PASTOR'S EXTRAORDINARY OUTBURST.

Evening Star, Issue 14636, 4 August 1911, Page 3

PASTOR'S EXTRAORDINARY OUTBURST.

Art exr.faordinary sermon win pie-ach*"! Jn liivcrnoo 1 uii Juue lei by (he Rtv. Harry Youldfcn, pallor of Pembroke Chapel, of which the Rev Dr Afccd w.>s formerly in .jhnri;i\ .Mr \ Gulden's acidr".-s took tho forrt: of an open letter to the Kins, and in the course of it bo .~aid : Having hecuii by addrcasin.; the. King a.-". Sir, we owe you do loyalty except ».o far as the welfare of tho nations depend.-; \>n von. If we are cold amid the geiior.il excitement of ycur Coronation Ihy, it i\ I>ecau6e we axe not trnnviriced that tins irreatest duty of the nation is hound i?p with the Th'xjce. We aro not revolutionaries. There, r.ro graver matters to attend to tJr.i.ri the absurdity <>i Royal i ?remoiues. We do not even grndgo i'.-.r Money that it cn«t« to maintain you in State. I have said this niurh for thv nuke of rinrerity and that I mizht clear mysalf of the cornpiriy of tho*? who are now srovellin™ before y.->n ar.d be bavin-.; like pawns before -t- fet't-h. Mr Youiden expreAied tho viow that bi~i ■ 'resent functions irtic v.oi sutisfyiii 1 ,- the £ing, and asked : Can you render no real service to the CommonwKilth'.' rhero arc avenues oi public sorvico whi?h seem to mo might (>*> w;de ! y open 1 o you, but which, it seems, you scarcely outer at. all. lu deploring what he called the dominance of the military- at Kins: KdwardV funeral, Mr Youiden continued : Would it. rnt-ke your Coronation Irs.* T*al if you were escorted to tho Abbey by men from the forgo and the mine, instead of by troops? Although you chose to live for the world of soldiery, not by them is yaur Thione supported. It is open x-j you to bo patron of t.lv.? Arte. Yoq have honors bestowed wluch v.-o at present hold m contempt, becsiur-.-> they have bean, wrongly bestowed. Llavtyou any right, fir, to confer colonels. knighthoods, arxi stors on political nominee whose only claim is the {rift of money to party funds? Meanwhile, fi<«niue is starving in its garret, staiTin<» unrecognised. Painters, singers, writers. rectors, men of science have, to sell their souls to mako a living. Nothing, sir. in yottr Empire is to "cheap as brains and fre-runs. nothing «o easily dei-pised j try the vulgar rich, nothing so tragic-ally | misunderstood and disregarded. You j patronise tho Turf, and stimulate a rnul- ' titnde to gamble on horses they never i eee. \ T our private tastes aa-o iiot my '■ concern, but if you a-ro the head of this I nation you must make, yourself ac- | qua in tod with more> than with jockeys. I Tho glory of Kings in the past has been i too much glory of sword and conquest, j Th«re is greater glory within yon- reach if you have courage and discernment— | the glory of the king who thinks of ' his office than his people, who thinks more of the needy multitude than of peers and place mem.