Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-12-07

cut diagonal. Long limbed 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 stings like adders. Lies raw
and scalloped and PANIED and stewed.
Crawling lies and jumping lies and
soaring lies, Lies with attachment
screws and ruffiers and braiders and
ready wound bobbins. Lies by Christian
people who never lie except during cleo
lions, and lies by people who always lie.
but beat themselves in a presidential
campaign
A Potent Force.
confess I am ashamed to have for
eigner visit this country in such times.
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 ont the Internal stuff to the
subscribers.
Nothing but Christianity will ever
stop such food of indccency. The
Christian religion will speak after
awhile. The billingsgato and low scandal
through which we wade every year or
every four years must DO rebuked by
that religion which speaks from its two
great Administration 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
cursiDg. Yes, we are going to have a
national religion. There are two kinds
of national religion. The one is support !
ed by the state, and is a matter of hu-
man politics, and it has great patronage,
and under it men will struggle for
prominence without reference to quail |
fieations, and its archbishop is supported |
by salary of $75, 200 year, and there
are great cathedrals, with all the ma
chinery of music ard canonioals, and
room for thousand people, yet an au-
dience of fifty people, or twenty people,
or 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
verted and evangelized-and then they
will manage tho secular as well as the
religious.
Do you say that this is unprecedented
No. The time is coming just as Ger
tainly as there is God, and that this is
his book, and that be has the strength
and the honesty to fulfill his promises.
One of the ancient emperors used to
pride himself ON performing that which
his counselors said was impossible, and
have to tell you today that mans inn
possibles are Gods easies. Hath he
said, and shall he not do it, Hath he
commanded, and will be not bring it to
pass?" Tho Christian religion is coming
totake possession Of every ballot box, Of
every schoolhouse. of evey home, of ev-
cry valley, Of every mountain, Of every
acre of our national domain. This ma
ton, notwithstanding all the evil influ-
ences that are trying to destroy it, is
going TO live.
Never since, according TO JOHN Mil
ton, when satan was hurled headlong
flaming from the ethereal skies in hid
eous ruin and combustion down" have
the powers Of darkness been so deter
mined to win this continent as now.
What jewel it is--a jewel carved in
relief, the cameo Of this planeti On
one side of us the Atlantic ocean, divid-
ing us from the wornout governments
of Europe. On the other side the Pacific
ocean, dividing us from the supersti-
tions of Asia. On the north Of us the
arct1c sea, which il the gymnasium in
which the explorers and navigators de-
velop their courage. a continent 10, SEQ
miles long, 1900, 0c0 square miles,
aud all Of it but about one-seyenth capa-
bic Of rich cultivation. One hundred
millions Of population on this continent
Of North and South America--100, 000,-
GOO, and room for many hundred mil
lions more. All fora and all fauna, all
metals and all precious woods, and all
grains and all fruits. The Appalachian
range the backbone, and the riyes the
gaDglia carrying life all through and
ont TO the extremitics, isshmus Of
Darien, the narrow waist of giant con
tinent, all to be under one government,
and all free, and all Christian, and the
scene Of Christ's personal reign on earth
if, according to the expectation Of many
good people, he shall at last set up his
throne in this world. Who shall have
this hemisphere, Christ or satan? Who
shall have the shore CT her inland seas,
the silver Of her Nevadas, the gold Of |
her Colorados, the telescopes Of her OBJ
servateries, the brain Of her universities,
tho wheat Of her praifies, the rice CT her I
savanBas, the two great ocean beaches
the one reaching from Bafinss bay 10
TERRA del Fuego, and the other from
Bering strait TO Cape Horn--and all
the moral and temporal and spiritual |
and everlasting interests Of population
vast beyond all human computation?
Who shall have the hemisphere You
and I will decide that, or help to de-
eide it, by conscientious vote, by earnest
prayer, by maintenance Of Christian in
stitutions, by support Of great philan-
thropies. by putting body, mind and |
soul on the right side Of all moral, re-
hgious and national movements