The national leader., 1889-05-18

"Thus far shalt thou come, but no fur
ther, and here shall thy proud waves
be stayed"
have not in my mind shadow OF
disheartenment as large as the shadow
OF househy's wing. My faith is in
the upper forces, the upper armies of
the text. God IS not dead i! The chari-
OTIS are not unwheeled. If you would
only pray more, and 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
discouraged, and they rushed up to the
General and said to him: Don't you
see we have few forces, and they have
80 many moreP" and the soldiers were
affrighted at the smallness of their
number and the greatness Of the enemy.
Antigonus. their commander. straight
ened himself up and said: "How many
do you reckon me to be?' And when
we see the vast armies arrayed against
THE CAUSE OF soBRIETY
it may sometimes be very discouraging,
but / ask you in making up your estl-
mate Of the forces Of righteousness-I
ask you how many do you reckon the
Lord Almighty to be2 He IS our
commander. The Lord of Hosts is His
name. 1 have the best authority for
saying that the chariots of God are
twenty thousand, and the mountains
are full of them.
You will take without my saying it
that my only faith is in Christianity
and in the upper forces suggested in
the text. Political parties come and
60, and they may be right, and they
may be wrong; but God lives, and l
think He has ordained this nation for
a career of prosperity that no dema-
gogism will be able to halt. 1 expect
to live to see a political party which
will have a platform of two planks-
the Ten Commandments and the Ser
mon on the Mount. When that party
is formed 1t will sweep across this land
like tornado, was going to say, but
when l think it is not to be devastsl-
tion but resuscitaticn, 1 change the fig
ure and say, such a 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 and
make
DECENT AMERICAN PoLITICsI
at every yearly or quadrennial elec-
tion we have in this country great
maufactories-man Of lies;
and they are run day and night, and
they turn out half a 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.
Longlimbed lies. and lies with
double back action. Lies compli-
mentary and lies defamatory. Lies
that some people believe, and lies
that all the people 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 antelope's, and stings
like adders. Lies raw and ScallOped
and panned and stewed. Crawling lies
and jumping lies and soaring lies. Lies
with attachment screws and rufflers
and braiders and ready-wOund bobbins.
Lies by Christian people who never lie
except during elections, and lies by
people who always lie. but beat them
selves in Presidential campaign.
1 confess ] am ashamed to have q
foreigner visit this country in such
times. I should think he would stand
dazed, his hand on his pocketbook,
and dare not 60 out nights. What
will the hundreds of thousands of for
elgners who come here to live think of
usp What disgust they must have
for the land of their adoption J.! The
only good thing about it is. many Of
of them cannot understand the Eng
lish language. But suppose the Ger
man and Italian and Swedish and
French papers translate 1t tall land peddle
out the Internal stuff, to their subscrlb-
ers.
Nothing but Christianity will ever
stop such flood of indecency. The
Christian religion will speak after
while. The billingsgate and low scam
dal through which we wade every year
or every four years. must be rebuked
by that religion which speaks from Its
two great mountains. from the one
mountain intoning the command.
s.Thou shalt not bear false witness
against thy neighbour and from the
other mount making plea for kindness
and blessing rather than cursing, Yes.
we are going to have
NATIONAL RELIGION,
There are two kinds Of national re-.
ligion. The one is supported by the
State, and is q matter of human poll
tics, and it has great patronage, and
under 1t men will struggle for promi