The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-11-03
4 ROUSING WORD.
It Got Into Scripture, Into Magma
Charta and Under Hundred
ThroneS-Eloqncnt Description Of the
Hypocritical Republican Press of the
I-u;tnd StatpS.

BKoUKLfN, Oct. 2I.-Thismornlng'S services
In Brooklyn Tabernacle were opened by sing
ing:
"Mv country It's of thee,
Swcc: land Of liberty,
OF thee / sing
i,r. Talmn%", taking his text from Galatians
V, l3.-";rrlircn, " have been called unto
lib,rt,. only Use NOT liberty for an OCCASION Oi
the iltsh'-prcachcu rs follows:
1.-THE PRESIDENTIAL CONTEST
We arc ON the eve of the quadrcnninl PrrS!-
Dental cNcl:cincnt, and TINS morning and
nrHt Suhhuth morning, rs Il Christian patriot,
| hive some earnest things 10 say. ! nave no
l~ur.i>un lcttcr on either hand or either foot.
'rIlc Instructions cOiur neither from Chicago
nor Cincinnati. but liom the throne OF Cod.
IT IL Fortunate thu the ministry IN inns couh'
try are no; tempted by governmental patron.
age. There are lands where the state does
everything forthc church. 81. Peter sal rome
has cost tho government s2W.hN,Wm. N"iAr>
took from the temple OF Bclus Si"", WV IN
Euld. England phy>S'''"nn year 10 lm' .N'Ei,.
hi>huu of Canterbury and SI1u!FW III All TO hcr
bishops. while lS.Wmo of her ministers are 1aid
hv The government. our ministers nave no
such temptation To surrender private luuT.
mcnt I" H." dtct'tion o. IN" S,n.'' our S'ti.
them think this way or thai, preach ms WY
or thai, and vote this way or tllat: ltt tn'
minister of religion must Siiakrol! me lI'Ju-
,ii,.,s ~ t,,c hour and rise above tie lnStFllc-
,;nn. both of his congregation and OF The
press, and take his message from the
Lord. .;.. .to
blnud of every genuine man, :Ii'l ttilt W":u Is
Iihrrtv. y have been called 10 llh"flS..
Inul wrote that under Nero, the tyrant mated
of all ages: the Emperor, who, tHr"yHt', Ioalh-
ed the streets at Night Tor the pc assure "l ron
hing passengers, bedauhing Christians with
TAR and pitcl and setting them on ire 10 llSlt
M his PARKS, kicking his o~n wife till she
died. and having his own mother aSsa>S!na-
.v ,E,ttn NJ, nt-
ted. and finally committing Sulciuc. Mon-
der that word. liberty, under such Il bud man,
cost PAUL his head. But while the emperor
DESTROYED the man who d;rrG To use so in>ur-
r%cc,ionnry a word, the word itself was indies
and las been the most arousit!s ana
revolutionary word ever written. 1t got INTO
the magma charta AMI made ~EnylandfrCc: IN
TO The Declaration Of Independence and start
cd this nation ON its high career: into the
speech OF Ciaribaldi and the proclamation OF
Victor Emanuel, and Italy shrok Off the dust
the grave; MO France and "vrrthrew a
Enroleonic dynasty: under u hundred dos
potic thrones and Will keep them rocking TIL
they fall flint. 1t took hold Of the printing
irtss I'm | broke its sllarklcS and made it the
izttiOn that the world has ever known. That
word will keep on its rounds Till in all the
earth there shall not be n tEritnt : sccp'cr. or
q slaves chain, or an oppressed orknl or
Liberty for The Church! Liberty torthc rrint-
ing press! Liberty for the ruIpitS! Liberty
for the platform! Liberty for all continents,
for all inlandS, for all zones, FOR Ill ages!
We have been called to liberty
Yet, my text has not only q driving-whccl
but n brake. not only an Inspiration but a Him
itation. "Hrct.ren, ye have been called unto
liberty. only use not liberty for an occasion to
the flesh" Liberty, but not wild license.
Liberty, but not moral rccklcSsncss.
would call your attention from the work
of the political scavcngcr to the work OF
THE CHRISTIAN POLITICIAN.
There Is. this autumn one question that is rs
above all others MS Mont Blanc IS above
III, ant hi!l-thc question Of common schools,
a. compared with II, nothing; the tariif qucs.
ton. uS compared with II. nothing: the Chi
nc,e question, iS compared with IL, nothing.
and that is, how TO turn The solid South anu
the solid North into 4 national unity. You
may as well have Il solid East against Il solid
West, as u solid North against solid south.
The Republican party says: "Eicct our man
and the sectional strife will be over The
Democratic party says: ELECT our man ana
the sectional strife will be over" Now, | call
YOU ont from the work OF mean and base Per
Sonalities TO settle that one central question
on the first Tuesday in November. Discuss 1t.
prny over it; vote with reference to ii. II Is
high time this sectional strife ended. MtSS;l-
chusctts and Alabama, after Il long divorce.
need to be married; the l'cnobScot anu the
Appalachicola need to lind out that they are
sisters. For the sake OF civilization amt rclig-
ion the financial and moral welfare OF the ma
ton. break VI this aggr;.vating line between
the two sections. Let tho people goodwin and
come up to the National Cemeteries ut lsIch-
monu and MurfrecSborO, and 10y the graves OF
the blue and The gray forgive ana 'orIct, ana
pray and embrace each other. Surely nifty
years of q~uarrclS are enough; bad blood
enough ; national debt enough /; graves
enough widowllood enough ; Orphanage
enough agony and woe enough, | nope we
,re having the last political platform IN which
there shall be II mention of North or South
n ,rn nrn tn Inc In nprnntnll MrlnHlp md from
ugc to age, | think it would have been better
To let the South 20 IN 1851. Your fathers anu
brothers who iniuerilled and lost their lives
in that great contest fought TO keep the South
not that we might DC in more convenient an
tayonlsm, but with the hope that IN the NJ
turc there might be Il unity and good under
standing. iouk out how any of you defeat
the object for which that great holocaust was
enacted.
Let the sections visit each other, and. as the
Driradicr Generals of the South have during
the last month stood in Cooper Institute, New
York, SO before the election has passed let
Briuudicr Generals oil the North stand III the
great halls OF Charleston and New Orleans.
Let Northern men escape the wiltry blasts by
Il trip to the orange groves or Florida, ana
GeOTgianS the tOrriu blasts OF summer by a
visit to Saratoga and Long Branch. AS once
YOU came face 10 face to destroy each other.
now come face to face 10 bless. Dncc you
crossed swords, now cross palms. Let not the
sun Ul this generation go down on our nation-
I'll wrath. Before we WHO are HOW III Illlu-lllt
lay our heads in death may we set the whole
nation p2cifleu. We cannot well sleep our
last sleep until those angry sectional voices
are huSlicd forever. They would disturb our
The South! Re still. the East! BE still, the
West. and let the united nation do homage t.
God Of the Maine forest and Florida lagoon,
Michigan wheat field and South Carolina rice
siss:ppl plantation. Let the ballol.box OF the
dist tuesday in November be The altar upon
which we shall sacrifice all our sectional
hates. aid the throne on which national UNI
ny shall begin her bcncticcut sway.
THERE ARE THREE REASONS
WHY VIC arc bound to doour best for this conn
try-our i3thcr'S graves, our own cradles. oul
graves, | make your pulses run quicker.
Whether they rest in city cemetery or village
gru veyard their ashes are precious. They
lived well and died right. We will never sub
reign of any other government than that
under which they lived and died. Yea, this
land WAS cur cradle. We may have been in
il roughly rocked, but still it Il Il good cradle
Dear land Of our boyhoOd and girlhond days
I-l il Is to he our chiidren's birthrlSht. Ne
will soon be done with II. We Will not SIC
many more OF It's spring blossoms, or reaI
mann more OF Its summer harrcStS, or gather
much more OF It's centennial fruits. But our
children! They must get it from us as We get
IL from our flthcrs-n free land, Il happy land
n Christian land. We can not have them trou
ON of dcspotiSln, or iashed 1i cruciticS, or :f-
frirhted Of anarchy. We hand this country
10 them over the uallot-boN, over the desk U
The School.rpoInc, over the church ALTAR, and
charge them 10 put their w life between il
and Keen stroke thai would destroy it.
And now, Lord God Almighty, We lay hold
of Three In u thUuSand-alriied prayer. Re
member how for this our fathers walked with
, bleeding feet through Valley Forge. lteuIrmr
Der the hunger and the thirst aud the cold
and the long march aud the fever hospital.
Remember the Charge up Bunker Hill. Re-
member Marion and kosciuscko. Remember
Lexington and Yorktown and Kings Noun
tain and GETTYSBURG. Lock upon the lax
where Perry fought. ana Hampton Roads
where the cumberland went down. Rcmcni
Der Washington praying by the carnp-tireS.
among snvagcS. Remember Independence
Hall. and how much it cost our fathers tn
siyn their names. Remember all the tears
and blood oftlrre wars, E1Gand 1872 and lS6l
Yes. remember the eroan w;S mighticr than
all the other groanS, and the thirst that was
and the deeper tha all other wounds, and
the death ghaStlier than all other deaths
The mount where Jesus died to make men
happy and free, and for the u Of all this
human and divine sacrifice, have mercy on
this nation and whatsoever would blot 1t out,
whosoevcr would cut 1T down, and whatsoever
would turn 1t back, let him hc accused!
home In high hone. The car OF national
proyrcss will never roll backward God Is on
the side Of this nation.
..Hc has sounded forth the trumpet thai snail
never call retreat;
lie is sitting out the hearts OF men before His
Judgment seat:
OH be swift my soul. to answer Him BE
jubilant, my feet:
Our God is marching on"