Milford chronicle., 1896-05-15

we arc going TO want divine interpositiun
still further in our rational history. This
I gold and silver question will never be settled
hLtil God settles it. This question Of tariff
aud free trndo will never be settled until
God settles il. This question between the
east ard the west, which is getting hotter
and Lotier and locks toward rel ubiic OF
the Pacific, will not be settled until God
settles it. We needed God in the l20 years
Of our past national lie, end We will need
him still mare in the next l20 years. Lift
up your heads, We everlasting gates of our
glorious constitution, and let tie King of
Glory come i'm Make one line Of that i'm
mortal document radiant with omnipo-
tenoe Spell at least one word with
thronesl At the beginning, or at the
close, or in the center, recognize him from
whom ms a nation We have received all
the blessings Of the past, and upon whom
We are dependent for the future. Print
that word "6ud" or Lord" or Eternal
Father" or Ruler Of Nations" somewhere
between the first word and the last. The
great expounder OF the constitution sleeps
at MaIshhlld, Mass, the Atlantic occhn
still humn.i!g near lis pillow Of dust It's
prolonged lullaby But Is there not some
one now living who, in the white marble
palace Of the mutton on yonder hill not ten
minutes away, will become the irradiator
Of the constitution by causing TO be added
the most tremendous wDrd of our English
vocabulary. the name of that being before
whom all nations must bow or go into de-
feat and annihilation-"Godl"
solemn Scenes.
Again, before the approaching adjourn
ment of our American congress, 1t ought
to be decidedly and forever settled that no
appropriations be made to sectarian
schools, and that tho coUrtship between
church and state in this country be forever
broken up. That question already seems
temporarily settled. wish it might be
completely and forever settled. All schools
and all institutions as well as all denOmi-
nations should stand on the same level be-
fore American law. Emperor Alexander
of Russia, at his PeterhOf palace, asked
me how many denominations of religion
there Wefo IN America, and / recitod their
names as well as ! could. Then he asked
me the difference between them, and there
l broke down. But when told him that
no religious denomination in America had
any privileges above the others he could
hardly understand It. The Greek church
first in Rr, eia; tie Lutheran church first
in Gcrmgl. the Episcopal church first in
England; the Catholic church first in
Rome; AIohammedunism first in Ccnstan-
tinople. The emperor wondered how it
was possible that all the denominations in
America could stand on tho same Flat
form. But so it is, and so let it ever be.
Let there be no preference, no partiality
no attempt TO help one sect an inch higher
than another. Washington and jefferson,
and all the carly presidents, and all the
Of . 10 how lifted
their voice against any such tendency. If
a school or an institution cannot stand
without the prop of national appropria-
ton, then let that school or that institu-
ton go down. On the other side of the
sea the world has had plenty Of illustration
of church ard state united. Let us have
none Of the hypocrisy and Generalization
born of that relation on this side Of the
Atlantic. Let that denomination come
out ahead that does the most for the cause
of God and humanity, men, institutions
and religions getting what they achieve
BY their own right arm Of usefulness and
not by tho favoritism of government. As
you regard the welfare and perpetuity of
our institutions keep politics out of re-
ligion
But now that am speaking of nation
al affairs from a religious standpoint,
bethink myself of the fact that two other
gavels will soon lift and fall, the one at St.
Louis and tho other at Chicago, and be-
fore those national conventions adjourn
ask that they acknowledge God in the
platforms The men who construct those
platforms are here this morning or will
read these words. Let no political party
think it can do its duty unless it acknowl-
edges that God who built this continent
and revealed it at the right time to the
discoverer and who has reared here pros
perity which has been given to no other
people. "Oh," says some one, there are
people in this country who do not believe
in God and it would be an insult to
them" Well, there are people in this eoun-
try who do not believe in common deoency,
or common honesty, or any kind OF gov
eminent, preferring anarchy. Your very
platform is an insult to them. You ought
not TO regard man who docs not believe
in God any more than you should regard
a man who refuses to believe in common
decency. Your pocketbook is not safe
moment in tho presence of an atheist. God
is the only source of good government.
Why not, then, say so and let the chair
man of the committee On resolutions in
your national conventions take a penful
of ink and with bold hard head the docu-
ment with one significant whereas,
acknowledging the goodness Of God in the
past and begging his kindness and proteo-
ton for the future. Why, my friends, this
country belongs to God, and we ought in
every possible way to acknowledge 1t.
From the moment that, on an October
morning in 1899, Columbus looked over
the side of the ship and saw the carved
staff which made him think he was near
an inhabited country and saw also thorn
and cluster of berries type of our his
tory ever since, the piercing sorrows and
cluster of national joys until this hour
our country has been bounded on the north
south, east and west by the goodness Of
God The HugHenots took possession of
the Carolinas in the name Of God. William
Penn settled Philadelphia in the name of
God. The Hollanders took possession of
New York in the name of God. The pill
grim fathers settled New England in the
name of Gcd Preceding the first gun Of
Bunker Hill, at the voice of prayer all
beads uncovered.
In the wa- of 1919 an officer came to
General AnCrew jackson and said, here
is an unusual noise in the camp; it ought
to be stopped" General jackson said,
What is the noises" The officer ,slid, ''ls
is the voice of prayer and praise" Then
the general said: God forbid that PRAYER
anu praise snould De an unusual noise IN
the encampment. You had better go and
Join them" Prayer at Valley Forge.
Prayer at Monmouth. Prayer at Atlanta.
PRAYER at South Mountain. Prayer at
Gettysburg. "Oh, T" says some infdel, the
northern people prayed on one side and the
southern people prayed on the other side,
and so it did not amount to anything"
And / have heard good ChriSian people
COMPOUNDED with the infdel statement,
when it is as plain to me as my right hand.
Yes, the northern people prayed in one
way and the southern people prayed in
another way, and God answered in his own
way, giving TO the north the re-establish-
ment of the government and giving to the
south larger opportunities, larger than she
Ind ever n mt cinated the hnrnessing of her