The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1891-05-23
The Peoples Column.

! by john C. Robinson which is worthy Of
m"r" extended publication than it has
had, and which is i'll line with Dr. BoOle,
as well as my own way Of thinking.
Respectfully +.
| Sixth District, Cecil County, Md.
To THE EVANGELICAL CHURCHES OF OUR
COUNTRY.
! Deurly Beioccd BreNtren:
VIII you honor me with our attention
while | talk with You of subject that
has presented itself to the as of supreme
moment to the united interests of the
church of God in the world?
want you to divest yourselves for
awhile of the denominatioual prejudices
i'll which you are accustomed to work
and take broad and comprehensive
view of this vast army of God, with its
different denominational organizations,
moving forward under the command OF
The Great Captain OF our salvation" to
the conquest OF this world for Christ.
We have beel necessarily lighting the
toe independently within our own lines,
ia detail, in a kind of hand to hand
skirmish or free fight, and during our
single handed battle with the enemy our
foes across the water have been reinforce
ing his ranks with their trained veterans
in vice by the thousands, almost daily
cast upon our shores, and the battle is
becoming unequal, requiring the aban-
donment of the independent skirmish
line for the consolidation aud massiug of
forces. Organization on big scale is
the order of the day in all business and
mechanical Iues, and this is the policy
of the church's willy enemy, the liquor
traffic, which is to-day the most thor
oughly organized and equipped body of
men IN the world whose special mission
government, which are represented by
our churches and schools. In union and
organization there is strength. and with
out this there is weak ness and impotency
do not mean an organic union, where
in we are to wipe out our nominational
lines, but that as Christian men we are
che common enemy, who has hithert to
succeeded in dividing our forces among
the old political parties, and so appor.
tioning to each its share as to prevent
either one of them from doing him polti-
cal harm.
Why should not the Christian church
with the requirement that its most con-
| spicuous and trusted men shall only be
presented for the suffrages'of the people?
Is this not looked ups. as a Christian
nation Were not its founders men who
| feared God and eschewed evil ? Do you
cry out, "why, this would unite church and
State Nonsense Down with all deuomi
national aspirations to rule. Let the
| church in its broad sense rally to the
only party that to day presents a moral
| issue to the people and thus show theit
title to the honor and dignity of the
name Christian, by endorsing the moral
| courage and patriotism of SO many oil
her distinguished sons, who have re.
nouuced their allegiance to the corrupt
partisanship manifested by the leaders Of
! the old parties, and have pledged thei,
lives, tGair fortunes and their sacred
honor to the destruction OF this mighty
foe of God and man, and the insupcIa BILE
barrier to the speedy triumph of the
church of Christ in the world.
Come out from among them and be ye
separate saith the Lord" and touch not
the unclean thing"
| Let them sheer "holier than thou al
you Are you any better than your mas.
ter to suffer SCOTS and jeers? Learn not
to fear them which can only kill the
body" but "fear Hin that can destroy
both body and soul in hell"
| There is entirely too much Christian
profession in the world, and by far too
little Christian living and acting. 1t is
one thing to profess to be Christian,
and another thing TO BE a Christian.
To associate in an organized capacity
with wicked men, attend their banquets
where wines and liquors are drunk, and
vote with them and shout in triumph
with them is to endorse what they do
and no Christian can do those things and
maintain his spiritual communion with a
pure aud holy God.
He may be a very respectable nominal
Christian. but his body is not ''temple
of the Holy Ghost
Why should no. the Christian church
as unit organize a party which would
DO committed to the PRONUNCIATION Of
good, equal, beautiful laws, by which
her way might be cleared of the vile, de
bauching customs that clog her wheels
and destroy by thousands those whom
she otherwise might save!
The claw" was given before the gospe
and prepared the way for its coming anc
PRONUNCIATION, and as Christ came ''tC
establish the law" so it Is to be ever the
handmade OF the church in the redemp
ton of the world.
The law has been invoked and exc
cuted agains murder. theft, arson, adul
terry aud other crimes; and why no
against this great Pandora of al
crime?
To attempt to legalizs 1t for the reve
nue. derived from it, is equivalent to
father selling his daughters for price
"Woe be to that city founded in in
iquity ~ To take the money derived
from legalizing the debauchery of tn
citizens of the State and apply it to th
education of our children, is to incor
porate the wrath of a just God into tn
very foundations of our superstructur
which like the FIG tree" shall withe
and die.
We should be most jealous for thi
chief corner stone of our republic, an
strike Its enemies open or covert.
When ever any foe, single or organized
shall rase it's arm to strike at our publ
school system "shoot him on the spot .
Whether he comes in the hiss of the sci
peut, or under the cloak of religion, c
IN any other garb.
We do not want any bigotted sectaria
domination in this country, founde
upon ignorance and superstition, to lea
us into the experiences of the etle'
= civilizations of Europe and as this az
cursed liquor traffic, which is carried @
chiefly b. the hardened criminals PR
duced by those civilizations aud spewe
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