The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-11-17

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tuition. His voice was terrible to hi:
country's enemies and mighty inspir
alton in the day of national peril
|, But twenty glasses of strong drink a
day were his usual allowance, and he
went down into the habits of a con-
firmed inebriate. Alas for him, Though
a costly monument has been reared
over his resting place, the young men
of this country shall not be denied the
awful lesson that the agency by which
the world was robbed of one of its
mightiest intellects, and our country
o one of its ablest constitutional de-
tenders, was the dissipation of political
life. You want to know who | mean?
Young man. ask your father when you
get home. The adverse tide is fearful,
and / warn you against it!
You need not go far off to find the
WORKOUT politician. Here lie is, stumb-
ling along the highway, his limbs
hardly able to hold him up. Bent over
and pale with exhausting sickness.
Surly to any body who accosts him. His
last decent article of apparel pawned
for strong drink. Glad if, when going
by the grocery, some low acquaintance
invites him in to take sip of ale, and
then wiping his Clip with his greasy
sleeve. Kicked off the steps by men
who once were proud to be his constit-
uents. Manhood obliterated Lip
blistered with a curse. Sears OF
| brutal assault on check and brow
Foul-mouthed. A crouching, stagger-
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| God. No hope. No Heaven. That is
your WORKOUT politician. That is
what some of you will become unless
by this mornings warning and the
mercy of God your steps are arrested.
Oh, there are no words enough potent.
enough portentous enough consuming.
enough damning, to describe the hor-
rible drunkenness that has rolled over
this land, and that has bent down the
necls of some of the mightiest intel
lects, until they have been compelled
to drink out of the trough of bestiality
and abomination! | warn young men
against political life, unless they are
teetotalers and consecrated, Christian
men.
Again, l counsel you that, when you
go to the ballot-box at the city or state
or the national elections, you recognize
God, and appeal to him for his bless
ing. There is power higher than the
ballot-boX, than the gubernatorial
chair, than the presidential White
house. 1t is high time that we put less
confidence in political platforms and
more confidence in God. See what
weak thing is human foresight. How
little our wise men seem to know! See
how, every autumn, thousands of men
who are clambering up for higher po-
sitions are turned under. God upsets
them. Every man, every party, every
nation, has mission to perform. Fail
ing to perform it, down he goes
God said to the house of Bourbon:
Remodel France, and establish
equity" House of Bourbon would not
do it. Down it went God said TO the
house of Stuart: Make the English
people free, God-fearing and happy
House of Stuart would not do it.
Down it went. God says to the poll
principles of Christianity, remodel,
govern, educate, save the people"
Failing to do that, down they go. bury.
ing in their ruins their disciples and
advocates. God can spare all the poll
teal intriguers of this day and can raise
up another generation who shall do JUS
tice and love mercy. If God could
spare Luther before the Reformation
was done; and if he could spare Wash.
ington before free government had
been fully tested; and if he could spare
Howard before more than one out of
thousand dungeons had been allevi-
ated; and if he could spare Robert
MCheyne just as Scotland was gather
ing his burning utterances; and if he
could spare Thomas Clarkson while yet
millions of his fellow-men had chains
rustling to the bone-then he can
spare any man, nd he can spare any
party. That man who, through cow
ardice or blind idolatry of party, for
sakes the cause of Righteousness gcss
down, and the armed battalions of God |
march over him.
o Christian men, take out your Bible |
this afternoon, and in the light of that |
word make up your mind as to what is |
your duty as citizens. Remember that |
the highest kind of a patriot is CHS |
tian patriot Consecrate yourselves |
first to God, then you will know how
to consecrate yourselves to your coun-
try. All these political excitements |
will be gone. Ballot boxes and guber-
material chairs and continents will |
smoke in the final confiagration: but |
those who love God and do their best
shall come to lustrous dominion after
the stars have ceased their shining and
the ocean has heaved its last billow,
and the closing thunder of the judy
ment day shall toll at the funeral of n
world! Oh, prepare for that day. Next
Tuesday questions of state will
be settled; but there comes day when
the questions of eternity will be decid-
ed. You may vote right, and get the
victory at the ballot-box, and yet suf-
fer eternal defeat. After you have cast
your last vote, where will You go to?
In this country there are two parties.
You belong to the one or the other of
them. Likewise in eternity there will
be two parties and only two. These
shall go away into everlasting punish
ment, but the righteous into life
To which party will you be-
long? God grant that,swhile you look
after the welfare of the land in which
God has graciously cast your lot, you
may not forget looking after your soul
blood bought, judgment bound. i'm.
mortal! God save the people!
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