Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-22

politician.
30 there have been in our day and
In the days of our fathers men as emf
nent III the service of God as they have
oeen eminent in the service of the
state. Such was Benjamin F. Butler
attorney general of New York in the
time Of your fathers. Such was John
Mclean, of Ohio Such was George
Briggs, of Massachusetts. Such was
theodore Frelinghuysen, of New Jer-
sey. Men faithful to the state, at the
same time faithful to God.
OUR HOPE IS IN THE YOUNG MEN.
1t Is absurd to expect that men who
have been immersed in political wick
edness for thirty or forty years shall
come to reformation; and our hone ia
ID the young men who are coming up.
that they have patriotic principle and
Christian principle side by side when
they come to the ballot box and cast
Their first vote, and that they swear al
leglance to the government of heaven
as well as to the 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 forsake YOUR
child is when it is surrounded bv a
company of ChOctaws; and the last
time to surrender the ballot box is
when it is surrounded by impurity and
dishonesty and all sorts of wickedness
Daniel stood on a most unpopular
platform. He stood firmly, though the
demagOgues Of the day Kissed at him
and tried to overthrow him. We must
carry our religion into our politics. But
there are great many men who are in
favor of taking religion into national
politics who do not see the importance
of taking it into city politics, as though
a man were intelligent about the well
fare of his neighborhood and had no
concern about his own home.
Religion would drive out all base
personalities from politics. You have
a right to discuss mems politics and de
nOunce their political sentiments. or re
celVe them, as you will; but you have
no right to assaiI their private charac
ter, as is done every autumn That is
not carrying religion into politics. Now
you can always tell without asking, in
any contest, what candidate will vote
for. 1t is always for the man who is
most badgered and most abused. and
most spit upon, and most howled at.
You have right to contest a mans no
litical sentiments; you have no right
for base political purposes to assail his
private moral character.
LIONS SURROUND YOU.
My subject also impresses me with
the fact that lions cannot hurt a 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 they
had plunged at him he could not have
climbed into niche beyond the reach
of their paw or the snatch of their
TOOTH. Iney came pleased all ABOUT
him, as a hunters hounds at the well
known whistle come bounding to his
feet
You need not go to Numidia to get
among lions You all have had them
after you-the lion of financial distress,
the lion of sickness, the lion of perse-
cution. You saw that lion of financial
panic putting his mouth down to the
earth, and he rOaYed until all the banks
and all the insurance companies quaked.
With his nOstril he scattered the ashes
on the domestic hearth You have had
trial after trial, misfortune after misfort-
une, lion after lion; and yet they have
never hurt you if you put your trust
in God, and they never will hurt you.
They did not hurt Daniel and thew
cannot hurt you.
The Persians used to think that
spring rain falling into sea shells would
turn into pearls; and have to tell you
that the tears of sorrow turn into
precious gems when they drop into
Gods bottle. You need be afraid of
nothing putting your trust in God.
Even death, that monster lion whose
den is the worlds sepulcher, and who
puts his paw down amid thousands of
millions Of the dead, cannot alright
you.
When in olden times a man was to
get the honors of knighthood he was
compelled to go fully armed the night
before among the tombs of the dead
carrying a sort of spear, and then when
the day broke he would come forth,
and amid the sound of cornet and great
parade he would get the honors of
knighthood. And so it will be with
the Christian in the night before
heaven, as fully armed with spear and
helmet of salvation he will wait and
watch through the darkness until the
morning dawns, and then he will take
the honors of heaven amid that great
throng with snowy robes streaming
over seas of sapphire.