Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-12-20


the snip that carries them bears nine
parts of distilled damnation, and makes
the heather better acquainted with this
blot on civilization than any amenities.
A heathen chief sends an unavailing
plea to Christendum to cease the hellish
work; but We know our rights and
knowing dare maintain. The thrifty
English would Chris,ianizc China and
bangs the Gospel into him with cannon
double shotted with opium. she casts
her eyes on India and sends the East
lnGia Co. TO loot her temples, debauch
her women, and ravage the land. How
have we treated the heather in our own
land! We have stolen the land from
the Indian, harrled him from his home,
caioled him with lies, debauched him
with fire water, chased him from one
place to another, and, il he has turned,
as even worm will do, we have
adopted the maxim that "the only good
Indian is dead Indian" and have
made him good as fast as VIC could. We
pirate Of the Prince Of Peace, and Of the
Gospel of human brotherhood, and when
the Chinaman has come to see how 1t is
at home, we have iostlcd, bullied, bar
ried OUT of the land. What wonder
that one thrown off the sidewalk, picks
himself up ilecking the dust from his
garments and bowling serenely says:
You Clistlan, me heatheni allie same,
good bye" In some communities il
puts tile price of woman's shame, and
in most that of mans ruin in its treas
ury, trying to sttle conscience with the
plausible sophistry that il uses the
money to build and maintain the aims.
houses, hospitals and asylums to which
are consigned the finished product of
the soul-damning work; with not even
tho grace that Judas had to fling the
shekels, yet warm with the blood of be-
trnyed innocence in horror from it and
go out and hang.
But is the church Christian?
affirm that the Christian society, and
here make again distinction between
the church and the Christian society,
ever resident in it since the world
began, it is the plenipotentiary Of
Christianity, and Christianity is the
most revolutionary force in the
world. We are apt to measure it by its
numerical strength, its social position or
its material wealth; but that leaves out
of the account the mightiest factor,
God Jesus said "All power is given
unto me in heaven and in earth; go ye
therefore and disciple all nations; baptiZ-
ing them in the name OF the Father, the
Son and the Holy Ghost, and 10, am
| with you Away even unto the end OF
| world,o and later on, 1--WE shall receive
power after the Holy Ghost is come
upon you" Thus equipped the Christian
society is placed in the world 10 embody,
eXemplity and proclaim Christianity.
| The experience is Individual, but the
end is social. 1t is to propagate Chris.
tianlty as well as to proclaim Christ.
The revelation is two-fold, a divine
sonship as the foundation of human
brotherhood under the vision of Gods
fatherhood. The brother sous Of God
are no fragments, not individuals, each
working out his own redemption and
perfection alone. The logical outcome
Of ndividualistic religion is athelstic in
practice. The revelation of setism is
the revelation of diabolism. Gains
"Am my brothers Seeper2" is the
old testament of sin and separation
and "Let us alone" is the new
testament of devilism. Translated
into modern phrase the one is every
man for himself, and the devil take the
hindmost," and mind your own bust
ness and let mine alone" Tho
apostles OF this anli-gospel often
remind the Christian society thai
its Master was the meek and
lowly Jesus; that lie was no revolution,
ist, that He organized no revolt even
against the tyranny of Rome, made NJ
unii-slavery speeches, did not preact
| prohibition, was no Socialist. Such
however forget that He planted in tht
heart of His religion force which il
300 years leaped into the throne of The
CAESARS. There is moral dynamite
enough in the Golden Rule to shatter thu
letters of every slave, that the sermon
on the Mount would destroy every
vestige of the Internal traffic, and en-
throne chastity and purity in the though
as well US regulating the life Of man
that ii he refused to divide the inherit
ance between the brothers, He at thu
same time has given us rule Of lif,
which would forever destroy the bust
ness Of the lawyer. The Christian SO
cicty should at least be able to rise t.
the level of the motto of the old pagai
who said 81 myself am also man
and consider nothing human as foreigl
To me- Christianity is democratic il
its simplicity and its sympathy. l
knows no class distinctions. 1t has N
favored place for the man with o goll
ring and the goodly apparel, and wei
comes with like cordially the high ant
low, the rich aud the not rich, tn
learned and the ignorant Like that o
its Master and Lord the people hear it
message gladly. 1t is in the State, blu
not OF the State. Church and State ar
not convertible terms, nor are thei
powers coordinate. The Christian so
cigty should be on the right side of oil
questions. and on the wrong side of N
question. IL has no penalties for tho IN
fraction OF its principles; except thatau.
party or individual should be certain tina
such infraction would inevitably cost i
the support of such society. Its domi
nancy is the power of principles plante
in the mind and heart. 1t should there
fore become the ally of no party, for
should continue with no party excep
as that party is in the line of the ever
lasting right, and then it should be wit
il only because it could be nowhere elst
1t can never need the State, but tn
State will always need it, not indee
that it should reinforce the authority o
the State with the terror of spiritua
arm, but that it should be that the Stat
deserved by its rectitude the support d
all that were right. 1t may not bear tn
sword of State, for the testimony of nj
history is that such attempts have bee
fatal to its own well.being, But it mus
ever and forever bear its faithful wit
ness to righteousness by voice, vote an
life. 1t must declare that nothing that
morally wrong can be politically right