country is 50
/ big that anything Ike q general failure
is improbable. The late reverses expe-
I rlenced by many who speculate IN the
market with its consequent depression
will have a good effect Il caused peo-
pie TO stop and think The country was
going at too fast a gait Most people
were living too eKtravagantly. AS d
nation, we have been spending great
deal too much money and for unnecessary
things. Our wealthy men have been set
ting an example by their prOdigaI ex-
penditures that was harmful. Giving tips
Of from $ to so 10 a boy who waits on
you at a table or delivers kilograms
looks grand. but il is silly The rich
have contracted many silly practices.
Now there is a reaction going on and We
shall emerge from il in a much healthier
condition"
Hon. ". T. Andrews. Delegate from
New Mexico when asked at the Sh0reham
yesterday what he had 20 say in reference
IL t-ae HeTald's dispatch that the people
of his Territory We're against the deposi-
ton OF Gov. Hagerman, said.
1t is ridiculous 10 say that the Rev
Mexicans wish Hagerman's retention.
The whole Territory with few excep-
tons, approves the Presidents action in
imaking Capt. Curry governor instead Of
Hsgerman. The few who are sore are
making a terrible clamor. Were you ever
out IN the coyote country? Well, the
noise that a solitary coyote can make
icauses a stranger 20 think there must BE
thousands of the brutes II Is so ia regard
TO the roar Of the Hagerman crowd; a few
men who viii probably lose their posi-
tons are doing the coyote stunt 20 perfec-
ton. They make enough fuss for d regi-
ment, whereas they are less than a cor
iporals guard.
Politics never costs me q nights sleep.
and yet I take good bit Of interest in
political doings. especially as relating TO
Ohio, said Col. Isaac D. Smead. "a very
popular and prosperous Cincinnati con
tractor, at the New Willard
Now, as TO this reported battle be-
tween Senator Foraker and Secretary
Taft, all have 20 say is just this. II any
one dreams that Joseph B. Foraker can
be eliminated as a leader in our state. he
5 believes in the impossible. It Is no harder
- task to build the Panama Canal than 10
retire this man, who in point of intellect
! courage, and craftsmanship. is the peer Of
! any in the nation. ] say this without
| malice 10 ANYBODY, but Il Is the truth. and
! the day is not distant when the whole
b country viii recognize the rightfulness Of
; his attitude on the great questions Of the
t day"
I'VE are getting very conventional and
I proper in Arizona in these piping days
} of peace and prosperity" said Hon
/ Elias 5. Clark. the attorney general Of
that Territory, at the Raleigh.
5 ITO prove that assertion need mention
e only three acts passed by our last iegis-
l laure. One was a very strict anti
: gambling law; another raising saloon
= licenses. and a third forbidding women 70
r enter a saloon or any room or apartment
5 connecting with saloon. These statutes
i in the interest of good morals viii b.
2 rigidly enforced. BY the way, I've noticed
I a sad many women in barrooms since
: my soJourn here in Washington, and
{ think il wouldn't be a bad idea for the
4 National Capital to take a leaf out Of our
Arizona book
II doubt whether the day viii ever
= come when Senator Ben TiIlman viii
! lose his hold on the people OF our state"
, said Mr.. s. W Heath. prominent mer-
{ chant eff Lancaster, s. C.. at the Raleigh.
/ 1T has not been so many years ago
] when l entertained for the Senator a feel
e ing OF intense dislike. and at that time I
q bitterly resented the fact of his political