Show for the men who are polluting the nation portland ore sept 17 in concluding a sermon on revivals dr washington gladden of columbus ohio last night said there is need of a general awakening of religious thought the intensity 0 the strife for gain which drives the business orld at a constantly accelerating pace and puts mammon on a throne tar above all other kingdoms the rising tide of luxury and display above all the astounding revelations which have been made within the last year of conditions in tho political and financial realms all indicate a moral emergency in which some stronger intervention is demanded than human expediency can contrive any one who has read the recent magazine articles must feel that we are confronting a grave crisis men whose operations are therein described are not only utterly destitute of respect for law they are doing all they can to undermine all law and to destroy the very foundation of the civil order thee men either believe that there is no god or that there is a weak and foolish god whom they can cajole by their ostentatious gifts to colleges and charities it the hearts of the christian people were full of the sense of gods ence there would be an atmosphere in which the boodler and the frenzied financier could not breathe |