The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-25
THE MODERN CITY.
SUBJECT OF SERMON AT UNITED
 CHURCH.

Mir. Haynes Speaks Interestingly of
 This Phase of Modern Life-COm-
 pares Cities of To-day With Cities at
 Time of Christ-Touches Upon Con-
 ditions in New Haven, But Not in a
 Sensational Way.
 At the evening services at the United church on the green last night, the pas tor, Rev. Artemas J. Haynes, preached an interesting sermon which he entitled A Radical Message for a Conservative City" He touched upon the religious and moral conditions in New Haven to-day, but made no sensational criti- cism of the present situation.
 Said an admirer of Dr. Haynes last night, who was present at the sermon:
 Tt is a good preacher that can draw an audience in New Haven in a stormy night. But in spite of the heavy snow MT. Haynes did not suffer the em- barrassment which s1 many preachers have to face of having to talk to scant- ily-hlled pews, To understand MT. Haynes power of drawing an audience one has but to hear him. His subjects are always of vital importance. The common criticism of modern pastors that they slap the devil on the wrist with platitudes will not hold true with MT. Haynes. What he says Is always to the point, and though some of his opinions are radically strong, he does not use the bull-in-the-chin shop method. His gentleness and broad sympathy appeal without offending, and Augustine Birrills saying of Car dlnal Newman is equally true of Mr. Haynes His every. sentence is thing of beauty,
 Mir. Haynes took as his text: Genesis xviii, 19, And Cain builded a eity.' and Revelations xxi, ?, "Ahd I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband"
 Tt is interesting" said Mir. Haynes, Ito compare these two cities one de- scribed in the first book of the Bible, the other in the last book One is the city of the past the other the city of 1.-the future; one the city of Cain, the other the city of Christ. The problem of civilization has always been the problem of the city. In Roman history we read that Augustus found Rome a city of brick, and left it a city of marble. And our problem to-day Is to take the city of Cain and leave it a city of Christ-turn a habltatlon of sin, crime and wickedness to a place of goodness, mercy and love
 "Formerly the history of nation was synonymous with the history of the city. In fact the nation was but so many cities And So the city of Jeru- salem gathered up all that connoted to them, the great nationality of the He brews. The history of Italy has been the history of Rome; in France the story of the nation is the story of Par IS, in England it is London that we find the growth of the nation. So the history of all nations has been the His-  tory of all cities. Therefore in consid- ering this problem it is not with a To- cal consideration we are dealing. The city shows the sum of all the human feeling, intellect and development of the country.
 In the begnning it looked as if North American were destined to pre- sent an anomaly to this rule. The cit ies were few and far between, and it was rural life and people that predom- inated. This is why Uncle Sam is rep resented as country gentleman But the conditions are now changed. It is to cities that we go for our newspapers novels and commercial relations. Wheat Is grown in the country, but Is control led in the cities Indeed, 1t looks as if the life of the country were gradually disappearing. And to-day the great problem stares in the face: How can