Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-05-05

disbursement as large as the shadow
of a househy's wing. My faith is in
the upper forces, the upper armies OF
the text. God is not dead. The char.
lots are not unwheeled. II you would
only pray more and wash your eyes
in the cool, bright water fresh from
the well of Christian reform, il would
be said of you, as of this one OF the
text: The Lord opened the eyes OF the
young man and he saw, and, behold,
the mountain was full of horses and
charicts of fire round about Elisha"
THE ARMY ARRAYED AGAINST THE CAUSE
OF soBRIETy.
When the army of Ambiguous went
into battle his soldiers were very much
discouraged, and they rushed up TO
the general and said 10 HIM: Don't
O see we have q few forces and they
have so many more3" and the soldiers
were alfrighted at the smallness of
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-" And
when we see the vast armies arrayed
against the cause of sobriety II may
sometimes be very discouraging, but
| ask you in making up your estimate
of the forces of righteousness ask
you how many do you reckcl the
Lord God Almighty 10 be2 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
hat my only faith is in Christianity
and in the upper forces suggested in
the text. Political parties come and
go, and they may be right and they
may be wrong; but God lives and j
think he has ordained this nation for
a career of prosperity that no dema-
gogism 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
isformed it will sweep across this land
like a tornado, | was going 10 say, but
when | think it is not TO be devasta-
ton but resuscitation, / change the
figure and say, such a party as that
will sweep across this land like spice
gales from heaven.
Have you any doubt about the need
of the Christian religion TO purify and
make decent American politicsl At
every yearly or q~uadrennial election
We have in this country great manu-
factories, manufactures Of lies, and
they are run day and night, and they
turn out half adozen 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. Long limbed
lies and lies with double back action.
Lies complimentary and lies defa.
matory. Lies that some people be.
lieve, and lies that all the people
believe, and lies hat nobody be-
lieyes. Lies with humps like camels
and scales like crocodiles and necks as
long rs 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 at
tachment screws and ruflers and
braiders and ready wound bobbers.
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.
/ confess ! am ashamed TO have a
foreigner visit this country in such
times. Ishould think he would stand
dazed, his hand on his pocket book.
and dare not 60 out nights. What
will the hundreds of thousands OF for
eigners who come here TO live think
Of us2 What a disgust they must
have for the land Of their adoption!
The only good thing about it is, many
Of them cannot understand the English
language. But / suppose the German
and Italian and Swedish and French
papers translate II all and peddle out
the Internal stuff 10 their subscribers.
THE ONE REMEDY FOR A GREAT EVIL.
Nothing but Christianity will ever
stop such q food OF indecency. The
Christian religion will speak after a
while. The billingsgate and low
scandal through which we wade every
year or every four years, must be re-
buked by that religion which speaks
from its two great mountains, from
the one mountain intoning the com
mand, Thou shalt not bear false wit
ness against thy neighbor," and from
the other mount making plea for kind
ness and love and blessing rather than
cursing. Yes, we are going to have a
national religion.
There r two kinds of national re
ligion. The n is supported by the
state, and is a matter Of human poll
tics, and it has great patronage, and
under il men will struggle for promi.
nence without reference 30 qualiica-
tons, and its archbishop is supported
by a salary Of SIS, 900 a year, and there
are great cathedrals, with all tie ma
chinery of music and canonicals, and
room for "A thousand people, yet an
audience Of fifty people, or twenty
people, or ten, or two.
We want no such religion as that,
no such national religion; but we want
Ills kind Of national religion-the vast
majority Of the people converted and
evangelical, and then they will man
age the secular as we'll as the religious. |
do you say that this is impracticablel |
No. The time is coming just as Ger.
tainIy as there is a God and that this
IS his book and that he has the strength
and the honesty 10 fulfill his promises.
One Of the ancient emperors used 10
pride himself ON performing that
which his c~ounselors said was impos-
and 4 have In fell vou today tha, |