The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-04-03


hogs" One 81 mo leaders OF communism
lrit inscribed on hia prison wall, whore ho
bad been justly Inenrcoflt0d, these words
"hhen once YOU arc dead, there ls Hu end Ol
everything. Therefore. Sc .fouudfols grab
whaleyer sou eau only don't lei yourselves
he grabbed. Amen. There aro in thls
country hundreds ni thousands oi these lazy
fcouudrelF. Honest men depl0rs it when
Soy cannot gef work. bot those 1i whom /
speak WIll not DO work when they can get %.
4 iriad 90 employ Onr who usfad mo- for
money. I said. "D0wn lu my cellar J have
SOME wood 90 saw. Hud 4 will pay you FOR
it, Fora little while ! heard the saw g0-
lur. and thes ] heard it no more j went
down slair- anl I4uui ihn wouu. 1ut the
workman had disappeared, taking for eom-
pnuy both buck and saw.
Socialism communism AMI nihilism mean,
rTo8 wicked 90 acknowledge God and too
| lazy 20 earn % living and among the might
I lest obstacles 90 be 0yereoms ara those or
I gnnized elements OF domestic, social and
/ political iuln.
Thers are tho Businesses n innlellty aad
atheism and fraud aud political corruption
aud mutiform, hydra headed. million nrmed
I denominations an over the land. While the
| mightigst agencies for righteousness % earth
i are good aud healthful newspapers, aud
I good and hpalthful books, and our chief de-
]
| achievement Is upon shem, what word
| among tho more than 100000 words Ia our
/ vocabulary can describe tho work OF that
arehangel of mischief o corrupt literaturei
/ What man, attempting anything Tor God
| and humanity. has escaped a stroke Of ita
filthy wing2 What good cause has escaped
is hinderment2 What other obstacle In all
the land so appalling But / cannot name
/ more than one. half the battlements, tho bas-
. ] abs
Qualifications 10 be stormed aud overcome II
this country Is ever taken for God. The sta
tiste5 are so awful that n we had nothing
but the multiplication table and the arith-
metie the attempt 10 evangeize America
would bo an ahsurdity higher than the tower
OF Babel before Il dropped on the plain OF
shinar. Where are the drilled troops TO
march against those Notifications as long as
the continent2 Where are the batteries that
can be unlimbered against these walls2
Where are the guns OF large enough callber
70 storm these gates? Well, let as look
around and see, the first OF all. who is our
leader and will be our leader until the work
Is done Garhaldi, with 1000 Italians,
could do moro than another commander
/ with 10000 Italians General sherman, on
one side, and Stonewan Jackson. on the
other, each with 10000 troops could dc
more than some other generals with 10000
troops The rough boatin which Washing
ton crossed the icy Delaware with a few
half fozen troops was mightier than the snip
OF war that during the American Reyolu-
ton came through the Narrows, a gun al
each portfolio, and sank In He'll Gate.
. Our leader, like most great leaders, wal
born Ia an obscure place, and il was az
humble home, about 1--WE miles from
, Jerusalem. Those who were. out OF door
, that night said that there was stellar com
notion aud music that came out Of thu
clouds as though the front door Of HEAVIER
had been set open, and that the camels hearC
, | s,nrst infantile cry. Then He came to the
Z fairest boyhood that mother was ever PROUD
: Of, and from twelve TO thirty years Of ag
= was of In India, If traditions there are aceu
l rate, and then returned TO His native land
| and for three years had His pathway sur
q rounded by blind eyes that He illumined
8 and epileptic patients to whom He CAV
= rubicund health. and tongues that I'll
7 loosed from silence into song, and thos
! whose funerals He stopped that He Nigh
= give back to bereaved mothers their Onl
0 boys, and those whose feyered pulses He ha
}. restored into rhythmic throb, and who's
g paralytic limbs He had warmed into health
Q full circulation-pastor at Capernaum, bu
d flaming evangelist everywhere, hushin
crying tempests and turning rolling sea
Z into solid sapphire, and for the rescue Of
,. race submitted to courtroom filed wit
g bowling miscreants, and to a martyrdoi
+ at the sight ofwhich the sun tainted and fe
II back in the heavens, and then treading tn
It clouds homeward, like snowy mountai
d peaks, till heaven took Him back again
9, more a favorite than He had ever been; bu
i coming again, He Is on earth now and IN
d Nations are gathering to His standard. Fo
IS lowing Him were the Scotch covenanter
o the Thebian legion. the victims Of Ii
II London Haymarket, the Piedmontes
l. sufferers, tho Pilgrim fathers, the HI
y guenots, and uncounted multitudes
y the past, joined by about 400, 000, 900 of IL
70 present, and with the certainty that all M
:, tons shall huzza at His chariot wheel f
d goes forth, the moon under His feet and Il
70 stars Of heaven for His tiara-the might
N leader, He OF Drumclog and Bothwt
l. Bridge and Bannockburn and the one wi
whelmed Spanish Armada. "Coming up fro
le Edom, with dyed garments from Bora
k travelling In the greatness OF His strengt
n mighty tosave," and behind whom we ia
Y, into line to-day and march in the campaiG
l. that is to take America for.God. Hosanna
10 Hosannah! Wave all the palm branches!
IL His feet put down your silver and your gol
n as in heaven you will cast before Him yol
ID coronets.
~ With such leader, do you not think '
y :, can do it2 Say do you think we camp VIII
Of many ramparts have already been take
q Where is American slavery? Gone, and Il
~ South, as heartily as the North, pray
y peace to IFS ashes" Where Is besti
" polygamy2 Gone by the fat of the Unit,
d, States Government, urged on by Christi,
Oh sentiment, and Mormonism, having retreat
IN in 1880 from Fayette, N. Y, to Kirkland, {
On and in 1888 retreated to Missouri. aud /.
50 1846 retreated to Salt Lake CITY. nc
ID divorced from its supernuity OF wives. W
a soon retreat into the Pacific, and no bas
es smaller than an ocean could wash out
Y pollutions. llliteracy going down under t
OF work Of Slater and Peabody funds and Sa
"a bath schools Of all the churches OF all den
pa limitations! Pugilism, now made unlawful
le Congressional enactment, the brutal oustc
- Knocked out in the first roundl Corrupt,
an at the ballot box, by law Of registration n
y other safeguards, made almost impossib
Churches twice as large as the old ones, t
ey enlarged supply TO meet the enlarged {
w mand! Nihilism, getting stunning stro
US by the summary execution of its exponeI
gu after fhhv had rnur6arpd fha voIfonroar