Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-11-10

elections are over, to calcula how
much religion you have left Will be a
sum in vulgar fractions. oh, the
pressure is tremendous!
How many mighty intellects have
gone down under the dissipation OF
pol tics! / think OF one who came
from he west lie was able to stand
out against the VIII lie American
senate. God had given him facul les
enough to yovern kingdom or to
frame a constitution. His ice was
terrible to his country's enemies and
a mighty inspiration in the day of ma
tional peril But twenty glasses of
strong drink day were his usual al
lowance, and he went down into the
habits of confirmed inebriate. Alas
for him! Though a costly IN nument
has been reared over his resting place,
the young men of this country shall
not be denied the a. full lesson that
the agency by which the world WAS
robbed of one of it's mightiest intel
lects, and our country of one of it's
ablest constitutional defen Iers, was
the dissipation of political life. You
want to know who l m an? Young
man, ask your father when YOU get
home. The adverse tide is fearful,
and warn you against it!
You need not go ar off to find the
WORKOUT politician. He he is
stumbling along the highway, his
limbs hardly able to hold MIN up
Bent over and pale with exhaust ng
81 kness. Surly to anybody who C.
costs him. His last Gecent article of
apparel pawned for strong drink.
Glad if, when going by a grocery,
some low acquaintance invites him in
to take sip of ale, and then wiping
his lip with his gre lsy sleeve. Kicked
off the steps bv men who once were
proud to be his constitu nts Man
hood obliterated. Lip blistered with
a curse. Sears of brutal assault on
cheek and brow. Foul mouthed.
coughing, staggering, wheel
ing wretch. No friends. No 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 consum-
ing, enough da ming, to describe he
horrible drunkenness, that has rolled
over this land, and that hes bent down
the necks of some of the might est in
tellects, until they have b en- com
PEELED TO drink out of The trough of
bestiality and atomination! l wa
young men against political life. I'M
less they are teetotalers and conse'
Grated, Christian men.
Again, counsel you that, when you
go to the ballot DO at the city or the
state or the national elections, YOU
recognize God, and appeal to MIN Tor
his blessing There is power higher
than the ballot box, than the guber-
material chair, than the Presidential
wuite house. 1t is high time that we
put les confidence in political plat
forms and more confidence in God.
See what weak thing iShuman fore
sight How little our wise men seem
to know. See how. every autumn,
thousands of men who are clam bering
up for higher positions are turned
under. ~ God upset them. Every man,
every party, every nation, has
form it. down he goes
God said to the House of Bourbon,
Remodel France, and esta blish
equity" House of Bourbon would not
do it. Down it went. God said to the
people free, God-fearing, and happy
House of 5 uart would not do it
Down it went. God says TO the
political parties in this day, "By the
principles of Christianity remodel,
govern, educate, saw the people"
Failing to do that, down they go, bury
ing in their ruins their disciples and
advocates. God can spare all the
political intriguers of this day, and
can raise up another generation w o
shall do Justice and love
mercy. If God could spare
Luther before the Ref rma-
ton was done; and if he could spare
Washington be fore free govern
ment had been fully tie ted and if he
could spare Howard before more than
one out of thousand dungeons hal
been alleviated: and if he could spare
Robert M'Cheyne just a SEQ land was
gathering to his burning utter Ices;
aud if he could spare Thomas Clark.
son while yet millions of his fellow
men had chains rusting to the DO le-
then he can spare any man, and he
can spare any party. That man who,
through cowardice or blind idolatry
of party, forsakes the cause of right
eousness, goe, down, and the armed
battalions of Go 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. Re-
member that the highest kind of a
patriot is Christian patriot. Conse-
crate yourselves first to God then you
will know how to consecrate yourse yes
to your country. All these politi al
eXcitements will be gone. Ballot
boxes and gubernatorial chairs and
continents will smoke Ia the final con-
tiagration; but those who love God
and do their best shall come to lus-
trous dominion after the stars have
ce ,sed their shining and the ocean
has heaved its last billow, and the
closing thunder If the judgment day
shall toll at he funeral of a worldi
Oh, prepare for that dayl Next
Tuesday questions of the state will
be settled; but there comes a day when
the questions of eternity will be de-
cided. You u ay vote right, and get
the victory at the ballot box, and yet
suffer eternal defeat. After ou have
cast your last vote where will you go
to? In this co ntry there arr two
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