Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-06
WIT AND LOGIC IN
JUDGES ADDRESS
Boston Jurist Lectures on
Homely Truths in Bloom
field Church.

Judge George d. Alden, of Boston,
delivered o lecture last night in the
First Presbyterian Church, Bloom
field under the auspices of the Mems
Guild of the church before a large
audience on THE Need of the Hour
He warned his hearers that 1t was
not popular lecture 81 am very
blunt in my iremarks," he said. 81
want to teach you and not merely
make you laugh" He succeeded, how
ever, In keeping his hearers laughing
the greater part of the time,
There are certain parts which may
be divided into four heads that every
one of us must fill, commercial 'po-
litical,' domestic and religious and
1t is the growing disregard for the
part that each individual should play
that is the cause of all our trouble
Every age has It's moving spirit. The
days OF the pilgrim which laid the
foundations Of this country; the days
of &c, the spirit of liberty; the days
of 81, the spirit OF humanity and
honor, and the present age when we
have turned from the spiritual to
things material, the things of gold,
graft and greed. For the past five
years we have had nothing but graft
and greed. If the individual desire
to get on, instead OF honest, continues,
the foundation OF the government will
crumble away.
The horny-handed farmer who wa
ters his milk really thinks he is honest
and will denounce ell grafters; the
grocer vino puts sand in his sugar
and puts his thumb on the scale to
press It down will denounce the graft
ers. OF course, 1 am not talking Of
the people OF Bloomfield now" he
said with a laugh. "I am talking OF
the people of Maine, Vermont and
New Hampshire, because I am ac~
quainted there. I have never been
here before, and I don't know any,
thing about you. But what do think
Of those fellows in Maine, New Hamp-
shire and Vermont?
~ want to tell you that before this
county can be reformed, you must
reform your State, your town and
yourself" He described a CRATER as
the noblest work of fraud. The peo-
pie are down on the insurance COM
panies for robbing the widows, while
the farmers and grocers are doing
the same thing. he sad.
1.-THE need OF the hour is the re-
turn to honesty. The decline Of man
in his duty to his God, and lack of
self-respect, is the incubator In which
greed is Matched and is the cause OF
our degeneracy. We have no home
fireside now, we are too busy bring
ing up our families. Some of you
carry your religion where you carry
your property, in your wives names
OF course I mean the men In Maine,
New Hampshire and Vermont, for 1
don't know anything about you.
never was in Bloomfield before.
THE need Of the hour Is not
whether President Wilson will be @
success, or whether VIII am Jennings
Bryan cannot live on $4,000 a year,
but it is that we follow some &C.
knowledged path to the cross Of
Calvary. The need of the hour is
American Christian manhood. not
processing Christians, but perform
ing Christians. I have known .dea-
cons of churches that would not
trust with the contribution box, un-
less there was a cash register at
tached to it. e4ss
Never let your desire to do well
Guido your desire to do right. One
OF the needs OF the hour for young
men is to get a job and hold it. then
get married and hold that job, toe.
Today there is hardly a family that
is not afflicted with divorce or APP
pendicitis. The court records show
one divorce for every thirteen mar
| riageS"