St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-22
BECAUSE OF SORDIDNEss.
HAVE FORGOTTEN TRUE PATRI-
OTISM AND THE PRINCIPLES
OF FREEDOM.
MORGAN ON LONDON sLUMs
of Handling the Unem-
plOyed.


Peoples church yesterday morning
by c. H. Fem. He took for his text
John, ill.,, 2-''Rabbi, we know that
thou art a teacher come from God,
for no man doeth the miracles that
thou doeSt, except God be with him.
and said: Man, by his original
ability, has been able to take hold
of and use everything upon which
or around which he can walk. The
ground, the river, the forest-all af-
ford evidence Of his genius and abil-
ity in making them his servants.
They finally esape, the river to the
sea where it evermore is 1imitleSS
and free, and the work of his hand
falls under the tooth of time. But
when he has conquered some partic-
ular sphere of action, his ability
causes self-glory and vanity, and he
calls himself the king of creation.
1t is this equanimity that separates
him from divinity-he is selfish, in
tereSted in his own welfare solely.
His philanthropy is but the giving
of a few dollars to a being that Of
tends his sense, where he has money
enough of his own. His religion,
made by his own hand, has, it is
true, crude visions of Immortality,
for he is immortal. It knows right
and wrong, and builds up theogonies,
but it cannot stop decay. This
thought and teaching do not affect
the slaves of men to make them
happier On the contrary, it reasons
their lot to be in accordance with
right and justice. He excuses his
weaknesses on the plea of his great
ness. Thus we find man to be a
failure as an influence for good when
untouched by loftier thought.
There is something in man besides
the ability to think and reason and
become rich. AS a nation. we are
the evidence of the outgrowth of
that other characteristic. Philosoph-
ers in their hypothesis have ignored.
Hard men of sense have sneered
at it, but there it stands in the
nineteenth century. Liberty as the
development of a moral and relig-
ious struggle for mans own good
and the honor of God.
Before the advent of the Puritans,
according to Cheever, many colonies
were founded in North America for
the acquisition of gain, and one
after another passed away But this
people who left England - the
thought of the Magma Charta stir
ring their freedom-loving brains
came here on a bleak and barren
coast, among Indians and in a howl
ing wilderness, to advance the
Christian church and the glory of
God" And our legacy proves that
God could indicate a purpose.
In IVA, in the continental con-
gress, Randolph, Lee, John Adams,
Washington and many others, sur
rounded by the terrors of a nations
bloody birth, knelt to pray to the
God of the Puritans. These sagacious
business men who were able to be-
come wealthy by the exercise of
their ability, and who were able to
meet in war and conquer the great
est nation of the day, believed in a
hidden and unknown force that ia
Vored the freedom of mankind. In
the federal convention Ben Franklin
stood and moved that the God who
had brought this country to its pres
ent power should be invoked to
bless the delibera tons of the BODY
that was to make its constitution.
And Ben Franklin was so shreWd
as to astoniSh with his ability the
most brilliant court in Europe and
n 70
Alex Hamilton struck the rock
of public credit" but it was not
to make a nation, but to make an
implement for it after Bunker Hill
and the sons of freedom had laid its
foundations. But today Horn and
Harvey talk about silver and gold.
and the business man bowls about
10 to L, and claims that only new
monetary legislation will save the
country.
The Puritans thought that freedom
was worth the sacrifice of home, hap
plness, peace and even life. The sons
OF the Revolution believed it too.
and founded their politics upon that
basis. But now, their sons. rich in
their legacy, believe that this coun-
try has nothing of more Importance
than the gold in its mines or the
wool on the backs of its sheep.
JUST PLAIN HOGS.
Patriots indeed The business men
and all men-indeed most of the clergy
are hogs. Until we are ready to suf-
fer and, perhaps, die for something we
are not worthy the name of our an
CPStOrS &c al fE5o,
cured? BY a change of heart-that is.
by miracle. We cannot explain what
the change should be, but we can rec
ognize it. The business man sneers at
religion and everything else but his
money and his business; but the mir
acles are the realities, nevertheless.
The country of which he boasts is a
miraculous gift.
Or. Smith, in his brilliant address at
Toronto, says that the essentials of faith
Will sometime be as well known as the
laws of chemistry. Theology is the
scientific application of mans thought
to religion and the intellectual side of
faith will sometime be a settled law.
But no one will ever be able to ex-
plain the warming of the heart. the
enthusiasm of religion. It comes from
that source from which came the in
spiration of prayer, in the continental
congress or the Federal convention.
1t comes from the Being who is the
God of nations and said that that ma
ton should succeed which valued its
men more than its gold, its sons more
than its sheep. And though our bust
ness men seem to think more of their
pocket books and wool than of the
great legacy of the Revolution, the
United States of America is here to
prove the miracles of God.
God can change the hearts of men.
He can take our selfishness and give
US charity. Then, the philanthropy
that wa G once but the giving of q Al