Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-11-23


tegrity, even when they are Obliged 10
stand amid the blasted, lecherous and
loathsome crew that sometimes sur
round the ballot box; these Christian
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 con-
fiict and their eye is glazed. and their
cheek has an unnatural flush, and they
talk louder than they usually do, and
at the least proyocation they will bet,
and you say they are convivial, or they
are exceedingly vivaeious, or you APP
ply some other sweet name to them;
but God knows they are drunk! Some
OF you. month or six weeks ago, had
no more religion than you ought to
have, and after the elections are over,
TO calculate how much religion you
have LEFT, will be sum in vulgar frac-
ton. 0, the pressure is tremendous
How many mighty intellects have
gone down under the dissipation of
politics. | think of one who came
out against the whole American SEN
ate. God had given him faculties
enought to govern a kingdom, or to
frame a constitution. His voice was
terrible to his country's enemies and
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 a confirmed inebriate. Alas
for him Though costly monument
has been reared over his resting-place
the Young men of this country shall
not be denied iheawful lesson that the
agency by which the world was robbed
of one OF its mightiest intellects. and
our country Of one of its ablest consti-
tutional defenders. was the dissipation
OF political life. You want To know
VINO mean? Young man. ask your
father when you get home. The adj
verse tide is fearful, and / warn you
against i'll
You need not go far off to find the
WORKOUT politician. Here he is STUN
bling along the highway, his limbs
hardly able to hold him up Bent over
and pale with exhausting sickness,
Suriy to anybody who accosts him. His
last decent article of apparel pawned
for strong drink. Glad If, when going
10 a grocery, some low acquaintance
invites him in to take a sip of ale. and
then wiping his lips with his greasy
sleeve. Kicked off the steps by men
who once were proud To be his con.
stituents. Manhood obliterated. Lips
blistered with curse. Scars of brutal
assault on cheek and brow. Foul |
mouthed. A crouching, staggering, |
wheeling wretch. No friends. mol
your worn-out politician. That is what /
some of YOU will become unless by this
warning and the mercy OF
God your steps are arrested. o. there
are no words enough potent, enough |
portentous, enough consuming. enough |
iamning, to describe the horrible
that has rolled over this
land. and that has bent down the
necks of some. of the mightiest intel.
Iects, until they have been compelled
TO drink out of the trough of beastiality
and abomination | warn young men
against political life, unless they are
and consecrated Christian
men.
Again, counsel you that, when yon
70 to the ballot-box at the city. or the
state, or the national elections, you
God. and appeal TO Him fol
His blessing. There is power higher
han the ballot-box. than the guber-
latorial chair, than the presidential
white house. II is high time that we
,ut less confidence in political plat
orms and more confidence in God. See
What weak thing is human foresight.
low little our wise men seem TO know.
see how, every autumn, thousands of
men who are laundering up for higher
are turned under God upsets
hem Every man. every party, every
lation. has mission to perform. Fail
ng to perform it. down he goes.
God said to the house of Bourbon,
Remodel France. and establish equi-
V. House of Bourbon would not
% it. Down it went. God said
o the house of Stuart, Make
he English people free, God-fearing .
nd happy" House of Stuart would
ot do it. Down it went God says to
he political parties in this day, by :
he principles of Christianity remodel.
overn, educate. save the people,"
'ailing to do that down they go, bury
1g in their ruins their disciples and
dvocates God can spare all the po-
tical intriguers of this day, and cap
aise up another generation who shall
o justice and love mercy. If God could
pare Luther before the reformation
'as done; and If He could spare Wash
igton before free government had
cen fully tested: and IL He could spare c
toward before more than one out Of a
lousand dungeons had been allevi- c
ted; and if He could spare Robert +
z Cheyne just as Scotland was gather
lg to his burning utterances; and ii
e could spare Thomas Clarkson while
et millions of his fellow-men had
lains rusting to the bone, then He can
,are any man, and He can spare any
irty.
That man who. through cowardice or
ind idolatry of party, forsakes the
use of righteousness, goes down, and
lie armed battalions of God march
Ter them
o Christian men, take out your Bible
is afternoon, and in the light of that
ord make up your mind as to what is