Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1888-06-07
continued from last week.

only earthly organization having heav-
emily commission. Deplorably defective
on the human side it is of heavenly
planning on the divine side. Five times
spoken of in the Bible as the ''church
of God" Christ is its head. Necessarily
imperfect, for its very mission is to help
weak, sinful human beings who are yet
struggling toward perfection and seek
| ing strength not their own. We may
have occasionally Judas or Demas
but we are set in the world for its
betterment and we have our commits
sion from Him who made the worlds
We offer in our respective churches the
the privilege of the gospel and instruct
ion in the Sunday school, and the use of
choice libraries, absolutely free. More
than this: we have not infrequently
clothed the unfortunates that they might
come, and given them heartiest welcome.
The churches that we represent give
voluntarily, every year, several millions
of dollars in absolute benevolence-to
those who have no claim upon us except
the claim of humanity. We try to
economize; to use our money in striking
at the root of the tree of sorrow and
suffering rather than in looping off the
branches. We claim to pay for our
selves manifold. % In preservation
of morals; (2) in stimulus in education.
(3) in nourishing reformers and noble
men; (4) in added value to land and
improvements; (5)in fitting for citizen
ship in the heavenly kingdom-fve times
0Uer. You believe in us. You court
eously invited our aid in these memorial
services. We endeavor courteously to
respond. We claim to be contending
for the same principle of liberty for
which you fought. Our ranks are thin.
Come and help US yet more. We have
a right cause-good fellowship and a
glorious leader, and plenty of fighting
and assurance of victory!
III. Contend for high standard of
morals. Here you fall into line Of the
Bible and the church and real liberty.
immortality is not liberty but license,
and it speedily binds hand and foot.
Having stood for freedom you would
naturally stand for morals, for every
thing that makes for peace and purity.
% HoneSty-highest honesty. Never
was greater need than to-day that every
Christian, every soldier, every citizen,
set his face, like flint, against devices
for securing speedy wealth against each
of which is written-knavery. Need l
refer to gambling as one of the most
seductive and one of the most damning.
1t is the enemy of honest labor and
courageous enterprise. In principle
thievery; it has the ban of law upon it
in all civilized communities. Let us
join forces against it.
(2) Sabbath Has the sanction of
both Gods law and human enactments.
We cannot afford to have it disregarded.
(3) nperGnce-crueler bondman
than slavery. A clog upon every in
dustry; menace to our civilization.
The sweetest words of our language
mother, home, heaven-the saloon is
the foe of them all Through its en-
Elements the idolized son brings to his
mother keener anguish than the birth
pangs which gave him existence.
Through its allurements the home is
desecrated, its hearth-stone broken, its
altar torn down and only bestialism and
broken hearts remaining. Through its
Internal Establishments all desire for
purity or hope of heaven is shut out by
the smoke of the brewery or the fumes
of the still But fortunes are made
and revenue reaped from this traffic .
The scriptures tell us of one Hiel who
built jericho; but it was costly build
thereto in his frst-born son and set up
the gates in his Youngest son." and he
was statesman compared to those who
think to build in safety on this traffic.
Soldiers! A score of years ago the
clanking chain and bleeding back OF
slavery touched your sympathy and
stirred your hearts. Not in vain were
black hands stretched above white cot
tonfelds in mute but eloquent appeal.
A slavery to-day defies justice, laughs
at law. controls legislatures, destroys
prosperity, fosters crime, murders, tor
lures, ruins soul aud body. In the G..
pinion Of many, compared to the dun
geon blackness of its atrocious record,
that of slavery was luminous as the
MONDAY! Many a soul, whtened by
Christ's cleansing touch, dwelt in black
bodies, under the accused system.
But. mo drunGard shall inherit the
kingdom of Gol," ia this thrice ac-
cursed slavery. Only its gradual growth
gave it tolerance. Were its evil to
come upon you tomorrow for the first
time, with its insolent demands and
its unspeakable horrors, it requires no
prophet to predict that your indign alton
would be fired to white heat, and you
would stand aghast at the proposal to
throw around it the protection O. law
for the sum of few paltry dollars!
viii not future ages wonder at our
craftsmanship, which puts embargo
upon pauperism and criminality COM
ing from the old world and Industrious
IL develops them in this, and which
guarantees pestilences in our ports
and permits ten fold worse plague spots
IN every village in our land? | adjure
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