Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-09-06
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win make better pipe, lawyer will make
O better plea, a merchant will sell better
bill of goods
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when religion gives q man now heart it
docs not propose to give him new head, or
to intellectualize him, or to change mans
condition when his ordinary state is nm over
throw of tho philosophical theory thata total
vacuum is impossible; but the moro letters
you have to write, the more burdens you
have to carry, the more miles you have to
travel, the moro burdens you have to HIT
tho more engagements you have to meet, tho
more disputes you have to settle, the moro
opportunity you have Of boing Christian
II you have thousand irons in the fire
you have thousand moro opportunities oil
serving God tllnn ii ynu had only one iroY
in the fire. Who so busy as Christ? And
yet who n nilionth part MS holy? Tht
busiest mon tho best men. All tho persona
converted in Scripture busy Mt the time OF
their being converted. Matthew attending
to his custom house duties; the Prodigal Son
fee ling swine; Lydia selling purple; Simon
Peter hauling in the net from tho sea; Saul
squirting his horse toward Damascus, going
down OH his law business Dlsyl busyl
Daniel with all the affairs OF state weighing
down upon his soul, aud yot threo n day
wOrshping the Cod OF Heaven.
Again, learn from this sub; act that man
mny take religion into his politi IS. Daniel
had all the affairs OF stato on hand, yet u
Christian. Ho could not have kept his ele-
waited position unless lie hn,l been thorough
politician; and yet all tho thrusts of officials
md all The danger of disgrace dill not make
him yield one iota OF his high toned religious
principle. He stool before that age. he
Gands before all ages. specimen of a Chris
tian politician.
So there have bean in our day and in the
days Of our fathers men as eminent In the
service of God rs they have been eminent in
The service of the State. Such was Benja-
min F. Butler, Attorney General of New
York, in the time of your fathers. Such
was John Mclean, of Ohio. Such was Geo.
Briggs, of Massachusetts,. Such was Theo-
lore Frelinghuysen, of New Jersey. Men
faithful to the State, at the same time faith
ful to God.
1t is absurd to expect that men who have
been immersed i'll political wickedness for
thirty or forty years shall come to reforma-
ton; and our hope is in the young men who
are coming up, that they hive patriotic
principle and Christian principle side by side
when they come to the ballot box and cast
their first vote. and that they swear allegi-
ance to the government of heaven as we'll as
20 tho Government OF the United States. We
would have Bunker Hill mean less to them
than Calvary, and Lexington mean less to
them than Bethlehem.
But because there are bad men around the
ballot box is no reason why Christian Men
should retreat from the arena. The last
time you ought to give up your child or for"
sake your child is when it is surrounded by
company OF Choctaws; and the last time to
surrender the ballot box is when it is sur
rounde by mpurity and dishonesty and all
sorts OF wic!ie,ncss
Daniel stood on most unpopular plat
form. He stool firmly, though the dema-
gogues of the day hissed ut him and tried to
overthrow him. Wemus carry our religion
many men who are in favor of taking religion
into national politics whodo not SEQ the i'm
portance OF taking it into city politics; as
though n man were intelligent about the
welfare of his neighborhood and had no con-
c,rn about his own home.
Religion would drive out all base person.
nlitics from politics. You have right to
discuss mems politics and denounce their
political sentiments or receive them Us you
will; but you have no right to assail their
private character, MS is done every autumn.
That is not carrying religion into politics.
Now you can always tell without asking, in
my contest, what candidate | will vote for.
1t is always for the man who is most bad
gcrcd, and most abusel and most ut upon,
and most howled Mt. You hnve a right To
contest mans political sentiments, you
have no right, for base political purposes, to
assaiI his private moral character.
My subject also impresses me with tho
fact that lions cannot hurt good man. No
man ever got into worse company than
Daniel got into when he was thrown into
the den What rare morSel that fair
young man would have been for the hungry
monsters! If thoy had plunged at him he
could not have climbed into Il niche beyond
the reach of their paw or the snatch oil their
tooth. They came pleased all around about
him rs hunters hounds at the well known
whistle come bounding to his feet.
You nee not go tn Nunlidia to get among
the lions. You all have hal them after you
the lion of financial distress, the lion OF
sickness, the lion of persecution. You saw
that lion of financial panic putting his mouth
down to the EARTH and he roareI until all
the banks and all the insurance companies
quakod. With his nostril he scattered the
ashes on the domestic hearth. You have
had trial after trial, misfortune after mis-
fortune, lion after lion; and yet they have
mover hurt you il you put your trust in God,
and they never will hurt you. They did
not hurt Daniel, and they cannot hurt you.
The Persians used TO think that spring ram
falling into sea shells would turn into pearls;
and | have to tell you that the tears of sor
turn into precious gems when they f4. dTOp
nothing putting your trust in God. Even
doath, that monster lion whose den is the
worlds sepulchrc, and who puts his paw
down amid thousands of millions OF the dead,
cannot affrirht yOu
When in olden times man was to get the
honors of hnighthood he was compelled
to 90 fully armed tho night before among
the tombs of the dead, carrying a sort Of
spear, and then when the day broke M
would come forth, and amid the sound !, o
cornet and great parade he would get tht
honors of knighthood. Aud SO it will b
with the Christian in the night befori
heaven, as fully armed with spear and mel
met of salvation he will wait and watcf
through the darkness until the mornini
dawnS and then he will take the honors o
heaven amid that great throng with snow.
robes streaming over seas of sapphire.