Democratic messenger., 1889-05-04

righteousness II ask you how many do you
reckon the Lord God Almighty to he? lie
is our commander. The Lord Of Hosts Il
His name. have the hest authority for
saying that the chariots Of God are 10000,
and the mountains are full of them.
RELIGION To PURIFY POLITICS.
You will take without my saying |, that
my only faith Is In Christianity and In the
upper forces suggested In the text Politi-
cal parties come and go, and they may be
right and they may he wrong; but God
lives, and ! think lie has ordained this
nation for n career Of prosperity that
no demagogism will he able to halt. lex
pect TO liye TO see political party which
will have platform of two planks the
Ten Commandments and the Sermon on
the Mount. When that party Is formed
u will sweep across this land like lorna.
do. was going to say, hut when | think
II is not TO bc devastation bu, rcsuscitalion
change the figure and say such u party
rs 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 politics! At every
yearly or qadrcnnial election we have in
this country great manufactures, and
manufactures Of lies, and they are run
day and night, and they turn out half a
dozen a day all equipped and ready for full
sailing. Large lies aud small lies. Lies
private and lies public and lies pruricnt.
Lies cut bias aud lies cut diagonal. Long.
limbed lies and lies with doublcback action.
Lies complimentary aud lies dafamatory.
Lies that some people believe, and lies
that all the people believe. and lies that
nobody believes. Lies with humps like
camcls and scales like crocodilcs and nccks
as long as storks and feet MS swift us an
antclope's and siings like nldcrs. Lies
raw and scalloppcd and panncd and
sicwcd. Crawling lies and jumping lies
and soaring lies. Lies with attachment
screws aud ruillers aud hrailcrs and ready.
wound hobbers. Lies 10y Christian people
who never lie except during elections, and
lies h. people who always lie hut beat
themselves in n Presidential campaign.
confess am ashamed 10 have for.
cigncr visit this country in such times.
should think he would stand ,lazctl, his
hand on his hocket. book, and dare not go
ou, nights. What will the hundreds of
thousands Of foreigners who come here la
live think of usy What II DISCUS, they
must have for The land of their adoption
The only good thing about il is, many of
them cannot understand the English Ian.
guagc. But ! suppose the German and
Italian and Swedish and French papers
translate /, all aud pcddlc out the Internal
stuff Ia their subscribers.
Notying hut Christianity will ever sind
such flood of indcccncy. The Christian
religion will speak after while The bil
lin.>galc and low scandal through which
we wade every year or every four years
must bc rchukc,l by that religion which
speaks from lis two great mountains from
the one mountain intoning the command
Thou shalt not bear false witness against
thy ncighbor,' and from the other mount
making plea for kindness and love and
blessing rather than cursing. Yes, we are
going 10 have II national religion
TWO KINDS Or NATIONAL RELIGION.
There are two kinds of national rcli.
gion. The one is supported by the state.
and is matter Of human politics, and il
has great patronage, and under il men
will struggle for prominence without ref
ercncc Ia qualifications. and its archbishop
is supported by a salary of $,5,OO0 II year,
and there ARE great cathe'irals. with all the
machinery of music and canonicals. and
room for II thousand people, yet an audi.
cncc "f iiily ncoplr, or twenty people, or
ten. or two.
We want nn such religion as that, nu
such national religion; hut We want this
kind of national religion vast major.
iiy of the people converted and cvangc.
liZcd, AMI then they will manage The sccu.
lar aS well as the religious.
Do you say that this is impracticablc :
M; the time is coming just Ms certainly
as there is u God aud that this is Ills book
and that lie has the strength AMI the hon.
csty 10 fulfil Ills promises. Onc Of the
ancicn, cmperors used TO pride himself on
performing that which his counsclors said
was impossiblc and have 10 tell you to.
day that mans impossibliiies are Gods
cnsics. Hath lie said and shall lie not
tlo IL: Hath lie commanded and will lie
NOT hiring il 10 pass =" The Christian re-.
ligion Is coming To take possession Of every
ballot box. Of every school.housc Of every
home. of every valley, of every mountain.
of every acre of our national domain.
This nation. notwithstanding all the evil
influences that are trying to destroy il, is
going To live.
Never since, according to John Milton,
when "Saian was hurled hcadlong flaming
from the ethereal skies In hidcous ruin and
combustion down." have the powers oi
darkness been 81 determined to win this
continent as they are now. What jewel
II is-a jewel carved in relief, the cameo
of this planet TN one side Of MS the At
lan,ic ocean, dividing us from the worn
out governments of Europe. On the 9th
er side the Pacific ocean. dividing us from
Tie supcrstili0ns of Asia.
On the north of Us the Artic sea, which il
the gymnasium in which the explorers and
navigaiors develop their courage. 4 con.
Iinenl iO,5OO miles long, l7,OOO, ,OOO square
miles. aud all Of Il hut about one. seventh
capable uf rich cultivation. One hundred
million of population an this continent of
North and South Amcrica-lOO 600 900
and room for many hundred millions more.
All dpref and NIL f,uua NIL metals and all