Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-05-09

u the Nnurcn OF TOD ana from the continent
blossoming with asylums and reformator-v in
5titutions and from an Edenization which
promises that this whole land is to be G Para
Use where God shall walk in the cool OF the
lay
If in other sermons showed you what was
he evil that threatened TO upset and denol-
sh American institutions, / am encouraged
more than / can tell you as | see the regi-
ments wheeling down the sky and NV 1ere
MAIDS turn into doxologies and that which
was the Good Friday of the nations cruelty
ION becomes the Easter morn of its resurrec-
ion. OF course God works through human
nstrumentalities. and this national better
neut Is to come among other things through
| scrutinized ballot box. By the law of reg
stration it is almost impossible now to have
Illegal voting. There was time-you
md remember it very well-when droves
81 vagabonds wandered up and down ON
election day and from poll TO poll, and
5oted here and voted there. and voted
everywhere, and there was no challenge: or.
f there were it amounted to nothing. be
.ause nothing could so suddenly be proved
mon the vagabonds. Now in every well
organized neighoorhood, every voter IS
watched with severest scrutiny / must
tell the registrar my name, and how
BID / am, and how long / have re-
sided in the State, and how long have re-
sided in the ward or township, and if | mis-
represent, fifty witnesses viii rise and shut me
Dut from the ballot box. Is not that a oreat
idvanceg Aud then notice the law that pro-
libits a man voting il he has bet on the cleo
ion. A step further needs to be taken and
hat man forbidden a vote who hes offered or
aken a BRIDE whether it be in the shape of
rec drink or cash paid down, the suspicious
,ases obliged to put their hand on the Bible
and swear their vote in if they vote at all.
So through the sacred chest of our nations
suffrage redemption win come.
God also win save this nation through an
aroused moral sentiment There has never
oeen so much discussion of morals and I'M
morals. Men, whether or not they acknowl-
EDGE what is right have to think what is
light. We have men who have he'd their
lands in public treasury the most of their
lifetime stealing all they could lay their
lands on, discoursing eloquently about dis
honesty in public service and men with two
)r three families Of their own, preaching ele-
ruentlY about the beauties OF the seventh
commandment. The question or sobrlety
and drunkenness is thrust in the face Of this
lation as never before, and to take part in
our political contests. The question of ma
ional sobriety is going 20 be respectfully and
ieferentially heard at the bar OF every legis-
allure and every house Of representatives
and every United States Senate and an ON
lipotent voice viii ring down the sky and
across this land and back again, saying %
these rising tides OF drunkenness which
threaten TO whelm horne and church and ma
ton: '"fhus far shalt thou come, but no fur
ther, and here shall thy proud waves be
stayed
have not in my mind shadow Of dis
heartenment as large as the shadow Of a
aouse fiys wing. Ny faith IS in the upper
'orces, the upper armies Of the text God is
aot dead The chariots are not unwheeled.
II you would only pray more ana wash your
eyes in the cool, bright water, fresh from
The well of Christian reform, it 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 charlots of fire round about
Elisha
When the army of Antigonus went into
battle his soldiers were very much discouT-
aged. and they rushed up to the General and
said to him: Don't you see we have few
forces and they have so many moreY and tho
soldiers were affrighted at the smallness OF
their number and the greatness OF the enemy.
Antigonus their commander, Strengthened
himself up and said, with Indignation and
vehcmence: How many do you reckon me
TO beg' And when we see the vast armies
arrayed against the cause of sobriety it may
be very discouraging, but / ask
you in making up your estimate OF the forces
IF righteousness ask You how many do You
reckon the Lord God Almighty to bey He is
our commander The Lord of Hosts is His
that the chariots of God are twenty thou
sand, and the mountains are full of them.
You viii take without my saying 1t that
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
| think He has ordained this nation for "A
career of prosperity that no demagogism
will be able to halt. | expect TO live TO see a 4
colitical party which will have platform OF
two pIanks-the Ten Commandments and the (
Sermon on the Mount. When that party Is
formed it win sweep across this land, like a
tornado was going TO say, but when l tnlnk /
L is not to be devastation, but resuscitation,
change the figure and say, such party as 4
hat viii sweep across this land ike spice
gales from heaven.
Have you any doubt about the need of the 4
Christian religion to purify and make decent 4
American politics At every yearly or quad
-ennial election we have in this country great 4
manufactures of lies and
hey are run day and night, and they turn
,ut half dozen a day all equipped and ready
or full sailing. Large lies and small nes.
Lies private and lies public and hes pruTient.
Lies cut bias and lies cut diagonal. Long
imbed lies and lies with dOuble-bacE action.
lies complimentary and lies deiameuory.
lies that some people believe, and lies that
III the people believe, and lies that nobody
,alieyes Lies with humps like cahleis ana
Gales like crocodiles and necks as long as
forks and feet as swift as an antelopes ana
things like ladders. Lies raw and scailoped
nd banned and stewed. Crawling hes and
jumping lies and soaring lies. Lies "iS.i az
achrnent screws and rufiiers and braideTs
md ready wound bobbers. Lies by Chrls~
ian people who never lie except during cleo
ions. and lies by people who always lie, bug
,eat themselves in a Presidential campaign
confess am ashamed 10 have foreigner
-isit this country in such times. | should
binlS he would stand dazed, his hand on his
,ocketbook. and dare not go out nights!
WHAT will the hundreds of thousands OF Tor.
igners who come here to live think OF u.s.
Vbs+. n disg,Ist they must have for the land
& their adoption? The only good thing
bout it is. many of them cannot unoeFstana
he English language. But ] suppose tne
.errnan, and Italian, and Swecish, ana
french papers translate it all and peadie out
he internal stuff to their subscribers.
Nothing but Christianity viii ever stop
,,ch 3 flood Of irdecency. The Cnrlstlan re-
zion viii speak after a while. Inc nhilllss-
ate ana low scandal through which we wade
ro,,,. wears must be re-