The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1895-12-06
C. D. BOSS & SON, new LONDON, Col
originators and Sole Manufacturers.


ing to be respectfully and deferentially
heard at the bar Of every Legislature,
and every house Of representatives, and
every state senate, and an omnipotent
voice will ring down tho sky and across
this land and back again, saying to these
rising tides of drunkenness which threat.
EN- to whelm home and church and ma
ton, "Thus far shalt thou come, but no
farther, and here shall thy proud waves
be staid:"
Antigonus' Army.
have not III my mind a shadow of
disheartment MS large as the shadow of
house fly's wing. My faith is in the
upper forces, the upper armies OF the
text. God is not dead. The chariots are
not unwheeled. If you would only pray
more and wash your eyes in the cool,
bright water fresh from the well Of
sou, as Of this one of the text, "The
Lord opened the eyes Of the young man,
and he saw, and, behold, tho mountain
was full Of horses aud chariots Of fire
round about Elisha.
When the army Of AntigoDUs went
into battle, his soldiers were very much
discouraged, and they rushed up 20 the
general and said to him, Don't you
see we have few forces and they have
so many more?" And tho soldiers were
affrighted at the smallness of their num-
Der and the greatness of the enemy.
Aptioop1c fbcir ron, r,,o ,lpr ctroiclt
ened himself up and said, with inGigna-
ton and vehemence, "How many 90 you
reckon me to Lef' And when we sec
the vast armies arraycd against the
cause of sobriety it may sometimes be
very discouraging, but l ask you in
making up your estimate of the forces
of righteousness ask you how many
do you reckon tho Lord God Almighty
to be? He is cur commander. The Lord
Of Hosts is his name l have the best
authority for saying that tho chariots of
God are 90. 900. and the mountains are
full of them.
Have you any doubt about the need
Of the Christian religion to purify and
make decent American politics? At ev-
cry yearly Or quadrennial election we
have in this country great manufactures
manufactures of lies--and they are
run day and night, and they turn out
half dozen day, all equipped and
ready for full sailing. Large lies and
small lies Lies private and lies public
and lies prurient. Lies cut bias and lies
cut diagonal. Long limhed lies and lies
with double back action. Lies compli
mentary and lies defamatory. Lies that
some people believe and lies that all the
people believe, and lies that nobody be-
lieves. Lies with humps like camels, and
scales like crocodiles, and necks as long
as storks, and feet as swift as an ante
lope's, and stihgs like adders Lies raw
and scalloped and PANIED and stewed.
Crawling lies and jumping lies and
soaring lies. Lies with attachment
screws and rufflers and braiders and
ready wound bobbins. Lies by Christian
people who never lie except during cleo
tions, and lies by people who always lie,
but beat themselves in presidential
campaign.
A Potent Force.
confess I am ashamed to have for
eigner visit this country in such times.
l should think he would stand dazed,
his hand ON his pocketbook, and dare
not go out nights. What will the hun
dreds of thousands of foreigners who
come here to live think of us? What a
disgust they must have for the land of
their adoption. The only good thing
about it is many of them cannot under
stand the English language. But sup
pose the German and Italian and Swed-
ish and French papers translate it all
and peddle out the internal stuff to the
subscribers.
Nothing but Christianity will ever
stop such flood of indecency The
Christian religion will speak after
awhile. The billingsgate and low scandal
through which we wade every year or
every four years must be rebulso~l by
that religion which speaks from its two
greatmountains-f the one mountain
intoning the command, "Thou shalt not
bear false witness against thy neighbor,"
and from the other mount making plea
for kindness and blessing rather than
cursing. Yes, we are going to have q
national religion. There are two kinds
Of NATIONAL religion. The one is support
ed by the state, and is matter of hui
man politics, and it has great patronage,
and under it men will struggle for
prominence without reference to quail
fications, and its archbishop is supported
by a salary of SIS, 900 year, and there
are great cathedrals, with all the ma
chinery Of music and canonicals, and
room for a thousand people, yet an au-
dience Of fifty people, or twenty people,
OF ten or two. We want no such religion
as that, no such national religion, but
we want this kind of national religion
the vast majority of the people con-
verified and eyangelized-and then they
will manage the secular as well as the
religious.
D. you say that this is impraoticablc?
No. The time is coming Just as Ger
tainly as there is God, and that this is
his book, and that he has the strength
and the honesty to fulfill his promises
One of the anciena emrerors used to
pride himself on performing that whiol.
his counselors said was impossible, and
1 have to tell you today that mars i'm
possibles arc Gods eaSes. "Lath he
said, and shall lie not do it? Hath he
commanded, and will be net bring it to
pass" The Christian religion is ecniug
totake possession Of every ballot box, CT
every schoolhouso, of oyoy home, Of ev
cry valley, CT every mountain. Of every
acre Of our national dona.s. lhii ma
ton, Notwithstanding al Tic cvil intin-
ences that are trying to dea;ruy it, is
going TO live.
Never since, according 20 John Nil
ton, when satan was hrllsd htadioTf