The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1888-01-07

needyland destitute ON the Sabbath,
and on the following Tuesday
stabbs them at the polls, needs a
little more backbone. Said Sam
Jones, in one of his string appeals:
81 am ready to say here to night,
without any reference to any
particular churches or indiy, duals,
that the great trouble here in
America tosday is that the national
conscience is dead, and the church
conscience Is dead, and the state
conscience Is dead, and the
municipal conscience is dead and
the individual conscience is dead.' I
a. The Christian must be
courageous. Whatever others may
do, he cannot afford to play the
coward. The man who stands
with God can run through a tloup
or leap over a wall. Samuel j..
May, oneof the heroes of the anti
slavery Struggle, leaves on record
this Startling statements: "Whrn
the true history of the anti-slavery
conflict shall be fully written, and
the sayings and doings Of the
preachers, theological professors,
editors ofrpligious periodicals, and
presbyterles, Conferences and
Gcnefal AssembllesshaH be spread
before tho people IN the light Of
our enlarged liberty, no one viii
fail to see that, practically, The
worst enemies of truth, righteous
ness and humanity were Of those
who profesed to be the friends
and followers of Christ, Had
they been generally faithful and
fearless inibehalfofthe oppressed
no other opponents would have
| dared to withstand the just
demand for their immediate einan-
cipation.
The world not long since wit
messed an example of lotty!courage
which was a picture fol a painter,
It IS April 8, at 4 p. M, in the
halls Of Westminister, England,
The man ,whosls the observed Of
all observers is almost fourscore
years of age, and, one would think,
more concerned for the life that i.
to ceme than for the affairs of thC
present. The hour for IRELAND
has come saHd no man but mar
of intense moral convictions coulC
have met that hour. The Torres
as ono man were against him
Members ofhis own cabinet desert.
led him, The queen had nj
friendly word for the man who
would disrupt the nation. Over
whelming defeat, political anC
personal, seemed to look him il
the face: He could escape 1t all
For fitty-three years Of parliamen
tary life he had seen the policy O.
repression tried, and it had provec
a failure. With deep moral con
victions of the righteousness 0
this canse, how could he deser
! them at this hour, and face a civ
illzed world? "Who knowetl
but thou art come to the kingdom
! for such a time as this?" To fac,
such difficulties God had put hin
into this place.g For three and
half hours he speaks to this en-
Eraptured parliament. His plan
may be modified, as no doubt the,
| will be, but the man and the da
have been made historic. s'9ls
The courage tomeetthefesponsi
bilities Of the hour asGladstone me
| them, is what is wanted 10 day 0
I Christian men and the Christina
church. When the membership
| the Christian church shall have th
courage of their convictions, the,
will take hold Of the legislation o
the country and make itwhat the
/ wish. As we were once under th
feet of the slave power. so to-da
we are euuder the grinding heel @
the rumocracy, because so many /,
Gods people are arrant towards
Let its membership stand in th
! forefront, where God has place
: them, as leaders Of the people
asking no favors of any, and own
no allegiance to any but the Kin
of kings, and the saloon powe
that now elects our officers. an
Z. makes our laws. and runs OF
t.charches, and controls our stat
and national affairs, shall be crusl
z ed under the tread Of "a tong ii
,tjurcd and indignant people. Ma
God hasten tile time'p ~ =
5. The Christian citizen nui
never put his jddgme6t OF h
manhood into the Keeping of al
political party. Political partic
afe the Undergraduates throue
which the peoplo's choice, ia to 7
manifested. This man, then, wl
/, conscieniiously votes With or