The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-01
REED TALKS OF SAINTS.
BE breaches TIE DOCTRINE OF
PERSEVERANCE

PERSEVERANCE
once the Test of Republicans-Defeat
or Further Success the sure Out
come of Victory-1he Wisdom OF
solomon and the Mugwurnp Press.
Criticism Don't Discourage Him.
Bosrox, May 3l.-Tbe Home Market
Club had for its special guests this evening
Secretary of War Proctor, Speaker Reed
ard Congressman Dingley and Greenhalge,
while among the $50 gentlemen present
were mary who W re prominent in national
and state affairs. As might be expected,
enthusiasm ran high during the speech
making and reception. The reception ac-
corded to Speaker Reed was exceptionally
cordial.
REEDS SPEECH.
He said:
If I hal bean appointed one of the committee
to assist in revision of the Westminster Sho ter
catechism Taught ri there would be one doc
Urine waich ! would be sure would be main
tanned in all its pristine purity and force. and
that is the doctrine of the perseverance OF the
saints Applause 1t is the doctrine Of life as
well as of relig on. 1t is doctrine as good
for this world as for the next 1t
is very easy, as a reverend friend OF
mine once said, to be a camp meeting saint
crowds are moved by the same thought and
feeling it is very easy to become part and
parcel of a great multitude, but It is a long pull
that is the test of true sainthood, Laughter
To be republican in presidential campaign
is very easy, for whenever this country Is
aroused it always puts itself upon the side of
progress.
THE TEST.
The test, then, not of republcanism, but of
republicans is in office. If you do your duty
this year you are in condition to go up
higher. 1t is as aggravating as it is natural
this revulSive wave after victory. Human
nature seems incapable of prolonged virtue: It
is hard to keep the people up to the republican
programme. Whenever we have had great
national victory Ohio is almost always likely to
90 democratic. and Massachusetts is pretty
likely to be said to be in dagger.
NATURAL AS WELL AS AGGRAvATING.
/ have said this is natural as well as aggravat-
ing. 1t is aggravating because the righteous
man is always longing for portion of his
rest here on earth. [Iaughter.] But he can
never get it, can assure you of that from per-
sonal experience. [Great laughterl. 1t is
natural because tney will bs AWAY" SS
come to compare hopes with their full
Hllment during campaign. To build
thoroughfare to happier Ian S is easy. because
it is mere matter of language, but when it
comes to legislation then there is difficulty, be-
cause there comes up the question of the cost
of engineering You are obliged to submit to
many exig- ncies which you never thought OF,
and hence there comes disappointment.
CLAIMING THE EARTH.
need not deny to an audience as intelligent
as this that whenever anything is done in this
country il has to be done by the Republican
party. If a tariff bill has to be passed, we pass
It. II currency question has to be settled, we
settle it, 1t is perfectly amusing to
notice how tremendous is that wisdom
that does not have to solve the problem.
II is very rare to have the wisdom Of Solomon,
but the wisdom of a mugwamp newspaper is as
plentiful as salt water in the mid Atlantic and
very much resembles it, 1t is broad and expan-
sive, but it is death to drink of it.
HARD ROAD TO TRAVEL.
Did il ever occur to you that the road In
front OF the chariot of progress Is never macad-
Rmized? 1t is only the fellows tagging behind
that on the beat n track, and 1t is those men
who make the outcries. the other men are too
busy tr ing to fini a passage 10 front, and
hence rsvulsion is perfectly natural Hence
come all the criticisms from those that have
been discharged by the people at the polls,
and the rises all the noise OF fiocking birds
that darken the air Now. my friends, you
don't want to mistake all this noise Tor change
You do not want to mistake this criticism
which comes from the people that are behind
for objections from the people who stand at the
front and are looking forward to the future.
LESSONS FROM THE PAST.
History has some lessons for u.s. Fifty years
of civilization count for something, and when
the Fifty-first congress adJourns believe you
will see that never in the history of the country
recorded will Of the people of the United States,
and if you wish to make sure of that let your
voices give no uncertain sound. Let men who
have further to do with these matters I'M
derstand that Massachusetts and New England
have taken position where history will be
proud of them.
Those who do are those who must submit to
criticism, and stand up and take your part OF it
like men. That you should have some dsap-
pointments is simply to say that government
by human beings is being carried out by human
beings. You should also remember that
proud as is the commonwealth
of Massachusetts,, noble as is
the standing of New England, the Republican
party is not the party of Massachusetts or the
party of W England exclusively. 1t is the
party of the whole country, and whenever it
acts it is its duty to act for the greatest good OF
all.
Remember that there is at no time greater
danger than after victory. The enemy then
have nothing to lose and they
are on the alert They have
everything to GAIN and if you will only remem-
Der the correlative that after victory you have
everything TO lose then you will grid on your
armor and push on to battle and show in
politics the soundness of that doctrine of
religion with which began-the doctrine of the
perseverance of the saints
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