Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-05-08

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Lord God Almighty to b.? He is our com
rnsnder The Lord of Hosts is his name
I have the best authority for saying thai
the chario,s of God are twenty Thousand
and the mounTains are full of them.
You will take wi,hont my saving If tha'
my only faib b ts ira Christianity and in ise
upper forefs suggested in the text. Pelit
zeal pai les come and go, aud they may ne
right and they my be wrong; bs Gnd livs.o
aud think he hls ordained tnls uarion tos
a career of prosperity that no demsgogt M
will bs sble TO halt / expect to live to see
a politicd party which will have a platform
of twn planks--the Tee Commandments
aud the sermon un the Mount. When ihet
party ,s formed il will sweep aotoss this
land like tornado, was going TO say.
but when l think il is not to be devastation
bat resnscitatiou, change the fgnre and
say, such 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 aud make
dscent American politic-9 At every yearly
~ QuadTeuuial election we have in this
country great manufactures. manufactures
of lies, and they are run day and night, and
they turn out half dozen q day all eQuipp
ed and ready for fnil sailing. Large lies
and small lies. Lies private and lies public
and lies purieut Lies Gu. bias and lies cut
diagonal Louglimbed lies, and lies with
dnube-back action. Lies complimentary
and lies defamatnry. Lies that some people
believe. and lies that all the people believe,
and lies that nobody believes. Lies with
humas ike cameis and scales like croco-
diles and uecks ss long "a stnrk's and feet as
swift as an antelOpe's and stiDgs like ad-
ders Lies raw and scalloped and panned
aud slowed. Crawling lies and Jumping
lies and soaring lies. Lies with attachment
scre ws and ipfa.rs 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
themselves in presidential campaign,
confess am ashamed to have foreign
er visit this country in such times. l should
think be would stand daEed, his hand on
his pocket DO X ana dare not go out nights.
What will the huud, eds of thousands OF
foreigners WIN come here to live think o.
us! What d,sgust they must have for the
land of their adoption! The only good
thing about 1t is, many of them cannot uU
derstaud the Eoglish language. But
suppose the German aod lillian and Swed
ish and French papers translate it all and
scribers
Nu'hiog but Christianity will ever stop
such q I'd If indecency. The Christian
rel gi N will speak after while The bill
lingsgate and low scandal through which
we wade every year or every four years
must be rebnked by that religion which
speaks from its two great mountains, from
the one mountain iutoniDg the command:
"Thou shalt not bear false witness against
thy neighbor," and from the other mount
making plea for kiodDess aud love and
blessing rather than cnrsing. Yes, we are
going to have national religion.
There are two kinds of national religion.
The one ia supported by the State and is a
mater of hum IN politics, and it has great
patronage. and under 1T men will struggle
for promiueuce without reference tn quail
fications, and its archbishop is supp'rted
by a salary OF SIS 600 year, and there are
great cathedrais, with all the machinery nf
music and eaxonicals. and room tor thon-
sand people, yet audisnce "fffty people.
or twenty people, or ten, Or two.
We want no such religion as that, rr
such national religion; but we want this
Kind of nationsl rellgion.-fhe vast Dsj"r'
ity of the paop,a inverted and eFaugaiised
and then they will ~ page the seGnia9 q
weif as he rei%'oo4
ID, vni, say that this iy ,mprsctieab'-? :?
NJ. Toe tie cls,Io4 Jus' a. cefi''0ll y
"a -aern i. r 2 . aaG rsitt 5iijs te h's bn-a
and bat :a has J;ia sffeugh and shs nvne5
~ - inf t. : p IN se-. . g IT h. are''
ent empernys used 10 ptide hsmself on PEI
forming thai w"ich his c,unseIlors said Wa
impossible, and have to tell you lo-d I,
tt, at mans impossib'es are Gods eas'es
"Hath he said and shall he nor d. II? Hltt
he c,,nmaaded, and will he not br'ng it t.
ps. s?'' The Christiau religion is coming
80 take possession of every ballot box, u
ever, sc DOL house. of every home, of every
v,iley, Of ev.ry mountain. of every acre o
nnr National domain. This patton, not
w,lhstanding all the evil i, flneuces that arr
irving To d..strov it, is gong 70 live.
N .vet sisce, according to John Milton
when ''S tau vas hurled headlong flaming
from the ethereal skies in hideOus ruiu AMI
combustion d,wn," have the powers o
dark ness been so determined to win thi,
Continent as they are now. What jewe
1t is-a Jewel cecved in relief, the cameo o
this planet! On one side of US the Atlantic
ocean, dividing us from tho worn out gov
eruments nf Europa. On the other sid.
the Pacific ocean, dividing us from the su
perstit,ons of Asia. On The north of us thu
Arctic sea, which is the gymnasium il
wh,ch the explorers and navlgators develoI
their cnursge continent TO- mllei
long. II 600, 900 square miles, and all of 1t bu
about one seventh capable of rich culliva
ton. O,s hundred millions of population
on this continent of North and Soul
America-nue hundred millions, and rnOu
for many hundred millions more. All hbrf
and all fauna, all metals and all precious
| woods and all grains and all fruits. Thf
Appalach isu range the backbone, and th'
rivers the ganglia carrying life all though
end out tn the extremities. Isfhmus O
Dsrien, the narrow waist of giant conti
nent, all tn he under one government, and al
free aad all Christian, ard the scene %
Cprst's pers 'uaI reign ~ earth If, accord
ing to he exuects,inn If many good re-,
pie. hs shall at last set mp his throne in Thi'
world. W,u shall have this hemisphere
Christ or Satan? Who shall have the shore
of her inland Sc, IS, the silver of her Nevs
das. the gnld If her Colsrsdos, the tales
copes Of her obseryatories, the brain of hel
universities, the Sheat IF her prairies. the
rice Of her savannas, The two great oceau
heaehes-ihe oue reaching from Baffi Is
bay ro Terra del Fuego, and The other from
Behrjng srra IS tD Cape Horn-and all tbs
moral aod temporal aud spiri ual and ever
lasting efests of q nopulat IN vastb y1nd
all human rom puratio,? Who shall have
the bemisphert? Yn0 and l will decide
that, nr heip Ia decide IT, by conscientious
uote by carDest prayer by maintenance ni
Ch i-tian iastirn ions, by support Of great
phiianthropies. by putting bndy. mind and
soul on the right side of all moral, religious
and national movements
Ahl 't will mt be- hong before it will no,
make any tfeaenee to you or tn me wha'
becomes of rhis oD,'iInent so far az earthly
comfort is concerned. All we will want oi
ie wilt be seven feet by three. and that vii
take iu the laIgeRt. and there will be room
and to spare That " al of his clnDsry
We viii need very soon-she youngest oi
us. Bug wa have an anxiety about ,he
welfare aud the happiness of the genera
tioB- THAT ate lfuing on, ard il will be a
grand thing if. when The aschaugePs trump
ct SQUADS, ~ find that nur pu'chre, lise
,he rue J seph at A. N thea provided e.,
Cnnst. Is Il she midst IT q. aisn.
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