The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-11-09

ell, preached an interesting sermon on "rhe Nations Questions and the Ma tion's Answer" taking for his text Isaiah, xiv, 32: What then shall one answer the messengers of the nations?" The sermon was substantially as fol- lows:
 We apply now this question to our selves, religiously avoiding all refer ence to persons or parties, considering the people, whose voice though heard, may have Interpretation.
 What, then, shall one answer the messengers of the nations?" As to the meaning of decisions reached in our re- cent election, and as to what may be expected of this American republic in the years immediately before us.
 
 "We deal to-day with the affairs which are confessedly governmental affairs which by common consent, or by majority consent are relegated to the government. In this realm of ac- knowledged responsibility and account ability, the government should be able to answer all reasonable questions as to purpose and polity,
 Our people have grown restless and have suffered from lack of confidence, the rich and poor alike. Fears as to what would be the outcome of this az itation has possessed our manufactur- CTS and merchants. The wheels of commerce have been clogged by the debris of disordered action. The hum of machinery has been hushed, the na- tion's pulse has been irregular because oq T T not bankrupt. Dollars with us are still honest dollars according to govern mental judge. We plan no repudiation, nor shall we fail to make full supply for this nations needs by such protec- tion of our industries as shall reach to all classes.
 "One great question relates to the na- nations preservation of the nations property, and the keeping open of those great arteries of commerce and commit nication essential for interstate pros perity
 ITO this our answer is: The nations property is to be preserved by the na- tion's power and the nations power is to be exercised for the protection of all interests if these interests are imper- fled by the inability or wanton inefti- ciency of state officials.
 Power shall preveail at whatever cost.
 Another question is: Is this to re- main non-partisan, or Is it to become partisan with short lease of life, sub 1 iect to change with the politics of the land, uncertain as to it's makeup, and, of course, uncertain as to it's deliver ances? To this our answer is Non partisan, which will insure stability and have its decisions
 Our people heretofore have never questioned this. We have looked on that federal court as our safeguard amid agitations at home and abroad 1 We have now declared our will Those who sit on the bench of the supreme court are not to be tempted by human fear or favor to betray their trust. Their office is to be guarded against all intrusion by mine-owner or million aire, by prince or politician,
 "Still another question Is: Is this na- ton to legislate and govern for itself alone, to pursue a policy social, civil, or financial, regardless of other na- l tions, or with reference to a world wide civilization?
 "To this our answer is: We acknowl- edge ourselves but one nation among many nations; our government but one among many governments. We joyful ly confess ourselves belonging to the hmm a pl iply tpo 4r all io1, we cannot and would not ignore, We should regard it not only fallacy. but an immortality to legislate and govern for ourselves alone. We purpose to keep all other nations and all other peoples in mind these to be helped or harmed by our attitude towards them
 That divine voice, we believe, found expression in the Declaration of our h. dependence, when our fathers fought for freedom; in the issue of our late war which broke the letters of five million slaves and preserved to us our Union when it's foundation was shaken in the shock of battle; and that some divine voice has recently found express sion in the sober, serious verdict of the land
 How else are we to interpret our national hymn which five thousand sang on our green this last week while the midnight hours were passing? How else interpret the grand old doxology Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow sung at about the same hour in central Ohio, when hearts waxed warm with faith at the word from Maine to California, from Michigan to Louisi- ana.
 And so to the questions asked by messengers from the nations we an- swer: Ours is a Union, not confed- eration. There Is to be no failure to fulfill governmental contracts; no de- faulting of the government There is to be no surrender of federal rights to state rights; no putting of our federal judiciary into the hands of political party; no proud assumption that this nation is unrelated to any other nation of the earth.
 These are the answers of an anx- ious earnest, reverent people, after a discussion unparalleled in American politics
 Tt therefore can be truthfully said that the letters U. S. signify not only the United States, but us-the people of the United States.
 Two things have conspired to give these answers-first, the press of the land. which has spoken with fearless