The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-11-18
From Sunday Sermons

In the Church OF Our Father. Sunday
morning, said he believed that men
We're better and conditions under
which we lived far ahead OF those
which our forefathers not only en-
dured but largely supported.
Ten years ago we had no pure
food laws, no laws against harmful
patent medicines nor laws forbidding
the giving OF railroad passes To
ministers, no laws against fraudulent
newspaper advertising nor the law
providing for publication OF campaign
expenses before elections said Mr..
Powers.
/ George Washington, whom no one
wishes TO deprive OF his just fame.
used the saloon influence TO win cleo
tons, kept slaves and did not provide
properly for their maintenance.
"Ins those good old times IL was
customary for all public men TO drink.
The charge could have been made
truthfully against nearly all public
men In the early life of our country.
l As for cleanliness, the people In the
slums today are living under better
Ihygienic conditions than were the
royal families 200 years ago.
eff one-half the things are true that
have been recorded in our public press
during the last week relating to vice
conditions, then our boys and girls
are not safe on the streets OF Detroit,
declared the Rev. Howard A. Field,
i in Simpson Methodist church. Sunday
evening, In the course OF sermon on
Are our boys and girls safe?
Let a committee for the investiga-
ton of vice be appointed" he said.
LET the members go into 1t thorough
ly, let them find out who the guilty
parties are, and not only let them
punish the offenders, but let them
bring such information to the general
public as will cause wave OF indig-
nation to sweep over this city, until
the better element shall make impos-
sible the election again OF any man
TO public Office who has not the high
est interest OF the citys youth at
heart.
Some Of the men elected TO the
commonscouncil are no more fitted to
govern the affairs of our city than
the devil himself is morally Mt to
make laws to govern the citizens or
the heavenly country
The Rev. f. II. Pence, in the Fort
ST. Presbyterian church, said that
there is a great necessity for God
fearing men and women TO fight vice
in Detroit, and declared there are
some forms OF evil which religion
cannot stop.
The Rev Henri Blanchot, in ST.
Joachims Roman Catholic church.
said that much of the present-day ten
denotes toward evil comes from lack
OF moral training. "A system of edu-
cation that ignores God is full OF dan
ger" declared FIR. Blanchot.
In starting Il series OF sermons on
'Homely talks to young and DID, the
Rev. George +. Cullen, In the West
Grand-blvd. NJ ethodist church, said
that no youths education Is complete
unless he reads the daily papers and
keeps informed OF current events.
PLENTY OF good books wisely used
are the best education" said Mr.. Gull
len.
The lack or general support Of
charitable and religious movements
the Very Rev. Dean Samuel S. Mar
quis, in st. Pauls cathedral. said was
due to "the luxury of the middle
classes" Each man should act ac-
cording to his own ability, In the mat
ter OF ams-giviug and not leave it all
to the few very rich" Said DR.. Mar
outs. Wealth today is lavished on
secular education, art, science. amuse-
ments, while religion goes begging.
I'VE people cf the middle class be-
labor the rich because they do not
support our religious and social I'M
dertakings, when az matter OF fact
we are as selfish, and often far more
extravagant in proportion to our
means than they. With $4,000 OF an
income we would like to keep pace
with the man who has FIVE; and with
FIVE, we would live as the man who
has ten-the result being that we are
afflicted with a chronic feeling OF pov
erty which we are ever ready TO offer
as an excuse for not doing what we
know to be our duty. 1t Is not the
rich alone who need TO be aroused to
generous deeds In these days. The
question, How many loaves have YEP
must be put to the comfortable, lux
ury-loving middle class as WE'LL
The question Is not so much what
these immigrants will do to America
as what will America do to these i'm
migrants" declared the Rev. r. l..
Breed, OF New York city, In the First
Congregational church, Sunday eve
hing. in the course OF his address on
America in the making" Another
of his striking propositions wis that
there is but one way to get into this
country without being vaccinated and
that was to be born into It.
An unusually large congregation
listened and watched with great inter
est on the occasion OF this unique ad-
dress, which was demonstrated by the
reproduction OF scenes at Ellis Island
as the young men in costume took
the roles OF the newcomers and afford
ed much amusement as they ran the
gauntlet of Uncle Sans stan OF In
spectors.
The speaker featured the magnitude
of the immigration problem and sai1
that a million year come to this
country from other lands. More than
nine millions have come within the
past decade. and he mentioned that
Al different nationalities were en-
braced in the new arrivals OF last