The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1882-07-06

HOId Gne Fort.
Hon. Neal Dow has an article with
the above heading, in the New York
Independent. We give the conclud-
ing portion of it:
To hold the fort in any proper sense
is not to keep the gates shut and the
garrison penned up within the walls,
abandoning to the enemy the whole
country without the walls and all it's
inhabitants to the steel and the torch.
The life of the true Christian is con-
slant warfare against all evil. He is
bound to fight the Lords battles
against all evil doing. do not mean
that the true Christian ought to do
this. I say he will do it; he must do
it. The love of God and his fellow
men impels him to it, and he cannot
do otherwise. If he fail to do that,
ipse tacto, he is no true Christian.
There are thousand ways in which
a true Christian can manifest his de-
votion to duty without much display
or noise about it. He will live in such
a way that all who know him will be
always sure of his position upon any
question, private or public, involving
a matter of right and wrong. It will
not be necessary to ask him what he
thinks about it, what he will do about
it. We all are sure Of that, without
a word from him.
To secularize the Sabbath, to Euro
peanize it. we know what he thinks
of that. Under no possible circum-
stances will he consent to it. He will
not consent to the proposition to le-
galize prostitution, under the wicked
pretense Of regulation and restraint.
There are great many most respect
able men who favor this as the best
thing to do. Our Christian will listen
to no argument upon that matter. 1t
is enough for him that it is a great
sin, shame, and wrong, and he will
consent to no relation to it except
that of stern prohibition and repres-
sion. If evil come from it, let it be
against law and an enlightened and
indignant public opinion, and not un-
der cover Of the law and protected by
it.
The Church & mean by that the
great body of Christian men and wo-
men) are in the midst of society, sur
rounded by the Lords enemies on ev-
cry hand. The Church is set apart to
the Lord service and is bound to pro-
mote the Lords work always and ev-
erywhere, by voice, by example, and
by every legitimate mode Of action as
men and as citizens. He will never
consent to the Establishment Of the
Throne of Iniquity by Law" as AL
bert Barnes put it. He is bound to
protest against that, and, if he be re-
ally Christian, he will do so. He
cannot possibly consent to any COM
promise, for the reason that it is sin
and no compromise can possibly make
it ri ght
Thomas More laid his head freely
upon the block, rather than say one
word, to which his wife urged him,
because that word was not true one
Only a little word, she said, one word,
and we can yet have many years of
happiness at our charming home on
the banks of the Thames; but it
would not be true word, he replied,
and I cannot say it, and he didn't say
it. He died rather and his head was
set up on London Bridge, whence his
loved daughter, Margery, took it with
her own hands, one dark and stormy
night, having strengthened and ap-
proved his resolve to die, at the zenith
of his fame and in mature manhood,
rather than say the word not true.
That is my idea of a gallant soldier,