Milford chronicle., 1893-11-10
= II < iN9 AND The OUII

AA0 WhOle scene reminds me of the ey
element we have almost every autumn al
the elections. While that goddess Diana
has lost her wOrshipers and her temnle.
have gone into the dust, our American peo-
pie want to set up a god in place of her
and they want us all to bow down befors
1t, and that god is political party. Com
sidering our superior civilization. 1 have to
| declare to you that the Ephesian idolatrv
was less offensivein the sight of God than
is this all absorbing American partisan
ship.
While there are honest men. true men
Christian men, who stand in both politi-
cal parties, and who come into the an
tumnal elections resolving to serve their
city or their state or the nation in the
best possible way, I have noticed also that
with many it is mere contest between
the ins and the outs-those who are irving
to stay in,and keep the outs out, and those
who are trying to get in and thrust the ins
out. And one party cries, Great is Diana
of the EphesiansW and the other marty
cries, Great is Diana of the EphesianslD
neither Of them honest enough to saw.
'Great is my pocketboollr'
Once or twice a year it is my custom to |
talk to the people about public affairs from /
what l call Christian standpoint. and
this morning have chosen for that duty
1 hope to say practical word History
tells US of sermon once preached amid
the highlands Of Scotland-a sermon two
hours long-on the sin of luxury where
there were not more than three pairs of
shoes in the audience, and during our last
war good man went into hospital dis
tracts and gave tract on 'The
Sin Of Dancing" to man both Of whose
legs had been amputatedl But I hope this
morning to present an appropriate and
adapted word as next Tuesday at the bal
OF box great affairs are to be settled.
The Rev. DR.. Emmons, in the early his
Ory of our country, in Massachusetts. .
preached about the election Of Thomas JEFF
erson to the presidency The Rev. DR.. !
dayhew of Boston, in the early days of our
epublic, preached about the repeal of the d,
tamp act. There are times when minis =
ers Of Christ must look off upon public =
fairs and discuss them. We need 20 back =
D no example. Every man is before God. \
for his own duty.
II the Norwegian boasts Of his home of .
0cks, and the Siberian is pleased with his :,
md of perpetual snow; il the Roman y
fought that the muddy Tiber was the v
lvored river in the sight of heaven, and If
le Laplander shivers out his euloqv of his l.
ative cline, and if the Chinese have pitv ~
n anybody born outside of the Flowerv =,
ingdom, shall not we, born under these A
ir skies and standing day by day amid Il
ose glorious civil and religious liberties. r.
public spirited? I propose to tell the III
ople very plainly what / consider to be in
cir Christian duty at the ballot box? p,
First, set yourself against all political h;
lsehood. The most monstrous lies ever ~
Id in this country are during the eIee-
ms stop at the door Of a Democratic bs
eeting and listen and hear that the Re ~
blieans are liars stop at the door Of a nj,
I. P''3ti1sl sl l-leoyiiiE anu Hs1eh ana hear wi
bic men microscopized, and the truth oe
torted. Who believes a tenth part of ~.
at he reads or hears in the autumnal b
ctions? Men who at other seasons of "a
, year are very careful in their speech ~
.Ome peddlers of scandal