Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-11-11

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the west. lie was able to stand out
against the whole American senate.
God had given him faculties enough to
govern kingdom or to frame consti-
tuition. His voice was terrible to his
country's enemies and a mighty inspir-
alton 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 con-
firmed ebriate. Alas for him! Though
a 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 its
mightiest intellects, and our country
O one of its ablest constitutional de-
tenders, was the dissipation OF political
life. You want to know who l mean?
Young man, ask your father when You
get home. The adverse tide is fearful,
and warn you against it!
You need not go far off to find the
WORKOUT politician. Here he is, stumb-
ling along the highway, his limbs
hardly able to hold him up. Bent over
and pale with cXhausting 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 men
who once were proud to be his constit-
uents. Manhood obliterated. Lip
blistered with curse. Scars OF
brutal assault on check and brow.
Foul mouthed. A crouching, 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 portentous, enough consuming,
enough damning, to describe the hor-
rible drunkenness that has rolled over
this land, and that has bent down the
neclss of some of the mightiest intel
lects, until they have been compelled
to drink out of the trough of bestiality
and abomination. warn young men
against political life, unless they are
teetotalers and consecrated, Christian
men.
Again, counsel you that, when you
go to the ballot 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
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 n
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 upsets
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
equity" House of Bourbon would not
do 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 poll
teal 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 poll
teal intriguers of this day and can raise
up another generation who shall do JUS
tice and love mercy. If God could
spare Luther before the Reformation
was done; and if he could spare Wash
ington before free government had
been fully tested; and If he could spare
Howard before more than one out of a
thousand dungeons had been allevi-
nted; and II he could spare Robert
M'Cheyne just as Scotland was gather
ing his burning utterances; and if he
could spare Thomas Clarkson while yet
millions6f his fellow-men had chains
rustling to the bone-then he can
spare any man, nd he can spare any
party. That man who, through cow
ardice or blind idolatry of party, for
sakes the cause of Righteousness goes
down, and the armed battalions of God
march over him.
Christian men! take out your Bible
this afternoon, and in the light Of that
word make up your mind us to what is
your duty as citizens Remember that
the highest kind of patriot is a CHS
tian patriot Consecrate yourselves
first to God, then you will know how
to consecrate yourselves to your coun-
try. All these political excitements
will be gone. Ballot boxes and guber-
material chairs and continents will
smoke in the final conhagration; but