The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-12-14

the beauties or the seventh communo'
ment. The question OF sobriety and
drunkenness is thrust in the face OF
this nation as never before, and takes
n part in our political contests
The question of national sobriety
Is going TO be respectfully and
deferentially heard at the bar OF
every legislature, and every house OF
representatives and every state sem
ate; 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:
"rhus far shalt thou come, but no far
Their, and here shall thy proud waves
be stayed"
have not in my mind shadow OF
disheartenment as large as the shadow
OF housefy's wing, My faith is In
the upper forces, the upper armies OF
the text. God Is not dead. The char
lots 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: 1.-The Lord opened the eyes OF
the young man, and he saw; and be-
hold the mountain was full of horses
and chariots OF fire round about Eli
| sha."
When the army OF Antigonus 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,
1 La, La- unnraOv md
the soldiers were affrighted at the
smallness of their number and the
greatness of the enemy. Anti
genus. their commander, enlightened
himself up, and said, with indigna-
tion and vehemence: "How many do
| you reckon me to be?" And when we
see the vast armies arraycd against
the cause of sobriety, it may some
times be very discouraging, but 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 COM
mander. 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 of them.
Have you any doubt about the need
of the Christian religion to purify and
make decent American politics? At
every yearly or quadrennial election
we have in this country great manu-
actories-manufactori 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-bacls action. Lies com
plimentary and lies de famatory. Lies
that some people believe, and lies that
all the people believe, and lies that
nobody believes. Lies with humps
like camels and scales like croco-
diles, and nccks as long as
storks, and feet as swift as an
telope's, and stings like adders. Lies
raw and scalloped and panncd and
stewed. Crawling lies, and jumping
lies, and soaring lies. Lies with at.
tachment screws and ruffiers and
braiders and ready-wound bobbins.
Lies by Christian people who never lie
people who always lie, but beat them
selves in u presidential campaign.
| confess, am ashamed to have a
foreigner visit this country in such
times. should think he would stand
dazed. his hand on his pocketboolS.
and dare not go out nights. What will
the hundreds of thou sands of foreign
ers 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 can
not understand the English language.
But suppose the German, and Ital-
ian, and Swedish, and French papers
translate 1t all, and peddle out the in
fernal stuff to the subscribers.
| Do you say that this is impracticable?
No. The time is coming just as GER
tainly as there is n God, and that this
is His Book, and that lie has strength
and the honesty to fulfill His promise.
One of the ancient cmperors used
| to pride himself on performing
that which his counselors said
was impossible. and l have to
tell you to-day that mans impossi-
bilities are Gods easies. Hath He said,
and shall He not do 1T? Hath He COM
handed. and will He not bring it to
pass?" The Christian religion is COM
ing to take possession of every ballot
box, Of every school house, OF every
home, OF every valley. Of every noun
tain, Of every acre Of our national do
main. This nation, notwithstanding
all the evil influences that are trying
to destroy it, is going to live.
BY the mightiest of all agencies, tho
potency OF prayer. / beg you seek our
national welfare. Some time ago there
were four million six hundred thou
sand letters in the dead-letter post
office in this city-letters that lost
their way-but not one pr aver ever
directed to the heart of God mis-
carried. The way Is all clear for the
ascent OF your applications heaven
ward in behalf OF this nation. Before
the postal communication was so easy,
and long ago. on rock one hundred
feet high, on the coast of England,
there was barrel fastened to a post.
and In great letters Oh the side of the
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