Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-05-11

more than many denials. So says the
article sent me- There is no doubt that
Ethan Allen was the vulgarest sort of
an infidel, for, sitting in a Presbyterian
church, his admirers say he struck the
pew in front of him and swore out loud
SO as to disturb the meeting, and no gen.
tleman would do that. / 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,
ing the fact that all the foreign despot-
isms were planning for our demolition,
we are 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
postmasters. 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 % o'clock of an uncloud-
ed noon see the sun in the heavens.
AS 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
in 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 I'M
til God settles it. This question be-
tween the east and the west, which is
getting hotter and hotter and looks to-
ward republic Of the Pacific, will not
be settled until God settles it. We
needed God in the 100 years of our past
national life and we will need him still
more in the next 100 years. Lift up
your heads, ye everlasting gates Of our
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 Good or
Lord or Eternal Father or "Rul-
er of Nations somewhere between the
first word and the last The great ex-
FOUNDER of the constitution sleeps at
Marshfeld, Mass, the Atlantic ocean
still humming near his pillow Of
dust it's prolonged lullaby. But is there
not some one now living who in the
white marble palace of the nation on
yonder hill not ten minutes away will
become the irradiator of the constitl-
ton by causing to be added the mu..t
tremendous word Of our English vocab-
ulary, the name of that being before
whom all nations must bow or go into
defeat and nihilation-''God?''
Church and State.
Again, before the approaching adj
journment IF our American congress, it
ought to be decidedly and forever set
t1oI fhat no apr,OT,.i ati ions no ,oa1a To
sectarian schools, and that the court
ship between church and state in this
country be forever broken up. That
question already seems temporarily set
tied. Iwish it might be completely and
forever settled. All schools and all in.
situations, as well as all denominations,
should stand on the same level befOr
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 well as I could.
Then he asked me the difference be.
tween them, and there broke dow
But when [ told him that no religious
denomination in America had any priv
ileges above the others, he could hardly
understand it. The Greek church first
in Russia, the Lutheran church first in
Germany, the Episcopal church first
in England, the Catholic church fist
in Rome, Northumberland first in
Constantinople-the emperor wondered
how it was possible that all the demon
nations in America could stand on the
same platform. But SO it is, and so let
it ever be. Let there be no preference,
no Partially, no attempt to help one
sect an inch higher than another.
Washington and Jefferson, and all tn
early presidents, and all the great states
men of the past, have lifted their voice.
against any such tendency. If school
Or an institution cannot stand without