The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1892-04-07

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( know the principles = truth. It Is q
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such pretensiors. the facs that any hel
can lay an EGG. | cannot perform that
feat; bat felrlezsly maintain that am
better judge Of eggs than any hen in
America. The politician desires ths
preacher 70 take care u heaven while he
takes IN earth. He forgets the fact that
the preachers business Is 10 make a new
earth that there may lie a new heaven.
TA4HAs,y SHEDS pTTTER TEARS.
OF Gil the hypocritical cries that have
weariod the ears Of heaven and earth in
modern times the moat pauseating Of al
is the pious whine which the devil has
assumed in crying for the simple Gospel.
The men who are thus overburdencd
with care about the proclamation Of the
simple Gospel are the very men who
care least about that Gospel. The man
! who cries for the simple Gospel when
his pastor has preached practical ser
mon on temperance and prohibition, Is
the man who keeps a demijohn at home
under the bed. The man who cries for
the simple Gospel when his pastor
| breaches u sermon on the duty of giving
/ his money to the cause Of man, is the
man who loves a dollar and who holds
! it and squeezes it until you can hear the
eagle scream. Tammany Hall weeps
over the disgrace of the pulpit. Tam
many Hall sheds bitter tears over the
| corruption of the church. Wonderful
tears are these! It seems to me that all
the crocodiles Of Florida should come
sweeping up the bay in pure sympathy
at the flow of these tears.
do not think | ever heard Of bpt one
outcry that was just equal To- this. |
heard Of man once who was crying in
great pain. He was n wooden legged
man. He declared that he wept from
the pain caused by the development Of
knothole in his wooden leg. Perhaps
Tammany is sincere in this cry, but
am sure that if Tammany is really
wounded by this assault on its reverence
and piety the wound is inflicted in por-
ton Of Tammany's body that is not es-
sential to its vital relations. Oh, the
sham and humbug of the hypocrite who
whines today over the degeneracy of a
pulpit from whose altar they have heard
the cry Of righteous indignation!
INVENTION OF THE DEVIL.
The preacher must teach politics, be-
cause the preacher is learning more and /
more that there is no real distinction
between things sacred and things secu-
lar. The distinction between things sa-
cred and secular is purely artificial. 1t
was an invention Of the devil to deceive /
the elect. Heaven is described as q re-
deemed city, a redeemed municipality |
in which man in his relations to man |
individual, social, economic, POLITICAL |
is redeemed. All channels of love and |
beauty and truth through which the |
human and divine excellence enter the
soul Of rlan-these are sacred. All |
work is sacred. All mans relations in
the world Of labor are sacred. The
smith at his forge, the inventor at his
workbench, the scientist in his labora-
tory, the teacher in his class-wherever
man teaches the secrets Of nature or ma
lures God, he is teaching truth, and all
truth is divine truth. The mechanic
who tolls with his tools is not in a secu-
lar world. His work is unto the Lord:
and, done well, it is holy.
WRECK At DEAL BEACH.
What magnificent illustration Of this
truth we have in the stranded vessel
that is now being dashed to pieces bv
the waves on Deal beach. A great steel
merchantmen was this ship just from
her docks, $50 feet long, 10 feet wide,
with four masts. With all her sails set she
started upon her first journey; but over
in the fierce March storms on
her first trip, she was dashed upon the
beach and wrecked. But now look-toil-
ing IN his shop, a worl1ingnan has invent
ed steam engine that drives the ship
through the waves. Now they launch !
from her docks a great black monster in
he sea, loaded to her water line with !
bread for the starving. On through
.hese very winds and storms, through Z
he bowling te1npests Of March. over ;
mountainous waves, through darkness :
md rain and sun and the fury Of the :
empest that magnificent ship plows
Ter way.
On, on; she does not pause. On swift
wings OF mercy, with tireless lungs of
Vecl' she ploHs across The storm swept :
ocean on her errand of mercy to starry
hS nation. And now in far away
oreiGn port the bread is unloaded and
arlled to the starving, and the Greek
hurch Of Russia sends down its nriest-
-oOd ana they bring this ship of mercy '
ato the port, and the priests take posses ;
ION OF her and hold a service of thanks !
lYlnG aboard, and they bless the great !.
Messenger Of mercy. And we hear n
arouSh all this the voice of the great y
LaSter' II was hungry and We gave me I I
leaG' Before sailing ship could have u
ouched Russia her starving millions e
'ouId have been beyond help.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF CITIZENSHIP
The state is function of the church n
government itself rests Il
pom the principle Of love to man and a
eference to the wish of others. Con u
Icutlonal government does not rnst IL
pom the brute force of majority. The a
aCtIe Is not always to the strong. nor q
10 race to the swift. Two men have y,
mpped three as often as three have !!
hlpped TWO IN the history Of the world u
ne count OF noses is not the principle IL Il
winch modern constitutional govern "
ems rests. 1t rests upon the great q
.mclple of love to ones fellow man u
I've Christians meet together. Three u -
sree upon one view, two upon another u
ne Two yield to the three and allow !"
!, TO rule, not because the three could -
mp 1ne two but because OF this prin- IL IL
pie Oh love. 20 az
SaIr1otls1n is a religious sentiment co