The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-05-15

change the figure and say, such party al
that will sweep across this land like spics !
gales from Heaven.
Have you any doubt of the need Of the
Christian religion to purify and make de-
cent American politics! At every yearly |
or quadrienniat election we have in this !
country, great manufactures, manufac- |
tories of lies, and they are run day and |
night, and they turn out 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-limbed lies,
lies with double back action. Lies compile
mentary and lies famatory. Lies that
some people believe and lies that all peo.
pie believe. and lies that nobody believes
Lies with humps like camels and scales
like crocodiles, and necks as long as
storks and feet as swift as an ante ope's
and stings like adders Lies raw and
scalloped and panned and stewed. Crawl.
ing lies and jumping lies and soaring lies.
Lies with attachment screws and rufls
and braiders and ready-woun bobbors.
Lies by Christian people who never lie ex-
cept during elections and lies by people
who always lie, but beat themselves in a
Presidential campaign.
Iconfess am ashamed to have a for
eignor visit thIs country in such times.
should think he would stand dazsd, his
hand on his pocket book. and dare not go
out nights What will the hundreds of
thousands of foreigners who come here to
live think OF US? What a disgust they
must have for the land Of their adopt on
The only good thing about it is, many Of
them can not understand the English Ian
guage But I suppose the German and
Italian and Swedish and French papers
translate 1t all and peddle out the Internal
stuff to their subscribers.
Nothing but Christianity will ever stop
such food OF indecency. The Christian
religion will speak after while. The Bill
lingsgate and low scandal through which
we wade every year or every four years,
must be rebuked by that rel gon which
speaks from its two great mountains from
the one mountain intoning the command,
"Thou shalt not bear false witness against
thy neighbour" and from the other mount
making plea for kindness and love and
blessing rather than cursing. Yes, we are
going to have national religion.
There are two kinds of national religion.
The one Is supported by the State, and is a
matter of human politics, and it has great
patronage, and under 1t men will struggle
for prominence without reference to quail.
ifications and its archbishop is supported
by salary Of va, 900 q y ear, and there are
great cathedrals. with all the machinery
of music and canonicals, and room for .
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 this
kind of national religion-the vast ma
jority Of the people converted and evange-
lized, and then they will manage the secu-
lar as well as the religious.
Do you say this is impracticab,e? No.
The time is coming just as certainly as
there Is God and that this is His book
and that He has the strength and the hon
esty to fulfill His promiss One of the
ancient emperors used to pride himself on
performing that which his counselors said
i was impossible, and have to tell you to-
day that mans impossibles are Gods
easies. "Hath He said and shall He not
do it? Hath He commanded. and will He
not bring it to pass!" The Christian re.
ligion is coming to take posses
sion Of every ballot-box of every
school. house, of every home Of every
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of our national domain. This nation, not.
withstanding all the evil influences tina,
are trying to destroy it, is going to live.
Never since, according to John Milton,
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 thi.
continent as they are now. What jewe
it is-a jewel carved in relief, the cameo o.
this planet! On one side ofus the Atlantic
ocean, dividing us from the worn out gov
ernments Of Europe On the other sid'
the Pacific ocean, dividing US from tn,
supertitions Of Asia. On the north of u.
the Arctic sea, which is the gymnasium ii
which the explorers and navigators de-
velop their courage. A continent 1850
miles long, 1900. 900 square miles, and al
Of it but ebout one. seventh capable Of ricl
cultivation. One hundred millions o
population on this continent Of North ant
South America-one hundred millions
and room for many millions more A.
fora and all fauna, all metals and al
precious woods, and all grains and fruits
The Appalachian range the backbone, ant
the rivers the ganglia carrying life al
through and out to the extremities
Isthmus of Darien, the narrow wais
Of giant continent, all to be under on
government, and all free. and all Chris
tian, and the scene of Christ's persona
eign on earth If, according to the expec
tation of many good people, he shall a
last set up his throne in this world. VIII
shall have this hemisphere, Christ or Sa
tan? Who shall have the shores Of her in
land seas, the silver Of her Nevadas, tn
gold OF her Co!orados, the telescopes o
her observatories, the brain OF her uni
, versites, the wheat OF her prairies, tn
rice of her savannas, the two great oceal
beaches-the one reaching from Baffin'
bay to Terra del Fuego, and the othe
from Behring straits to Cape Horn-an
oil the moral and temporal and spiritua
and everlasting interests Of population
vast hey ond all human computation? VIII
shall have the hemisphere? You and
will decide that or help to decide it b.
conscientious vote. by earnest prayer, b.
maintenance Of Christian institu tions, b.
/; support Of great philanthropies by put
ting body. mind and soul on the RICH
side Of all moral, religious ami nationa
movements.