The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-24
FOREIGN ELEMENT
Immigrants Make the Coming Problem of New Eng
 land City.
SERMON BY DR. PHILLIPS
First in q Series of Six Sunday Evcn- ing Evangclistic
 Talks.

The first in series of six evangelis- tic sermons that Rev. Dr. Watson l.. Phillips. pastor of the Church of the Redeemer, is to preach at that church on succeeding Sunday evenings was given last evening. Dr. Phillips took as his subject "The New England City" The snow storm materially de- creased the size If the congregation present but the preacher laid a strong foundation for powerful series of sermons and it is to be expected that the following sermons will be we'll at- tended.
 Dr. Phillips undertook to analyze tho fundamental problems that the New England city of tho future will find itself confronted with. He brief ly sketched the settlement of the New England section of the country from the time of the Pilgrim fathers down to the present day, with It's hordes of foreigners who flock to our shores with every coming steamer. He said it was his sincere belief that God has had a great divine purpose In the set tlement of America with it's composite race. To this land of liberty they come to absorb our ideas and the re- sponsibiity which that puts upon our shoulders is not a slight one. The New England city depends upon the man ner in which we .ssume and fulfill that responsibility.
 Dr. Phillips had strong eulogy for the American press. He also said he thought America owed great debt to catholicism.
 He said he thought the hope of the new New England city was In an awakening of the old zeal for a life close to that the Gospel prescribes. The church is America's greatest hope and in the church he included the protestant and the catholic churches. Our hope. he said, lis that the church. with it's christian spirit. shall be made manifest in all the relations of life and Gods divine idea in bring ing the vast hordes of people here that come is to form new composite peo- pie l believe. which shall be tho joy and tho strength of the world of the future. rising up on this New England soil where n en have suffered and wrought and toiled, fearing God and loving their felow-man."
 Dr. Phillips said emphatically that he believed the Gospel is to he worked out in the cities of the country. There ' will the stress of life become stronger 1 and stronger as years pass on. It will be the city. in comparison with the wilderness where the Bible tells us the Gospel principles were developed.
 some people have said" he con | tinued. that the hope of the country ' is in the schoolhouse It was at one | time along with the church. It might be yet, in good part. were it not for { the fact that the Bible is getting less ! and less a feature of the teachings of the schoolhouse. Some say the American press. with it's fearlessness, is great force that strikes for the right everywhere. I say. Yes. it is. Ii strikes stalwart blows all the time for the upbuilding of our country and community lives But the church is the greatest power. and it always must be. The reason why the schoolhouse is not such a great power to-day is because it no longer enthrones within its. walls the Bible. and no longer from it rises the prayers and supplications to Almighty God
 <. New England social salvation of the future Dr. Phillips took to be the sal vation of the individual in matters oi religion. And the question of indi- vidual soul salvation is getting more and more to be concerned with the immigrants that come to us.
 Dr. Phillips explained that the res of the series of sermons. of which there will be five. will deal with tht
 man as an individual
 The dates and topics for the rest O the sermons will be as follows. Marcf
 i. "The Man;" March &. The Maj and His Debts. March 15. The MaI and His Dividends" March 22. "Th'
 Man and His Master, and March 29
 The Man and His Future"