The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-09

Baptist Church. Who Presided over
One Session and Was Elected state
Vice President.
ton"
But when l stood with Rev. DR.. ". ].
Robinson In the Pennsylvania house or
representatives, in defense Of the sabbath
law. and he. with the solemnity OF bish-
listers, reminding the legislators before
him that they were civil ministers" "or-
dained" Of God, called to serve Him and
humanity by applying 9he law OF Christ
of the politicians. and even to some OF the
Christians present. novel view Of poll
tics.
When Senator ingalls,. who i tryInE-i yn;;..5
States senate, declared that politics owes
no allegiance to the Decalogue and the
Golden Rule. the people very speedily re-
tired him from politics, to prove that th1
law Of Christ has not been retired.
NOT THERE TO OBJECT
| When the motion was made, the victori.
Gus motion, for the Sabbath closing Of the
| Worlds fair. the very first argument pre-
| scented for 1t. the most powerful OF the
| arguments presented for 1t in the senate
the clerk OF the senate of the fourth COM
| mandment, Remember the Sabbath day
! 10 keep it holy" The senator who had
said that politics owed no allegiance to
the DeCdlOsue was tutTc " ODytCt.
When We were In that fight. I want 10
| say, looking in the face Of these Endeav-
| orers that this Christian host of Ohio En-.
| deavorers gave us one OF the mightieSS
| shouts in support Of those who were "a
the front fighting the battel for the Sa1H
bath at the Worlds fair
"O-hi-o!
We won't 60
To the Worlds fair,
If open on Sunday,
Or liquor sold there"
One Of the most serious perils Of our
politics Is the neglect Of civic duties by
will not be SO common In the coming days
when the fruitage. of this citizenship
movement Of the Young Peoples society
the scepter of political power-has been
put into the hands Of these Endeavor
young men-and young ladies'; For the
| Endeavorers will have learned what our
! voters in the church failed to learn In the
| indvidualism of their religious life. EN-
| deavorers will have thoroughly learned.
before going to the polls In the twentieth
century. that patriotism ana piety yd,, Dltn ca!
| patriotism ever called to war or piety 10
| prayer. The most radical cure for poltti-
| cal corruption is the exaltation OF the ethi-
cal character Of political ACTIONS. A noble
| sentiment came into my life as a young
man, from Gail Hamilton. who said.
| speaking of the sacredness of political
duty, "The eve before election SHOULD he
| a vigil. The election itself should be q
| sacrament"
SPECIFIC IDEA NECESSARY.
Let us have not only an idea Of what
government ought to be, but very speci-
| fic idea of what the Endeavorers' part in
making 1t what it ought to be should be.
! That was capital sermon preached by
street preacher in London. who had for
his text. "They that have turned the
world upside down have come hither also"
He said. Firstly, the world was origin-
ally right side up: secondly, the devil came
and turned it wrong side up; thirdly. it
| fourthly. We are the chaps to do it,
| In the first answer l have made to the
| question. What are our country's needs?
which includes Christian citizenship and
| statesmanship. but now turn to our coun-
try's needs from the standpoint OF real:
izing those ideals. And the second need
Christian citizenship Good citizenship
is not enough in these trying times. It
must be Christian citizenship. In WASH
ington City, as many Of you know: gen.
| a monument to the Father Of his Country.
but when they had built only one.third Of
its height they found that they had laid
too weak founda,ohh sioh aha ah hn5 .ha5 n,, tney
| sink into the sand and SO for generation
the monument remained incomplete. At
| last u man arose VINO was able to take out
the inadequate foundation without dis
turbing the monument. and little by little
put a stronger and broader foundation In
Its place. Thus they. carried the monu-
ment up to it's full height and brought
forth the capstone with rejoicing crying.
| "Grace, Grace, unto 1t.
| The structure of our political life must
| likewise have an adequate foundation. In
these days when great corporations have
saw before. both for legislatures and vot.
ers-in this day when demagogues are
| more skilful than ever before in sophiss
| tries, we must have, as our foundation
| not only an Intelligent citizenship, buf
pre-eminently Christian citizenship
| Mrs Harriet Beecher Stowe, who recentif
celebrated her eighty-third birthday, d
whose book II is said that 1t was the nrN
draft Of emancipation, of whom a Confeds
| crate brigadier general said gallantly,
"Lee surrendered to Mrs. Stowe at Appo.
mattox".Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe,
who could not drop q ballot into politicS
but who dropped In q book that outwoifh0W
the majority Of the ballots Of that dxZ--