Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-10-27
decent by anything less pungent and all
perVading than
Christian ReIipion,

uSSeHl W ans uAoS AN0o7 Puh6~Ae ~ S
peryading than
Christian Religion.
The simple fact is that We are to have
for our next President either q man who
has been pictoriaized and excoriated as a
thief or one who is pictoriahzed aud ex-
coriated as hbertine. There has never
been such high carnival Of defamation.
Have what faults they may, they have all
had injustice done them. There have been
two great manufactures of lies that turn
out three or four specimens day, ali fitted
out and rigged, ready for circulation; a
Democratic manufactory aud a Republican
manutactoly of lies. And these have had
branch houses in all parts Of the country,
and agents going up and down. Lies large
and small lies domestic, and lies public,
and lies prurient; long-limbed lies, and lies
of double-back action; lies cut bias and hes
diagonal lies smart and lies stupid; lies
that some believe, and lies that all believe,
and lies that nobody believes; lies compi-
mentary and defamatoy; lies with humps
like camels, and scales like crocodles, and
necks long as storks, and legs swift as ante
lopes, and sting sharp as adders; secular hes
and religious lies; lies raw, and scalloped,
and panned, and stewed; lies with attach
ment screw, and belt coupling, aud ruftier,
aud braider and ready-wound bobbins; lies
by Christians who tell the truth except just
before election; lies by people who always
lie, but surpass themselves in
The Presidential Campaign.
e ashamed arksI. to have foreigners visit
this country at Nsuch tines They stand
dazed, their hand on their pocket-book and
afraid to be out nights. And what impress
sion must be made on the hundreds and
thousands of foreigners who have recently
come to make America their home! What
disgust and horror must seize on them
concerning the land Of their adoption. The
only solace is that many of them can
not understand the English language. But
| suppose the German and Swedish and
French and Italian newspapers take up the
strain of obloquy and peddle it out to their
subscribers. Nothing short OF an all.per-
vading Christian sentiment can stay these
foods Of indecency The time will come
when such scenes Of falsehood and billings
gate and low scandal as we have been going
through for the past three months will be
rebuked by that religion which from its one
mountain intones the command: Thou
shalt not bear false witness against thy
neighbor" and from its other mountain
pleads for love and kindlnesS and blessing
ra her than cursing. q
Oh my friends That is what we ouS Mt
tG have and VIII We will have
4 National Religion.
Ih,re are two kinds of national religions.
/ lie Que is supported by the state and is
after of human politics, immense worldly
patronage, men struggling TO get places
it without reference 10 their qualitica.
ions, great churches with large salaries and
no audience, at the head Of the establish
meht an archbishop with salary Of S7j,.
coo a year and It's cathedrals that would
hold thousand people and with all the
ecclesiastical machinery OF music and canon.
icals and an audience Of fifty or hundred
attendant upon the services. Such ma
tional religion would be of no use in
America. But what we need is such vast
multitudes of converted and evangeli-
cal people that they shall be in
majority and that they shall control every
thing secular as well as everything religious.
Is that impracticable and impossibleY No;
it is as certain as that there is God and
that He wrote the Bible and that He is
strong enough and honest enough to do as
He has said. An arcient emperor prided
himself in doing that which his councillors
pronounced impossible, and have to tell
YOU that mems "impossibles' are Gods
easies' Hath He said and shall He not
do it? Hath He spoken and shall He not
bring it to pass?' The Christian religion
will vet take possession of every ballot box,
of eyerv school house, Of every home, Of
every valley, OF every mountain top, OF every
acre, Of every
National Domain.
One of the seven wonders of the world
was Pharos, the white marble watch tower
of Egypt Sostratus, architect and sculptor,
cut his name on the front Of it, then COW
ertd it with plastering and TO please the
king put the monarchs name on the out.
side Of this plastering. The storms beat on
The front Of the watch tower and the sea
dashed its furies, and in time the plastering
with the kings name was washed out snd
washed off and washed down and only the
name of Sostratus the architect, remained
That stood deep cut into the imperishable
rock. Thus many and mighty have been
The names written across this continent IN
politics literature and reform, names worthy
uf remembrance written in architecture and
across our capitols and churches and uni
aersities and asylums, but God was the
architect OF this continent and
he sculptor OF its grandeurs and
long after all other names have by the wash
Of tie ages and the tempests ofthe centur-
les been obliterated the divine signature,
the divine name. Shall appear brighter
and brighter as the milleniums glby and
all the world will see and acknowledge that
the san-c "-l - builtthis nation redeem
ed il fro,., 49, c.imes and from all its
woes. Name high over all in earth and
air and skies" After all the other char
lots have been unwhSel ani all the other
chargers shall have been crippled the char
lots that Elisha saw that morning Of his
peril shall roll on in the triumph OF our
King and all the armies Of heaven follow
Him on white..horses
But while God could do sll this without
US, he will not do it without u.s. The
weakest of US, the humblest Of US, the faint
est of US, the smallest Drained Of US, the
sickest Of US may have share in the tn
umph, and though our names may not be
kept like that Of the architect Sostratus,
hewn for centuries on a conspicuous watch
tower, we shall have our names and what
we do kept in grander place-eVen in the
memory Of him who died to redeem US and
to redeem the world, and around the wounds
in his hands our names are already written,
as we see when he throws out his arm to-
ward US this moment saying, Behold, l
have engraved thee upon the palms OF my
handst
By the mightiest force in the universe;
the potency OF prayer, beseech Him day and
night for the deliverance Of this nation. In
the dead-letter postotbee q, Washington,
there are 100000 letters that Lost their
way but never one earnest, honest Christian
supplication directed to God has miscafried.
The way is all clear for the immediate as
cent of our best wishes for the nation. In
olden time and when arrangements for
postal communication were less complete,