The Detroit times., 1912-04-22
(ONDEhN CREED AS
CAUSE OF TRAGEDY


% the sea, said the Rev. T. W.
Young. In the North Baptist church.
1.-THE penalty OF throwing caution TO
the winds was paid The Titanic
marks new era In ocean travel, as
WAS predicted. but rot in the way
her owners so proudly and arrogant
~ bOasted. The new era will come
about through her disastrous end
We rise TO do better things over the
dead bodies of others"
The sublime disregard for death
that was shown as well as the sub
lime courage OF others Is a proof OF
the races unshaken faith in immor-
taiity said the Rev. Eugene NJ. An
trim. In the North Woodward Meth
odist church. "A crisis like that
brings out the real character of men
and women. Some day the sentence
passed on the sea shall be obeyed
and the sea shall give up its dead
20 praise Him forever"
IF Millionaire of no reputation
Yields his place TO others. If Chris
fian soldier helps keep discipline in
q mob OF frightened men, what are
we TO whimper of rebel when life
goes hard?" asked the Rev. w. Byron
Forbush, I'm the North Congregation
al church.
THE sinking of the Titanic was
the tax paid TO the love of luxury
said DR.. Lee S. McCnllester. in the
Church OF Our Father. 1T was the
tax paid the passion for speed and
the disregard Of the margins of
danger. The whole event is typical
OF the civilization off this age. The
ship was the highest product of mod
ern skill, and the conduct OF the
people on board was typical OF the
self-control, the chiyalry, the cour
age. the faith OF man al his best at
the end of this. the worlds best age.
Said the Rev. L. Walker Malcolm
In st. Andrews Presbyterian church:
IF the sea has been merciless in
Its relentless fury with us, surely il
has made manhood heroic. The world
will never let die the memory or
those who suddenly and at once
gloriously followed the line OF duty
even when they knew il was clothed
in death. All, that is manhood, that
5 is heroism, that is the Christianlike
in man, that is the Divine-like in the
human"
'This great sea disaster will make |
the paths of the ocean safer for mil |
lions of people" said the Rev. Will |
liam Burch in the Advent Christian |
church. "But what about the lesson |
of personal readiness? In all the OF |
fetal Investigation there was no ques- !
ton as to why so many persons put !
\, OF until the last minute the serious I
matter of right relations with God |
The Rev. j. Perciyal Huget, in the |
First Congregational church, said that !
the bravery of the men who died that |
: others might live gave new evidence |
Of our belief that 1T is better TO die
than to be coward" Il was per
Eaps easier for the men to stay than |
for the women to go and leave their |
loved ones behind" said DR.. Huget. |
In the face of the staggering shock
of this awful disaster we lift up our
faces and are glad that our Christian
civilization has produced such men
and women"
This is not time for theological
inquiry, but for maritime investlga-
tion," said the Rev. Eugene X. Ship
pen in the First Unitarian church.
We must not hold God responsible
\ for the insufficiency of boats. We all
feel that the moral uplift of the
heroism of those who went down TO
their graves in the deep. Cynicism
has been dethroned; no longer can
man assert, 'Self-preservation is the
trst law OF nature II is not the first
with men of noble soul"
This disaster is a rebuke to us for
our growing disregard for human
life," said the Rev. Joseph A. Vance,
In the First Presbyterian church.
The Rev. Frank S. Rowland, in the
Cass-ave. Methodist church declared
that the lives OF those lost on the
Titanic We're sacrificed to speed
mania and 6eplored the sentiment
which places the desire Ito be first
above consideration of human life.