The Russellville Democrat., 1889-05-09


asylums and reformatory institutions.
and from an Edenization which promises
that the whole land is 10 be o paradise
where God shall walk in the cool Of the
day.
IL in other sermons / showed you what
was the evil that threatened TO upset aud
demolish American institutions, | am en-
couraged more than | can tell you as see
the regiments wheeling down the sky,
and my jeremiads turn into doxologies,
and that which was the Good Friday OF
the Nations crucifxion. OF course God
works through human instrumentaiities,
and this national betterment Is TO come
among other things through scrutinized
ballot box. BY the law Of registration II
is almost impossible now TO have illegal
voting. There was time--you and re-
member it very well-when droves OF
vagabonds wandered up and down on
election day, and from poll to poll and
voted here, and voted there, and
voted everywhere, and there was
no challenges; or, il there were,
it amounted 10 nothing, because
nothing could so suddenly be proved up
on the vagabonds. Now, in every we'll
organized neighborhood, every voter Is
watched with severest scrutiny. | must
tell the registrar my name, and how old
am, and how long | have resided in the
State, and how long have resided in the
ward, or the township, and If | misrep-
resent fifty witnessed will rise and shut
me ont from the ball1t- box. Is not that
a great advance? AID then notice the
law that prohibits a man voting il he has
bet on the election. A step further needs
A. l. I n
vote who has offered or taken bride,
whether it be in the shape OF free drink
or cash paid down, the suspicious cases
obliged to put their hand on the Bible and
swear their vote in if they vote at all. SO
through the sacred chest of our Nations
suffrage redemption will come.
God also will save this Nation through
an aroused moral sentiment. There has
never been so mach discussion OF morals
and immorals. Men, whether or not they
acknowledge what is right, have to think
what is right. We have men who have
had their hands in the public treasury the
most of their lifetime, stealing all they
could lay their hands on. discoursing elo-
quently about dishonesty in public sery-
ants, and ment with two or three families
of their own preaching clOq1ently about
the beauties of the seyeAth command
ment. The question of sobriety aud drunk
enness is thrust the face of this Nation
as never before, and to take part in our
political contests. Tho question fully
and deferentially heard at tbs bar
of every Legislature and every
House OF Representatives and every
United States Senate. and an . mnip otent
voice will ring down the sky and across
this land and back ag in, saying to these
rising tides of drunkenness which
threaten to whelm hoMa and church and
Nation: "Thus far shalt thou come, but
no further, and here shall thy proud
waves be stayed"
| have not in my mind shadow Of dis
heartenment as large as the shadow of a
housefy's wing. My faith is in the upper
forces, the upper armies of the text. God
is not dead. The chariDts are not un-
wheeled. If you would only pray more
and wash your eyes in the cool, bright
water fresh from the well of Christian re-
form, it would be said cf you, as of this
one of the text: "T4e Lord opened the
eyes of the young man; and he saw; and,
behold, tn mountain was full Of horses
and chariots of fire round about Elisha.
When the army of Antigonus went into
battle his soldiers were very much dis
couraged, and they rus ed up to the GEN
eral and said to him. Don't you see we
have few forces and they have SO many
more?" and the soldiers were affrighted
at the smallness o. their number and the
greatness of the enemy. Antigonus, their
commander, Strengthened himself up and
said, with Indignation and vehemence
''How many do you reckon me to be?"
Aud when we see the vast armies arrayed
against the cause of soJricty it may
sometimes b. very discouraging, but
ask you, in making up your estimate Of
the forces of righteousness-I ask you
how many do you reckon the Lord God
Almighty TO be? He is our commander.
The Lord of Hosts Is His name. | have
the best authority for saying that the
chariots of God are twenty thousand, and
the mountains are full of them.
You will take without my saying it that
my only faith is in Christianity and in the
upper forces suggested In the text. POlit-
ical parties come and go, and they may be
right and they may be wrong; but God
lives, and | think He has ordained this
Nation for a career Of prosperity that no
will be able to halt. | expect
to live to see a political party which
will have a platform of two planks
the Ten Commandments and the Ser
mon on the Mount When that party is
formed il viii sweep aero - this land like
a tornado, | was going to say, but when |
think it is not to be devastation, but re-
suscitation, | change tue figure and say
such party as that will sweep across
this land like spice gales from Heaven.
,In 10 g
the Christian religion to purify and make
decent American poliiicsl At every year
ly OF quadrennial election we have in this
conntry great manufactures, manu-
factories of lies. and they arc run day
and night, and they turn out half dozen
a day all eq tipped and ready for sailing.
Large lies and small lies. Lies private
and lies public and lies Irurient. Lies
cut bias and lies cut diagonal Long
limbed lies and lies with double. back ac-
ton. Lies complimentary and lies defam-
atory. Lies that some people believe,
and lies that all the people believe, and
lies that nobody believes. Lies with
humps like camels AMI scales like crocO-
dies and necks as long as storks and feet
as swift as au ontelope's and stiugs like
adders. Lies raw aud scallopel and
jumping lies aul soaring lies. Lies
with attachment screws and ruff ors
and braiders and ready wound b1bbins.
Lies by Christian people who never lie
except during elections, and lies by peo-
pie who always lie, blt beat themselves
in presidential campaign.
confess / am ashamed to have
foreigner visit this country in such times.
l should think he wol'd stand daze 1, his
hand on his pDcks,-1 IOs, all dars not
go out nights. Whlt viii the hundreds
OF thousands ~ fOrsi rasri WAC come here
To live think OF u.s. What disgust they
must have for the Ian ot their adoption!
The only good thing aboat il Is, IN my OF
them eau not uade-stand the + glish
language. Bat | sapppsc the German
and Italian and Swedish and French pa
pers translate it all ana ps Idle oit the
internal stun 20 their Subscribers.