- w4 "4 ,3"(!Vr."Jto! .THE PIT1SBTJ1KJ DKSPATOT: MONKAiTf vDEOEMBER i2; 1892. 6 fT ' AS SEEN BY OTHERS. Leading Kew York Clergymen Talk on the Pittsburg Movement . THE VIEWS OF KEF. DR. TALMAGE. A General Impression liat Great Ehould Te Ixercised. Care PLANS THAT ABE OUTLINED IN PAST Ke-w York, Dec. 11. A page of to-day'i Herald is devoted to the recent movement of Mayor Gourley and Pittsburg's minis ters. The tone of the article is decidedly critical, but it includes interviews with such prominent figures as Kev. 1. DeWitt Talmage, Father Thomas J. Ducey, Eev. Thomas Dixon, Jr., Rabbi Aaron "Wise and Eev. Dr. J. H. Kjlance. In introducing the subject the Herald says: " 'Go and sin no more' is not the gospel as preached in Pittsburg. There they have cuanged it to Go and sin somewhere else. Tne stu dents of sin and its cures are convinced that yon cannot cure such women with a club. You must wean them from tneir wickedness. The Pittsburg crusaders of fered tneni the dilemma, sin or suicide. No tender was made to them by the churches of an opportunity to relorm. women can i reform iu the gutter." "When Kev. X De "Witt Talmage was found he said: "The law has po right to be harsh. Judges, juries, district attorneys, sheriffs, police, constables have no right to be harsh. All of their actions, though they be firm, should be tempered by mercy 'and kindness." He had in mind the recent crusades aeainst fallen women of this city and of Pittsburc. He spoke with the vehemence of thorough conviction. There was no mis taking his meaning, and if there had been any possibility of a mistake it would have been immediately dispelled by nis Aigorous repetition of the re marks. Nothing Gained by Harsh. Measures. '"Nothing is ever to be gained by harsh measures," he continued. "The law of the land, of course, must be upheld, and those in whose hands its execution has been placed must do their duty fully and firmly. If the law is not enforced there is no de fense for society; but the enforcing must not be harsh. Put a man down, throw him into a dungeon, punish him harshly and be will brood and brood over his unequal con dition and his unfair treatment by his fel low creature. He broods and what will he hatch out but vultures? There is nothing good in that "The Church has a tremendous resnonsi bility upon its hands. The law may de fend societv. but it remains for Christianity to complete the work. Christ and His fol lowers must reform society and give to it a new being. These spasmodic attacks upon vice and immorality are futile. ' AVhat is needed is a new morality, an enlightenment by the spirit of Christ "Before that and be lore that alone will vice vanish. It is not for us to say to the fallen: There you are and I am not sorry for you. Outuponyou! Serve you right for your iniquitous con duct' Rather let us approach them in kindliness of spirit aud mercy. "How few "of us realize that we, too, might have been in their position, might have fallen into the same depth of degrada tion that they have! Where would we be to-day if we," too, had been rocked in the same'iniquitnus cradle in which these poor wretches nave been rocked? Where would we be if the same baleful influences had guided our footsteps and dominated our career? JKow then Bhall we dare to be harsh? The social evil, or anv other evil, is not to be stamped out of existence under an iron heeL Let the law do its duty and let the Church follow with its beneficent offices. Then there will be a hope for a moral regeneration." The Gospel of Cnarlty. Father Thomas J. Ducey, when asked for his views, said: "If the reports as presented in the nrcss are true, it seems to me that the action of the representatives of religion was worse than pagan. It certainly was not after the example of the Divine Master, Jesus Christ. To an outcast, an unfortunate woman, well known in Jerusalem, He ex tended every kindness and courtesy. He protected her from the attacks of the hypo critical Pharasees and scribes. In my judgment no one should be treated with greater kindness than the poor outcast child of sin when she seeks protection and de sires to amend hei unhappy life. Jesus Christ commanded us to teed the hungry, to clothe the naked and to house the home less. And who is so aked or so homeless as the woman excommunicated from society by her Hie of shame? If we would bring them back to virtue, make their lives of any hope or usefulness, it must be by char ity and purity of action." "I haven't followed tne Pittsburg matter closely, so cannot answer as to details," says Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr. "But I can say this: Tnere is now a growing move ment in all our civic customs for a cleaner public life. It is the advance move of a great revival of practical religion. It amounts to a revolution. There are not ki aves enough in office, or fools enough in the pulpit or out of it, to stop it. It will nweep this generation with resistless power. The man who resists fights against the very stars of heaven. It is sure to result in a larger incarnation of righteousness in public life." Only Methods of Indirection. Eev. Dr. J. H. Rylance, of St. Mark's, says: "As to the matter you ask my judg ment upon the clerical doings in Pittsburg I can scarcely trust myselt to speak, so senseless do I deem all such methods of dealing with what is called the 'social evil.' Tnere are no methods available, in my judgment, of healing this and other such open sores, except methods of indirec tion. But men of hot moral impulses can not wait for results from these methods. Let them somehow be prevented from doing public mischief, hoever. If our moral de tectives are re-illy bent upon saving the fallen let them get ihera into 'homes,' where the moral nature might have a fair chance to recover itself. But even this were im practicable, or would only prove eflectual in a mitigating decree." This is what Babbi Aaron "Wise thinks: "In answer to your question a command of the Talmud occurs to me 'Cast away with thy right hand; with thy left hand draw him nearer. Chastise and fondle together. Administer correction to the wicked, but immediately alleviate the pain of his pun ishment' In the treatment of the great social evil, which engrosses the thoughts of all men, should our measures for relief not beinflcenced by the lofty sentiment con tained in the teachings of the rabbis? That there exists an evil which must be elim inated, that action must be taken ere it gains too strong a foothold, who would deny? And yet we cannot demand an un conditional surrender. The weakest enemy has the right to expect some quarter if it . yield to the superior power. Shall we then oppose this unrighteous enemy to the social and moral order with harsh, immod erate measures, without any concession to its imperative needi? We must seek to exterminate this incubus, but we dare not refuse protection to those whom we thus render houseless. Knows No Compromise. Eev. Madison C Peters writes: "I know no compromise; boldly condemn the sin, but have Christlike compassion for the sinner. Luther trulv said, 'This is a hard world for girls.' Their woes should commend them to our loving care. I believe that one-half of the women who go to the bad are driven there through scanty wages. Think of many of our large stores paying competent girls lrom ?2 60 to 55 per week. Let our churches and philanthropists open doors of refuge. While Christ lives none are beyond hope and forgiveness." Matron 1'rindle, of the Florence Mission, says: 'I believe it to be the duty of every Christian worker, all clergymen and lay men, to seek the salvation of all fallen women, and especially after their haunts Mrs. Lyman Abbott Wife of the pastor of Plymouth Church, in Brooklyn, and one of the most experienced and earnest women identified with American church work, shows the wisest manner of Conducting a Ladies' Aid Society ' in a special article, full of suggestions for members of Ladies' Aid Societies, in the Christmas Ladies' Home Journal. Ten Cents on all news-stands One Dollar per Year The Curtis Publishing Company, Philadelphia ARE YOU GOING A FISHING ? Wtf On the label of every can is have been raided and they are left to secure other places of abode more terrible still. "It ministers ana missionaries went hand in band with the police, and while one was administering the law the other, with love and good will, should band forth the bread ef lite to win these poor motherless, home less girls back to God and virtue, it would be a glorious work." "For the sake of society," says the Eev. Dr. G Ellwood Hash, pastor of the Church of Our Father, Brooklyn, "whose very foundations in the home it undermines, th,e social pest should be stamped out remorse lessly, immldiately. The individual sinner should be dealt with in exhaustleis pity as a soul to be saved. Repressive measures to be effectual must be continuous, not parox ysmal. The laws are already strincent. The police are guilty of their non-application. Rampant, ruthless partisanship is re sponsible for a bribable police. The voters who sustain them are to blame for reckless partisanship, and thus for the default of the police and the persistence of the plagui. Enforce the law and give the gospel crauk a more vigorous turn." TUree Interested Parties. The Eev. David James Burrell writes: "With respect to the uplifting of the fallen, as in other benevolent movements of our time, there are three interested parties "First The civil government, upon which devolves not merely the punishment of the guilty, but their reformation for society's sake. "Second The Church, which custom arily relieves the State of much the largest pari ot its-reformatory work, and "Third The fault finders, who are of no use whatever in these premises except to malign the Church for neelecting at times to entirely perform this particular function of the civil authorities. In the special cases referred to the Pittsburg clergymen were probably as short of accommodations for fallen" women in their homes as the municipal authorities were in the public institutions of the city." Eev. Joseph E. Kerr said: "The Pitts burg clergymen meant well, but for the time being they were trapped by their own rashness. They inaugurated a crusade which they found themselves unable to fol low up logically and thoroughly. The Mayor stepped back with the plea that he did not look for his official order to be so promptly enforced, and the ministers were invoked to face the new situation with the good Samantanship of the gospel. The gun kicked, and if the shot went out of the muzzle the recoil was stunning. There wag no lack of courage, but there is more than one kind of that admirable virtue. Expe rience justifies the belief that ministerial leadership along municipal and civil lines is not the most fortunate. Nor is it neces sary in this.day,when there is such a splen did' host of educated and consecrated Chris tian laymen entirely competent to concert measures and lead in their execution, aided and encouraged by the moral support of spiritual guidance of the ministerial pro fession." 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