The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-07-12

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It'd swear their vote in If they vote at all.
s. through the sacred chest of our nations
srfr8ge redemption viii come.
CID also ..iii save this nation through an
arculed moral sentiment. There has never
I Been % much discussion Of morals and i'm
morals lien, whether or not they aclnowl-
edge what is right have to think what is
right We have men who have had their
hands In public treasury the most Of their
lifetime stealing all they could lay their
hands on, discoursing eloquently about dis
honesty ii public service, and men with two
or three families Of their OVID, preaching clio
clien.ly about the beauties of the seventh
commandment. The question Of sobriety
sand drunkenness IS thrust in the face of this
iiation as never before, and to take a part in
sur political contests. The question of IA
iioral ssbTiety is going to be respectfully and
sleferentially heard at the bar of every legis-
latnre and every house of representatives
and every United States Senate, and an ON
ilipotent voice will ring down the sky and
tcross this land and back again, saying to
these rising tides OF drunkenness which
threaten to whelm home and church and ma
lion: .Thus far shalt thou come, but no fur
ther, and here shall thy proud waves be
stayed
i have not in my mind a shadow Of dis
iieartenment as large as the shadow of a
House iys wing. Ny faith is in the upper
rot dead. The chariots are not uDwheeled-
II you would only pray mole and wash your
dyes In the cool, bright water, fresh from
the well Of Christian reform, it would be ssid
- ---- a - text: The Lord
opened the eyes OF the young man; and he
saw. and, behold, the mountain was full of
Horses and chariots Of fire round about
Elisha
When the army Of Ambiguous went into
Hattie his soldiers were very much discour--
sged, and they rushed up to the General and
said to him: Don't you see we have few
forces and they have somany moreS' and the
soldiers were affrighted at the smallness Of
their number and the greatness Of the enemy.
Antiguuus, their commander, Strengthened
himself up and said. with Indignation and
venemence; .'EOw many do you reckon me
% be;' And when We see the vast armies
arrayed against the cause % sobriety it may
sometimes be very discouraging, but I ask
you IN making up your estimate OF the forces
Of rightsousness-I ask you how many doyou
reckon the Lord God Almighty TO bes BE is
our commander. The Lord Of Hosts is His
name. have the best authority for saying
that the chariots Of God are twenty thou
sand and the mountains are full Of them.
YOU win take without my saying ii that
my only faith is in Christianity and in the
upper forces suggested in the text. Political
parties come end 20, ana shey may be right
and they may be wrong; but God lives, and
1 think He has ordained this nation for a
career Of prosperity that no demagogism
win be able to halt e.-pect to live 10 see
POLITICAL party which viii have a platform
two planlzs-the Ten Commandments and the
Sermon on the Mount. When that party is
formed it viii sweep across this land, like
tornado ] was going 70 say but when l think
it IS not 10 be devastation, but resuscitation,
change the figure and say, such party as
that will sweep across this land like spice
gales from heaven.
Have yoa any doubt about the need of the
Christian religion TO purify and make decent
American politics At every yearly or quad |
reunial election we have in this country great |
manufactures, manufactures Of lies, and |
they are run day and night, and they turn |
OFT half dozen 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 |
luibed lies and lies with double-back action. |
Lies complimentary and lies defamatory. |
Lies that some people believe, and lies that |
all the people believe, and lies that nobody /
believes Lies with humps like carnels and |
scales ike crocodiles and uecks as long as /
su0rlrs and feet as swift as an antelope's and /
sJings like adders. Lies raw and scalloped |
and pauned and Stewed. Crawling hes and /
jumping lies and soaring lies. Lies with at
tachrnent screws and rufiiers and braiders |
and ready wound bobbers. Lies by Chris /
tan people who never he except during cleo
tons, and lies by people who always lie, but
best themselves in q Presidential campaign
] confess I am ashamed 70 have a FOREIGNER
visit this country in such times. l should
think he would stand dazed. his hand on his
pCcEatOook, and dare not 60 out nights |
What viii the hundreds Of thousands of for /
eigners who come here TO live think of u.s.
What disgust they must have for the land
Of their adoptionl The only good thing
e e
the English language. But ! suppose tbs
German, and Italian, and Swedish, and
French papers translate it all and peddle out
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Nothing but Christianity VIII ever stop
such a food Of indeceney The Christian re-
ligion VII speak after while The billings
gate and low scandal through which we lvads
every year or every four years must be re-
bulzsd by the religion which speaks from its
two great mountains, from the one mount
ain iatoning the command: Thou shalt not
bear false witnesses against thy neighbor,n
and from the other mount making plea for
kindness and love and blessing rather than
cuTsing. Yes, we are going to have ma
tonal religion.
There are two knds- II rational religion.
The one is supported by the It IS and is a
matter Of human politics, anf great
patronage and under it men Yesent OF fr
prominence without referenc
tons, and its archbishop is England anC
salary Of Sc. 600 year, al
with al the Eif SIP
and canonicais. and room &c
pie, yet an audience Of fifty mo
pe fg , or ten or Ti t5o ,;r;o1isOn anC
national religion; but We w,d disease anC
national religion; the vast /
people converted and evaut centuries y
. .siigi5 %sll manage the se'ula kind with
Dc you say that this is im1,l deetruc-b I
the time is coming just as &C - - ~ re
! cIod and nat tiis is as Z the greaH o
PROMISES. One Of the anciez. lh1S lsed
o pride himself on perform. Iich
Us counssiors said vas iraposll I'd have ,
% tel you to-day that man 20 3les are
sod easies. '4Hath He said oH91 He not
10 it, Hath He commanded the q BE not $
ring it 70 passi' The Che .ligion IS
ioming to take possession 90 r til-auot box
Z every school house, of eve thas Of every ;
alley, OF every mountain acre Of !
ur national domain II ever notwith- :
tancing all the evil inhTs, re trying ,
Q destroy it Is going toly erae :
rhen satan tan was als' hu1sy by aSng flaming tanning
0o5 the ethereal there Speeogs ruin RI 9s and
$ i5en 50 dessriinlns Swift sais continent :
they are now. Wha it is-a jewel !
rived in relief, the cassso IL this planeti :
n one side Of rs the Atlantic ocean, dividing ;,
from the worn cut governments Of Europe. :.
q the other side the Pacific ocean, dividing /;
from the superstitions Of Asia. On the =
birth Of us the Arctic seq. which Is the gym I
asiun In which the explorers and navigators =
svalsu their courage. i continent ten thou !
M I'VE uurnreu mues long, seventeen 7
iili9n square miles and ali Of It but /;
bout one-ssyeuth capable OF rich cult !
atiols- Que hundred millions of popula-
&C yn this continent Of North and South q
nerlca-one hundred millions and room Z
r any hundred millions more. An fora !
nd 81 fauna, al metals and all precious 4
oods, and all grains and all fruits The | a
pflalachian range the backbone, and the riv- a
> ths ganglia carrying life all through and q
u r the extreniities. Isthmus Of Darien Il
e narrow waist Of a giant continent all to h
. uncer one government, and all free and !,
Christian, and the scene Of Christ's per- r.
nal reign On earth if, according TO the ex- :,
'eiafon Of many good people be shall at l.
81 st up his throne IN this world Who 3;
an leave this hemisphere, Christ or Satanf =
no shall have the shore Of her inland seas =,
y silver Of her Nevedas, the gold Of her Colo q.
COS the telescopes of her olservatof-ies the -