Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-06-09
MARTINSBURG, W. VA, SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1888.
) in Mexico, we will soon have an annual

Is In Mexico, we will soon have an annual
conference there, and that means in eth
er and both countries christianity in
earnest as it has been since Wesley's
days in England, nay more such as it
has been here,-nay more such as it
will be in the world, bringing the
millennium. ST. ain has caught the spirit
OF liberty, has struggled against the con-
cordat in the person of Castelar, Bis
marck of iron purpose, and modern
Gamaliel in behalf of liberty of worship
ard hence of evangelical christianity. In
the Spanish cortes, he says. If the Ro-
man Catholic creed be true. it will
prevail by the force of truth; if protes-
tantism be true it will prevail and you
cannot crush it. If liberty of conscience
be of God you cannot. if of man you
need not, crush it. He carried the ques-
ton and the wedge for liberty at least
has entered there"
Again the Declaration of Independence es-
.ablished by the price OF arms. with a people
desperately courageous, prophetic in action of
veloped evangelical christianity more grandIy
IMAM any other on the globe in the same time,
Here as DO where else, in a free state and a
free church, God has and we believe will es-
tabiish more firmly radiating centre from
which the light ofhis truth shall burst forth
upon the enslaved conscience of the people
and the salvation thereof, as lamp that burn
eth" In connection with, and as the out
come OF the great civil struggle between the
North and the South, of which we are remind
ed by the presence of these members of the
Grand Army Of Republic, who are one body to
maintain true allegiance to the United States
OF America" based upon permanent respect
for, and fidelity 10 its constitution and laws. to
discountenance whatever tends TO weaken 10y
Atty, 1ncltes to lnsurrection. treason or rebel.
lion or in any manner impair efficiency and
permanecy of our institution. and to encour-
age the spread of universal liberty, equal
rights and justice to all men.
In connection with the past we have facts
despite ali Ideas of the possibilities to settle
the then existing difficulties without war.
which idea many en- yertained; one of the facts
is. the slave Is free; another is, the great barr-
er to the freedom of his conscience is remov-
ed; another is. the nation sold under bondage
to slavery is liberated and no part of this
country is prouder oft or is more prof.
ted by it than the South, and the best of all,
the church without the CALLING questions,
right or wrong of slavery, moves shackleless
and more rapidly and gloriously to the
Millenniel days.
am reminded to day not to bury the past. We
could not do that If we would. We would not
If we could. We are to remember the past. and
there Is more to be remembe red than can be
put in words in an hour. S landing by. the
graves ofyour fallen comrades as you will do in
the coming week, you will remember that
the past is not dead, but like the sanity who
voices from their courage and heroic deeds;
voices from their loyalty voices from the
bereft, voices from the de ad, voices from the
liberators, voices from the freedmen,
voices from the North, voices from the South,
voices from Europe and voices from the
world. Let me here repeat two voices from
one man OF the South; some may see but little
in either, but some of us hear great deal in
both. Working side by side with the North as
the South is for the destruction or the liquor
traffic. which curses us more than slavery
eyer did, and WILL unless we proceed to make
public opinion and legislators through whom
laws shall be enacted and enforced. Rev. DR..
Cn,1fI ay,ft t,r f1,n
Methodist Episcopal Church South TO our gen.
eral conference now in session In New York ::
he said. vOicing his church voicing the South,
for the temperance movement, in the Ian
guage of Lincoln we are resolved that this ma
ton under God shall have new birth of Free
dom, and that government of the people, by
the people, and for the people " shall not per-
iSh from he earth. Another voice, he said ::
" If we may learn any lessons from History,
we may say the great moral forces which 81
lently control the progress of nations, will
continue to operate in the future as in the
past II we may take into account, the higher
and wider sweep of human events five may
trust the pacific tendencies of the age, the
day is not remote when the patriotic South
will build monuments to Gen. Grant, and the
tomb of Lee" From Canada Dr.. E. A. Stafford
speaks as for the world :" In your war of
emancipation by great craftsmanship. and
great generalship, the time was made a glor-
ioug era, and your heroes became their own
monuments, known everywhere and never to
be forgotten"
but as an Englishman, am proud to quote
the words of the Rev. Dr. Kelley from England
to the general conferences, I'VE cannot forget
the greeting. the immense welcome, the
strong welcome that General Grant received,
when he came over to our country" He was
loved there for his great generalship, and the
victories achieved through him and the for
ces he commanded" But not that only. DIR.
Kelley says Gen. Grant was great personal
favorite with the English people, and
throughout the great constituencies of our
nation he received welcome as enthusiastic
as was ever given to a royal head" But the
welcome meant more than one thing, it
meant something more than affection for
America. 1t meant the distinct English ap-
prevail for one of the greatest parts of General
Grants works, 1t meant that the spirit of the
two nations snail always require in case of
dispute, arbitration and not appeal to
force" The Geneva award was before the
mind of the English people. though they
poured thereby $l5.0O0,000 into the United
States Treasury. So he who was foremost in
the great war that brought victory and peace,
was great to favor peace for and between the
nattons,-all possible through war.
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