Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1880-11-10
CLEARFIELD PA
TALuAGE on P0LIUcS.
uOr sHor FROM rnE BROOKLYN TADER.
NACLE BATTERY-MANY OF THE PAS
ToR's UTTERANcEs GREETED WITH
HEARTY APPLAUSE.


NAcLE BATTERY-MAHY or THE PAS
ToRs UTTERANcEs GREETED WITH
HEARTY APPLAUSE.
Professor George W. Morgan, whC
had just returned from musical tour
performed as the prelude in the Brock
! lyn Tabernacle bis newest compost
ton, an ofertory in D, and the Ma
tional Anthem "My country, It's o
thee, sung by five thousand voices
preceded the sermon. DIR, Talmag,
took his text from Galatians v, 10
"For, brethren, ye have been called
unto liberty only use not liberty ioi
an occasion to the flesh He saiC
that as we are IN the fever of quad
rennial Presidential excitement he pro
posed as n Christian patriot to ad
dress bis congregation next Sunday
also on political topics. lie wore nc
party fetters, neither did he get hit
instructions from either Chicago OF
Cincinnati. He congratulated his hear
ers upon tho sepaiatencss Of Church
and State in America, and said -
"Xerxes took from the Temple Of
Belus 500, 1000; the English gov.
ernment pays the Archbishop Of Can,
terbury salary of S75, 600 annually,
s770, 900 to all the bishops, and $4,000
Of her clergy are supported by the
government In this country we have
less temptation TO surrender private
Judgment to State dictation. One word
IN the text stirs the blood of every
Christian mad. That word was writ
ten under Nero, the tyrant-going
through the streets at night for the
purpose Of robbing passengers, kick
ing his wife to death, ordering his
mother assassnated, and then com.
mitting suicide The word Liberty
cost Paul his head 1t got into the
Magma Charter, and England was free /;
it got into the Declaration of Inde-
pendenco and America was free. 1t
took hold of the printing press and
made it the mightiest engine for evan
gelization the world has ever seen Let
there be liberty for the Church, liber.
ty for the State, liberty for the press,
liberty for the pulpit, liberty for all
nations and all ages. But there is q
limitation, | charge you, as your
pastor and teacher, that you don't go
to'the extent of license as it is shown
in the SANDER of public men in Presi-
dental election times. Take down
the newspaper files for eighty years
and you will find that the statesmen
OF the past waded chin deep through
lampoonery and defamation"
1929"
Dr. Talmage instanced Tom Paine's
shocking defamation Of Washington
the phanaksm to which the elder and
the younger Adams were subjected ;
the coffin handbills that flooded the
country during Andrew Jackson's can
didaturo and the picture representing
him as receiving the scoptre from the
hands of Satan; the caricatures of
nLal''li '"u puiol'' "uo was present
cation that Henry Clay was libertino,
murderer and gambler Then, open.
ing book, the pastor OF the Taberna
Wv Wv. ie'u ii'"iS J'a( : Vu'Osy " ~ hVl, u,
said that on the same ticket with the
loa' N hon'u0h'1' I,, was vas ! ucouoIo I ro,
InIngIuysei'' cai,Tu 'ue ''noSar'IaceI
.,. iOs0y . sei'""i i;5 ".'Ho MY Eo'I'', :
,r''l' nv, W. ,',ou' -lI'e' OaN,"S VI
I paillel mooster as nuNlng ",ed heaI!- near.
DiGNo'i .. tno w IyHoncr WS T ToealloI 'Ie 1o,t ~,
IT I,o'''ns Wy, " Nv no ~ ~ y"'uo9 n : m UlN
1 o "'s"''eu .h J lI'H' - o'N i,I a''ioNeu % eNas
a anu 'uu9 h,oi 'p"uH ~ 'osS.oIo ',D ior VS. 70
V"n ,, W Sn u'loiUNe! U ,oIie'o'y ,ro"' tno %
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"',',"bV ~. Iov oc,Vio i!s n.N,1 so'no SUM
iij ., .uo I','luSSVoi sL eno IP,'ny's 'nui WvI'
i5d down ,o Tho nondin, oontos, said
that we are at it yet, ana are hunting
in our dictionaries for terms Of politi-
cal damnation. He had been told that
one of the Presidential candidates wan
tonly hanged Mrs. Suratt and is a
weak man and has bee in his bonnet,
and that the other took unlawful coun.
sci fees, and as the speaker rode thro'
the town he saw written on the sides
OF stores and on doorstops the number
Of dollars that were alleged to have
been taken-329. He would like to
bury all these campaign lies IN two
graves and erect over them a monu-
mcnt bearing the words, "RequjeScat
in pace" Applause.] Administering
a scathing rebuke to some newspapers
that seemed to have tipped the city
sewers into their inkstands, the
preacher oounseled his hearers to have
nothing to do with tho presses that
descend to sanderous malediction in
dealing with public men. [Applaso. I
GIVE US A UNITED COUNTRY.
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va" p"'''o', " ia',huBo went on 10
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ny ny 9uos'lon ~ how sha,' we 'urh
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al. uor ~, Pi"y o'Jr W "nu vo.o WIN rol,
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