Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-05-31

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are impressions, not expressions.
Providence is Gods printing press.
Man is the paper, the spirit of God is
the propelling force, goodness and truth
the product.
Ideas are powers. "Destruction and
death hear the fame thereof with their
ears" but they never see the face there
of with their eyes. Ideas are actions.
Ideas dwell in a land of life and growth.
The God in whose thought ideas dwell
is the living God; the man in whose
mind ideas grow is a man Of action.
Ideas on paper are wrapped in winding
sheets. They need, as Lazarus did, a
divine voice to call them forth from their
tomb and a human hand to remove the
grave clothes and set them free. ''The
letter killeth, the spirit giveth life"
In like manner we believe that these
principles are divine; that these two
ideas of law, and of liberty, have the
seat of their authority in God; they rest
in God the Father. God is the author of
law; God is the upholder of liberty.
They rest in God the Son. He, who, in
Ills essence, was the impressed image of
Gods substance, was, in his actions, the
direct counterpart of what God was and
of what God wrought. His word was
law. His work was liberty. His word
Was law, for He spoke with authority
and not as the scribes.'' HIS work WAS
liberty, for IF the eons shall make you
free, you shall be free indeed" He
came into this world to re establish law
in every jot and title, He departed from
the world, when he had r~e-establlshed
IhpTtN on tha faEjG nf a nntro;liut,n r,
with God, through the %atoning sacrifice
of His own blood. They rest in God
the Holy Spirit. 1t is not without
reason, that the Holy Ghost commanded.
through Paul the great apostle t. us
Gentlles, obedience to law, saying: Let
every soul be subject to the higher
powers and the same third person OF
the Godhead eyhorted, by the same pen.
to the maintenance in liberty. "Stand
fast, He works in the liberty wherewith
Christ hath mado you free" Liberty
and law therefore came from God our
Father through Jesus Christ our Lord
and Savior. 1.-The weapons of our war
fare are not carnal."
Moreover, not only have these
principles the seat of their au-
thority in God, but they also
have the sphere of their activity in
man. Ii the laws of God written with
his finger upon stone were impotent,
how much more helpless are our ma
tional principles if they remain buried in
the casket containing the dead docu-
ments Of an historic past? Better, far
better, to sever these two tables and
dash them to pieces, as Moses did the
two he received, though we believe them
to have been written with a finger more
than human. Better, far better, to
break in pieces the constitution of the
United States, that table of our law, and
with it the Declaration of Independence,
the table of our liberty, if we are to be-
hold Americans worshiping the golden
calf of civil and social and commercial
oppression, and to hear Americans shout
ing in the wild and wierd voice of law
l%essness throughout the camp.
But if God will let us restore these two
tables of law and liberty again and add
the words Thou shalt teach these pre-
cepts to thy children and thy chlldren's
children; thou shalt write them upon
the door posts of thine house and the
Levite shall read them in the presence of
the people," For not until the constitu-
ton of the United States is taught in
every school. not till the Declaration of
Independence is memorlzed in every
home, not till both are prayed for in
every church, not till then dare we hope
that these two elements shall be min
gled with the blood and combined with the
spirit of our national life. There are no
props around which the tendrils of the
vine of c~hildhood's earliest affections
will cling more tenaciously than about
the principle of law. There is no trellis-
work 81 suitable for the display of the
thick on coming clusters of youthful fer
vor and fancy as is the framework of
liberty. And the principles that hold
the affections of the child and that hold
the fancies of the youth will be the best
principles to hold the heart and the head
of maturer years. If We men of war wish
the Law to be the protecting flesh over
the pulsations of the nations heart: if
ye desire Liberty to remain the channel
through which shall flow the stream of
the national spirit: if We would not leave
behind you the heritage of that field of
blood, through which you waded up to
your armpits for us, who never heard,
nor wish to hear, the discharge of your
guns in war: if We would strengthen us
against the foes when we shall meet in
our generation, foes more dangerous t.
the law and 10 the liberty of the nation
than those with whom you fought: if ye
would save us from that sapine Incidence
and criminal negligence which, more
than aught else, has made this land
bleed: we pray you. in the name OF
our common country and our country's
lord, that you form u thoughts after
the fashion OF these principles and weave
our aspirations into the texture of these
ideas: that you train up the children O
the land in the way he should go: anC
when the nation is hoary with age hi
shall not have departed from it.
TO a Christian minister anxious ant
eager to turn the moral and spiritua
lesson of the wal to your profit, you
present an abundance of illustrativ,
material in a vast variety of i~nstructlv,
forms. The literature concerned witt
the civil war is now enormous, so thai
the difficulties met with by a religious
teacher, resolve themselves into the on,
great difficulty of selection. There were
men of God on either side in the war
There was Stonewall Jackson on thu
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