Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-09-01
RELIGION IN LIFE.
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These men on the sea of life everlast-
ingly lacking ship and making no head
way. OR they are like man who
starts TO build a house in the Corinthian
style and changes ii to Doric, and then
completes it in the Ionic, and is cursed
by all styles of architecture.
Young man, start right and keep on.
Have decision OF character. Character
is like the goldinch OF TonQuin; il is
magnificent while standing firm, but
loses all its beauty in flight. How much
decision of character in order that these
young men may be Christians. Their
old associates make sarcastic filings at
them. They 90 on excursions and they
do not invite them. They prophesy
that he will give out. They wonder if
nc is not getting wings As he passes,
they grimacc, and wink, and chuckle,
and say: There goes a saint
O, young man. have decision Of char
acter. You can afford in this matter of
religion To be laughed at. What do you
care for the SCOTS of these men, who
are afTronted because You will not 90 to
ruin with them? When the grave
cracks open under their feet, and grim
messengers push them into it, and con
science .StingS, and hopeless ruin lifts
them up to hurl them down, will they
laugh then?
RELIGION IN POLITICS.
Again; l learn from this subject that
q man may take religion into his poll
ties Daniel had all the affairs OF state
on hand. Vet a Christian. lie could not
have kept his elevated position unless
he had been a thorough politicians; and
yet all the thruStS OF officials and all
the danger of disgrace did not make him
yield one iota of his high-toned re-
ligiouS principle. He stood before that
age, nc stands before all ages, Speci-
men Of Christian politician.
So there have been in our day and in
the days Of our fathers men as eminent
I'm the service Of God as they
have been 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
Jersey. Men faithful TO the state, at
the same time faithful to God.
IL is absurd TO expect that men who
have been immersed i'm political wicked
ness for thirty OF forty years shall come
20 reformatiou; and our hope is in the
Young men waO are coming up, that
they have patriotic principle and Chris
tian principle side by side when they
come 90 the ballot-boN and cast their
first vote, and that they swear allegi-
ance 20 the government OF heaven as
well rs % the government Of the United
States. We would have Bunker Hill
mean less 20 them than Calvary. and
Lexington mean less TO them than Beth
lehem.
But because there are bad men around
the ballot-box is no reason why Chris
tian men should retreat from the arena.
The last time you ought 10 give up your
child or forSake your child is when it is
surrounded by company Of ChoctawS;
and the last time To surrender the bal
lot-boX is when 10 is surrounded by inn
purity and dishonesty and all sorts of
wickedness.
Daniel stood on most unpopular plat
form. He stood firmly. though the
dcmagogucS Of the day Missed AT him and
tried tooverthrow him. We must carry
our religion into our politics. But there
are q great many men who are in favor
OF taking religion into national politics
who DO not see the Importance OF taking
il into city politics: as though man
were intelligent about the welfare OF his
lucighborhood, and had no concern about
/ his own home.
RELIGION WOULD DRIVE OUT
Ian base personalities from politics.
/ You have a right to discuss men
politics and denounce their political
sentiments. or receive them rs YOU will:
but YOU have no right 10 aSSail their
private character, 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. IL is Away
for the man who is most badgered, and
most abused. and most spit upon, and
most howled 40. You have a right 10
contest mans political sentiments
YOU have mo- right for base political pur-
poses 90 aSSail his private moral char
actcr.
Ny subject also impreSseS me with
the fact that lion, cannot hurt a good
man. No man ever got into worse
company than Daniel got into when he
was thrown into the den. What a rare
morscl that fair young man would have
been for the hungry monsters. II they
had plunged at him he could not have
climbed into a niche beyond the reach
of their paw or the snatch Of theil
tooth. They came pleased all around
about him, as q hunters hounds at th,
well-6nown whistle come bounding u
his feet.
You need not 90 10 Numidia to ge
Iamoug lions You all have had then
latter you-the lion OF financial distress
the lion of sickness, the lion OF perSecu
ton. You saw that lion OF financial
panic putting his mouth down TO the
earth, and he rOared until all the bank
and an the insurance companies quaked
With his nOStril he scattered the aShe'
ON the domestic hearth. You have haC
tSfal after trial. misfortune after mis-
/ fortune, lion after lion, and yet they
have never hurt you if you put you
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
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 i'm God. Even death, that
monster lion whose den is the world
sepulchre. and who puts his paw down
amid thousands of millions OF the dead
cannot alright you.
When i'm olden times man was To
get the honorS ofsknighthood, he was
compelled to 60 fully armed the nlght
before. among the tombS OF the deau'
carrying sort OF spear, and then whGh
the day broke he would come iorth'
and. amid the sound OF cOrnet and great
narade. he would get the honors oil
| inirhthood. And so it will be WIN
the Christian in the night before,
heaven. as fully armed with spear ana
helmet of salvation, he will walt anu
- .i.ro,,,b the darkness until the