The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-10-13

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dren and babes had their thrOats cu1
and their bodies left unburied from the
wolves and the ravens, was all in the
name of the Lord. DR.. Robinson, Al
mOnd Babbitt and the Parishes were
butchered in the name of the Lord. The
assassins Hickman and Brigham Young
and the group called Destroying
Angels, set apart for nothing but assas-
sinatiOns, did all in the name of the
Lord. What has Guiteau's cry been
from the firstP He shot Garfield in the
name of the Lord. He has written it as
Well as spoken it. He never says any
thing about it except when he speaks
of it as Divine commission and in
the name of the Lord. 1 will
not say that Guiteau is a Mormon
L dare not say he has not been en-
plOyed as an agent. He has all the
theories of the Mormon. He belonged
TO what is called the Oneida Community,
which believes in prOfusiOn of wives.
He has the ugliness of a Mormon, and
the lasciyiOusness of Mormon, and the
cruelty of Mormon, and the murderous
spirit of Mormon, and the infernalism
of Mormon, and sits in the park OppO-
site the Presidents house in the name
of the Lord, and he practiced at a mark
in the name of the Lord; and he goes
into the Baltimore s. Ohio Depot in the
name of the Lord, and he takes aim at
the heart of the President of the United
States and fires in the name of the Lord.
While l think that he first conceived
this crime in revenge, because he could
not get a COnsulship, 1 should not
wonder if, in the day when all secret
things are revealed, it were found that
he were paid agent of that hag of hell
that sits making mouths at high Heaven
between the Rocky Mountains and the
Sierra Nevadas. She is bad enough to
do this crime. do not know butshe
has done it. If, through this assassina-
tiOn of the President, a new and holier
antipathy shall be kindled against Nor
mOnism, which was his special disgust,
then another action of your prayer has
been answered.
Again, l think that your prayer may
have been answered in sanctifying of
the home relation. Throughout the
country, husband, wife, father, mother,
beautiful names before, are ten thous-
and times more beautiful now. In the
Capital Of the Nation we have had a
model Christian home. For the last
quarter Of century the land has been
full of the trash of free-lOvism and
talk abOut elective affinity and divorces
easy. The revelations of the past few
weeks have been an overwhelming
eulOgy Of the Old-fashi0ned family re-
latiOn. God has not answered all our
prayers in just the way expected, but in
a better way. 1t is as though child
should ask of father. "Father, give
me $5,0O0," and the father should reply,
II hear your request, but will do bet
ter than you ask. will put the 5000
into your education, that will be worth
to you during the course of your life
ten times 5000. 1t is as though a
wayward young man returned home to
the dying bed of his mother, should fall
on his knees and ask for his mothers
recovery, and God should say, 81 hear
your request; will do better than what
you ask, will take your mother away,
and make it means of your present
reformation and your eternal salvation" !"
Again remark that in addition to
the blessing already attained by the ma
tiOn's prayers there will have been
blessings born of these prayers the next
thousand years, if American institu-
tiOns continue. Astronomers tell us
that there are worlds thousands of years
ago created,i the light of which has not
yet reached us. So there are blessings
thousand years in flight. Are we so
selfish as to want all the blessings to
come in our timer David and Isaiah
and jeremiah made prayers thousands
of years ago that are being answered
now. The prayers of Christ made more
than eighteen centuries ago are now
coming to fulfllment.
You touch an electric wire and the
bell rings in far distance, and some
of the prayers during the last eleven
weeks Of the late Presidential illness
will be answered in the five hundreth
year of American independence. God
has gathered them all up in a reservoir
at the foot of His throne, gathered them
from the North, from the South, from
the East and from the West; gathered
them from thrones and from cottages,
from this side of the Atlantic and from
the other side of the Atlantic, from this
side of the Pacific and the other side the
Pacific. And they are one great sus-
pended mercy, floods made up of the
tears of many nations, and, as God wills
it, from this great reservoir of divine
remembrance the streams of bless
ing will roll down upon this
nation, and because of them the har-
vests will be greater, and the schools
will be more prOspered, and the COM
merce will be swifter winged, and the
nation will be swifter, and the morals
purer. 1t will take good many CEN
turtles to answer this three hundred mil
lion hearted prayer of two hemispheres.
Our national sins cry to heaven for VEN
geance. These national prayers cry to
heaven for mercy, and hope the latter
will overcome the former. In David's