St. Paul daily globe., 1890-06-23
TRUE SERVICE OF GOD.
The Census and Tariff Matters
Touched Upon.

The Census and Tariff Matters
Touched Upon.
Rev. William Wilkinson, in his SER
mon yesterday ON the Service of God,"
said: "There is no subject which con-
Germs the children of men which calls
forth so many opinions as the service of
God. One.man judges it to be prayer
saying mainly, as though continual
begg ar were hard worker. or the best
of servants; second thinks Gods
service is to hold correct creed: and
third that Gods service is in acts of
austerity or bodily torture; and yet
another, that to serve God is to leave
while yet larger class think they
serve God by acting in the world
as some parasites doin nature, consume
all that is good they can and add not to
the general store. Each and all of these
views are not alone faulty; they are not
a decent parody of the true source of the
Lord of Hosts. The service of God is
not thing of Sunday church going
and so-called religious observance alone.
1t has to do with man in all his complex
relations. social, commercial, political.
Being by his Makers and Masters
appointment member of the fam
lily he tries to make it reflex
of the other family life which Is from
above, in its purity and love. lie Is In
world in which trade is, and must
ever be, the order of the day; he stands
for honor, probity and sterling integ-
rity. he keeps faith with those with
whom he has to deal; or, if by any
chance he cannot do so. he does not
seek to elude the obligation. but cheer
fully acknowledges it, and, though
years intervene, yet on the first oppor-
tunity discharges it; SO making trade
and commerce not means OF money
gathering only, but true and real
service of God. Finding it needful to live
in communities, and law being necessary
to orderly life, he strives with all his
might according to his view to obtain
the passage of good laws, which shall
give security to men in their persons,
property and in the lawful prosecution
of their callings. He strives constantly
to keep the vantage ground OF freedom
gained, and to enlarge in every possible
direction its extent. Alert he is to de-
tect the encroachments OH liberty and
justice, no matter from what quarter 1t
comes. If greed, in the shape of mOnOp-
DIV, is labeled protection to infant in
dustry, and then trusts are formed to
make the price high, and remuneration
low, like flint he sets his face against
it as au abomination, and he
saws the service of God demands
| this at my hands. If 1t is the taking of
census, and any attempt is made to give
to the world any other than an honest
| and true count, no matter under what
ever pretense it is done, he says, want
| nothing to do with either methods or
results, or profits Of any untrue, un-
| Just word or deed. And the man who
| lends himself to such nefarious work
ought to find himself in the penlten-
tiary; but when, on the other hand,
under pretended love of law, law is
set at naught and broken to serve jeal-
| Justice is set at naught and liberty
| is outraged in her own sacred
domain, knowing we'll from the past its
| lessons written in blood, tears and sla-
very, the servant of God cries, Hold,
tits enough. The man who seeks to at
tain just ends must do so by lawful
means, by means which the moral sense
of men can approve. There are In our
times few sights half 80 sad as are the
| methods now in use in this land of lib
erty In the detection of crime. The acts
| of the shyster, sneak, coward, diSsem-
bier are all called into play, and some
times crime has been suggested by those
who desired to find it, and pri-
vate detectives and public Off
.cials have lent themselves to
ways which outrage every prin-
ciple of justice, and OF right. We need
higher moral standard in the admin
istration of Justice, and in the detection
of crime. The Christian men and wom-
en- of America could make it so that re-
spectability will, as the Western cow
boy said it did in Boston, stalk through
the land unchecked. The service of
God implies that the ward heeler, the
wire puller, the political adventurer,
the man who is ready to give consid-
Grafton to those who will forward his
claims, shall meet With uncoampr4pmising !oa a ron SIM
ance of private life.