The Penn's Grove record., 1889-05-18

gogism will be able to halt. 1 expect
10 1--we to see a political party which
will have a platform Of two planks-
the Ten Commandments and the Ser.
mon on he Mount. When that party
Is formed 1t will sweep across this land
like a tornado, l wa going to say, but
when think 1t is not to be devasta'
tion u resuscitation, l change the fig.
ure n say, such a party as that will
sweep across this land like spice gales
from heaven.
Have You any doubt about the need
OF tile Christian religion to purify and
make
DECENT AMERICAN PoLITICsY
At every yearly or quadrennial. cleo
ton we have in this country great
Observation-Disclosures of lies;
and they are run day and night, and
they turn out half q dozen a day all
equipped and ready for full sailing.
Large lies and small lies. Lies private
and lies public and lies prurient. Lies
cut bias, and lies cut diagonal.
Longllmbed lies, and lies with
double back action. Lies compli-
mentary and lies defamatory. Lies
that some people believe, and lies
that all the people believe, and lies that
nobody believes. Lies with humps
like camels, and scales like crocodiles,
and necks as long a. stOrks, and feet
as swift as an ~antelope's, and stings
like adders. Lies raw and scalloped
and panned and stewed. Crawling lies
and jumping lies and soaring lies. Lies
with attachment screws and rufiers
and braiders and ready-wound bObbins.
Lies by Christian people who never lie
except during elections, and lies by
people who always lie, but beat them
selves In a Presidential campaign.
1 confess ! am ashamed to have q
foreigner visit this country In such
times. l should think he would stand
dazed, his hand on his po~cketboOk.
and dare not 60 out nights. What
Will the hundreds of thousands of for.
elgners who cone here to live think Of
usp What a disgust they must have
for the land OF their adoption The
only good thing about it is. many Of
of them cannot understand the Eng
lish language. But l suppose the Ger
man and Italian and Swedish and
French papers translate 1t AL. and peddle
out the Internal stuff to their subscrib-
lers.
Nothing but Christianity will ever
stop such a flood of i%ndecency. The
Christian religion will speak after q
while. The billingsgate and low scan.
dial through which we wade every year
or every four years, must be rebuked
by that religion which speaks from It,
two great mountains. from the one
mountain informing the command,
"Thou shalt not bear false witness
against thy neighbour and from the
other mount making plea for kindness
and blessing rather than cursing, Yes.
we are going to have
NATIONAL RELIGION,
There are two Kinds Of national re.
ligion. The one is supported by the
State, and is a matter of human poll
tics, and it has great patronage, and
under 1t men will struggle for pr0mi
nence without reference to qualifca-
tions, and its archbishop is supported
by a salary of $4,000 a year, and
there are great cathedrals, with all thu
machinery of music and canOnical.,
and room for a thousand people. yet HI
audience of fifty people, or twent,
people, or ten, or two.
We want no such religion as that, Ut
such national religion; but We wAii'
this kind of national religion-the
vast majority of the people converted
and evangelical, and then they viii
manage the secular as well as the re-.
ligious.
Do you say that this is impracticablef
No. The time Is coming just as ce
tainly as there is a God, and that til,
is His book, and that He has TIL
strength and the honesty to fulfil His
promises. One of the ancient empero 5
used to pride himself on perform n
that which his counsellors said Wa;
Impossible, and l have to tell ycu
to-day that mans impossibles are
Gods easies. Hath He said, ant
shall He not do itp Hath He COM
lmanded, and will He not bring it u
ipassp" The Christian religion is CON-
ing to take possession Of every ballot
box, of every school house. of every
home, Of every valley. of every noun
tain, of every acre Of our national
|domain. This nation, notwithstanding
all the evil influences that are trying to
destroy it, is going to live.
Never since, according TO John Mil
ton, when ''Satan was hurled headlong
flaming from the ethereal skies in
hideous ruin and combustion down.
have the powers Of darkness been SO
determined to win this continent as
now.
WHAT A JEWEL 1T is
"a level carved In relief, the cameo o.
this planetl On II side of us the
Atlantic Ocean, dividing US from thu
worn-out governments Of Europe. On
the other side the Pacific Ocean,
dividing us from the superstitions
of Asa. On the north Of US
the Arctic Sea, which is the gymna.
stun in which explorers and naviga
tors develop their courage. a
continent 10, 500 miles long 17.OO0,0 0O
square miles, aud all of it but about
%one-seventh capable of rich cultivation.
One hundred millions Of population on
this continent of North and South
America-one hundred millions, aud
tIOOm IOI udD1 huutACa hAhAAOhS AAoiC-
All flora and all fauna, all metals and
all precious woods, and all grains and
all fruits. The Appalachian range the
backbone, and the rivers the gangliH
carrying life all through and out to the
extremities. Isthmus of Darien, the
narrow waist of d giant continent, all
to be under one government. and
ALL FREE. AND ALL CHRISTIAN.
and the scene OF Uhrist's personal
reign on earth If, according to the tx
pectatlon of many good people. lie
shall at last set up His throne In this
world. Who shall have this hemis-
phere, Christ or Satan? Who shall have
the shore of her inland seas, the silver
Of her Nevadas. the gold of her Colora-
dos, the telescopes of her observatoriss,
the brain of her universities, the wheat
of her prairies, the rice OF her savan-
mas, the two great ocean beaches-ihe
one reaching from Bafin's Bay To
Terra del FuegO and the other
from Behring Straits to Cape Horn
-and all the moral and temporal atti
spiritual and everlasting interests O. IL