The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-11-01
PASTOR REBUKES
THOSE WHO DECRY
C|TyS MORALITY
Far More Good Than Evil ID
Newark, Says the Rev.
Albertus T. Brock. :

In his sermon last night in the Gin
ton Avenue Reformed Church, the Rev.
Albertus T. Brock, pastor of that
church, urged the forming Of a. get
together party, whose platform is civic
righteousness, whose w~atchword is
duty, and whose guiding star is con
science.
He spoke from the text, by the
blessing OF the upright is the city ex-
allied: but it is overthrown by the
mouth Of the wicked" Prov. H.. II. and
said in part:
TN considering. the. moral condition
of Newark let us not be carried off our
feet and conclude that nothing but
Z evil exists In our city. There is ten
times more good than evil in every
1 city. But the presence of ennobling
forces only magnifes the evil. The
holier the man the greater the sting Of
wrong, and the purer the city the
keener~ the sensesof impurity.
II am not going to take you time
to record some of the evils of our city.
Without giving the matter a second
thought any one Of us could point to
%iniauities of which we do not boast,
but IN the contrary cause a blush of
shame to steal across ones counte-
nance.
q What are we going to do about it?
Some claim that vice and crime are
as inseparable from civilization as
; noise is from a railway train. The
policy Of such is to acknowledge defeat
and s~orrowfully watch the devil carry
on his conquest. dethroning manhood
and womanhood and hurting purity into
the mire. But is it inevitable that there
are streets in every large city into
which it is not fit for any woman to
go after dark? Is it inevitable tina the
bilge water canno be pumped out of
the ship? Is it inevitable that men
should .congregate in dens where de-
: cency is impossible? Every sober
minded man answers with an emphatic
Mo-
city officials are often held response
BILE for immora conditions, sometimes
justly. sometimes unjustly. When they
act as tyrants rather than servants
the harshest criticism is none toe Sc
we're. But to place the entire RESPONSE
gbility there is only begging the ques-
ton. We are not living in Russia, but
in America; not without a constitution
but under a constitution. Government
by the people has not yet been, erased
from the face of the earth.
often too much is demanded from
spublic men. We elect them and Their
SAY Let's see what they will do Il
one. party is in Office the other parties
stand aloof, allowing as poor an a ID
ADMINISTRATION as possible and using the
same as campaign material at the inext
k%election. The greataneed of the Ameri-
can city is a get-together party, whose
platform is civic Righteousness, whose
~watchword is duty, and whose guiding
star is conscience. IN
But such an ideal will never be
realized without the gospel of Jesus
Christ. What Newark needs most OF
all is a revival of ole -fashioned religion.
The weakness of many of the reform
movements is. that while abolishing
corrupt institutions, the victims are not
RESCUED from their life of corruption.
Let the sober-mnded people of New
ark apply the gospel precepts to their
hearts and ives. Let them remember
that they are the custodians Of moral
ity. Let them place principles above
pennies and purity above, politics, and
then-by the grace of Coda clean city
will come"