, 1886-06-13

ihbOiihp men VI ths country COu.u
be heard, there would be more
bread for hungry children In this land riot
and Lloodshed never gained any wages for
the PEG l., or gathered up any prosperity.
In this land the best weapon Is not the cub,
not the shillaleh, not firearms, but the ballot.
Let no. our oppressed laboring men be b.
guiled to coming under the bloody banner OF
Nihilism. 1t will make you taxes heavier,
your wares smaller, your table ~scantier,
your children hungrier, your suffering
greater.
Yet this Nihi ism, with feet rcd OF slaugh-
ter. comes forth and offers its hand for the
republic. Shall the banns DO proclaimed
II so, where shall the marriage altar bel and
who viii be the officiating priesti And
what will be the musici That altar will
have to DO white with bleached skulls,
the officiating priest must be a drip
ping assassin, the music must be the smoth
cred groan OF multitudinous victims, the
garlands must DO twisted OF nightshade, the
fruit must BIO apples OF Sodom, the wine
must be H., b. cd Of St Bartholomew
massacre. No. it Is not to Nihilism, the
sanguinital monster, that this land is to lie
IN lrried.
Another suitor for the hand OF this nation
is Infielity. Mark you that all Anarchists
are inhdels- Not one OF them believes in the
Bible and very rarely any of them believe
in a God. Their most conspicuous leader
was tho other day pulled by the leg from
under n bed in a house of infamy, cursing
and blaspheming. The police of Chicago,
exploring the dens Of the Anarchist.
found dynamite, and v%itriol, and Tom
Painc's Age of Reason" and oh
seen, pictures, and complimentary biog-
raphies of thugs and assassins; but not
one Testament, not one of Wesley's hymn
Looks. not one Roman Catholic breviary.
There are two wings to Infdelity. The one
calls itself Liberalism, AMI appears In high Y
literary ma. azines. and il for the educated
and refined; the other wing is in the form OF
Anarchy, and is for the vulgar. But both
wings belong to the same old filthy vulture,
Inf lelityl Elegant 1nidelity proposes to
conquer this land to itself by the pen;
Anarchy proposes to conquer 1t by the
bludgeon and torch.
When the midnight ~rufiians despoiled the
grave Of A. 4. Stewart, in st. Marks
ch%urchyard, everybody was shocked;
but lnfdelit7 proposes something worse
than hattie robbing of all the
graves OF christendom of the hope OF a res
direction. 1t proposes to chisel out from
the tombstones of your Chris tian dead the
words, asleep in Jesus" and to substitute
the words, Observation-Disclosures In
fidelity proposes to take the letter from the
worlds Father, inviting the nations to virtue
and happiness, and tear it up into fragments
so small that you cannot read a word of it,
1t proposes TO take the consolation from III
broken hearted, AMI the soothing pillow
from the diving. Infid ,litv proposes to swear
in the president Of the United States md
tbs supreme court and the governors o.
states and the witnesses in the court room.
with ter right hunt on Paine's Age
of Reason" or Vo.taire's PHILOSOPHY of
History" 1t proposes to take away
from this country the book that makes the
difference between the U iited States and the
United Kingdom Of Dahomey, between
American civilization and Bornesian canni-
belisin- If inhdelity could destroy the
scriptures it would in 200 years turn the
civilized nations back to semi barbarism.
and then from semi-barbarism into midnight
savager until this morals OF a menagerie OF
tigers, rattlesnakes and chimpanzees woul
be better than the morals OF the shipwreck,d
human rae.
The only impulse in the right direction that
that this world has ever had has come from
the Bible. 1t was the mother of Roman law
and Il healthful Jurisprudence. That book
has been the mother of all reforms and al
eharities-mother of English Mama Charta
and American Daclaration of Independence.
BENZ imin Franklin. holding that noly book
in his hand, stood before an infdel club al
Pnr's and read to them out OF the prophesle.
of Habakkuk, and the infdels, not knowing
what book it was. declared it was the best
~poetry~they had ever heard. That book
brought George Washington down on his
knees in the snow at Valley Forge, and lee
the dying prince consort to ask some one tc
sin Rock of Ages
tell you that the worst ate mpt ed crime
of the century ia the attempt to destroy THU
book; yet Infdelity, loathsome, sienchful,
laprous, Testiferous, rotten monster, stretches
out its hand, ichorous with the second death,
TO take The hand OF this republic. 1t stretche.
1t out through seductive magazines and
through caricatures OF religion. 1t asks for
all that part OF the continent already fully
settled, and the two-thirds not YET occupied
1t says; Give me all east of the Mississippi
with the keys of the church and the Chris
tian printing presses; then give me Wyom
ing, give me Alaska, give me Montana.
give ne Colorado-give me all the state,
and territories west of the Mississippi, and ]
will take those places and keep them by
right of possession, long before tho Gospe
can BE- July entrenched-"
And this sutton presses his case appallingly.
Snail the banls OF that marriage be pro
clnimedi Nor say the home mlssionarie,
u w NtHt-h nutt1T anu OIL tut world 10
MT worthy. toiling amid ~fatigues and ma.
laria and starvation. moi not II we Gun
help it. BY what we and our children have
suff rel We forbid the banns of thai
marriagei' Nor" say all patriotic voices;
'our institutions were bought at too dear a
price, and were defended at too great n sac.
rifle, to he so cheaply surrendered" Nor
says the God Of Bunker Hill and Indepsnd-
ence hall and Gettysburg; 81 did not start
this nat on for such a farce." mo- cry ten
thousand voices; ito Inndelity this land
shall not be mnrriedr'
But there is another uitor that present.
his hand for the hand of this republic, H
is mentioned in the verse following my text.
where it says: 'As the bridegroom r~ejoicath
over the lrile, so shall thy God rejoice over
thecn 1t is not my figure. It is the figure OF
the Bibe. Christ Is SO DESTROYS to have this
world love Him that He stops at no humilia-
tion OF simile. He compares His grace
To spittle on the eyes OF the blind
man He compares Himself to a hen
gathering the chickens, and In my text
He compares Himself to a sutton begging n
hand in marriage. Does this Christ, the kin :
deserve this landi Behold Pilats's hall an
the in1u ting expectoration on the fac
q Chr lst Behold the Calvarean massacre
and the awful hemorrhage OF five wounds.
JACOB served iourteen years Tor Rachel, but
Christ my Lord, tho king, suffered in tor
ture thirty-three years to win the love OF
this world. As often princesses at their very
birth are pledged in treaty OF marriage to
princes or kings OF earth, so this nation at
its birth was pledged to Christ for divine
marriage. Before Columbus and his 100
men embarked on the Santa Marin, the Pinta
and the Nina for their wonderful voyage,
what was the last thing they did They
kneeled down and took tho holy sacrament
Of the Lord Jesus Christ. After they
caught the first glimpse OF this country
and the gun Of one ship had announced