The record-union., 1896-10-18
SOME RAMBLING THOUGHTS
BY MEMO.
(CODVrighted.l

CThese Thoughts" by a layman, are
read in quarter of a million homes, scat
tered in every State of the Union. In this
county, they can be found in the columns
of this paper only, as we have made ar
rangements with the author for their eX-
elusive publication)
What means all this furore; orators
talking at the top of their voices, bands
blarng, work neglected, business par
TALLY paralyzed in expectancy, men
running to and fro that knowledge may
be increased? What means it? A
fearful business is on hand. Our nation
is in travail of twain to bring forth one
first the able man; not the man to en-
body your ideas or mine, but the man
for us ALL a ruler over an undivided
people, a potentate beckoned forth
from the womb Of our nations history
by our uncrowned king, the voter, to
hold sway over us until the new CEN
tury dawns. If this is not fearful and
fateful moment, what is? Truly it is
time suited for gathering in solemn
conclave to pray for the guidance of
Him whose finger touches nations as
well as men, in the hollow of whose
hand the worlds are as but dust. Far
better prayer, and action founded upon
mouth and to boast over our fellows and
to threaten. These latter things do not
hefit patriots. differ they ever so much
as to which man should come forth to
be supreme.
Do you shoot out the lip to say .Non-
sense because God is brought into so
purely a material thing as voting. Car
lyle. the unhappy but powerful phil
ospher, says somewhere words to this
effect, and you and I may well ponder
them. 1t is false altogether what the
last skeptical century taught US that
this world is steam engine. There is
a God in this world: and a God-sanc-
ton, or else violation of it, does show
forth from all ruling and obedience.
from all moral acts of men. There is no
act more moral between men than that
OF rule and obedience. Woe to him who
claims obedience where it is not due.
woe to him who refuses it when it is.
Gods law is in that, 1 say, however the
parchment laws may run: there is a
divine right or else a diabolical wrong
at the heart OF every claim that one man
makes upon another. I
esteem the HnOQern error that all
goes by self-interest and the checking
and balancing Of greedy knaveries. and
that in short, there Is nothing divine
whatever in the association of men. a
despicable error
We miracle workers, for such we are.
when contrary to the eternal law of
gcavitation, We raise our hands by the
power Of will through the medium Of
controlled muscles and nerves. must not
deny to God the right to work by equal
ly concealed means. The after glance
backward at the fog that shrouded
Washington in his retreat from Long
Island, and the disasters that hefea the
transatlantic cable until we were once
more solidly united, may not show us
God in fire and cloud as the Israelites
knew him in Sinai, yet surely by hidden
means OF natural origin. He wrought
fer ns to stand us Enthusiastically before
the world as a Stupendous experiment
in self-government by peers, every man
having an equal voice with every other
I care not whether your political
opinions and mine coincide. I am not
called to agree with every other man