The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-03-30
BECOMING
NATION OF EDWARDS
Rev. George Chalmers Richmond
Condemns Present Tenden-
cies in This Country.
CHURCH LOSES REAL GOSPEL
Stands for Political Order and
Financial Interests for It's
Selfish Purposes.
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Philadelphia. Pa, March 29.-ltev.
George Chalmers Richmond. rector of
st. Johns Episcopal Church. in his
Lentcn sermon to-day on Christ and
Our American Rich Men," said:
we arc fast becoming a nation OF
co"arus. our universities are already
hotbcds of undemoncrattc sentiment
EX-President Taft. President Hadley
or Yale, and President Butler. OF Co
lunbia, talk and teach almost any
Kind of doctrine which will ravish and
captivatc tho minds OF men of great
wealth. whose business interests and
Industrial holdings are of an intcrna-
tional character.
The pact international has upset the
moral gunption Of many Of our great
leaders of thought and life. or course,
JOG Choate Is In favor of repeating the
exemption clause. for Chonte Is more
loyal to English ideas OF democratic
freedom than to American principles
or ChriEtian progress.
we are not q nation Of Englishmen.
NVe are Americans. a new kind of man.
pioneers In tho realm OF q new and
iorger Kind Of human freedom than
England drcamt of having
Even tho church in tho United States
Is guilty of hobnobbing with intcrna-
tionai idcas. which arc not exactly
Christian. Missionary work abroad
to-day IL largely an adjunct of big
business. The reason why such in
famous corporation lawyers as one
sanity Philadelphia. George Wharton
pepper. ara deeply interested in the
cause OF Christian missions in China
and japan, Is not because OF a great
love for Christs revolutionary, ethical
and political ideas, but because the
American church. like The established
church in England. has deserted the
real gospel of Jesus and is now simply
standing UP for stand-p political
order. and for those financial interests
which will for the time being keep a
rotten ecclesiastical organization from
falling to pieces.
Americas world leadership. in all
most every respect. is the laughing
stock OF the world. And why is this
so? Because we are trying 10 please
the world
The peace ideas of Andrew Carnegie
are not in accord with the gospel Of
Jesus. They come as result of in
ternational hobnobbine with kings.
prelatcs. lords of industry and haters
OF American democratic progress Eng
land is afraid of the kind OF human
freedom she sees growing up in our
land. She will trick US IL she can
Toe day. through the blind leadership
OF President Wilson. who has come
under the spell of internationalism.
England laughs at our weak -kneed
statesmen. who have become blinded
by Carnegieism, Choatcism and selfish
ism. and are about TO bow the knee to
an international loyalty which is
against all real democratic ideas of
comm ercial progress, and IL opposed TO
true Amcricanism.
1t Will be a very sorry day for our
nation when the inhuman, un-Christian
and undcmocratic ideas of Choatc, Car
ncgie. Hadley ana Butler usurp the
stanch American leadership which in
days past has brought the supremacy
OF American ideals of virtue and order
and OF larger freedom for our own pco-
pie and greater upliftment before
the eyes OF the world OF those ethical
and religious ideas which tend TO make
all men free. and not the slaves OF
thrones, hicrarchies and lords"