Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1908-04-09
qHh PULPIT.
. ccEol lARLY SUNDAY SERMON BY
DR. JOHN r. CARSON
Subject: Signs of Progress.

BROOKLYN, N. Y.-Sunday the Rev.
nr. John F. Carson, pastor Of the Cen
trail Presbyterian Church, preached
a stirring sermon on Signs of Pro
gress" The text was from 1 Chron-
icles 1882: Men that had under
standing of the times" Here are
some of the things he said:
Any student OF our age will find in
existing conditions much that wars
against truth and righteousness and
honor, and that threatens manhood
and the social order. In the political
/ world there is corruption. Votes are
sold to the highest bidder from the
Senate to the ward caucus; men,
whose only creed is greed, whose only
patriotism is pelf, band themselves
together to control political situa-
tons; certain public officials are
growing rich on harvests reaped from
the black fields Of vice and crime. In
the commercial world there is dis
honesty For personal gain of wealth
or power men sacrifice principle, COM
promise conscience, become reckless
operators, INSCRIPTIONS gamblers,
bandits Of banking, highwaymen Of
finance. In the industrial world there
is unfairness and injustice. Corpora
tions ignore the interesc of and op-
press their workmen, crush competi-
tion, defraud the people: working.
men band themselves together to
force employers to their terms. forbid
men to work except on terms fixed By
union, limit apprentices and so deny
Young men their rights, enforce their
demands by violence, Ply homage to
criminal leadership. In-tne suciat
world there are wrongs. The rich
domineer in their swollen pride and
fount their extravagances in the face
OF the poor; the poor sin and suffer,
because herded in poverty and
sqaalor In all our life is the spirit
OF unrest and discontent Safety
ana languid weariness in parlor and
salon, suffering and signing in work
shop and in tenement
IL you tell me that there are 11n-
scrlpulous men who operate schemes
VI Mgh finance, I would rsmind you
taat the sentiment OF the day is so
sslong mat many of these men find it
convenient to seek homes in other
a .anus' II you tell me that there is
IIolpolate THEFT and labor intolerance.
Moulo remind you that, as neve.
osiofe, ~ tnere is demand for the play
y. y. Iustlce and equity in al, relations.
ant,. you tell me that the rich are def
a.tn am.ls extraVagant and that the pov-
ra ~ss vi tne poor is appalling, I would
.'n!lnu M! you that there never has been
ume When the morey of the rich
neor1a lo ~ ieaaily at the services of the
co11ons coUote as 1t is to-day through schools,
sud sd1eses, , libraries, homes, hospitals
tiona. I'M numerable agencies and institu-
ton anu when you call my atten-
NAVY ~ the condition of the sub
timoe eeu, ~ would remind you of the
and 7 Wnen most. people were slaves.
to y, would challenge your thought
+iras ins lact that there never has been
wa,1 ,rne y, "hen the middle class was So
NV NV III I'll as 1t is to-day. If Won call
ins as'ehIlon a. =, to toe deplorable hons
to vorr .ne ~; East Side poor, I will call
sionsrn neur mi mind the report of the Mis-
vorl ;.a society for the Poor of New
the ev;st istoeo IN 1917, which deplored
crovdoa ds'ence OF small houses. each
fami,iouu WIN from four to twelve
lyinr ;n oiten two and three families
Ii Won "a, room, and "of all colors.
brothel, I,' a., me OF the saloons and
and dviH ruI;n mat are running manhood
protaetasg al,sg IN politics, patronized and
remind r W., Ny political influence, I will
Of Non, Nu ~ yoa that when the nonnia+;o,
l4Sq 4S| rk york was 10000 thera va
and not asea lnss retail liquor dealers
females. sess aS than 5000 "abandoued
OF couran ~uoea to the vice and shame
and shama tnere is more actual sin
Of peon]a =, IL a city Of four m lllions
hundred tlan +l there was in a city of a
suaded H. a.lnousand, but I am nor
tons will IIa: a.: an honest study of condi.
Is pronort;acios talsciose that New York Citv
It was 'tllonately better to-dav tba,
are darl. hundred years ago Thara
tons hns hn, ao,eadly things IN orr condi
ieal ST. aut the moral tone ana ~ oonui- ~
was, 'naoard ana is higher than y T enn. ean.
the blackeeru eul ! black things appear all
IN the aS1 liaS. because they are yieweJ
There are SDt g;,ra q. whiter background.
Sa( a gip.ns;:o.' 80 4lc evils In our life
assiost thom irr,'c ,Gi. hattie is being wagei
oat there n' ara The struggle is bitter.
less. Tso . slsns that it is not fruit.
b birth pans1 ras tbroes Of today are : tl. the
The ligSt STngs IS Of a better to-mor1on nev ene
dawn. lto Of that tomorrow nolroM; ber;ns Y
Ness. THIS ts sun sun is piercing the es,ns dars 70
va va new raa;a sGst IS aglow. The CLEANS
horizon. oegln to inumine
ai1snaaad5i fot ! cali n your attention - - :
ca,s al Our life pay of righteousness
Siaan Ianercial rIhpolltical. ~ social and
land. e}N3i;al NdSll awakeninp rs IN new w, and
ID thhslstent tbat nss the demand been
>ue administrator men shall be honest
's1atlon OF sacred truss