Connecticut western news., 1896-05-14
ACKNOWLEDGE GOD.
pR. TAlMAGE WOULD AMEND ThE
 CONSTITUTION.

CONSTITUTION.
 God. Nam. L.n oat by . Mental Over sixht of our Forefathsrs Congress should Make No Appropriations For Sec tarian schools-Bright Day. to Come.
 WASHINGTON, May I0-Neyer was nmelier or more appropriate sermon than that preached hy Rev. Dr. Talmage this morning. The subject was Before They Adjourn. having reference to the early dissolution of congress. and the text selected was Psalms cv, aa, And teach his senators wisdom
 Senators in this text stand for law makers. Joseph was the lord treasurer of the Egyptian government and among other great things which he did, ac- cording to my text, was 10 teach his senators wisdom. And if any men on earth ought to be endowed with wisdom 1t Is senators, whether they stand in congresses. parliaments or reichstags or assemblies or legislatures By their de- cisions nations go up or down. Law makers are sometimes 30 tempted by prejudices, by sectional preferences. by opportunity of personal advancement, and sometimes what is best to do is So doubtful that they ought to be prayed for and encouraged in every possible way instead of severely criticised and blamed and excoriated, as is much of the time the case. Our public men are so often the target to be shot at, merely because they obtain eminence which other men wanted but could not reach, that moro injustices are hurled at our national legislature than the people of the United States can possibly imagine The wholesale belying of our public men is simply damnahle.
 By residence in Washington I have come to find out that many of our public men are consistently misrepresented, and some of the best of them, the purest in their lives and most faithful in the dls- charge of their duties, are the worst de- famed. Some day want to preach a ser mon from the text in II Peter: They are not afraid to speak evil of dignitiesL Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might. bring not railing ac- cusation against them before the Lord. But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not. :" So constant and malignant is this work of depreciation and capitalization in re- gard to our public men that all over the land there are those who suppose that the city of Washington is the center of !, all corruption, while what with its parks, and its equestrian statuary. and its wide streets, and its architectural symmetries, and its lovely homes, 1t is not only the most beautiful city under the sun. but has the highest style of citi- senship. I have seen but one intoxicated man in the moro than six months of my residence, and do not think any man can give similar testimony of any other city on the American continent
 9od,s Name In the Constitation.
 The gavels of our two houses of na- tional legislature will soon fall, and ad- journment of two bodies of men as tai ented, as upright and as patriotic as over graced the capitol will take place. The two or three unfortunate outbreaks which you lave noticed only make more conspicuous the dignity, the fraternity, tho eloquence, the fidelity which have characterized those two bodies during all tho long months of important and anx- ions deliberation- Weput a halo around great men of the past because they were eo rare in their time Our senate and house of representatives have five such men where once they had one. But it win nos be until after they are dead that they will get appreciated The world finds it safx to praise the dead than the living, because the departed, having . heavy pile of marble above them, may not rise to become rivals
 But before the gavels of adjournment drop and the doors of Capitol hill shut, there are one or two things that ought they may be accomplished More forci- ply than ever before. congress has beer implored to acknowledge God in ouI constitution. The Methodist church, 6 church that is always doing glorious things, has in it's recent Wilmington con. ference requested our congress to amend the immortal document which has beer the foundation and wall and dome od our United States government by in serting the words. Trusting in Al mighty God" If that amendment il made, it will not only please all thu good people of the country, but will please the heAvenA Itwas only an over sight or . mental accident that the fa thers who made the constitution did no insert . divinely worshipful sentence They all. % far as they amounted ts anything, believed in "God the Father NhA AaI oR ~< earth, and in Jesus Christ, his only be gotten Son" Tho constitution woulG have been . failure had it not been fo, the divine interference. The member of the convention could agree on nothing until, in response to Benjamin Frank lin's request that the meaings be open cd by prayer, the Lord God was callet on to interfere and help, and then tn, way was cleared, and all the states sign ed the document historical fact tha all the rat terriers of modern infidelit1 cannot bark out of existence know that there was an exception to the fac that the prominent men in those time were good men
 Ton Patns and Ethan Allen.
 Tom Paine, lbertine and a sot, diG not believe in anything good until h. was dying. and then he shrieked out fo Gods mercy. And Ethan Allen, iron one of whose descendants have received within few days a confirmation of tn incident I mentioned in 8 recent ser mon. as saying to his dying daughte that she had better take her mother Christian religion than his own infidel ity. The article sent me says: ''Th' story has been denied by some of tn, Allen family, but the Bronson family some of whom were with the dying girl affirm that it Is substantially true r such . matter one confirmation is worth moro than many denials" So says the article sent me There is no doubt that Ethan Allen WAS the vulgarest sort of m infidel, for, sitting in Presbyterian