Evening star., 1896-07-10

thing. 1t is not given from above simply
fer delightful meditation on quiet Sundays.
or exhibition in church or prayer metins
1t is not alone a balm for sorrow or cor
dial for approaching death; it is a mighty.
Intellectual, moral, reformatory and spirit
ual force. applicable to every problem and
exigency of life.
We must get away from the thought that
religion is something which we put on like
coat or dress, for special occasions. II
Ii is something to be put on, 1t Is some
thing to be put of.
Christianity Is the law of our life. There
is never a moment when we do not need It,
There is never an experience from which
1t is safe ta Danish it; never q thought or
purpose or deed which 1t ought not to dom
mate. If you leave it behind you when you
&C to business or into politics. or lock 1t ap
at home when you go on a vacation, or lay
1t away every Sunday night with your BIZ
high duties and destinies Of every y-day life.
1t would be like binding arm and leg So
that the blood could not flow into them.
AT a great politiea lni:,a- convention t,,s some
candidate for a high office. apologtzed
to me for not introducing a man who
interrupted our conversation a moment.
That man." he said, lis the no.
torious Blank of Blank City. He is not the
kind of person one likes to present to gen.
tlemen: but he is very necessary and use
full to the party. He does for us a peculiar
kind of work. which others could not and
would not do This is goddess politics
This is the result of drawing a line be-
tween mans duties to religion and his
duties to the state. allowing God to rule
over the Cne and the devil to claim the
other. Some Christians are horror r-struck
al the idea of associating politics and re-
hgion. Politics are such a wicked business,
so dehled. 80 degrading. the good mon
must have nothing to do with them. They
are not always and everywhere so bad; but
why are they ever bad? The answer is
easy to find. Take the light out of this
loom and darkness becomes supreme. To
hanish the darkness you have only to
Lring back the light.
The great need of the world is that God
should be everywhere and constantly pres
ent. We want God in our business as well
as in our churches: in our amusements as
Well as in our devotioHs: in our politics
most Of all. What are politics? In the
language of President Hitchcock. politics
are 1.-The principles by which nations should
be governed and regulated" and are only
a branch Of ethics,'' or rather "a special
application of the principles of morality
ard religion" 1t is fair field for Chris
tian endeavor, and l believe that any En-
deavorer may be as much q missionary ct
God in American politics as in the forests
of Africa. He should go to the primary,
the polls or the political convention as reg
ularly. as ieligiously. as he goes to church
or to conference or to prayer meeting Let
US all be not only Christians. but citizens:
not Christians In the church and citizens
out of it, but always Christians. always
izens: then will love to God and love 10
men and love to country flow pure and
strong and free from the same heart.
Bishop Derrick's Remarks.
At this point Miss Florence McNel!y sang
a contralto solo very pleasingly. Owing to
the illness of Bishop Abran Grant. d. D..
of Atlanta, Ga. Bishop Derrick of New
York city spoke in his stead. He said that
the Bible must be accepted, every word of
it, from Genesis through to Revelations.
Christian citizenship is the most exalted
of all citizenships." Bishop Derrick said
I'VE fighting for one Lord and one
Master.
DIR. J. W. Hamilton of Cincinnati. the cor
responding secretary of the FTecdmen's Aid
ard Southern Educa ton Society, made tho
last address. He said that the work of this
world had been mostly failure. and would
have to be done over again. great war
had sprung up between the classes and the
masses. Mr. Hamilton said that he won
dered how it was that after opening our
gates for years to all colors and characters
We were still Americans. 1T is because
God is above US and leading U.s." he an
swered.