The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-11-10

WAYS characterized 6 the father of the |
faithful Moses was politician tine
9randest of them: but he hoaored Goa
more than he did the Pharaons- AND
there are hundreds of Christian men
now in the political parties maintain
ing their integrity. even when oolSed
to stand amidst the blasted. leche-ous
and loathsome crew that sometimes
surround the ballot box: These Chris
tian men doing their political duty and
then coming back to the prayer meet
ings and Christian circles as pure
as when they went out But that Is
not the ordinary circumstance: that Is
the exception. How often you see
men coming back from the political
conflict, and their eye is glazed. and
their cheek has an unnatural flush,
and they talk louder than they usually
do. and at the least provocation they
! will bet, and you say they are con-
vivial, or they are exceedingly iva
cious, or you apply some other sweet
name to them: but God knows they are
| drunk Some of you month or six
weeks ago. had no more religion han
| YOU ought to have. and after the ele
| tions are over, to calculate how much
religion you have LETT will be sum IN
vulgar fractions. Oh. the pressure is
| tremendous.
| You need not go far off to find the
WORKOUT politician. Here he is, stumo-
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 lip with his greasy
sleeve Kicked off the steps by meD
who once were proud to be his constit-
uents. Manhood obliteratad Lip
blistered with a curse. Sears of
brutal assault on cheek and brow.
Foul-mouthed. c-ouching. stagger-
ing. wheeling 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 porte ntous. enough consuming.
enough damning. to describe the hor-
rible drunkenness that has rolled over
this land. and that has bent down the
, necks of some of the mightiest intel
lects, until they have been compelled
to drink out of the trough of bestiality
} and Il bonina ton. l warn young men
, against political life, unless they are
| teetotalers and consecrate ted. Christian
men.
: Again. | counsel you that. when you
| 60 to the ballot-b 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
r 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 upset
{ 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
r equity" House of Bourbon would no
q do il. Down it went. God said TO thu
p house of Stuart: Make the English
. people free, God-fearing and happy
;. House of Stuart would no: do it
y Down it went. God says to the poll
teal parties in this day: by thu
Q principles of Christianity, remodel
n govern. educate. save the people.
: Failing to do that, down they go. bury
ing in their ruins their disciples an
= advocates God can spare all the poll
= teal intriguers of this day and can rails
n I'D another generation who shall do jus
q tice and love mercy. If God coui
i spare Luther before the Reformation
= was done: and if he could spare WASH
h ington before free government ia
4 been fully tested: and if he could spar
Howard before more than one out OF
n thousand dungeons had been allev
;. ated: and if he could spare Rober
M'Cheyne just as Scotland was gather
Y ing his burning utterances; and II
q could spare Thomas GARRISON while We
!. millions of his fellow-men had chain
A rustling to the bOne-then he ca
/ spare any man, nd he can spare an
= party. That man who, through COW
+ ardice or blind idolatry of party, fol-
a sakes the cause of Righteousness goe
, down. and the armed battalions OF Go
). march over him
Is o Christian men. take out your Bib
Il this afternoon. and in the light of tina
a word make up your mind as to what
= your duty as citizens Remember tina
a the highest kind of a patriot is Chi:
!, tan patriot Consecrate yourseive
# first to God. then you will know no,
II to consecrate yourselves to your couI
- try. All these political excitement
O will be gone. Ballot boxes and gubel
J. material chairs and continents wi
e smoke in the final conhagration: br
h those who love God and do their bes
&c shall come to lustrous dominion afte
g the stars have ceased their shining an
the ocean has heaved its last billOw
- and the closing thunder of the juds