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Show I .URGE CONGREGATIONS ' TO VOTE FOR BEST T JEN ' ' ' -' ' - - - . ' 1 '. . NEW YORK, Nov. 6. In nearly all the large churches yesterday attention wa called to the coming election and -' Its significance to the people and the city. Some pastors were content with Urging the people to vote honestly and conscientiously, while others were earn- est in upholding certain candidates. In the church of the Messiah Dr. Ml-not Ml-not J. Savage spoke on the "City's Battle Bat-tle for Liberty." Dr. Savage lamented that 400,000 persons had neglected to vote two years ago, and declared that I ! "in Philadelphia" there is one" of the meanest,' lowest political machines in the country and it is Republican. and here in New York' there is a good match for It, and it is Democratic." j Fighting for liberty. ( ' - He continued: ' "One man has defied the machines and has said:- 'A plague on both your houses,' and the people are rising to him in such a way as gives us hope for the Republic It is a liberty that we are fighting for." , In the Washington square". Methodist Episcopal church i Rev. Dr. Strobridge declared: "Tammany Hall is, after all, the one great critical Issue. For years this fair "city has been governed, or rather,v misgoverned, by a political organisation or-ganisation named Tammany Hall a band of robbers." Rev. Dr. Huntington, rector of Grace church, preached on the personal responsibility re-sponsibility of the Christian citlsen." : City of God. ' - . He said: "The voice of the church has been speaking down through the ends of time for the punishment of evil and the suppression of vice. In our book of prayer we pray God to direct our rulers to-suppress evil and to administer ad-minister the laws in the spirit of Christianity, Chris-tianity, It is the duty of the church and of the Christian man' to work for a city of God." At the Bethany Presbyterian church Rev. S. B. Dunn, associate pastor, sald:j "Let every voter recognise his individual individ-ual responsibility. - Men. must not be driven like sheep. The voters should be Indepedent and this a.nd- civio right eousness are the twin issues of this campaign." |