The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1890-09-06

General of Now York, In the time OF
your fathers. Such was John Mclean,
of Ohio. Such was George Briggs, of
Massachusetts. Such was Theodore
Frelinghuyson, of New Jersey. der
faithful to the state, at tho 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 side when they
come to the ballot box and cast their
first vote, and that they swear allegi-
ance to the government of Heaven as
well AZ 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 Chris
tian men should retreat from the arena.
The last time you ought to give up your
child or forsake your child is when 1t Is
surrounded by a company of Choctaws;
and the last time to surrender the bal
lot box is when it is surrounded by i'm
purity and dishonesty and all sorts of
wickedness.
Daniel stood on a most unpopular
platform. Ho stood firmly, though the
demagoguos OF the day Missed at him
and tried to overthrow him. We must
carry our religion into our politics. But
there are a great many men who are in
favor Of taking religion into National
politics who do not sec the Importance
Of taking it into city politics; as
though a man were intelligent about the
welfare of his neighborhood, and had no
concern about his own home.
Religion would drive out all base per-
%sonalities from politics. You have q
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. 1t is always for the nan who is
most badgered and most abused and
most spit upon and most howled at.
You have a right to contest a mans po-
litical sentiments; you have no right for
base political purposes to assail his pri-
vate moral character.
My subject also impresses me with
the fact that lions a not hurt a good
man. No man aver got into worse pm
pany than Daniel got into when he was
thrown into the den. What a rare NOR
sci that fair young man would have
been for the hungry monsters! IL they
had plunged at him he could not have
climbed into a niche beyond the reach
of their paw or the snatch of their tooth.
They came pleased all around about
him as q hunters hounds at the we'll
known whistle come bounding to his
feet.
You need not go to Numidia to get
among lions. You all nave 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 Town 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 misfortune, lion after lion; and
yet they have never hurt you II 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
rain 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
sepulchre, and who puts his paw down
amid thousands OF millions of the dead,
| can not alright you.
When in olden times n man was to get
| the honors Of knighthood, he was COM
| PEELED to go fully armed the night be-
fore, among the tombs of the dead,
| carrying a 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
kn%ighthood. 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 her he will take the honors
Of Heaven amid that great throng with
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