Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1893-11-17

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OF the amount do you suppose has been prop
erly used? You have a right 10 spend money
for the publishing OF political tracts, for the
establishment Of organizations for the carry
ing out OF what you consider to DO the best /;
you have a right to appeal TO tho reason OF
men by argument AMI statistics aud by facts.
Printing and renting OF public halls and po-
ltical meetings cost money, but he who puts
bride into the hand of "A voter or plies weak
men with mercenary and corrupt motives
commits a sin against God and the Nation.
Bribery Is ono OF tn9 most appalling sins
OF this country. Col says Fire shall con-
sumo the taDernacles Of bribery" Have
nothing 10 do with such sin, 0 Christian
mani Fling 1t from the ballot box. Hand
over to the police the man wlo attempts to
tamper with your vote, and remember that
elections that cannot be carried without
brides ought never to be carried at all.
Again ask you as Christirn men to set your
selves against the designations that hover over
the ballot box. Let mo say that no man can
Afford TO 30 into political life who is not a
IretuIaIer. not pOutIcaI discussion somehow
creates an unnatural thirst aud hundreds OF
thousands " men have gone down into
drunkenness through political life.
Alter an exciting canvass through the
evening you must take something" and
rising in tho morning with less animation
than usual you must take something" and
going of among your comrades through the
forenoon you meet political friends, ana YOU
must take something" and in the afternoon
you meet other political friends, AMI YOU
must take something" and being niyht ha.
come something has taken you. There aro
but few cases where men have been able to
stand up against the designations OF political
life
Joseph was a politician, but he maintained
his integrity. Daniel was politician, but
he was teetotalcr 10 tho las Arrallu
was politician, but he was always clnrtr-
torized Us the father OF tho faithful. Moses
was q politician, the graniest OF them, but
he honored God more than he did the Phar-
aohs, and there Hre hundreds OF Christian
men now in the political parties maintaining
their integrity, even when they ara obliged
to stand amid the blasted, lccherous an
loathsome crew that sometimes surround the
ballot box-these Christian men doing their
political duty and then coming back to the
prayer meetings and Christian circles a. pure
as when they went out. But that is not the
ordinary circumstance-that Is the exccp.
ton.
How often you see men coming back from
the political conflict, and their eyels gaZel,
and their cheek has an unnatural flush, AMI
they talk louder than they usually do and ut
the least provocation they will bet, and you
say they are convivlal or they are rxcced
ingly vivacious, or you apply some other
sweet name to them, but God knows they are
drunk Some OF you, IA month or six weeks
ago, had no more religion than you ought 10
have, and after the elections are over to cal
culate how much religion you have left will
be a sum In vulgar fractions. Oh, the pres
sure Is tremendous
How many mighty intellects have gone
down under the dissipation of politics
think OF one who oame from the west He
was able TO stand out against the whole
American Senate. God had given him fac
ulties enough TO govern kingdom. or to
frame constitution. His voice was terri
bic 10 his country's enemies and mighty In
SEPARATION in the day OF National peril. But
twenty glasses OF strong drink day were
his usual allowance, and he went down into
the habits OF a confirmed inebriate.
Alas for him Though costly monument
AAs been reared over HIS resting place, tho
young men OF this country shall not be de-
MED tho awful lesson that the agency by
which the world was robbed OF one OF its
nightiest intellects and our country OF one
OF its ablest constitutional defenders, was the
dissipation OF political life. You want to
know who | mean2 Young man, ask your
tather wheE you get home. The adverse tide
is fearful, and warn you against II.
You need not so far off to find the worn
out politician. Here he is, stumbling along
the highway, his limbs hardly able to hold
him up. Bent over anu pale with exhaj.---
ing sickness. Burly to anybody who accos.s
him. His last decent article oi apparel
)wned for strong drink. Glad II, when GO
ing by grocery, some low acquaintance in
vites him In 10 take sip OF ale and then
wiping his lip with his greasy sleeve.
Kicked of the steps by men who once wcro
proud to DO his constituents. Manhood OBJ
liberated. Lip blistered with a curse Sears
OF brutal assault on check and brow Foul
mouthed. A crouching, staggering. whoez-
ing wretch. No friends. No God. No hope.
No heaven.
That is your WORKOUT politician. That il
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 portantious,
enough consuming, enough dRmning, to de-
scribe the horrible drunkenness that has
rolled over this land, and that has bent down
the necks OF some of the mightest inteIlects,
until they have been compelled to drink out
OF the trough OF bestiality and abomination
| warn young men against political life, un-
less they are teetotalers and consecrated
Christian men.
Again, l counsel YOU that when you go to
the ballot box at the city, OF the State, or the
National elections, you recognize God and
appeal to Him for His blessing. There is a
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 Chamber.
ing up for higher positions are turned under
God upsets them. Every man, every party,
every Nation, has mission to perform. Fall.
ing to perform it, down he goes.
God said to the house OF Bourbon, "Re-
model France and establish equity" House
OF Bourbon would not do 1t. Down 1t went.
God said to the house of Stuart, make thS
English people free, God fearing and happy
House Of Stuart would not do II. Down Il
went. God says to the political parties In
this day, "by the principles OF Christianity,
remodel, govern, educate, save the people.
Failing to do that, down they 20, burying in
their ruins their disciples and advocates
God can spare all the political intriguers Of
this day, and can raise up another genera
ton who shall do justice and love mercy
II God could spare Luther before the re-
formation was done, and il He could spart
Washington before free government had beer
fully tested, and II He could spare Howard
before more than one out OF Thousand
dungeons had been aleYiated, and II HI,
could spare Robert McCheyne Just as Scot
land was gathering to his burning utterances,
and il He could spare Thomas Carkson
while yet millions OF his fellow men had
chains rusting to the bone-then He can
spare any man, and He can spare any part Y.
Ihat man who through cowardce or blind
idolatry OF party forsakes the cause OF righte-
BUSINESS goes 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 rs citizens Remember that the high
est kind OF patriot is Christian patriot.
COnsecrate yourselves. first to God, then
you will know how to consecrate yourselves
to your country. All these political excite
ments will be gone. Ballot boxes and GU
bernatorial chairs and continents will smoke
in tho final conaagration, but those who
love God and do their best shall come to
lustrous dominion after the stars have