Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1896-03-12


doctrines in It's creed: First, there ia no
God second, there shall DO no rights of
property. One Of their chief Journals
printed this sentiment, Dynamite can be
made out of the dead bodies of capitalists
rs well as out of hogs" Ono of the lend
ers Of communism left inscribed on his
prison wall, where no had boon Justly In
generated, these words: "Whon once you
arc dead, there Is an end of everything.
Therefore, yc scoundrols, grab whatever
you can, only don't let Yourselves he
grabbed. Amcnp' Thore are in this
country hundreds Of thousands of these
lazy scoundrols. Honest men deplore 1t
whom they cannot got work, but those of
whom / speak will not do work when they
can get 1t. l tried to employ one who
asked mo for money. l said, down In
my collar have some wood to saw, and I
will pay you for it," For little while l
heard the saw going, and then heard 1t
no more. / went down stairs and found
the wood, but the workman had disap-
peared, taking for company both BUCK and
saw.
Socialism, communism and nihilism
mean "too wicked to acknowledge God
and too lazy to earn q living" and among
the mightiest obstacles to BIO overcome arc
those organized clements of domestic, so.
cial and political ruin.
There also arc tho Businesses of infldei.
ty, and atheism, and fraud, and political
corruption, and multiform, hydra headed,
million armed denominations oil over the
land. While tho mightiest agencies fol-
righteousness on earth are good and health.
full newspapers and good and healthful
books, and our chief dependence for intel
ligencc and Christian achievement is upon
them, what word among the more than
100 600 words in our vocabulary can de-
scribe the work Of that archangel of mis-.
chief, corrupt literature2 What man, at
tempting anything for God and humanity,
has escaped n stroke of its filthy wingf
What good cause has escaped its hinder.
mcntp What othor obstacle in all tho land
so appallingY But I cannot name more
than one-half tho battlemonts, the bas.
tions, the intrcnchments, the redoubts,
the Notifications, to be stormed and over.
como If this country is ever taken fol-
God. The statistics are so awful that II
we had nothing but tho multiplication ia.
BILE and the arithmetic, the attempt to
evangelizo America would be an absurd.
ity higher than the tower of Babel before
1t dropped on the plain of Shinar Where
are the drilled troops to march against
those Notifications as long ms the CONT
nent? Whore are the batteries that can be
unlimbcrcd against these wnllsY Where
are the guns Of large enough caliber to
storm these gatesP Well, let us look around
and see, the first of all, who Is our leader
and will be our leader until the work is
done.
A Great Leader.
Garbaldi, with 1000 Italians, could do
moro than another commander with 10, 900
Italians. General sherman, on one side,
and Stonewall jackson, on the other, each
with 49, 900 troops, could do more than
some other generals with 10000 troops
The rough boat in which Washington
crossed the 10y Delaware with a few half
frozen troops was mightier than the ship
of war that, during the American Revolu.
tion, came through the Narrows, gun q,
each portfolio. and sank in He'll Cato. Our
leader like most great leaders, was born
In an obscure place. and 1t was humble
homo, about five miles from Jerusalem.
Those who were out Of doors that night
said that there was stellar commotion and
music that came out of the clouds, as
though the front door Of heaven had been
set open, and that tho camels heard his
first infantile cry. Then he came to the
fairest boyhood that mother was ever
proud Of, and from 10 to 80 years of age
was off In India, II traditions there are no.
curate, and then returned to his native
land and for three years had his pathway
surrounded by blind eyes that he illumin.
cd, and epileptic patients to whom he
gave rubicund health, and tongues that
he loosod from silence into song, and those
whose funerals he stopped that he might
give back to bereaved mothers their only
boys, and those whose fevered pulses he
had restored into rhythmic throb, and
whose paralytic limbs he had warmed into
healthful neutrality-suspicious. at Caperna-
UNI, but flaming evangelist everywhere,
hushing crying tempests and turning roll.
ing seas into solid sapphire, and for the
rescue Of race submitted to courtroom
filled with bowling miscreants, and to q
martyrdom at the sight Of which the sun
tainted and fell back in the heavens, and
then treading the clouds homeward, like
snowy mountain peaks, till heaven took
him back again, more favorito than he
had ever been; but, coming again, he is
on earth now, and the nations are gither.
ing to his standard.
Following him were tho Scotch cove
nanters, tho Theban legion, the victims OF
the London Haymarket tho Piedmontese
sufferers, tho pilgrim fathers, the HUI
guenots and uncounted multitudes of the
past, Joined by about 400, 600 900 of the
present, and with tho certainty that all
nations shall huzza at his chariot wheel
no goes forth, tho moon under his feet and
the stars Of heaven for his tiara-the
mighty leader, ho of Drumclog, and Both
we'll Bridge and Bannookburn, and the
one who whclmea Spanish armada,
Coming up from Edom, with dyed gar
ments from Bozrah, travelling in the great
hess Of his strength, mighty to save" and
behind whom we fall into line today and
march in' the campaign that Is to take
America for God. Hosanna! Hosanna
Wave all the palm branchesl At his feet
put down your silver and your gold, as In
heaven you will cast before him your ooro,
nets.
A Stupendous Issue.
With such leader do you not think We
can do itp Say, do you think we cam
Why, many ramparts have already beer
taken. Where Is American slavery Gone
and tho south, as heartily as the north
rrays "Peace to its ashes" Where is hes
tial polygamyP Gone, by the fiat of the
United States government, urged on by
Christian sentiment, and Mormonism
having retreated In 1880 from Fayette N
Y, to Kirkland, o., and in 1888 retreated
to Missouri, and in lS46 retreated to Salt
Lake City, now divorced from its super
fluffy Of wives, will soon retreat into the
Pacific, and no basin smaller than an
ocean could wash out its pollutions. Hit
aracY QOinQ down undar thu work Of Sin