The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-11-30

purchase of liberty. Our true ideal
Is not war, it is a christian nation.
Not war in its cruelty but glory, not
tyranny and vengeance of armies but
their fame. War was the ideal If
France until she learned better by
bitter eXper ence which left her
bleeding thing, torn 10y revolution,
anarchy and misrule, as natural con-
sequence of infdelity, corruption and
selfish ambition. The lesson to France
was repeated in the Franco-German
war, in the humiliation of Sedan, the
defeat of Strasburg, in the capture of
the broken-hearted and despised idol
of the people their emperor-and
the absolute downfall of all his cher
ished plans. Is our ideal gold? Of
all false gods this is the meanest and
most deceptive. What has the love of
gold ever done for the world? Has
it not caused untold crime and misery.
May not every sin be reduced at last
to this? Is this the motive Of
our gratitude? Because God has
permitted us as a nation, great pos
session. Men do not disbelieve but
they sell Him for gain. We have
pleaded not guilty to love OF war and
love of glory, can we also plead not
guilty to love of gold. 1t is this which
has plunged us into righteousness. 1t
is this which is causing the chasm
between capital and labor, socialism,
communism, anarchy, strikes, bOycotts
assassination. 1t is this which forms
the contrast between the bOundiess
superfiuities of the rich and the misery
of the poor. 1t is this which causes
the liberation of fever producing ten
ements that false idea exists for no
other reason than for personal Osten-
taJion We have a good deal of that
kind of gratitude, thankful that ~e
have been SO successful and accumu-
lated so much that We are not in want
instead of mourning over our spiritual
destitutisn. Thanksgiving is not
for the simple glory We take in
our wealth, or self congratulation.
Oh, that America could learn that
wealth is not greatness but In Justice,
mercy, temperance and love of our
Lord Jesus. Another national ideal
is freedom, but many have a false
idea of freedom. Freedom is the cor.
relation of law and order. Freedom
is to sit obedient at the feet of law.
Liberty does not mean license. To be
truly free means to be holy. every
man to do to that which is right in
his own eye" | fear is becoming our
national ideal. Such a sentiment
dries up national greatness"
The speaker then took up the ter
rible evils of intemperance lust and
the peculiar forms of vice by which
the people have been governed and
thanked God that the people have be-
gun to see that they have been
the false God of freedom"
He then told of the march of purity
as represented by the White Cross
begins, the temperance army and the
stand which the people have taken
against all forms of violence, strikes,
bOycotts, etc., and declared
that these had been relegated, as
of an intelligent people, to
the category of savagery, inconsistent
with personal liberty and antagonis.ic
to civilization. reason and justice.
There were many other fine points in
Rev. Boilers sermon, which necessa-
rily must be lost to those who did not
hear it, and which, space forbids men
.ioning in the columns, but as a hit
ing tribute to his effort, it is said to
nave been one of the best addresses of
The kind ever delivered in the city,
and it has been much praised,
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