| Show I 1 TRIBUTE TO DAVID 11 k rev david utters address at the theater SI AT THE CHURCHES TJ president cannon and elder pierce V y at the tabernacle mission work i in china described fit the first congregational evangelist ran ban hlass sermon socialist gron at st pauls Y N M X C A t I 1 rev mr fr utters Ut tera tri tribute ebrite to th e memory ory of 0 professor swing swine was listened to iby by a jar large and appreciative audience at the theater some same part ot of what was said Is su summarized below ix low I 1 professor was the title this good and great preacher preferred ire he wa was s for a lima a teach teacher erand and it Is significant rf ct tola ails conception of the work of 0 a preacher that list mchose toe chose to ito re o un that name rather ahan than anything savoring of a priesthood hoo d 14 ha a was a art preacher preach sr though with many external lie he reid read re id all a his sermons and was not A good g reader with a very striking countenance tie be could not he be I 1 called handsome hut but rather the opposite ile he bad an awkward manner in the lie pulpit and read in low drawling tones and yet great creat audiences hung literally his words those zno most c damant often hearing arine he but little of what 1 I a t he end bald I 1 it tle daiji Is just lb t c wenty years since professor swing was voas accused of oc heresy and tried before the chicago this rather added tic no lilt its influence influent e an and d reputation than hindered it though he be wis waa vety very popular and spoke to great audiences before the trial Huni Anly speaking ono mient say aay that had ile he been less pop popular t ilax he be might have escaped the heresy trial to euch m raan as professor patton ills hig accuser it must have deemed emed rather unfair for professor swing swine to stray outside of the confession and pick up such very in arresting themes belim ing to universal religion anil and literature as those with which he regaled his vast audiences eiten at ast on the sunday atter after the death of john stuart ml 1 l Prof processo esso V fewing ewins came out with an app appreciative tive discourse upon his liriand life lire and among amone other things said kven faren it stuart stood nominally out outs lile of the achris christian tian religion yet there Is a sense in abich he stood not by choice but by necessity within ithe boundaries s of 0 the new testament professor patton attacked liim him lit in the interior newspaper and gain flig little satisfaction brought the heretic lieret lc to trial before the presbytery tho the charges were two with twenty four specifications under the first and four under the second the first charse was that professor swing giving had not been zealous and faithful in malitta maintaining ining the truths of 0 the gospel the second was he does mot sincerely receive and adopt the confession of 01 faith or oc this church as containing the sy system tem of doctrine taught in the holy scriptures scriptures one oae of the specifications of ills his offenses offen sea was that he had given a lecture in aid of a tarlan chapel and in so doln doing aided in the promulgation of the herey hereby which denies the delty deity of our blessed lorl lord hei ha was in another specification ot of speaking disparagingly of the doctrine of the trinity and treat ing In othel most precious doctrines with contempt and the lowing to fd Is quoted front from one of his ser sermons moris over the idea that two and two make four no blood has been shed hut but over the insinuation that three may be one or one three there has often been n a demand tor external anal influence to brace up forthe for the work the fran frail logi loel rat eat faculty facility it Is probable that no man his has ever been put to dc death ath tor for heresy regarding the sermon on the mount it ats declarations demand no tortures to aid human falth faith but when a hurch church bornes along wath its legitimacy legit imse cy or ivita n ian its live points or with I 1 its ts prayer b awk ok or its infant baptism or eternal procession of the holy ghost then comes the demand for the cacir arid and I 1 hie ile stake to make up in terrorism what wha is wanting in dra evidence the following from one tie of his sermons S was as made the subject of one of the many specifications 1 I doubt not that t queen Rem elope of the dark land and the doubting soc socrates rates have re at heavens gate a sweeter welcome sung of angels than gr greeted ted the ear ar of dussias Rus sias brilliant tut but fee false lse aved queen rca catherine IL professedly a christian chris but the worst heresy of all seemed TO 10 be this we he teaches chat iffat faith saves because it leads le tile to a L holy hot life that atlon by faith is not mot pecolar pe becu cular lar to christianity this Is supported by the follo aing quotation heaven Is a height to t 0 which men climb on the deeds ot of this life coming to the grave he only cark can look forward with ith loy JOY who nho n ho can sweetly look back ka an impartial judge woud doubtless leavo decided ithac professor swing was guilty as charged as ills his doctrine was plainly unitarian rather than in accord with the westminster confession but he was iras surrounded by men who loved I 1 bilm many any of 0 whom knew that if lie he was W a heretic they were heretics also and so eo he be was ae acquittal quItt 11 very eoon after his acquittal probes protestor swing withdrew from the church find and for twenty years has stood alone alon as 33 an independent preaching to one of the largest congregations of chicago his influx influence nee h has been great and its growth Is significant dr darrows and dr hall two ot of the most prominent in chicago spoke their eulogies over his bier lie he was greatly beloved end and worthy of all love ire ho leaves no successor ETHICS jr OF COLL collectivism taurence laurence Gron gronlund lurid the Socia socialist lirt lectures at st pauls laurence gronlund Gron lunil the no noted leq scientist lecturer and author sp spoke oke at st pauls chapel last evenin evening g on the ethics of Collective riess the hie following being a synopsis of his lecture oct tire the terrible comparison b by Y pascall of 0 this world to a slaughter house made me a so socialist c falast ore om moment lie says bays sou see yonder man nan falling the next i the bel form at 3 your our slue drops li aps ops down you know your own turn Is surely coming but not when or how this appalling illustration which we know Is true made tile me ask how make such a lite lire bearable I 1 have bearable found out not lot alone to make alfo if 0 but blessed and now one e the death of 0 my wife I 1 find 1 life I fe worth living livans only by going about and fit each ing lam especially e to the file so 10 called educated educate a portion of 0 our lit people I 1 prefer the name collectivist to socialist ci alist which has hai become a broad blanket that covers acovera a great maii many strange bed fellows and it perrl perfectly atly describes our cause willett which means collective control of capital by the nation in its sphere by tile the states slates arid and lies liea in their spheres in other words democracy in control or oc capital oba observe ervel collectivism or socialism cial ism la a not lot a negation of 0 property at all it will on oil the contrary give to private property tor for the first time fr in history an ethical basis it la Is capital that is all means of pr production including land that it will socialize make inake into public property but mark here tile the difference between 4 communism and nationalism I 1 socialism says aye everybody according ac to his bis deeds communism eer every lady body according to hi his s needs need and nationalism everybody a alike I 1 ike which lat last I 1 conte contend ild Is both unjust to the individual and injurious to to bo clety it if you will some lime give five me an opportunity I 1 think I 1 beall convince you ar I 1 hive others I 1 that socialism la is gods evident will that it Is inevitable no matter whether it Is going to be permanent or only lemp temporary which of course Is an entirely different question but it Is ia surely coming coining ani and I 1 bay we shall be the dirst nation natio n to successfully inaugurate it anti and that mity may be in ten years from now for or we are arc an energetic people we actually ore are in the birth throes of tills this new civilization our ou present discontent la ia simply socie soc ieta tys 5 labor pains we ve may ina indeed say that it ithe t Is already ba bori I 1 1 into into the ahr world for the trust Is really re a ily socialism in action for tho the private va t e benefit 0 of capitalists the T he platform on oil which a collectivist president may be elected in 1904 need only say from the ath of march next private establishment must elvo way to public le departments as soon a aa the various i enterprises can be socialized and this I 1 assure you can be done without the least injury to anybody dul but I 1 it t must be done dor ke gradually gin dually that Is what w i at I 1 constantly insist upon and attention to what now pay particular I 1 now say that there Is one teril ble danger that threatens us and that Is that the cause will be a a class movement here as it unfortunately un fortuna tely already li I 1 q in europe eu ropo you yon ate aie the cause of this the T b e next election will prove to you that our farmers and wage work ers era have already joined hands hand collectivism bill be an unmixed blessing it it be led by the intelligence 0 of our country but it it result in a class movement here on your shoulders shoulder be the cespon responsibility sib clity evolution cannot stop kop for your convenience while I 1 curse individualism and know that hat socialism will crush cruh cru h it I 1 am as strong a champion cham plon 0 of individuality as eny our love of liberty I 1 Is s lather idolatry fao latry of licenser that Is to say love ot of profits dirc desire to live jive on tre the work of ali ah there are arc many who in fit the bottom ot of their hearts think it if providence Is going to us its of this chance of living by the labois of others we will have none ot of it IL now I 1 tell you as a tact fact collectivism or socialism in all its forms from atheist to christian socialism informs Is reviving in the minds of its disciples this sense 0 of human solidarity this conviction will cheate the same order hi fit morals that the coper alican system did in ill astronomy it will make the boccal welfare our ultimate good I 1 hope I 1 speak to ambitious ambitions men and women tor for ambition in the service of society soc bety ot of the ideal is a most noble passion our great need arid and lack is leade nhip the reform armies are ready dy but there Is nowhere it a body bod Y of men and women lit fit to be leaders they must soon hoon arise otherwise otherN NIse europe will be ahead or of us its their plutocrats will 1011 crowd over bete and make tills this land and the lase refuge ot of slavery may we soon have such a noble body as the english fabian society po clely which has made socialism respectable over there only a few are needed you have no idea ot of the power there is lit in the unity ot of a hundred hun died ert aye of a dozen knit together by love for or the samo same progressive social ideal especially it if a wave ot of generous se nerous social sentiment be due with the new century as it came and again fifty years ago for it all comes lit in waves sly my philosophy I 1 know will make one look forward to ones dying hour with the sublime assurance it Is blessed to hae lived |
