Connecticut western news., 1896-03-12

heaven, for from that direction it can get no help. but with right hand stretch ed down toward the perdition from which 1t came up--swearlng that IL will not cease as long as there are any homesteads to despoil, any magnificent men and women to destroy, any immor- tai souls to damn, any mefe nations to balk, any more civilizations to extin- guish.
 Then there is what in America we call socialism, in France communism and in Russia nihilism, the three names for one and the same thing, and having but two doctrines in its creed. First, there is no God; second, there shall be no rights of property. One of their chief journals printed this senti- ment: Dynamite can be made out of the dead bodies of capitalists as we'll as out of hogs" One of the leaders of com munism left inscribed on his prison wall, where he had been justly incar cerated, these words ,"When once you are dead, there is an end of everything. Therefore, ye scoundrels, grab whatever you can-only don't let yourselves be grabbed. Amen" There are in this country hundreds of thousands of these lazy scoundrels. Honest men deplore it when they cannot get work, but those of whom speak will not do work when they can get it. tried to employ one who asked me for money. I said, "Down in my cellar I have some wood to saw, and will pay you for it |" For a little while heard the saw going, and then I heard it no more. went down stairs and found the wood, but the workman had disappeared, taking for company both buck and saw.
 Socialism, communism and nihilism mean, "Too wicked to acknowledge God and too lazy to earn living" and among the mightiest obstacles to be over come are those organized elements of domestic, social and political ruin.
 Myriads of Battlements.
 There also are the fastnesses of inf delity and atheism and fraud and politi- cal corruption and multiform, hydra headed, million armed abominations all over the land While the mightiest agencies for righteousness on earth are good and healthful newspapers and good and healthful books and our chief de- pendence for intelligence and Christian achievement is upon them, what word among the more than 100, ,000 words in our vocabulary Can describe the work of that archangel of mischief, 8 corrupt literature? What man, attempting any thing for God and humanity, has escaped a stroke of its filthy wing? What good cause has escaped its indictment? What other obstacle in all the land so appal- ling? But cannot name more than one- half the battlements, the bastions, the intrenchments, the redoubts, the fortifi- cations to be stormed and overcome if this country is ever taken for God. The sta tistics are so awful that if we had noth- ing but the multiplication table and the arithmetic the attempt to eyangelize America would be an absurdity higher than the tower of Babel before it drop ped on the plain of Shinar. Where are the drilled troops to march against those Notifications as long as the continent? Where are the batteries that can be un- limbered against these walls2 Where are the guns of large enough caliber to storm these gates? We'll, let us look around and see, the first of all, who is our leader and will be our leader until the work is done. Garibaldi, with l, 900 Italians, could do more than another commander with 10000 Italians. Gen. eral Sherman, on one side, and Stone wall Jackson, on the other, each with 0,000 troops, could do more than some other generals with 20, 900 troops The ,,, ,1 ,otx yuac hs uk the icy Delaware with few half frozen troops was mightier than the ship of war that during the American Revolu- tion came through the Narrows, gun at each porthole, and sank in He'll Gate.
 Our leader, like most great leaders, was born in an obscure place, and 1t was an humble home, about five miles from Jerusalem. Those who were out of doors that night said that there was stellar commotion, and music that came out of the clouds, as though the front door of heaven had been set open, and that the camels heard his first infantile cry. Then he came to the fairest. boy hood that mother was ever proud of, and from l2 to 80 years of age was off in India, if traditions there are accu- rate, and then returned to his native land, and for three years had his path way surrounded by blind eyes that he illumined, and epileptic patients to whom he gave rubicund health, and tongues that he loosed from silence into song, and those whose funerals he stop ped that he might give back to bereaved mothers their only boys, and those whose fevered pulses he had restored into rhythmic throb, and whose paralyt- ic limbs he had warmed into healthful circulation--pastor at Capernaum, but flaming evangelist everywhere, hushing crying tempests and turning rolling seas into solid sapphire, and for the rescue of race submitted to courtroom filled with bowling miscreants, and to mar tyrdom at the sight of which the sun tainted and fell back in the heavens, and then treading the clouds homeward, like snowy mountain peaks, till heaven | took him back again, more fayorite | than he had ever been; but, coming | again, he is on earth now, and the na tions are gathering to his standard. Fol | lowing him were the Scotch covenanters,
 the Theban legion, the victims of the
 London Haymarket, the Piedmontese I sufferers, the Pilgrim fathers, the Hu' guenots, and uncounted multitudes o1
 the past, joined by about 400, 900, 900 oi
 the present, and with the certainty that
 all nations shall huzza at his chariot
 wheel be goes forth, the moon under
 his feet and the stars of heaven for hi!
 tiara-the mighty leader, he of Drum
 clog and Boutwell, Bridge and Bannock
 burn and the one who whelmed Spanish
 armada, "Coming up from Edom, witf
 dyed garments from Bozrah, travelling fl
 the greatness of his strength, mighty tt
 save," and behind whom we fall intt
 line today and march in the campaign
 that is to take America for God. Hosan
 na Hosannal Wave all the palm
 branches At his feet put down your sil
 yer and your gold, as in heaven 70,