Milford chronicle., 1895-12-06

| tied down upon THIS nation. The result
Of tho election was in dispute, and revolu-
ton, not between two or three sections
but revolution in every town and village
and city OF the United States, seemed Inn
minent The prospect was that New York
would throttlo New York, and Now Or
leans would grip New Orleans and Boston
Boston, and Savannah Savannah, and
I Washington Washington Some said Mr..
Tildon was elected, others said Mr.. Hayes
was elected, and how near we came to
universal massacre some Of us guessed,
but God only knew. ! asoribe our escape
not to the honesty and righteousness Of
Infatuated politicians, but ascribe it TO
the upper forces Of the text,
God the Friend of the Nation.
Charlots Of mercy rolled iii, and though
/ the wheels were not beard, and the flash
was not seen, yet all through the noun
tains Of the north and the south, and tho
east and tho west, though tho hoofs did
not chatter tho cavalry OF God galloped
/ by. tell you God is the friend of this
nation. In the awful excitement at the
massacre Of Lincoln, when there was a
prospect that greater slaughter would open
upon this nation God hushed the tempest
In the awful excitement at tho time of
Garneld's assassination God put his foot
on the peck of the cyclone. To prove God
is on the side of this nation | argue from
the last eight or nine great national har
vests, and from the national health of the
last quarter Of century, epidomics very
exceptional, and from the great reviYals Of
religion, and from the spreading of the
church Of God, and from the continent
blossomipg with asylums and reformatory
institutions, and from an Colonization
which promises that this whole land is to
DO paradise, where God shall walk.
am encouraged more that I can tell
you as see the regiments wheeling down
the sky, and my ieremiads turn into dox-
ologies, and that which was the Good Fri
day OF the nations prucitlxion becomes
the Easter morn Of its resurrection. OF
course God works through human instru-
mentallties, and this national betterment
Is to come among other things through a
sorutinized ballot box. BY the law of reg
istration it is almost impossible now to
have Illegal voting. FheEa Was d time-
you and 1 remember it very well-when
droves Of vagabonds wandered up and
down on election day, and from poll to
poll, and voted here and voted there and
voted everywhere and there was no ehal-
lenge, OF, If there were, 1t amounted TO
ly be proved upon the vagabonds. Now
in every well organized neighborhood every
voter is watched with soyerest scrutiny
If am IN region whore / am allowed q /
vote, must tell the registrar my name,
and how old I am, and how long I have /
resided in the state, and how long ] have (
resided ia Fhe ward or the township, and 1
il / misrepresnnt 90 witnesses will rise and /
shut me out from the ballot box, Is not I
that great advances And then notice /
the law that prohibits man voting II be 1
has bet on tho election. A step farther /
needs to be taken, and that man forbidden /
a vote who has offered or taken a bride, |
whether it be in the shape Of q free drink |
or cash paid down. the suspicious cases I
Obliged to put their hand on the Bible and 1
swear their vote in if thoy vote at all, So, I
through the sacred chest Of our nations
suffrage, redemption will come.
Wash Out Your Eyes.
God will save this nation through an
aroused moral sentiment, There has never
been so much discussion Of morals and
minerals Men, whether or not they ao-
knowledge what is right, have to think
what is right. We have men who have
had their hands in the public treasury tho
most of their lifetime stealing all they
could lay their hands on, disoOursing elo-
quently about dishonesty in public sery-
ants, and men with two or three families
of their own preaching elOquently about
the beauties of the seventh commandment
The question of sobrioty and drunkenness
is thrust in the face of this nation as never
before ana takes q part IN our political
contests The question of national So
briefly is going to be respectfully and def
erentially heard at the bar of every legis-
lature, and every house Of representatives,
and every state senate, anu an omnipotent
voice win ring down the sky and across
this land and back again, saying to these
rising tides of drunkenness which threaten
to whelm homo and church and nation
''Thus far shalt thou come, but no farther,
and here shall thy proud waves be staid
have not in my mind "a shadow of dis
heartment as large as the shadow Of a
house iy's wing. Ny faith is in the upper
forces the upper armies OF tho text. God
is not dead. The chariots are not un-
wheeled. If you would only pray more
and wash your eyes IN the cool, bright
water fresh from the well Of Christian re-
FORM it would be said of you, as Of this
one Of the text, "Ihe Lord opened the eyes
of the young man, and he saw, and, be-
hold, the mountain was full of horses and
ehariots OF Dire round about elisha.
When the army Of Ambiguous went into
battle, his soldiers were very much dis
and they rushed up to the gen
eral and said to him, Don't you see we
have feY forces and they hpYp 80 many
morsf And the soldiers were afirighted at
the smallness of their number and the
greatness Of the enemy. Ambiguous, their
commander Strengthened himself up and
said, with indignation md Yehemence,
How many do you reckon mo to hef' /
And when we SEQ tho vast armies arrayed {
against the cause OF sobrioty it may some
times be very discouraging, but l ask you
in making up your estimate of the forces
pf righteousnesg-I ask you how many
10 YOU reckon the Lord God Almighty to
beg He Is our commander. Tho Lord Of
Hosts Is his name. / have the best au-
thority for saying that the ohariots Of God
pre- q, 600, and the mountains are full Of
Ihem.
Politics Needs Religion.
Have you any doubt about tho need Of
ihe Christian religion to purify and make ,
iecent American politiess At every yearly
1r quadFnnnial election we have in this /
country great acknowledgements
ories Of iies-and they are run day and J
right and they turn out half a dozen
lay, all equipped and ready for full sail {
ne. Large lies and small les Lies pri= !
rate, and lies paplie, and lies prurlent
les cut bias, end lies cut diagonal, long (
imbcd lies, and lies with douhln back ac- J
ion; lies complimentary, and lies defamas
DRY; lies that some people believe and
les that all the people believe, and lies
hat nobody believes; lies with humps like
.mncls, and scales like croeodiles, and
iecks as long as storks, and foot as swift
Is an antelope's, and stings like adders;
les raw and scaIloped and PANIED and
tewod; crawling lies, and jumping lies,
md soaring lies; lies with attachment !
crews aud rufiers and braidgrs and ready ]
gound bobbinsi lies by Christian people {
Who never lie except during elections, and
los by psople who always lie ut beat {
themselves in presidential campaign, {
] confess am ashamed to havo for
,iqner visit this country IN such times. /