Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-04-18


These words of our Lord are the state
ment of a fact, and in them is the answer
10 the question 50 often put W hat Is the
antid0te To the corruption of the age2
-corruptiOn which all men of thought and
observation confess and lament: corruption
in political life and in civil administration.
in trade. in society. everywhere which
makes some say. who look chiefly at the
prcsent facts. that integrity and UPRIGHT
nos have He'd. the foundations of the re-
public are gone. and destruction Is i'm
minent; while Others. who read the past,
think we are but travelling the circuit of ali
nation. from honest and hard labor 10
wealth. from wealth to luxury, from luxury
to decay: and some, who look at US from
Furopean shores, say ours is To be the end
or MI democracies. a speedy downfall.
The remedy for this corruption is Chris
tian character; the words of Christ teach
tb,s And what is Christian characters
Not creed. not profession it is n real
tbin~ quality Of substantial manhood
tIo ,1anbnod that God meant At the creo-
t;op that Christ meant when lie undertook
REDEMPTION.
Note FirSf-That Christian integrity of
spirit is mans best protection against the
plausible reasOnings that are current to
Justify wrong. Ii gives him clearness of
moral sight, and he is not easily deluded
into any error from the path of uprightness.
Everything not made criminal by statute
now has It's apologists-and many things
that are and the first peril in the way Of
the man whose notions of right and wrong
are obscure is the danger of thinking that
things are right enough, if they seem right
and useful. without further examination, if
only men Of repute endorse them But the
Christian conscience that is kept fresh and
righteous by the love of God, makes short
work with popular sophistries, and the fall
lacious arguments of those miserable traf-
fickers whose souls We're long ago sold to
the devil and who are now busy in buying
up the souls Of others. If there is gain in
a transaction, intellect alone may be blinded
to the sin in it but a Christian conscience
cannot be 50 deceived. As an illustration
of the former case, the preacher pointed out
the chief legal counsellor of the Erie ring.
and quoted from Froude in illustration of
the latter, his opinion of the effect of Cal
vinism in sailing the earth for three centu-
ries with the principle Of loyalty to God in
personal and civil life.
Sill, tho man of tbororo,b Cbr;..,
;,,.o,,r;t, IF cLorocter when he Saes tba
;,.S7 - i II was said n Of O. 80
lin. ~ o;t;1.rs .,If had Iarsn;t me ;t ~
I Iir Nv" wonId refer it To him N It'll ~ :"
I WinInr "V GENERALIZATION conld bordIv no
has;nre5 Virtue to that deqroe i ono 81
tbe Iost maturing fruits of the On r SiG y,
i If The saIt Of the earth are Tho men
whose Who mind and pnrnose Is 81 intertIv fxed
W. m,'C d. CD viii that tbev caInnt Ia
deceived or forced from doinG the r;sbt
Woto IL ne.essarv far those who hoost tbnt
Ynn ore tbe;r tools r. tnrn Won e an%
i6at ma nav rigbtiv enter Christian soI Po on5
tha;r ' 80 49, he vonr nraise anu
'"E Ref erin To- the Sbolt' made nv como in
III o;tt - ,bn last STATE eioo;io 1oH,U, u,
Tronrds IF conscience the sneaIer al H. ba
go niormod at the time that so,De otba ~
SecIared thew conld break nm that movem ae1
nd ono - 3id 10 have offered ,ra ,,or H.