The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-11-06

eminent in the service OF the state.
Such was Benjamin T. Butler, Attor-
ney General of New York in the time
of your fathers. Such was John Nc
Lean, 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.
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 hope is in
the young men who are coming up, that
they have patriotic principle and Chris
tian principle side by Hide when they
come to the ballot-box and cast their
first vote, and that they swear allie
| glance 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 Beth
lehem.
But because there are bad men around
the ballot-boX is no reason why CHS
|
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 sur
render the ballot-box is y$hen it is sur
rounded by impurity and dishonesty
and all sorts of wickedness.
Daniel stood on 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 the 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 ask
ing, 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 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
thrown into the den. What a rare NOR
sal that fair young man would have
been for the 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 around
about him, as 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 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
never hurt you if you put your trust
| in God, and they never will hurt you.
They did not hurt Daniel, and they can
not hurt you.
The Persians used to think that spring
rains 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,
can not 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 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.