The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-30

can, ana enforce them as well as You can. We're
u not for such measures, no city would be
naoitable. All parties want your vote Insist
on pure men and you will get them. With
whenever party you vote, vote only for the
good men In that party. The crisis OF American
oerty 10 in the rule of the decent citizen.
Observe put this matter on broad, humani.
tartan grounds-I have said nothing that can
NOT De Endorsed by decent men whether in the
church or out of IL, whether Democrats or Re-
pubiicans. Ihave no Ak to grind, no ONCE to
seek. no capital 10 make. 1t is harder for me TO
speak these words than for you to hear them.
With men / shall lose more than gain. have
tried 10 persuade myself that it was not my
business to NEEDLE in such matters. In that
have failed. 1t seems to me that minister has
every bit ~ good right as a saloon keeper or q
pander to NEEDLE in such matters. l heard OF
an influential person who objected recently to
certain minister that he was in the habit of tell
Ing men what they ought to do. / smiled.
Would the obiector like her preacher to lecture
on astronomy, or mechanics, or Worth dresses?
What are ministers for? To lie about dead
men at their funerals? To become the butt and
ridicule of the community, because they have
no opinions, or having them dare not utter
them?
My friends. we know right well that the tariff
Is an important question, and that coast defense
has been woefuily neglected. But dare to
affirming, that social purity and temperance
aud the guarding OF minors are more important
matters still For II some enemys vessel is to
blow US into eternity the Grand Army of the
Republic should be prepared, and should pre-
pare its city, to go. We know before God that
the thing We need most to honor our dead
brothers and fathers il to the land to right
eousness that they have left united The coun-
try always needs saving. Every generation of
heroes echoes to the generation following:
Eight the good fight" Our beloved dead in
the world OF spirits did not wind up the ma
chine OF government SO that 1t will run alone.
Now is the crisis. Now is the nick of time As
great preacher said: sin matters that reach
into eternity now il always the nick of time"
There is q soldiers home within four miles of
an Eastern city. stage plies between the city
and the home. On pension day, and for some
time after. that road 10 supplied with soldiers,
some half-drunk, and making their way home
ward, others dead drunk, ornamenting the
roadside with their besotted per,ous and empty
bottles. And these sick or destitute soldiers
are the wards Of the nation. And this is a free
country-a country where freedom should not
mean liberty to make life a hell as rapidly as
possible. When men get past restraint, 1t is
your business and mine to restrain them. And
can you not find many among those wretched
invalids who will in their sober hours beg that
they never be permitted to travel that road
again?
1t 10 time for the Grand Army to forbid such
scenes. What this country needs more than
anything else is God in its politics, and you can
take God into politics by going into politics
with God in your heart. We are not beyond the
age of heroism. The prophetic voices of your
brothers may come back to us. And il you lis
ten you can seem to hear the mystic rhythm OF
their feet as they march on in the army of the
Lord. Their ideas are growing Are ours?
There is fight in which they still engage. And
In this age conscience shall wake to hear the
echo of their admonition:
the soul Is still oracular: amid the mar
ket's din,
List the ominous, stern whisper from the Delphic
cave within
"They enslave their children's children who
make compromise with SIM"
1t is the will of God, for whatever else our
faith few of us atheists It is the will of God
that there shall be no definite settlement of our
battles, no cessation of recurring crises, until
supreme Righteousness rules in the state. And
to you, whether Jew or Christian, whether
Catholic or Protestant, whatever your party and
your creed, there arises one unrivaled figure
whose wisdom and whose purity you know to
be the ultimate example in the state, Jesus
Christ, who bid US, while giving every man his
due, while giving Caesars things to Cesar, to
give to God the things that are Gods.
The sermon created a profound sensa.
ton. 1t was followed by the singing of
1.-THE Battle Hymn of the Republic"
A benediction was pronounced and the
vast audience left the building.