Show r ORCHARD GRIPPED Y HIS OWN CONSCIENCE SAYS DR bR P. P it A. E 1 That murder will put out the victory of virtue virtue and nd the defeat of vice tho the tho hold of religion and the Bible upon the world and the fearful results when that hat hold Is temporarily lost upon individuals Individuals formed the ilie subject of an eloquent sermon yesterday by the Rev Kev P. P A. A Simpkin Simplon in Phillips Philips Congregational church Direct reference was made as follows to Harry Orchard on trial for his life with others for the murder of ex of Idaho We Wo have been sickened in heart at atthe atthe the terrible moral delinquency of an Orchard in the last two weeks Without Without With With- out any opinion as to the participation of any other in his shameful crimes let letus letus letus us think of that which is back of his his' confession His criminal record is rooted in this He wilfully thrust God aside He deadened his soul by evil He thought of f the beast and found its life He lived Jived only in the present and for its indulgences Unfettered appetite and hate and greed led led him out into the fi field ld where lust was lord and life was lechery What was it that stirred the life of this abnormal being fit t companion for fora a Nero or a a. Charles lx IX L to make a confession confession confession con con- of his crimes that otherwise could have found exposure only in the court of the final Judge He himself gives us the reason The man who seemed conscienceless who had heaped the black crimes and the scarlet indulgences indulgences indulgences of the dead years upon it who had bad deliberately thrust out the vision of the eternal is gripped by the fingers fingers' of the thing he thought slain and conscience conscience conscience con con- science spoke the monition of God I Oh it is a real thing It is history how Charles IX LY dying at 24 realizing that he goes out to judgment finds tho the stirrings of conscience He who murdered murdered murdered mur mur- dered the innocents on the night bight of St. St Bartholomew and stained his soul l with th than an hundred crimes lies with gray ay face staring into the future Agony of conscience conscience con con- science so intense seized him that from nostrils and eyes and forehead there oozes the sweat of blood And so this monster of the twentieth twentieth twentieth eth century poor loor mistaken erring wayward is stricken by the thunder of God Gods God's 8 monitor to the enormity of sin the righteousness of God the jud judge e of men menI I r would not discuss this fact did it not hold the very essence of the truth I would lay upon your hearts That which Bible and conscience alike speak is a fact eternal of tremendous significance cance Sin finds a man mall out most of all an allin anin allin in his conscience Shakespeare preaches the truth in an hundred utterances And life as multifold as man speaks the truth we do not heed But this is whenever true wherever a soul is wakened by Bible and conscience conscience con con- science and nd in th the agony of its burden however grievous or the fire of its sin however terrible it turns to the gentle forgiving God and Father Fattier who re- re that which is past and with the simple trust of a little child lays the burden on him He purges and blesses the life with the jo joy of peace and arid gives us to find not forgetfulness forgetfulness but remembrance that holds l love lave ve and wisdom and the sanctifying g i influence fluence of memory that looks to to- to-te to the past for consecration and to the morrow with with th joy abiding in assura assurance assurance as as- sura ce of s simple trust Railroads the way in which they make and break men strips of steel as certainties of civilization the practicability practicability practicability of religion were touched upon yesterday afternoon in an ann address by the Rev Eov Elmer Eliner I I. I Goshen of the First Con Congregational church to members of the local branch of th the Brotherhood of Railway Conductors in Knights of Pythias hall han In Tn part the speaker said There are are railroads enough built and in operation operation operation ope ope- ration to girdle the earth eight times Th The railroads are t the egr great at of the world They civilized our country The railroads were the potent factors that settled the War of the Rebellion They are the leavening for force e that breaks down the barriers to civilization and progress in this evolutionary age Every railroad man should feel proud that he ne belongs to and is is a a. part of the system that wields so so much power and influence in the world The question of f railroads pouches touches every other question question ques ques- tion of our civilization It is a splendid monument to themen the themen themen men who furnish money moner to build a rail rail- road If it were not for lor the men men who operate it to success men would not be seeking to build such monuments We We ve all owe a debt to railroad men and railroad women women women-a. a great debt that they never get paid for The world loves to tp tell of its heroes There is no danger that we will for forget et Bunker Hill Yorktown or any of the the h heroic deeds that that mark mark the turning points in the Nations Nation's Nations Nation's Na Na- tion's history There is danger that we may forget the heroic deeds of those men who sacrifice sac sac- their lives in in the discharge of the duties incident to a a. hazardous calling call call- ing ing- in There are few men here today That is not th the fault of the men they men they are areat at work I am not going to talk religion ion R Religion Religion Re Re- ligion is life The lay day will come when it will be bo recognized that it does not pay to work men men seven days in th the week that it does not pay to work men menso menso menso so that they arc are broken down before mans man's full manhood d has been reached q I I am glad lad to see that some of th the railroad companies in in the East 11 have ave raised th the a age e limit so that a man now at 45 is not going to be laid off At that age if he has lived a perfect life he be is at the zenith of his bis power and ana usefulness It is at that age that lie he ought to be the most cap capable ble of discharging discharging dis dis- dis char charging ng the duties required of him by reason of years of experience and full full- developed physique I At St. St Pauls Paul's Episcopal church yesterday yesterday yesterday yes yes- services commemorating the three hundredth anniversary of the introduction introduction introduction in in- of English Christianity into America were held held beld The sermon was preached by the Rev Ch Charles les E. E Perkin Per Per- kin kins s. s The service had the same prayers gospel ospel and epistle that were used by the Rev Robert Hunt at Jamestown vears years ago The text of the Rev Mr Perkins sermon sermon was St. St Matthews Matthew's gospel chapter xiii ii verses erses 31 and 32 Life to persons who look upon it as one monotonous round one daily or weekly grind was discussed by William Thurston Brown field secretary of the American Unitarian association who preached reached upon What Religion Must Mean fean to Men at the Unitarian church Sunday morning In part he said Ye Ye cannot serve selVe God and mammon mammon mammon mam mam- mon said Jesus That was and is an axiom of moral philosophy an unalterable unalterable able law able law Jaw of human life ife as unerring as the law of gravitation But our whole material civilization rests squarely upon upon upon up up- on the worship of mammon mammon and and that I is the reason why it itis is a godless civilization civilization civilization wh why religion on seems the most unreal unreal unreal un un- real of a all I things and why its claims receive e no earnest consideration at our hands The common attitude of this whole commercial order is this Serve mammon we must and will trill On no other condition will we consider the of servin serving God And to the shame of the the Christian church church the tho secret of its impotence and decay lies decay lies in the patent fact that it repudiates the foundation principle of its founder deClares declares de- de Clares dares that men C can n serve both God and mammon and so surrenders its right to be the symbol and witness of the great t rean reality ty J Polygamy was arraigned arraign Id I'd as not justi- justi justified just justi- i- i fied ed by DY the teachings of the Bible Bible by bJ bythe the Rev S G. G Huntington pastor astor of the Adventist church Fifth South South and Sixth East streets yesterday Mr 1 Huntington's sermon was on Does God Justify Polygamy Did you ever find the precept in the Bible eible ible th that t commanded you you- to take more Ulan than than ono ono wife he asked at the beginning begin begin- be beginning nning n- n ning of his sermon There is none none Between the Bibles Bible's two lids such a precept cannot be found But a precept precept precept pre- pre prohibiting polygamy can cin be found there The minister went on to say that Abraham was a a aliar liar Moses a murderer Jacob swindled his big brother David Dand was wasa a murderer and adulterer and Solomon Solomon Solo Solo- mon an idolater He declared that if th the actions of of these men were to be followed in one thing they should be in others In support of the conten content tion lion that poly polygamy am- am amis is forbidden the minister referred to Leviticus 18 I and Deuteronomy 17 I The Rev Benjamin Brewster ad ad- dressed a a large congregation at St St. Marks Mark's cathedral yesterday morning o on Commemoration of Three Centuries o of Anglican Christianity Christianity- in America The Rev Mr Brewster reviewed the th e origin growth and strength of th the ee e church in its years rears in America |