The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-02-27
1.-THE Swing of Conquest"


There is always the pharisce mind the Sad
duccc mind the Nicodenlus who comes by night,
lacking the courage of his convictions although
IN him there is no guile, only he is still welded
10 the old-timc views And there is always an
apostle or the GcntiloS striking out new paths,
blazing the trees, and taking as his portion the
cause, the curses and the consequences. This
is just as true in religious things as 1t is in
things political. Politics and religion divide the
world and are the two great realms. The dem
ocrats answer to the Catholics, conservative
and stcrcotypcd, but whose foundations rest on
the tombs OF heroes and the nltars OF saints
Tho republican party answers to the we'll TODD
Protestant denominations who hold 10 views
and polity not now requiring sacrifice, although
In the beginning based on martyrdoms
The mugwuElps, with their culture and high
toned views, answer TO the Unitarians of all
stripes and shades. Tho prohbitionists find their
analogy in the Quakcrs, with their fearless pro-
test against wrong; the holiness people, with
their eager search for the highest and best; the
faith people, who ''staggcr not at the promises
of Cod" and the revivalists OF every name and
sort. Thus these two great realms OF material
and spiritual power, forever at war with one
another and within themselves, have farmcd
out the world to tho clash Of their arms and the
din OF their doinSs, and IS there Is nothing
changclcss except change, the minority ever
tends towards being the majority, and Is as
sure to become the majority ~ tho coral reef is
snrc to become the coral island. II VIC as tenn
pcrlncc People can only Sc this VIC can look
with nj solutc amusement, and with no sense OF
loss or contradiction, upon tho splendid battle
field and take our chances as the minority, al
really feeling in our hearts tic grand cnthusi-
asm and seeing in our gait the Swing OF con-
quest" that comes from the overwhelming num-
hers sure TO follow where We lead
II is said that the Billie has been upset
twcnty-scven times in the last five years by
those who do not receive IL us u revelation from
God But the Good Bool; is considerably like n
cube OF New England granite; when you upset
1t you have orly set 1t up; II Is just as big one
way as another and just as big after IL is
tumbled down as 1t was before Indeed,
ait stands four square to every wind
that blows" The Bible and prohibition arc
alike In this matter. Both resemble the Irish
and his brother said: Dennis. me boy, isn't II
going TO be undermined. this wall that You're
building?" Faith, and 1t isn't" no retorted
because II IS three feet high and four feet
wide, and IL II tumOles over II will DO higher
than II was before"
Some temperance workers werc we'll nigh dis
hcartcned when the original package agitation
arose, but the adverse decision OF the supreme
court precipitated such discussion and called
out such congressional action as has helped the
prohibition cause more than all the work that
all temperance societies have ACCOMPLISHED in
1890
Iowa is fortunate in having Judges Caldwell
and Shiras, who declare the Wilson bill and the
prohibitory law in full force. SO that for tho
present, ut least, the interests there seem safe.
In view OF the recent decision in Kansas To
tho effect that prohibitory states must re, nact
their laws before the relief provided by congress-
will apply TO them, there IS another general stir
rinS up. but the elections % November 4. In