The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1893-09-07

and inclinatons are in harmony with the will
of God? And as the result of this peace with
God, are you at peace with yourself? Have
the tumult and agitation caused By sin in your
heart subsidized, under the influence of the
Gospel, like the sea after a storm? And lastly,
does Jog rule in your heart; not the superficial
happiness of the wording, but deep, abid-
ing everfowing gladness, arising from a con-
seriousness of acceptance and pardon, and hope
of final and everlasting righteousness and
peaeef"
We believe verse II is cure-all for dissen-
sion, and the hopeful outlook for Christian
unity. Nobody has put this better than DIR.
Thomas, so famous many years in Chicago:
And, now, it happens not only that this is the
essential thing in religion but that this is the
precise point upon which there is the deepest
and the most universal agreement. Men differ
as to thousand things about the theories of
rel giou, but they agree upon this; and it hap
pens again that this is precisely what our
world most needs. Oh, if all were honest, il all
were pure, if all were true. if all were kind and
loving this would be the Kingdom of God.
And as this is our need, and in this we agree,
righteousness should be the strong foundations
OF religion. for here we are not divided,
and here may arise the Hottest ideals, and here
glow the highest enthusiasm. And as we come
to the life of righteousness we shall come to
peace; peace among men; peace in the mil
lions of heating hearts, and peace with God. And
then there will be joy-tbe joy of being right
and doing right, and the joy of peace within,
and peace all around and above; and thus lifted
up and blest the joy of the Holy Spirit will flow
into the souls of men as light pours ont from
the sun. This is the Kingdom of Heaven that
Jesus came to set up in the heart"
.a Temperance.
One object of this lesson is to enforce the
doctrine of temperance. Verse 81 specifically
refers to the subject. 1t is well to instruct fire.
quently as to the great practical questions of
the day.
We permit two statesmen to speak. In
March. 1885, ex-Secretary Window said g do
not think overstato the case when say that
the 200, 600 saloons in this country have been
instrumental in destroying more human life
in the last fve years than the 100000 of arm
ell men during the four years of the rebellion.
There is an irrepressibe conflict upon us. This
Nation cannot endure half-drunk and half
sober any more than it could endure halfslave
and half-free"
Hon. John d. Long once declared: " hear 1t
said that this interest has paid thousand mil
lion into the public treasury; that it has sup
ported our armies; that it has paid our debts;
that it has maintained our Government. But,
sir. it has not paid one cent. Whisky has never
paid dollar. The people it is who, out of the
earnings of their toll, have paid millions for it
and its curses If a thousand million dollars
have gone into the public treasury. whisky has
been only the rotten bridge over which it has
passed. Contributed to the public welfare 1t
is rather the dynamite Of civilization ; and when
you reckon, as you do, the billions by which
you measure its production and cost you are
reckoning not any addition to the public well
fare, b1t you are reckoning the extent of the
public and National ruin, waste and poverty"