Show BISHOP POTTERS famous discourse before I be-fore the President at Saint Pauls church New York a year ago was the keystone for an awakened clerical interest in matters of state The Evening Post notes a greater freedom among ministers in dealing with the sins of presidents and mayors and cites the following extract from a recent sermon by the Rev THOMAS DIXON jr a Baptist preacher nut you say what has religion got to do with city politics What has it not got to do with it Lsjit nothing to you as a Christian that your streets reek with filth and that men and women must live in that atmosphere of disease and death must die in it Is It nothing to you that ruffians shall rule this great city of ours Netting the Christian manhood of this city that men shall meet in the dirty backroom of filthy bar rooms and there guzzling beer shall nominate 60 per cent of the men you vote for Is not that your and my business I tell you men and brethren if these things are not our business I dont know whose business it Is in this world You Christian men of this great city are responsible for these things and God will hold you to account |