Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1873-01-29
Published by Request.l
HOW ARE THE DEAD TO BE
RAISED2

HOW ARE THE DEAD TO BE
RAISED2
We do not PROFOUND this question
/ in relation to the bodies of dead men
resting in the earth. The matter of
their resurrection has already been
established by their Creator, and in
due time they who are now dead shall
come forth to life. But our inquiry is
made in reference to living men who
are dead in spirit. How these are to
/ be raised does not appear and wheth-
er they can be, is far more than we
can divine. We supposed they had
been made alive by Christ; they pro-
| fessed to be so, and we verify thought
it was so and being made alive would
give proof of this by lively sympa-
| ghy for those who are pealed aud
killed all the day long. We are dis
appointed, it is not so. Tell the story
OF the wrongs and sufferings; show
/ them the sufferers point out to them
as nearly as human tongue can do,
how dark, deepand terrible usis stream
of sorrow is, and they stare with the
blank indifference of dead men,
! What mortal man could have predict
ed that the millions of Gods proiessed
children in our land are dead in spir-
| il, as events and conduct have proved
What has killed them so? 1t certain
ly is not the religion and spirit that
Christ gives to men that has done
this. Other powers and agencies are
to be charged with this spiritual hOnl-
icide and suicide. What are they :?
We will name some of them; and
among these We mention as the most
damaging, that of political partyism,
wherein and whereby crime is upheld
and protected, by the silence and in
difference of part as to the crimes COM
mitIed, and of another part who COM
init crimes.
1t is well settled fact that no one
person, nor number of persons associ-
ated, can serve two masters, or two
causes, by the same act. Now the
man who processes religion or tenn
perance who owns a patty, or a party
uIm, need never proclaim himself
with the tongue to be an enemy OF
that system OF crime which any party
may shield within its organization,
when he casts a ballot for that party
which covers the crime. His ballot
will belle all he may say or do other
wise. The evil dOeTs will count him
on their side, Notwithstanding his
professions and pTetensiOns. The suf
ferers at the hands of these evii-doers
will LOOK in that mans face and say TO
him, "All your professions are but
hypocrisy to me, and as for your bal
lot, you gave it in aid of my enemy"
All men. and every man, who casts
his ballot with such parties, serve one
master only, and not two. Is it not
then consistent that all such profess
ing Christians and temperance men
should be accounted dead? They COM
pany with and LABOR together with
evil-doers, and they have fellowship
with wrong. Hence the Oft-repeated
reply of those men when handed |
ballot that means the suppression of
crime and the protection of virtue, |
that this ballot represents a good |
cause, and they hope it will some day !
but the present is not the /
time to use it :" and Immediately HE /
themselves 10 the ballOt-bOx with a
ballot they know means union with
and support of crime. Every man
who speaks thus and acts thus, will
remain an open and d. clIred enemy
Of innocence and helplessness, not
all that his tongue may
say otherwise. As a test of these de-
bring face to face the two
most interested parties to be affected
by their ballots, viz. The maker and
seller of alcohol, who obtains his liv-
ing thereby and the wife, who in all
things is DESTROYED By the occupation
.he first pursues. Both are deeply in
.erested IN and affected by these bal
ots one for his money, the other for
nome and life. Now let all these
Christian and temperance men cast
heir ballots. The man-murdeTer with
alcohol stands by and sees the mill
ions of ballots from this class of men
20 into the box, and almost all for the
parties in alliance with him political
y. These are counted, and, as at the
asst election, nearly every one went
publican box, no matter which, to
lIm.
We are at the point now where bal
OTIS tell, and professions are nothing.
Count them. They are counted. Now )
whose face brightens at the result
The murderer or his victim? g? Not the ,
Tictim, sure. The black heart of the
nemy of all men overfiows with Joy,
nd by the use of the ballot in the
lands of prOfessed Christian D-en. ,
How is it with the other interested !
,aTty mentioned by US? The means,
cts and agencies that were used to ;
HELD and sustain the first in crime,
las overW helmed her with the black !
ess and darkness of woe, which is :
by no ray of hope or joy. =
This then is the philosophy of this
loral and spiritual death of these
cad men; and no resurrection of them 7
rill take place until they change their :
Oice ana vote from the support of the
riminal to the protection of the vic =
I'M. The same principle and philOs- =
ply obtains here as in the case of the
lave and his holder. There was a
eriod when the holder was remem- =
cred by the prOfessed Christians of :,
le land, and they shOwered their bal !
ITS in torrents upon him, and said =
hereby he should not be mOlested, Z,
ut the slave, his victim, received few y
allCts and many cOld-slOugh profes- :,
Ons of regard. %
1t ic the desire and prayer of every
that these dead may be
leedily raised. JAY ODELL. d
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