Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-12-02

and every mouse VI representatives, anu
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 threat
en- to whelm home and church and ma
ton. .sThus far shalt thou come. but no
farther, and here shall thy proud waves
be staid. .
Antigonus' Army
have not in my mind a shadow of
disheartment as large as the shadow of
a house fy's wing. My faith is in the
upper forces, the upper armies of the
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 we'll of
Christian reform, it would be said of
you, as of this one of the text. "The
Lord opened the eyes Of thu young man,
and he saw, and, behold, the mountain
was full Of horses and chariots of fire
round about Elisha
When tie 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
S0O we Idh3 al INV -CACCS tiIlO InGV nave
SO many more?" And the -oldiers were
affrighted at the smal lnces of their num-
Der and the greatness Of the enemy.
Ambiguous, their commander, straight
ened himself up and said with indigna-
ton and vehemence, Chow 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 I ask you in
making up your estimate of the forces
of ghteousness-I 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 10000, 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 ev-
cry yearly or quadrennial election we
have in this country great manufactures
manufactures of lies-and they are
run day and night, and they turn out
half a dozen a 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 imbed 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-
Heves. 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.
I confess am ashamed to have for
eigner visit this country in such times
I should think he would stand dazed,
his hand on his pocketbook, and daro
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 under
stand the English language. But I sup
pose the German and Italian and Swed-
ish and French papers translate it all
and peddle out the Internal stuff to tho
Nothing but Christianity will ever
stop such a flood of indecency. The
Christian religion will speak after
awhile. The billingsgate and low scandal
through which we wade every year on
every four years must be rebuked by
that religion which speaks from it's two
great mountains-from the one mountain
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
religion. There are two kinds
of national religion. The one is support
ed by the state, and is a matter of hui
man politics, and it has great patronage,
and under it men will struggle for
without reference to quail
fications, and it's archbishop is supported
by salary of $75, 900 year, and there
are great cathedrals, with all the ma
chinery OF music and canonicals, 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 the secular as we'll as the
religious.
Do you say that this is impracticable?
No. The time is coming just as Ger
5ainly as there is God, and that this is
ais book, and that he has the strength |
and the honesty to fulfill his promises
One of the ancient emperors used to
pride himself on performing that which |
1is counselors said was impossible, and |