Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1895-12-05

nave rev forces, ana tIiey lave SO many
more?" And the soldiers were affrighted at
the smallness of their number and the
greatness of the enemy. Antigonus, their
commander, Strengthened himself up and
said, with Indignation and vehemence,
"How many do you reckon me to beP"
And when we see the vast armies arrayed
against tho cause of sobriety it may some |
times be very discouraging, but l ask you |
In making up your estimate of the forces |
of righteousness-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 au- |
thority for saying that the chariots of God
are 1000, and the mountains are full of
them.
Politics Needs Religion.
Have you any doubt about the need of
the Christian religion to purify and make
decent American pnlitics? At every yearly
or quadrenrial election we have in this
country great ufactories-manufao-
tories Of lies land they are run Gay ana
night, and they turn out half dozen
day, oil equipped and ready for full sail
ing. Large lies and small lies. Lies pri
vate, and lies public and lies prurient,
lies cut bias, and lies cut diagonal, long
limbod lies, and lies with double back ao-
ton; lies complimentary, and lies defama-
tory; 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 crocodiles, and
necks as long as storks, and feet as swift
as an antelope's, and stings like adders;
lies raw and scalloped and panned and
80 Nnc
and soaring lies; lies with attachment
Lcrews and rufflers and braiders and ready
wound bobbins; lies by Christian people
who never lie except during elections, and
lies by people 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 pocketbook, and dare not go
out nights. What will the hundreds 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 understand the English Ian
guage. But suppose the German and
Italian and Swedish and French papers
translate it all and peddle out the internal
stuff to the subscribers.
Nothing but Christianity will ever stop
such flood of indecency. The Christian
religion will speak after awhile. The
billingsgate and low scandal through
which we wade every year of every four
years must be rebuked by that religion
which speaks from its two great noun
| tains-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 religion.
| There are two kinds of national religion.
The one is supported by the state and is
matter of human politics, and it has great
patronage, and under it men will struggle
for prominence without reference to quail
fications, and its archbishop Is supported
by salary of $4,000 year, and there
are great cathedrals, with all the maohin-
cry of music and canonicals, and room for
1000 people, yet an audience of so people,
or 30 people, or 10 or 2. We want no sr"h
religion as that, no such national religion,
but we want this kind of national religion
tho vast majority of the people converted
and evangelized-andt then they will man.
age the secular as well as the religious.
Church Will Rule the Ballot Box.
Do you say that this is impracticableP
No. The time Is coming just as certainly
as there is a God, and that this is his
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 his counselors said
was impossible, and have to tell you to-
day that mans impossibles are Gods
easies. "Hath he said, and shall he not
do itP Hath he commanded, and will he
not bring it to pass?" The Christian re-
ligion is coming to take possession of ev-
cry ballot box, of every schoolhouse, of
every home, of every valley, of every
mountain, of every acre of our national
domain. This nation, Notwithstanding
all tho evil influences that are trying to
destroy it, is going to live.
Never since, according to John Milton,
, when "satan was hurled hcadlong flaming
from the ethereal skies in hideous ruin
and combustion down." have the powers
of darkness been so determined to win this
continent as now. What a jewel it is-a
jewel carved in relief, tho cameo of this
planet! On one side OF US the Atlantic
ocean, dividing us from the wornout gov
ernments of Europe. On the other side
the Pacific ocean, dividing us from the
superstitions of Asia. On the north of III
tho arctic sea, which is the gymnasium
in which the explorers and navigators dc
velop their courage. A continent 10, 50(
miles long, 100000 square miles ant
all Of it but about one-seventh capable o.
rich cultivation. One hundred million!
of population on this continent of Nortf
and South America-100, 600, 900 ant
room for many hundred millions more
All flora and all fauna, all metals and al
precious woods and all grains and al
fruits. The Appalachian range the back
bone and the rivers the ganglia carrying
life all through and out to the extremities
Isthmus of Darien the narrow waist of
giant continent all to be under one gov
ernment and all free and all Christian ant
the scene Of Christ's personal reign ol
earth IL according to the expectation o
many good neople ha shall at last sat I'll