News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1896-05-14

50 as 10 ulSluID lLt lue6lllS, anu uO gen
tleman would do that l do not wonder
that some of his descendants are ashamed
of him, but of course they could not
| help it and are not to blame. But all
the decent men of the Revolution be-
| lieved in God, and our American con-
gress, now assembled, will only echo
the sentiments of the fathers when they
enthrone the name of God in the consti-
tuition. We have now more reason for
| inserting that acknowledgement of di-
vinity than our fathers had. Since then
the continent has been peopled and great
cities from the Atlantic to the Pacific
built, and all in peace, showing that
there must have been supernal super
visal. Since then the war Of 1912, and
ours the victory Since then great finan-
cial prostrations out of which we came
to greater prosperity than anything that
preceded. Since then sanguinary 1862,
1868, 1864 and 1866, and notwithstand-
ing the fact that all the foreign despot-
isms were planning for our demolition,
we are a united people, and tomorrow
! you will find in both houses Of congress
the men who fought for the north and
the south, now sitting side by side,
armed with no weapon except the pen,
with which they write home to their
constituents who want to be appointed
| pOstmastGrs. The man who cannot see
God i'll our American history is as blind
of soul as he would be blind of body if
he could not at ~ o'clock of an uncloud-
ed noon see the sun i'll the heavens.
AS a matter Of gratitude to Almighty
God, gentlemen Of the American con,
gress, be pleased to insert the four words
suggested by the Methodist conference.
Not only because Of the kindness of God
to this nation in the past should such
reverential insertion be made, but be-
cause Of the fact that we are going to
want divine interposition still further
i'll our national history. This gold and
silver question will never be settled I'M
til God settles it. This question of tariff
and free trade will never be settled un-
til God settles it. This question be-
tween the east and the west, which is
getting hotter and hotter and looks to-
ward a republic Of the Pacific, will not
be settled until God settles it. We
needed God i'll the 1870 years Of our past
national life, and we will need him still
more i'll the next 1870 years. Lift up
your heads, ye everlasting gates Of cur
glorious constitution, and let the King
Of Glory come in! Make one line of
that immortal document radiant with
omnipotence! Spell at least one word
with thrones! At the beginning, or at
the close, or in the center, recognize
him from whom as a nation we have
received all the blessings of the past
and upon whom we are dependent for
the future. Print that word "God" OF
Lord" or Eternal Father" or "Rul-
er of Nations" somewhere between the
first word and the last. The great eX-
FOUNDER CT the constitution sleeps at
Marshfield, Mass, the Atlantic ocean
still humming near his pillow Of
dust its prolonged lullaby. But is there
not some one now living who i'll the
white marble palace Of the nation Oh
yonder hill not ten minutes away will
become the irradiator of the constitu-
ton by causing to be added the most
tremendous word of our English vocab
ulary, the name Of that being before
whom all nations must bow or go into
defeat and annihilation-"God?"
Church and State.
Again, before the approaching ad
journment Of our American congress, il
ought to be decidedly and forever set
tied that no appropriations be made tt
sectarian schools, and that the court
ship between church and state in this
country be forever broken up. THAI
question already seems temporarily set
tied. Iwish it might be completely ant
forever settled. All schools and all in
situations, as well as all denominations
should stand on the same level before
American law. Emperor Alexander o.
Russia, at his Peterhof palace, asked
me how many denominations of reli
gion there were in America, and I re
cited their names as we'll as l could
Then he asked me the difference be
tween them, and there I broke down
But when l told him that no religious
denomination in America had any priv
T ileges above the others, he could hardly
understand it. The Greek church frs
in Russia, the Lutheran church first il
Germany, the Episcopal church frs
, in England, the Catholic church frs
in Rome, Mohammedanism first il
Constantinople-the emperor wondered
how it was possible that all the demon
nations in America could stand on tn,
same platform. But SO it is, and SO lie
, it ever be. Let there be no preference
r no partially, no attempt to help on
| sect an inch higher than another
Washington and Jefferson, and all til
I early presidents and all the great states
r men of the past, have lifted their voice
s against any such tendency. If schoo
? or an institution cannot stand withou
the prop of national appropriation, thel
let that school or that institution g
I down. On the other side of the sea tn
e world has had plenty of illustration o
= church and state united. Let us hav
t none Of the hypocrisy and demoraliza
Y ton born of that relation on this sid
y of the Atlantic. Let that denomination
{ come out ahead that does the most 70
s the cause Of God and humanity, men
institutions and religions getting wha
they achieve by their own right arm o
I usefulness and not by the favoritism o
o government AS you regard the wei
fare and DprDptuitv of our inctit,1tione