The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1896-05-14


word "God" or lord or "Fternal Father"
| or "Ruler OF Nations" somewhere between
the first word and the last. The great ex-
pounder ofthe constitution sleeps nj Marsh
Held. Mass. the Atlantic ocean still hum
ming near his pillow OF dust its nrolonged
lullaby. But is there not some one now iIv-
I iag who in the white marble palace Of the
nation on yonder hill not ten minutes away
| will become the irradiator of the constitution
bv causing TO be added the most tremendous
| word In our English vocabulary, the name
Of that being before whom all nations must
bow or go into defeat and annihilation--
"God2"
Again, before the approaching adjourn
| ment OF our American congress. Il ought to
| be decidedly and forever settled that no an
preparations be made to secthrian schools
and that the courtship between church and
state in this country be forevet broken up.
That question already seems temporarily set
tied. wish Il might be completely and for
ever settled. All schools and all .stitutions.
as well as all denominations. should stand
on the sametevel before American law, En-
peror Alexander OF Russia, at his Peterhof
palace. asked mo how many denominations
OF religion there were in America, and re-
cited their names IA well as could. Then
he asked mo the difference between them.
and their broke down. But when l told
| him that no religious denomination I'm
America had any privileges above the others,
he could hardly understand Il. The Greek
| Church first in Russia the Lutheran Church
first In Germany, the Episcopal Church first
Ia England, the Catholic Church nrst In
Rome, Mohammcdanism first In Com
stantinople - the emperor wondered
how II was possible that all the -denomina-
| tions in America could stand on the same
platform. But 80 Il Is. and so let Il ever be.
Let there be no preference, no partilllty, no
attempt TO help one sect an inch higher than
another. Washington and Jefferson, and all
the early presidents. and all tho grea states
men OF the past, have lifted their -oices
against any such tendency. II a sciool or
an institution cannot stand without the
prop OF national appropriation. then ct that
school or institution 90 down. On tn other
side OF the sea the world has had plnty OF
illustration OF church and state unite Let
US have none OF the hypocrisy and d,noral-
izatlon born OF that relation on thisslde of
the Atlantic. Let that denominatil. come
out ahead that does the most for the use OF !
God and humanity, mon. institutios and |
religions getting what they achieve b their |
own right arm OF usefulness and NOT the |
favorittsm OF government. As YOU igard |
the welfare and perpetuity OF our inltu- |
tions, keep politics out OF religion.
But now that am speaking ot natl oil af- /
fairs from n religious stanipointI both N.Y. /
sell OF the fact that two other gay will /
soon INT ana lali, the one n ". Lou and /
the other Mt Chicago. and before tn ma l
t.onal conventions adjourn | ask tn hey /
acknow wleigc God IN the platform The |
men who construct those platforms 1ore
this morning or will read these wor Let
no polltical party think II eau do utv
unless II acknowledges that God VIII uilt
this continent ana revealed IL at q ght
time TO the discovcrer, and. who has red
here prosperity which has boon civ TO no
other people. "Oh, T" says some one there
are people in this country who do { be-
lfak. Ia. III u,.I 4 a 4
them" Well, there are people ir tn 'oun-
try who do not believe in common 'n,y,
or common honesty or any kind Of ern-
ment. preferring anarchy. Your ve ,lnt-
form Is an insult To them. You ougt 10 /
regard man who does not believe Ioi |
any more than you sho aid regard an yho
refuses to believe In common deceno our
pocketbook IL not safe i ent
IN the presence OF an Sleist Tod
Is the only source OF goou rn-
hent. Why not, then. say so aud the
chairman OF the committee on resoh In
your national conventions take pc on
ink and with bold hand head the dc at
with one significant "whereas," ackn <
,ng the goodness OF God in the past z.
ging HIS kindness an protpfilon he
nls, NY irienas. TINS country oe-
longs to God. and we ought In every rCssi-
BE way to acknowledge II. From The no-
lnent that, " an October morning In l492,
Columbus looked over the side OF the ship
and saw the carved stalr which made him
think he was near an inhabited country, and
saw also thorn and II cluster OF berries
typs OF our history ever SINCE the piercing
sorrows and cluster OF national joys). until
this hour our country has been bounded on
Ihn north, south, east and west by the good
ness ot God Tho Huguenots took posses
SION OF tho Carolinas in the name Of God.
William Penn settled Philadelphia In tho
name OF God. Tho Hollauders took possess
sion OF New York in the namc OF God. The
pilgrim fathers settled New England in the
name OF God, Preceding tho first gun of
bunker Hill, at the voice OF prayer all heads
uncovered.
In the war Of 1912 an ofIlc,r came to Gem
eral Andrew Jackson and said: ''Theru Is
IN unusual noiso in the camp. II ought 10
De stopped. General Jackson said; "What
IS the noisep' The ofIicer said: ut is the
voice of prayer and praise" Then the gem
'ral said: God forbid that prayer and
praise should be an unusual noise in the on
.ampment. You had better 20 and ioin
.hem.' Prayer at Valley Forge Prayer at
Monmouth. Prayer at Atlanta. Prayer at
south Mountain. Prayer at Gettysburg. |
'Oh, says some inhdel 1.-THE northern peo- !
ple prayed on one side. the southern people |
prayed on the other side, and - IL did not
tmonnt to anything" AMI have heard
cool christian people confouniei with the !
nlldel statement, when 1t is as plain 10 me ,
Is my right hand. Yes, the northern peo-
pie prayed In one way, aud the southern ,,
people prayed In another way. and God ,, ,
answered IN His own way. giving to the ,
lortn the re-establishment OF the gov
'rnment and giving to the south larger op-
Dortunites, larger than she had ever antic- J
pated-the harnessing of her rivers In great ,
interests, until the Mobile ,
md the Fallapoosa and the Chattahoochee
ire southern Merrimacs, and the unroling .
II the great southern mines of coal and iron, :
II which the world knew nothing, and OPEN !
ng before her opportunities Of wealth which =
viii give ninety-nine per cent. more OF anu
nee than she ever possessed, and. inst ad . .
II the black hands of American slaves, there :
re the more industrious black hands of 1. .
he coal and iron mines Of the south, which !
re achieving for her fabulous and unim- :,
Sined wealth.
md there are domes oft white blossoms !
where spreai tho while tents,
nd there are plows in the track whore the '
war wagons went, I