The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-12-06


morals and imiaorais Men, whether or
not they acknowledge what is right,
have to think what is right. We have
men who have had their handSsin the
public treasury the most OF. their life
time, stealing all they could lay their
hands on, discourslng eloquently about
dishonesty in public servants; and men
with two or three families OF their own,
preaching eloquently about the beauties
OF the seventh commandment. The
question OF sobriety and drunkenness
Is thrust in the face OF this nation as
never before, and takes a part in our
political contests. The question OF ma
tional sobriety is going. to be respect
fully 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 the sky and across this land
and back again, saying to these rising
tides Of drunkenness which threaten to
whelm home and church and nation:
Thus far shalt thou come. but no
further, and here shall thy proud waves
be stayed"
l have not In my mind shadow OF
disheartment as large as the shadow OF
house-hy's wing. My faith is in the
upper forces, the upper armies OF tho
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 Christian reform, 1t would be said OF
you, as of this one of the text: THE
Lord opened the eyes of the young man,
and he saw; and behold the mountain
was full of horses and chariots Of fire
round about Elisha"
When the army OF Ambiguous went
! into battle his soldiers were very much
discouraged, and they rushed UP to the
! General and said to him: Don't you
see we have few forces, and they have
| so many more?" and the soldiers Were
| affrighted at the smallness OF their
number and the greatness of the enemy.
Antigonus, their commander, straight
ened himself up and said, with indigna-
| ton and vehemence: How many do
you reckon me to be-" And when
we see the vast armies arrayed 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 the Lord God Almighty
! to be? He is our commander. The
Lord of Hosts is his name. / have the
best authority for saying that the
chariots of God are twenty
thousand and the mountains are full or
them.
Have you any doubt about the need
of the Christian religion to purify and
make decent American politics? AZ,
every yearly or quadrennial election we
have in this country great manufac-
Observation-Disclosures 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-limbed lies,
and lies with double back action. Lies
complimentary, and lies defamatory.
Lies that some people believe, and lies
that all people believe, and lies that
nobody believes. Lies with humps like
camels and scales like crocodiles, and
necks as long as storks, and feet as
swift as an antelope's, and stings like
adders. Lies raw and scolloped and
panned and stewed. Crawling lies and
Jumping lies and soaring lies. Lies
with attachment screws and ruffiers and
braiders and ready-wound bobbins.
Lies BIZ Christian people who never lie
except during elections, and lies by peo-
pie who always lie, but beat themselves
In presidential campaign.
confess, am ashamed to have for
eigner visit this country in such times.
| should think he would stand dazed.
his hand on his pocket-book, and dare
not go out nights. What will the hun
dreds of thousands of foreigners who
come here to live think of us? What
disgust they must have for the land OF
their adoption! The only good thing
about it is. many of them cannot uEder-
stand the English language. But Nap.
pose the German and italian and SwiH-
ish and French papers translate it all,
and peddle out the internal stuff to ths
subscribers.
Nothing but Christianity will ever
stop such a flood of indecency. The
Christian religion wiz speak after
awhile. The billingsgate and low scan
dial through which We wade every year
or every four years must be rebuked
by that religion which speaks from its
two great mountains, from 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 national reli-
glon. There are two kinds Of national
religion. The one is supported by the
} state and is a matter of human politics,
and it has great patronage, and under 1t
J men will struggle for prominence with
ont reference to qualifications, and its
!; archbishop is supported by salary OF
} s75. 900 year, and there are great cath.
edrais. with all the machinery of music
J and eanonicals, and room for a thou