Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-10-25
POLITICS AND RELIGION.

These Two Should 60 Hand in Hand In
the Onward March Of the American Ne
public.
Special Dispatch to the Register.
New YORK, October 2i.
The BROOKLYN Tabernacle held its
usual large congregation this morning.
The opening hymn was
"My country, 'tis of thee,
sweet land of liberty,
OF thee sing
The following is the sermon rerbotim;
subject-"The Presidential Contest"
Text: Galic.anS. ", l3.--"Brethren, We have
been called into liberty; only use not liberty ior
Mi occasion of the tiesh.'
We are on the eve OF the quadrennial
Presidential excitement, and, TINS morn
inc and next Sabbath morning, as
Chris ian patriot, / have some earnest
things to say. have no partisan letter
on either hand or either ioot. NV in
slructions come neither from Chicago
nor Cincinnati, but from the throne oi
Gci. IL is fortunate that the ministry
i'm this country are not tempted by gov
ernmental patronage. There are lands
where the State does everything for the
Church. ST. Peters, at Rome, has cost
the government 200,OO0,000. Nerxes
took from the temple Of Belns Sl0O,0OO
OOO of gold. England pays SO 900 year
to her Archbishop of Canterbury, anu
$40 600 in all to her bishops, while
eighteen thousand of her ministers are
maid by the government. Our ministers
nave no su,h temptation TO surrender
priyate Judgment to the dictation oil the
State. but still clergymen have power
inI pressure to make them think this
way or that, preach this way or that, and
vote this way or that. Yet the minister
of religion must shake off the prejudices
of the hour and rise above the instruc-
tons both OF his congregation and OF the
printing press and take his message from
the Lord.
There is one Word in my Text
that stirs the blood OF every genuine
man. and that word is "liberty." "Ie
have been called to liberty Paul
wrote that under Nero, the tryant.
hated of all ages, the Emperor who incog-
nito roamed the streets at night for the
pleasure OF robbing passengers, bedaub.
ing Christians with tar and pitch ana
setting them on fire to light up his
marks, kicking his own wife till she
died, and having his own mother assas-
sinated, and finally committing suicide.
No wonder that word, liberty" under
such a bad man cost Paul his head. But
while the Emperor destroyed the man
who dared TO use so insurrectlonary
! a word, the word itself was indestructi-
bic, and has been the most arouslng
and revolutionary word ever written.
N oot into the mama charta and made
England free, into the declaration OF in
dr,endeuce and started this nation on Its
| hiyh career; into the speech Ot Garibal-
| Al and the proclamation OF Victor Eman-
mel and Italy shook off the dust OF the
crave. into France and overthrow the
| Naprleonic dynasty.
| ItIs Under a Hundred Despotic Thrones,
| and will keep them rocking till they iall
| fiat. IL took hold OF the printing press
| and broke its shackles and made 1t the
| miyh,iest agency for intelligence and
| eyaupelization that the world ever has
known. That word will keep on its
| rounds till il all the earth there shall
not be a tyrant's sceptre or slaves
chain, or an oppressed workman, or a
b, niyhted intellect. Liberty for the
State, Liberty for the church, Liberty
for the printing press, Liberty for the
| pnlpits, Liberty Tor the platform Liber-
~ for all continents, f,r all islands, Tor
| all zones, for all ayes, brethren We
have been called to liberty"
Vet nv text has not only driving
wheel but a brake; not only an inspira'
,ion but a Limitation. Brethren, We
have been called unto liberty, only use
not liberty for al occasion OF the hssh.
Liberty. but not wild license. Liberty,
but not moral recklessness.
First-I charge you, so far as | am
YOUR teacher and pastor, to have nothing
to do in this Presidential contest with
slaudsrous Implication of Public Hen.
Take up the newspaper files OF the
last eighty wears, and see that at each
Presidential election the people of the
United States have felt called upon TO
utter widespread malediction OF digni.
taries. All those men who have passed
into the gallery Of national saint hood
were called in their day TO 90 chin deep
through the slush of lampoonery and
| pasouinade, and there was no exception.
Thomas Paine wrote and published q
letter to George Washington. the first
President, and said: "Treacherou, in
private friendship and hypocrite in
public life, the world will be puzzled to
decide whether you are an apostate OF
an imposter; whether you abandoned
good principles or whether you never
had any" John Quincy Adam,
consolei himself with the thought that
he had no more misrepresentation and
scandal to 20 through with than his IA
ther, John Adams, and declares during
his presidential campaign that there
must be some people who gave their en-
tire time TO making lies about him.
March 4, 1901, the day OF Thoma,
Jefferson's Inauguration as President
the Sntinel, OF Boston, had this derid
ing epitaph:
Monumental Inscription.
Yesterday expired deeply regretted b.