The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-11-17

and the arch Of Titus, and the Pan
1 theon come In with great chorus, cry
ing: Dead, dead!" After Horace,
/ after Virgil, after Tacitus, after Cicero,
dead. After Horatious on the BRIDGE,
and Cincinnatus, the farmer oligarch,
4 after Pompey, after Scipio, after
Cassius, after Constantine, after
Cesar, dead. The war eagle OF
Rome flew 50 high it was blinded by the
sun and came whirling down through
the heavens, andthe owl Of desolation
and darkness built it's nest in the for
saken eyrie. Mexican empire, dead.
French empire, dead.
You see, my friends, it is no unusual
in the same neurology OF dead nations,
and IN the same graveyard Of expired
governments will go the United States
OF America unless there be some po-
tent voice to call a halt, and unless
God in his mercy lnterferes, and
through a purified ballot box and a
widespread public Christian sentiment
the catastrophe be averted. I pro-
pose to set before you the evils that
threaten to destroy the American gov
eminent, and to annihilate American
institutions, and
If GOD WILL HELP ME- ,
Twill show you before I get through
the mode IN which each and every one
may do something to arrest that APP
palling calamity And shall plough
up the whole field. ..-.. W. :.
The first evil that threatens the an
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tions is the fact that political bribery,
which oEce was considered crime,
has by many come to be considered g.
tolerable virtue.
Unless this diabolism ceases in this
country, Bartholdi's statue on Bed
loe's island, with uplifted torch. to
light other nations into the harbor,
had better be changed and thetorch
dropped as a symbol OF universal in
cendiarism
Unless this purchase and sale OF SUI
frage shall cease, the American govern
ment will expire, and you might as
we'll be getting ready the monument
for another dead nation, and let my
text inscribe upon it these words:
ALIAS! alas! for Babylon, that great
city, that mighty city, for in one hour
is thy Judgment co me- My friends.
II you have not noticed that political
bribery is one OF the CHASTITY crimes of
this day, you have not kept your eyes
open.
Another evil threatening the des-
truction ofAmerican institutions is the
solidifying OF the sections against each
|! other. Asolid North. A solid South
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have a solid East against a solid West,
we shall have solid Middle States
against solid Northern States, we shall
have solid New York state against
q solid Pennsylvania, and a solid
Ohio against a solid Kentucky It is
~ years since the war cloud, and vet
at every presidential election the old
antagonism is aroused. When Gar
field died, and all the states gathered
around his casket in sympathy and
In tears, and as hearty kilograms of
coincidence came from New Orleans
and Charleston as from Boston and
Chicago, said to myself: II think
sectionalism is dead But alas no.
The difficulty will never be ended un-
til each state OF the nation is split up
into
TWO OR THREE GREAT POLITICAL PAR
This country cannot exist unless it
exists as one body, the national capt.
tai the heart, sending out through all
the arteries OF cOmmunication warmth
and life to the very extremities.
Another evil threatening the de-
structlon OF our American institution
is the low state OF public morals.
What killed Babylon of my text?
What killed Phoenica? What killed
Rome? Their own depravity; and the
fraud and the drunkenness and the
lechery which have destroyed other
nations will destroy ours unless mer-
ciful God prevent. To show you the
low state OF public morals, I have to
call your attention to the fact that
many men nominated for Offices in
different states at different times are
entirely unfit for the positions for
which they have been nominated.
They have no more qualification
for them than a wolf has qualifica-
ton to be professor or PASTORAL theo-
logy in a flock of sheep, or blind
| mole has qualification to lecture O
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vulture has qualifications to cnaper-
on dove. The mere pronunciation
OF some Of their names makes q de-
mand for
CARBOLIC ACID AND FUMIGATION!
Yet Christian men will follow right on
under the political standards.
My friends, we have in this country
people who say that the marriage IN
! stitution amounts to nothing. They
scott at it. We haye people walking
in polite parlors in our day who are
not good enough to be scavangers in
Sodom! l went over to San Francisco
10 or Is years ago-that beautiful
city, that queen of he Pacific. May
the blessing OF God come down upon
her great churches and her noble men
and women When l got into the city
OF San Francisco, the mayor OF the
city and the president OF the Board OF
Health called on me and insisted that
60 and see the Chinese quarter, no
doubt so that on my return to the
! Atlantic coast ! might tell what dread.