The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-06-01
WORLD IS
FLASHED NEWS Of
OPTM|ST SUNDAY
All Big Cities Here and Abroad
Told of NeWark's Great
Day.
OF MINISTER'S
PREACH BRIGHT CREED
Get Together Meeting Expected
to Start Clubs All
Over Globe.

Optimist Sunday in Newark was such
a great triumph that it forecasted the
brilliant success of the coming get
together mass meeting of the Optimist
Club of New Jersey, when Mark Twain
and other illustrious optimists are ex-
pected to speak.
From every principal pulpit in New
ark, its environs, the Oranges and
throughout North Jersey, yesterday was
preached the bright doctrine of opti-
mism-religious and commercial.
The ministers, most. of whom are
active, working members of the Op-
timist Club. readily accepted the sug-
gestion of the club and preached op-
timism from their pulpits. Many of
them mentioned the forthcoming mass
meeting, when it is believed that the
sunny philosophy and business optimism
will rehabilitate the prosperity of New
Jersey, if not of the nation.
The movement in New Jersey and
Newark has taken such a hold that the
eyes of the whole country are focused
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The Associated Press In New York
sent out Saturday night more than 1000
words about the movement. and nearly
every in the United States,
and many in Europe and the rest of the
world. yesterday published elaborate
stories of the success of the Jersey
wave of optimism and its effect on
business.
The RESULT is expected to be that each
State AMI large commercial community
will have it's own Optimist Club in a
short time. The first place in which
this movement is likely to manifest 1t,
self is in New York city, where Sun.
day the newspapers described the New
Jersey club and its eminent success.
Mtt, Get-Teether Meeting.
The standing committee of the Op,
timist Club of New Jersey will NEE
tomorrow night at their rooms, n.
Broad street, with Judge Herr as chair.
man, and definite arrangements will
be concluded for the big mass meet,
ing-the Get-Together meeting.
Under the approval of the RICH
! Rev. Bishop O'Connor, of the Roman
Catholic diocese, and the Right Rev
Bishop Lines, of the Episcopal diocese
nearly every minister in the vicinit,
of Newark spoke on optimism in thei
pulpits yesterday.
Among the stirring sermons on Cd
timism yesterday were the following:
1.-THE promise of the Father which
we have heard from me- Acts l., 4
was the text of the optimist sermon Of
the Row nr Tdoitic Shroua nel~An~o
pastor of the Trinity Episcopal Church.
~ Disciples Optimists.
The true Christian always looks on
the bright side of things. This differ
entiates him from the heather and in
f1del. The predominating note of pa
ganism, atheism and anarchy is pes
simism, despair. That of Christianity
is hope, faith and waiting for the
promise of the Father. The heather
looks back to the past for his golden
age and signs for the good old days;
the Christian looks forward, forgetting
those things which are behind and
reaching out to those which are be-
fore.
1T is now time TO stop all this crazi-
ness about financial conditions and
return to sanity. This country is
not going to destruction, notwith-
standing its undesirable citizens,
be these foreign anarchists or native
'criminaloids.' There is a saving spirit,
a wholesome leaven, working among us
yet, 1t is the spirit of American man
hood which has made this country and
freed this country and saved this coun-
try, not once or twice, but dozens of
times. and will save it again, if need
be-"
He declared the disciples were opti-
mists.
Optimism in Government.
The Rev. Henry r. Rose preached in
the Church of the Redeemer on "Indi-
vidual Responsibility for Good Govern
ment." His text was: Isaiah lx., 81.
THE people shall be all righteous"
He said in part:
THE pessimist says that good gov
eminent in America is impossible be-
cause a democracy cannot be trusted
to Govern itself we'll. He says that the
only hope of a w~ell-conducted state is
under the ~paternalism of a monarchy,
and he points to London and Berlin in
Illustration, as they are confessedly
two of the best governed cities on
earth.
THE optimist says that monarchies
cannot throw stones at democracies
when it ome to government. He
says that good government is
possible in America on a scale as broad
as the land. But he tells the individual
citizen very plainly that there is not
much hope of good government or any
extensive plane or of a very lasting
character until somethingt is done to
handle the two sources of all bad gov
eminent in our country, namely. vice
and business monopoly"
The Rev. William c. O'Donnell, pastor
Of st. PauTs Methodist Church, the
principal church of that denomination
in Newark, said:
Il am an enthusiastic optimist, by
temperament and principle, and indorse
the formation in our city of the Opti-
Club, which should be made n
permanent institution. Its and
the press can do good work.
"If people realized the broadness of
the illustrations of the great Christian
church they would know that it is the
greatest optimist club in the world, the
greatest force to get men and women to
on the bright side of everything in
the darkest hours, to never borrow
never worry about the future,
but to hope for a bright future and
show a smile instead of a frown; a
cheerful, not a gloomy face"
The Rev. DR.. David r. Frazer, pastor
of the old First Presbyterian Church.
aid he did not sneak sDecially of opti-