The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-01-16

all our American Capitols with the re-
verberatlOn; "The name OF the wicked
cha il rot"
secondly-I come back from myWagh,
ington exploration with the feeling that
we want mightier national religion. l
do not mean religion controlled by the
State, but religion which is dictated by
a nation gospelized The old politicians
can't be reformed. The undertakers
must hurry up the funerals Of these cases
Of political modification. Gospelize the
voters and you gospellze the representa-
tives. The pivot on which the nation
turns 10 the ballot-box. Set that pivot
in the Rock Of Ages. Some want the
Constitution changed 80 that God will be
more thoroughly recognized in the doc
ument My friends, II is not God in the
Constitution, but God In the hearts OF
the people that we need. There has
been recent dispute as to whether the
battle Of Lookout mountain was fought
above the clouds. Gen. Grant says no,
Gen. Hooker says yes, | will not at
tempt to decide the matter about which
such eminent men disagree, but tell
you the battles Of this country for the
last ninety eight years have been fought
above the clouds, God and angels on our
side. First came the Revolutionary war
which gave birth to the nation; then the
war of 1912, that was the infantile dls-
ease through which every child must 20;
then came the war Of 1861 and that was
the great typhoid which was necessary
to purge the national system, When on
last Wednesday the nation resumed spe
Gle payments, that was the settlement OF
the doctors bill. And now for our ma
tional career Lord God of Bunker
Hill and of the trenches at Gettysburg,
leading us 80 long with pillar of fire by
night, give us the cloud by day. Lord
God of Joshua, let the walls of hind
rance to our national advancement tum'
BILE at the sound of the trumpet. Lord
God of Daniel, walk beside us amid the
leonine despotisms that growl about,
ready to devour. Lord God of our faith
ers, make us worthy of our brave Chris
tian ancestry. Lord God of our children
bring forth from the cradles of the ris
ing generation a race to do better work
than we, when our hand and voice are
still.
Again, come from Washington i'm
pressed with the transitory nature of
earthly greatness. The great people OF
Washington are great for little while.
The historical great men of few years
ago at the White House, seen around
Wizards, or the National, or the Metro
politan Hotels, are in the Cemetery or in
political disgrace. Call the roll of Mon
roe's Cabinet, Dead Call the roll OF
Jeffersons Cabinet. Dead Call the
roll of Liucoln's Cabinet. All dead but
one, and he is as good as dead. Call the
roll of Grants Cabinet. Some of them
worse than dead. In the Congressional
Cemetery at Washington, the l6O ceno.
taphs in honor of the members who died
in Office are suggestive of the vaster Con-
gress of the departed. What is political
honor in this country For the most
part it is the privilege of being away
from home-smid temptations that have
slain the mightiest-bored to death by
Office seekers, denounced of meanest &C.
rimony, and kicked into obscurity, with
health gone when your term is out. One
of these Senators died in our Flatbush
Asylum, idiotic from his designations
One of them l saw sitting drunk on a
curbstone in Philadelphia, his wife coax
ing him to go home. A New York Con-
gresham was pulled out from the Poto-
mac, in which he had fallen from intoxi
cation, never before in danger of losing
his life by too much cold water.
Delaware had one Senator, whose chic
characteristic was, he was always drunk
and Illinois one noted for the same folly
Political honors come amid 30 many
temptations that you had better be cure
of your incorruptible before you accep
them. The most inCorruptible and up
right men go down under the hostilitieI
of political life. / never will forgive
American politics, for the fact that they
slew Horace Greeley. This century
never saw a more unselfish patriot-hiC
whole life given tor sobriety and the
rights of the people The time came
when he thought that in the Presidential
chair, better than any other man, he
could settle the difficulty between the
North and the South. He sought tina
position for great and patriotic purposes
and not for personal aggrandizement
But while he was talking about how tht
North and South ought to shake hand
over the bloody chasm, American poll
tics pushed him into it, and 80 became
guilty of patricide, the murder of ia
ther, and regicide, the slaughter of &
king.
The honors of this world are a poo,
portion. Have you ever heard Florence
Rice-Knox sing the Lost Chord2" Tat
song is founded on this beautiful idea
A performer at piano was lingering tht
keys in a sort of reverie, when she strucl
a chord of music that had in it all tht
sweetness of heaven. II was supernatu
raj, and overpowering in its comfort
But while she played she lost it, anC
years passed on, but she could not touct
that lost chord again; but she bethough
herself that at last, in heaven, amid tht
harping of the glorifed, she would agaiT
tnd that lost chord. In paradise ou
first parents touched the key of Complet,
happiness once, and then missed it. Mel
try in vain, amid wealth and worldly
pleasure, to touch happiness, but cam
recover it. 1t is the lost chord. Blu
blessed be God, that in Christ our peace
we find that which we have sought else
where in vain. He IS the lost ChorC
found. The symphony here begins annie
our sorrows that we want comforted ,an(
our sins that we must have slain, bu
will be felt in its mightiest music wher
the baton of the eternal orchestra be
gins to swing, and with st. John, in Ap
ocalyptic vision, we hear the harper
| harning with their harps.