The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1893-11-12

before night has come something has
taken you. There are , IG few cases
where men have been able to stand up
against the dissipations of political
life. Joseph was politician, but he
maintained his integrity. Daniel was
politician, but he was teetotaler to
the last Abraham was a politician,
but he was always characterized as
the father of the faithful. Moses was
q Dlitician, the grandest of them; but
he honored God more than he did the
Pharaohs. And there are hundreds of
Christian men now in the political
parties, maintaining their integrity,
even when they are obliged to stand
amidst the b.asted. lecherous, and
loathsome crew that sometimes
surround the ballot box; these
Christian men doing their political
duty, and then com ing back to the
prayer-meetings and Christian ,circles
as lure 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 politi-
cal conflict, and their eye is glazed
and their cheek has an unnatural
flush, rnd they talk louder than they
usually do and at the least proVoca-
tion they will bet, and you say they
are convivlaI, or they are exceedingly
vivacious, or you apply some other
sweet name to them: but God kno owG
Jney are drunk! Some OF you a month
or SIX weeks ago had no more religion
tnan you ought to have, and after the
elections are over, to calculate how
much religion you have left will be q
sum in vulgar fractions. oh, the
pressure is tremendous.
How many mighty intellects have
gone down under the dissipation of
pol tics! 1 think of one who came
from the west He was able to stand
out against the whole American
senate. God had given him faculties
enough to govern a kingdom, or to
frame constitution. His voice was
terrible to his countrys 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 the awful 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 defenders, was
the dissipation of political life. You
WduL " huOW WHO L 'dnS Ou0Q
man, ask your father when you get
home. The adverse tide is fearful,
and l warn you against it,
You need not go lar off to find the
worn-out politician. Here he is
Sr"rn ri'"% olcn" s1G hirhwav. his
limbs hardly able to hold MIN up
Bent over and pale with exhaust ng
sickness. Surly to anybody who ac-
costs him. lis last oecent article of
al 1n1
Glad if, wnen going by a grocery,
some low acquaintance invites him il
to take sip of ale, and then wiping
his lip with his greasy sleeve. Kicked
off the steps by men who once were
proud to be his constitu -nts Man
hood obliterated. Lip blistered with
u curse. Sears of brutal assault on
cheek and brow. Foul mouthed.
A coughing, staggering. Wheel
ing wretch. No friends. No God.
No Eope. No heaven. That is
your worn-out 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 damnirg, to describe the
horrible drunkenness that has rolled
over this land, and that hes bent down
the necks of some of the mightiest in
tellects, until they have b. en- com
PEELED to drink out of the trough OF
bestiality and atomination. 1 wan
young men against political life. un-
less they are teetotalers and conse-
Grated, Christian men.
Again, 1 counsel you that, when you
go to the ballot box at the city or the
state or the national elections, you
nd - La g..
his blessing There is power higher
than the ballot box, than the guber-
Material chair, than the Presidential
wnite house. 1t is high time that we
put less confidence in political plat
forms and more confidence in God.
See what weak thing is human fore
sight. How little our wise men seem
to know! See how, every autumn,
thousands of men who are clamberIng
up for higher positions are turned |
under. God upsetS them. Every man,
every party. every nation, has a
mission 10 perform. Failing to per- |
form it, down he goes
God said to the House of Bourbon, /
Remodel France, and establish |
equity" House OF Bourbon would not
90 It, Down it went God said to the
House of Stuart, Make the English
people free, God-fearing, and happy"
House of Stuart would not do it
Down it 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 go, bury
ing in their ruins their disciples and
advocates God can spare all the
political intriguers of this day, and
,an raise up another generation who
shall do justice and love
mercy. If God could spare
Luther before the Reforma-
ion was done; and If he could spare
before free govern
nent had been fully tested; and If he
'ould spare Howard before more than
me out of thousand dungeons had