The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-01-08
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constitutional The right Of private judgment,
the unres,rained eodOm from all religious
shackles and opinions, is guaranteed to us
in this country, and we are going to have a
more enlightened rational faith than your
fathers--it we have any at all. The
fathers where are they? And are we 20
ing To be bound by Their bigoied notions al
ways, No. IL is very well for you to
chime old hundred from your church tow
er, and sing
Praise God from whom all blessings How.
for it is good piece of music. But
aside from that, it is destined to have little
significance or power over the coming man,
the coming age of secular and substantial
wisdom. One after another of the old re-
ligious notions have been sloughed off, the
taxing Of all the people to support the gospel
the stiff old Sabbath and its theology and
now we will show you that in an enligh,en-
ed, free republic the bible is not necessary
to our education. We propose, because
this is cosmopolitan nation, and
we don { all believe in your Sabbath, to
have the great centennial show itself open
and thronged on that day. We omitted
the prayer at the opening congress this ses-
FH'u but lhhN 10 u iltit lNl III any way.
You may vince, you good Presbyterians
and defendants of the pilgrims, at some of
these changes but they are only the be-
ginning of our emancipation from your old
Plymouth rock in prayer meeting ideas.
And as for expecting or having the right to
make or keep this christian nation, as you
call it-why, my dear man, you are alb
surd. You belong in the middle ages, and
not in this enlighted, progressive nine
tenth century of steam and lightning,
greenbacks and glory. You are bigoted-
would be tyran'csl if you could. But
guess you will find out that saloon vote
is as good as church vote, and that
whisky ring can't be broken after all. That
the free thinkers of no religion can pull to-
gether as well as Catholics or Protestants,
and between us all vol will haye to give
up some of your dogmas about the deity
and the necessity of HIS revelation.
Well perhaps we shall. Perhaps we
shall. l have not imagined all this talk.
have read the like of IT. by the page iull in
a metropolitan sheet, that does US the ser
vice to print for our information what some
of "the people" actually think and say. As
to their representing the future majorities
of this people and being true prophets as
to the amount of rea' on snd truth that
there may he hid like giali If Sc 81 in The
pile of chaff, have this to siy-tiret, that
It IS unfortunate that 20 many uen who can
hold II pen and express themselves gram
maticaly. men, too, Who v Ii 90 To the
polls probably as well dressed az you and
that there are So maj Y who can utter
such chaf, and not be very singular either
in the circle in which they move 1t is
unfortunate | SAY, bolh because ot their
diss mination aud embDlderiug of such
sentiments am, ny the crowds OF their
feather. and becau-e that these same masses
of men exercise just as much power. pro
rata as you md do Moving To the polls,
swayipg. shifting to his side or that Of the
line of equilibrium for the ship of state, on
some important question: they weigh just
as much as If their bodies were not soaked
with beer or their brains with fog from the
pit. Give them increase, and give us less
and less If the fear of God in nIrInl breed
| ing for them, ard they are just as likely to
nail Us to our principles, oniy a shipwreck-
ed mariners cling to spHrs or planNs IN mid
ocean, IA the communists were to
set the Bishop of Paris up against
the wall and bore him through with bull
Its Leviaihan is not tanned by political
freedom, nor ty superficial, stcuiar educa-
ton, interrupted by truancy. Our poplla-
ZION is ct taught. ei her, ty Il the news
sper isdom of the | md such as it is, nor
= property, nor ty panics, nor by the
i,lne Ut far-off reyivals.
And God has not unroled the scroll of
TIE next hundred years before us. lie is
under no manner of pledge or bond,to hold
us up II we are too weak or irresolute to
stand. He Is no respecter Of persons or of
uations. 1t could be said of his first love
among The peoples of the earth, more truly
tnan of rs, "What one nation In ihe-psr,h
| is Ike thy people, even Ike Israel, whom
| God went 10 redeem for a people to him.
| self, ard 10 tnake him Il name, and to do
| for you great things and terrible His
| honor, his name, was more bound up in
| their success, than IN any goddess or part
| pious nation before or sii c., however pros
porous and favored ike our own, but not
| flvorte. For be has no unconditional
| favoriles among men. That seemingly
petted, and really chosen, covenant
commonwealth of his own hands
inauguratipg, found the swift and bitter
truthfuness of those words of his ''at
what instant shall speak concerning a
nation, and concerning kingdom, to build
and to plant it A.; if it do evil in my sight,
that it obey not my voice, then will repent
of The good wherewilh said woul benefit
them" And when He repents, who then
shall turn him back
| Only by the repentance of the threatened
can 1t be, as in the salvation of Nneyeh.
" If that nation eginst whom | have pro-
nounced turn from th,ir evil, / will
| nf n owl Ia | al n
do unto them So grandly forgiying,
like a God, is he that stitch in the heavens.
So truly and promptly responsive is he to
the conduct of his creatures. And because
he is so, ard cause AMI effect are so close
~ and invariably linked in The series of
human events, rs in the circing It the
stars, there fore men say, there is no prom
Using ard pals naly performing God.
! When all the while tits his covenant, sealed
by the bow of promise to Noah, as II sgnet
ring of which WE never see but half that
| while the earth remainelh seed-tlme and
harvest, summer and winter aud nll the ra-
tional cycles of human plans and purposes
shall not fail.
But this Yankee nation of universal
smartness and sef-coutiience, holds no
mortgage upon a second century of pros
perily, by untrammeled freedom f.om the
law Of God.
"To whom ye yield yourselves servants
to obey, his servants We are IT, whom ye
obey whether of sin unto death, or Of ODE
disnc, unto righteousness.
But If it be said with notls and intelll-
gent enthusiasm of faith, The wish being
faithful father to the thought aud act oh
this country will go on You need not
cast gloomy horoscope, nor ode i'll before
the time. Because, granting the truth
Of AL you have said it is not true,
that anythirg like "a majority of our citi-