Sharp County record., 1890-09-18

Such was bcnJanln II. Bullcr, AlIor~
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.
IL 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 arc coming up, that
they have patriotic principle and Chris
tian principle side by Hide when they
come to tho 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
tan men should retreat from the arena.
The last time you ought to give up
your child, or forsake your child il
when it is surrounded by company OF
| Choctaws; and. the last time to sur.
render the ballot-box is when it is sur.
rounded by impurity and dishonesty
and all sorts of wickedness.
Daniel stood on most unpopular
platform. He stood firmly, though tho
demagogues 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
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 I
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 a 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 a good
man. No man ever got into worse COM
pany than Daniel got into when he was
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 60 to Numidia to get
among lions. You all have had them
after You-thc lion of financial distress,
the lion Of sickness, the lion of persecu-
tion. You saw that lion of financial
panic putting his mouth down to the
earth, and he roared until all the in
surance companies qualled. With his
nostril he scattered the ashes on the
domestic hearth. You have had trial
alter 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 hotspring
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 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 50 it will bo with
the Christian in tho 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 ho will take
the honors of Heaven amid that great
throng with snowy robes, streaming
over seas OF sapphire,