The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-05-29

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gu uod settles ~. rhlaQnoatl0n Of tariff and
Ireo trade viii never % settled until God
settles a. This question helWeon tho anst
and tho west. which Is getting hotter and
hotter aud looks toward "a republic OF tho
Pacific, viii not BE- settled until God settles
10. We needed God IA tho 100 years of our
past national life. and We win need Him
huh more ia the next 100 years. Llit up
sour heada. ~ everlasting gates OF our
Elouou9 constitution, and LOT tho King
~ Glory come Do! Make one limo oil
that immortal document radiant with
omnipolence Spell az least ono word
with thronesl AZ the beginning or at
me close. OF in the centre. recognize Him
from whom AZ a nation we have received an
inc blessings ofthe past and upon whom We
are dependent for the future. Print that
word "dod" or "Lord' or "Eterna Father"
or Ruler Of Nations somewhere between
the tat word and the last The great ox-
FOUNDER otthe constitution sleeps NJ Marsh
Held. Mass. the Atlantic ocean slill hum
ming near his pillow OF dust its prolonged
lullaby. But Is there not some one now liv-
ing who In tho white marble palace Of tho
nation on yondor hill not ten minutes away
VIII become the irradator OF the constitution
by causing TO be added tho most tremendous
word In our English vocabulary, the name
Of that being before whom al nations must
bow OF 90 into defeat and annihilation--
"G0d?n
Again, before tho approaching adjourn
mont Of our American congress, It ought TO
DO decidedly and forever settled that no np-
preparations bo made TO sectarian schools,
and that the courtship between church and
state In this country be forever broken up.
That question already seems temporarily set
tied. / wish II might be completely and for
ever settled. All schools and an institutions.
as we'll az all denominations should stand
on the same Lowell before American law. En-
peror Alexander Of Russia. at hts Peterhot
palace. asked me how many denominations
OF religion there were in America, and I re-
cited their names as we'll as / could. Then
he asked me the difference between them,
and their l broke down. But when / told
him that no religious denomination in
America had any privileges above the others,
he could hardly understand It. Tho Greek
Church first in Russia. the Lutheran Church
first In Germany, the Episcopal Church FIRST
IN England the Catholic Church hrst in
Rome, Mohammedanism first in Con-
stgntinoDle - the emperor wondered
how It was possible that all the deno1lina-
tiGns in America could stand on the same
platform. But 30 IL is and so let it ever be.
Let there be no preference, no partialtv, no
another. Washington aad Jefferson, and all
the early presidents, and all the great states
men OF the past, have lifted their voices
against any such tendency. II school or
an institution cannot stand without the
prop Of national appropriation, then let that
school or institution 20 down. On the other
side Of the sea the world has had plenty of
illustration Of church and state united. Let
MS have none OF the hypocrisy and democrat
- T,.A eli 20
the Atlantic. Let that denomination come
out ahead that does the most for the cause Of
God and humanity, men, institutions and
religions getting what they achieve by their
own right arm Of usefulness aud not by the
favorltism Of government. As you regard
tho welfare and perpetuity Of our institu-
tions, keep politics out Of religion.
But now that I am speaking OF national az
fairs from areligious standpoint,I bathink my
self Of the fact that two other gavals will
soon lift and fall the one at st. Louis and
the other at Chicago, and before these ma
| tional conventions adjourn / ask that they
| acknowledge God IN the platforms. The
men who construct those platforms are here
this morning or will read these words. Let
no political party think 1t can do its duty
unless It acknowledges that God who built
this continent and revealed it at the right
time to the discoverer, and who has reared
here prosperity which has been given to no
other people. "Oh," says some one, "there
are people in this country who do not be-
lieve in a God. and 1t would be an insult to
them" Well, there are people in this coun-
try who do not believe in common decenoy,
or common honesty, or any kind Of govern
| ment. preferring anarchy. Your very plat
| form is an insult to them. You ought not to
regard man who does not believe in God
any more than you sho1ld regard man who
refuses to believe in common decency. Your
| pocketbook is not safe q moment
in the presence Of an atheist. God
! is the only source Of good govern
ment. Why not, then. say SO and let the
chairman Of the committee on resolutions in
| your national conventions take pen full Of
| ink and with bold hand head the document
| with one significant "whereas," acknowledD'-
| ing the goodness of God in the past and beg
| ging His kindness and protection for the
| future. Why, my friends. this country be-
| longs to God, and we ought in every posi-
| bic wayto acknowledge it, From the mo-
| ment that, on an October morning in 1892,
| Columbus looked over the side of the ship
and saw the carved staff which made him
| think he was near an inhabited country and
| saw also a thorn and a cluster OF berries
type of our history ever since, the piercing
/ sorrows and cluster of national ioys), until
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the north, south, east and west by the good
ness of God. The Huguenots took possess
sion of the Oarolinas in the name of God
William Penn settled Philadelphia in the
name Of God Tho Hollanders took possess
sion of New York in the name of God. This
pilgrim fathers settled New England in the
name OF God Preceding the first gun of
Bunker Hill, at the voice Of prayer all heads
uncovered.
In the war Of 1912 an officer came to Gem
eral Andrew Jackson and said "There Is
an unusual noise in the camp. It ought to
be stopped" General Jackson said, "What
is the noise?" The officer said: at is the
voice of prayer and praise. Then the gem
eral said: "God forbid that prayer and
praise should be an unusual noise in the en-
eampment. You. had better go and join
them" Prayer at Valley Forge. Prayer at
| Monmouth. Prayer at Atlanta. Prayer at
| South Mountain. Prayer at Gettysburg.
ooh" says some in6del ''the northern peo-
| pie prayed on one side, the southern people
prayed on the other side, and 50 it did not
amount to anythingl" And I have heard
/ cyood Nbvfntfan yAaopfo nforndad with thp