The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-09-11

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 arc a 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 the base
personalities from politics. You have
q right to discuss mems politics and de-
nouDce their political sentiments, or re-
ceive them, as you will; but you have
no right to assail their private charac~
ter, as is done every autumn. That is
not carrying religion into politics.
Now you can always tell without ask
ing, in any contest, what candidate l
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 a right to contest mans po-
litical sentiments; you have no right
for base political purposes to assail his
private moral character.
My subject also impresses me with
the fact that lions can not hurt good
man. No man ever got into worse COM
pany than Daniel got into when he was
thrown into the den. What rare NOR
sal that fair young man would have
been for the monstersl II they had
plunged at him he could not have
climbed into a nicho beyond the reach
of their paw or the snatch OF their
! tooth. They came pleased all around
about him, as a hunters hounds at the
we'll Unknown whistle come bounding tc
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 persecu-
ton. You saw that lion of financial
panic putting his mouth down to the
earth, and he roared until all the in
surance companies quaked. With his
nostril he scattered the ashes on the
domestic hearth. You have had trial
after trial, misfortune after misfortune,
lion after lion; and yet they have
hoNcI huIG you IL you pus JOul u Uoh
in God, and they never will hurt you.
They did not hurt Daniel, and they can
not hurt you.
I The Persians used to think that spring
rains falling into sca-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 dowr
amid thousands of millions of the dead
can not alright you.
When in oldcn times man was tc
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
tho 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 tho
morning dawns, and then no will take
the honors of Heaven amid that great
throng with snowy robes, streaming
over seas of sapphire.