Morning journal and courier., 1884-10-24
THE PREACHERS INPOLTTICs.

The preachers are "talking politics" good deal this year, and much of what they say deserves the earnest attention of their hearers. Recently number of preachers have given their opinion of Cleveland's can didacy, and we commend the extracts which we give below to the attention of our read CTS who think that 8 vote for President should he cast with it's moral significance in mind.
 Rev. Richard s. Storrs, D. D., of the Church of the Pilgrims in Brooklyn, says:
 The suggestion that man whose history
 is stained with admitted hcentiousness may yet properly and deliberately be put at the
 head of the nation must certainly be secuted
 Forgiveness is one thing. Popular corona
 tion is quite another. Ethics must surely take precedence of politics. It would seem
 to be, certainly, grave. offence against the family, against the public honor for chaste womanhood against the divine law of purity, against the essential welfare of the State, to contribute to elevate to the highest office in the gift of his countrymen a man with loose woman in his train, and an ille- gitimate son. I can hardly imagine anything of worse example to the multitude of young men who are dangerously tempted, and who need whatever succor to their virtue may come from a supporting and imperative public sentiment. It would seem to make the nation at large, if not the positive patron ! of lewdness, at least the careless apologist l for it.
 Rev. Dr. Vincent, the Chautauquan leader, said:
 His (the President's) position is a point of moral power whether he will have it so or
 not The head of the republic stands in blaze of light His personal habits, his con- versation, his appearance and dress, his anec- l dotes, the details of his domestic life, are l discussed and quoted and commented upon 1 in the far-off farm houses and in the village | martyr President of ours, if he left the
 nation no political heritage, left it what may prove in the end to be of even more value-the record of his faith and Chris tian patience and courage. Suppose Sn the other hand that the man is 0 drunkard or 8 1 libertine. The simple fact, known as all ! other facts of his life, is that the weight of I his authority is thrown into the scale on the | side of vice. The fact tells on social morali- 1 ty, and tells disastrously.
 Rev. Dr. Bartol, of Boston, said last Sun | day: am an Independent. Heaven forbid I should be malignant As Christian I would overlook, but cannot exto1 or lift a
 citizens finger to exalt Mr. Cleveland l Rev. Dr. A. H. Plumb, of the Walnut ave- nue Congregational church of Boston, preach l ed last Sunday on 'tWhat the election of such I a man as Cleveland would mean" In the
 course of his remarks he put the matter thus forcibly:
 Such choice would violently misrepre- l sent the American sentiment as exhibited in | the well ordered life of millions of virtuous | homes. It would proclaim to all lands the ] utter falsehood that this foremost Christian
 nation of the world, long the asylum of many of the oppressed, the example and guide of peoples struggling to rise, the almoner of the l rich blessings of Christian civilization to all 1 benighted races, is yet indifferent to the sa- credness of marriage and the sanctity of the ! home, principles which lie at the foundation of all our prosperity, and which are deareT than all others to the American heart. The proposal of such Coronation" of impurity and dishonor comes like blow in the face to every man who thrills at the thought of | his wife, or his daughter, his sister or his I mother. Against it rise the common in ! stincts of noble manhood and pure woman
 hood throughout the land in tide of indig- l nant remonstrance of such increasing volume ! and such gathering power as to bear down
 and sweep away not only all effort of sophis
 tical apologists for impurity, but their au-
 thors also, the apologists themselves, thence { forth to be covered with public odium as I long as their names shall last How blind | are such apologists to think they can stand
 against such storm.
 | All this, and much more which might bt
 quoted, shows that Christian teachers art
 doing their duty in this crisis. It is not sur
 prising that they are so outspoken agains | CIeyeland