The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-06-06
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ting side by side, armed with nc
weapon except the pen, with which
they write home to their constituents
who want to be appointed postma sters.
The man who cannot see God in our
American history is as blind of soul as
he would be blind of body if he could
not at IL o'clock of an unclouied noon
see the sun in the heavens. As mat
ter of gratitude TO Almighty God, gen
tlemen of the American congress, be
pleased to insert the four words sur.
gested by the Methodist conference!
| Not only because of the kindness oil
God to this nation in the past should
such a reVerential insertion be made,
| but because of the fact that we arc
going to want the Divine interpretation
| still further in national history. This
gold and silver question will never be
settled until God settles it. This
question between the east and
the west, which is getting hot
ter and hotter, and looks toward
republic OF the Pacific, will not
be settled until Goi settles it. We
needed God in the 12O years OF our past
national life. and will need Him
still more in the next I2O years. Lift
up your heads, yo everlasting gates of
our glorious constitution. and let the
King of Glory come i'm Make one line
| of that immortal document radiant
with 0mnipOtence' Spell at least one
word with Thronesl AT the beginning,
or at the close, OF in the cen ter, recog-
nize Him from Whom a ma
tion we have received all the
blessings of the past and upon
Whom we are dependent for the
future. Print that word "God" or
Lord or Eternal Father" or
Ruler of Nations" somewhere be-
tween the first word and the last.
Again, before the approaching ad-
journment OF our American congress,
| it ought to be decidedly and forever
settled that no appropriations be made
to sectarians schools, and that the
courtship between church and state in
this country be forever broken up.
That question already seems tempo
rarily settled / wish it might be com
pletely and forever settled. All schools
and all institutions, as well as all de-
nominations, should stand on the
same level before American law.
Emperor Alexander, of Russia, asked
me how many denominations of re-
| licions there were in America, and
recited their names as well as / could.
| Then he asked me the difference be-
tween them, AMI there | 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 Russia The Lutheran
church first in Germany. The Episco-
| pal church first in England. The
| Catholic church first in Rome Mo
| hammedanism first in Contantinople.
| The emperor wondered how it was
possible that all the denominations in
America could stand on the same pla t.
form. But so it is, and so let it ever
be. Let there be no preference, nC
partiality, no attempt to help one sect
an inch higher than another. Wash
| ington and jefferson and all the early
presidents and all the early statesmen
of the past have lifted their voices
against any such tendency. If n school
or an institution cannot stand without
| the prop of national appropriation
then let that school or that institution
| go down. On the other side of the
sea the world has had plenty of illus
|
Let us have none Of the hypocrisy anC
| Decentralization born of that relation
on this side of the Atlantic. Let thai
denomination come out ahead tina
does most for the cause of God and hu
manity. Men, institutions and reli
| gions getting what they achieve by
their own right arm of usefulness, anc
not by the favoritism of government
As you regard the welfare and perpe.
tuity of our institutions, keep polite:
out of religion.
But now, that l am speaking of ma
tional affairs from religious stand
point, bethink myself that two other
gavels will soon lift and fall, the one
at St. Louis and the other at Chicago
and before those national conventions
adjourn, / ask that they acxnowledg ge
| 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 dc
it's duty unless it acknowledges that
God who built this continet, and re-
vealed it at the right time to the dis
| coverer, and who has reared here a
| prosperity, which has been given to
no other people. "Onr' says someone,
there are people in this country who
do not believe in a God, and it would
be an insult to them" Well, there
are some people in this country who
| do not believe in common decency, or
common honesty, or any kind of gov
| ernment, preferring anarchy. Your
very platform is an insult to the m
The Huguenots took possession Oi
the Carolinas in the name OF God.
William Penn settled Philadelphia in
| the name 9lbfr God. The Hollanders
took possession of New York in the
name OF fod. The Pilgrim Fathers
| settled NV England in the name OF
God. Preceding the first gun of Bun
ker Hin. al she voice of prayer all
heads uneol cred In the war of 1912
| an officer q nie to Gen. Andrew Jack
son and aasl "Thcre is an unusual
noise in thA camp; it ought to be
stopped" Gen. Jackson said. What
is the noiseaf The officer sail, at is
the voice 81 |pt aver and praise" Then
the general said, God forbid that
prayer aud ptg.ise should be an unu-
sual noise "a The .encampment You
had better fosard join them"
Oh, you are stupid man if you do
not underatond how God answered
Abraham Liqcoln's prayer in the white
house and Stopewall Jackson's prayer
in the saddle. and answered all the
prayers of all the cathedrals on both
sides of Mason and Dixon's line. Gods
country all tie way past; Gods coun-
try now. Put his name in your pro-
nunciamentoe Put His name on your
ensigns Pat His name on your city
and state and national enterprises,
Put His name IN your heart. We can
not sleep wen the last sleep, until we
are assured that the God of our Ameri-
can institutions IN the past will be the
God of our American institutions in
the days that are TO come.
take a step Further, and say that
before the favels of our senate and
house of rdpresentatives and our po.
litical Conventions pound adjournment
there oughe TO be passed a law or
adopted plank OF Intelligent helpful
ness for the great foreign populations
which are coadng among us 1t is too
late now to discnss whether we had
better let them come. They are here.
They are coming this moment through
the Narrowz.t They are this moment
taking the first full inhalation of the