Connecticut western news., 1890-09-03
CANAAN CONN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER

politician, and yet all the thrusts of of ficials and all the danger of disgrace did not make him yield one iota of his high toned religious principle. He stood before that age, he stands before all ages, a specimen of Christian politician.
 So there have been in our day and in the days of our fathers men as emi- nent in 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 Jer sey. Men faithful to the state, at the same time faithful to God
 OUR HOPE IS IN THE YOUNG MEN.
 It is absurd to expect that men who have been immersed in political wick Eedness for thirty or forty years shall come to reformation; and our hope is in 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 legiance to the government of heaven as we'll 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 by 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 @ most unpopular platform. He stood firmly, though the delnagogues of the day hissed 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 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- 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 asking, in any contest, what candidate I will vote for It is always for the man who is most badgered, and most abused, and most spit upon, and most howled at. You have 8 right>t contest a mans po- 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 good man. No man ever got into worse company than Daniel got into when he was thrown into the den. What 8 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 They 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 roared 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 they cannot hurt you.
 I The Persians used to think that | spring rain falling into sea shells would turn into pearls; and I have to tell you that the tears of sorrow turn into precious gems when they drop into l Gods bottle. You need be afraid of l 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.
 l When in olden times a man was to l get the honors of knighthood he was compelled to go fully armed the night before among the tombs of the dead carrying sort of spear, ana 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.
 Peril in a Boy's Telegraph Line.
 A special from Topeka, Kan, says: Two inventive lads, Fred Baer and Earl Mcdowell, constructed private telegraph wire, the wire for which was obtained from screen door, which l they carefully unraveled. The line