Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1895-12-07

test on the Southern side was Il man in
rnidlife, who had in his veins the blood of
many generations Of warriors. himself
one of the heroes of Churubusco and
Cerro GOrdo. COntroras and Chapulte-
pee. AS the years passed on and the scroll
of carnage unrolled there came out from
both sides lnroism. and a strength, and
determination that the world had never
seen marshaled. And what but exter-
mination could come when Philip Sheri-
dan and Stonewall jackson met. and
Nathaniel Lyon and Sidney Johnston rode
in from North and South. and Grant and
Lee, the two thunderbolts of battle,
clashed: Yet we are IL nation. and yet
we are at peace. Earthly courage did
not decide the conflict The upper forces
of the teXt-they tell us there was bat
tie fought above the clouds on Lookout
Mountain. but there was something higher
than that.
Again. the horses and chariots of God
came TO the rescue of this nation in 1876,
at the close of Presidential election ia
nous for ferocity. A darker cloud yet
settled down upon this nation. The re-
suit of the election was in dispute. and
revolution. not between two or three sec
tons. but revolution in every town and
seemed imminent. The prospect was that
New York would throttle New York.
and New Orleans would grip New Or
leans, and Boston Boston. and Savannah
Savannah, and Washington Washington
Some said Mr.. Til''en was elected, others
said Mr.. Hayes WIS elected. and how near
we came TO universal wassacre some OF
us guessed, but God only knows. 1
aScribe our escape rot to the honesty and
Righteousness of Infatuated politicians
but ascribe it to the upper forces of the
text.
God the Friend of the Nation.
Charlotte of mercy rolled in, and though
the wheels were not heard, and the flash
was not seen, yet eli through the noun
tains of the north. end the south, and the
east. and the west. though the hoofs did
not CHATTER, the 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 gre9ter slaughter would
open upon this nation. God hushed the
tempest. In the awful excitement at the
time Of Gartield's assassination God put
his foot on the neck of the cyclone. To
prove God is on the side Of this nation |
81 -At nun TIC lSsc- t4-ut Oi nine %ttdl
national harvests, end from the national
health OF the last quarter of a century.
epidomics very exceptional. and from the
great REVEALS of religion. and from the
spreading of the church of God and from
the continent blossomiug with asyIums
ana reformatory Institutions. and from IN
Edenization which promises that this
whole land is to be paradise whore God
shall walk
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
acknowledge what is right, have to think
what is right. We have men who have
had their hands in the public treasury the
most of their lifetime, stealing all they
could lay their hands ON. dscoursing elo-
qu"ntly about dishonesty III public ser
wants, and men with two or three fami-
lies of their own preaching eloquently
about the beauties of the seventh COM
mandment. The question of sobriety ana
drunkenness is thrust in the face of This
nation as never before and takes a Part
III our political ccntestS. The question OF
national sobriety is going TO be respectful
Is ana defcrentisliy heard at the bar Of
every legislature. and every house OF
representatives., snd every State senate
and an Omnipotcnt voice will ring down
the sky and across this land and back
again, saying to tAese rising tides of drunk
enness which threaten to whem home aud
church and nation, Thus far shalt thou
come. but no farther. and here shall thy
proud waves be stad.'
L have not III my mind shadow of dis
hoartment as large as the shadow OF
house fly's wing. My faith is in the up
per forces. the upper armies Of the text
God is not dead. The charots 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 re-
form, it would be said of you. as of this
one of the text, The Lord opened tho
eyes of the young man, and be saw. and,
behold. the mountain was full of horses
and chariots of fire round about Elisha"
Politics Needs Religion.
Have you any doubt about the need of
the Christian religion TO purify and make
. decent American politics: At every yenr-
ly or quadrennial election we have in this
country great manufactures manufac-
tories of lies-and they are run day and
night and they turn out half dozen a
day, all equipped and ready for full sail
ing Large lies and small lies. Lies pri-
yate. and lies public, and lies pruricnf.
lies cut bias, and lies cut diagonal. Ion.
limbed lies and lies with double back ac-
ton; lies complimentary. and lies defama-
tory; lies that some people believe. and
lies that all the people believe. and les
; that nobody believes; lies with humps like
camels, and scales like crocodi'cs. and
necks as long as storks, and feet as swift
as an antelopes, and stings like adders;
! lies raw and scalOped and PANIED and
stewed: crawling lies. and jumping lies.
and soaring lies: lies with attachment
screws and rufiiers and braiders and ready
wound bobbins lies by Christian people
I who never lie except during elections, and
] lies by people who always lie. but beat
/ themselves in Presidential campaign
! / confess ! am ashamed to have a 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