The Monitor-register., 1896-03-13

W LIZ AAlb Oh
~ retiring, and to-
r,orrow your digestive organs will be
-egulated and you will be bright, active
md ready for any kind Of work. This
has been the experience of others; 1t will
be yours If you take Hoods Pills. 25c.
call socialism, in France communism
and in Russia nihilism, the three
names for one and the same thing, and
having but two doctrines in its creed.
First, there is no God; second, there
shall be no rights of property. One of
their chief journals printed this senti-
ment: Dynamite can be made ont of
the dead bodies of capitalists as we'll as
out of hogs" One of the leaders of COM
munism left inscribed on his prison
wall, where he had been Justly incar-
cerated, these words: when once Won
are dead, there is an end of everything.
Therefore, ye scoundrels, grab whatever
you can-only don't let yourselves be
grabbed. Amen" There are in this
country hundreds of thousands of these
lazy scoundrels. Honest men deplore
it when they cannot get work, but those
Of whom l speak will not do work when
they can get it. I tried to employ one
who asked M for money. I said.
"Down in my cellar I have some wood
to saw. and I will pay you for it." For
a little while heard the saw going, and
then I heard it nc more. 1 went down
stairs and found the wood, but the
workman had disappeared, taking for
company both buck and saw.
Socialism, communism and nihilism
mean, "Too wicked to acknowledge God
and too lazy to earn a living" and
among the mightiest obstacles to be over
come are those organized elements of
domestic, social and political ruin.
Myriads of Battlements.
There also are the Businesses of inf
deity and atheism and fraud and politi-
cal corruption and multiform, hydra
headed, million armed denominations all
over the land. While the mightiest
agencies for righteousness on earth are
good and healthful newspapers and good
and healthful books and our chief de-
pendence for intelligence and Christian
achievement is upon them, what word
among the more than 100, 600 words in
u vocabulary can describe the work Of
that archangel Of mischief, a corrupt
literature? What man, attempting any
thing for God and humanity, has escaped
a stroke of its filthy wing? What good
cause has escaped its Underwent? What
other obstacle in all the land so appal-
ling? But / cannot name more than one-
half the battlements, the bastions, the
intrenchments, the redoubts, the fortif-
cations to be stormed and overcome if this
country is ever taken for God. The sta
tistics are SO awful that if we had moth
ing but the multiplication table and the
arithmetic the attempt to evangelize
America would be an absurdity higher
than the tower of Babel before it drop
ped on the plain of Shinar. Where are
the drilled troops to march against those
Notifications as long as the continent?
Where are the batteries that can be In
limbered against these walls? Where
are the guns of large enough caliber to
storm these gates? Well, let us look
around and see, the first Of all, who is
our leader and will be our leader until
| Il6 MOTk Is uOu6. 0dIlDd1Ql, WAtA4 3OOO
Italians, could do more than another
commander with 10, 600 Italians. Gen
eral Sherman, on Il side, and Stone
wall jackson, on the other, each with
10, 600 troops, could do more than some
other generals with 20, 900 troops. The
rough boat in which Washington crossed
the icy Delaware with a few half frozen
troops was mightier than the ship OF
war that during the American Revolu-
ton came through the Narrows, a gun
i at each portfolio, and sank in He'll Gate.
Our leader, like most great leaders,
was born in an obscure place, and it
was an humble home, about five miles
from Jerusalem. Those who were out Of
doors that night said that there was
stellar commotion, and music that ain
cut of the clouds, as though the front
door of heaven had been set open, and
that the camels heard his first infantile
cry. Then he came to the fairest boy
hood that mother was ever proud Of,
and from 10 to 80 years Of age was off
in India, if traditions there are accu-
rate, and then returned to his native
land, and for three years had his path
way surrounded by blind ayes that he
illumined, and epileptio patients to
whom he gave rubicund health, and
tongues that he loosed from silence into
song, and those whose funerals he stop
ped that he might give back to bereaved
mothers their only boys, and those
whose fevered pulses he had restored
into rhythmic throb, and whose paralyt-
ic limbs he had warmed into healthfui
circulation-pastor at Capernaum. bns
flaming evangelist everywhere, hushing
crying tempests and turning rolling seas
into solid sapphire, and for the rescue
of a race submitted to courtroom filled
with bowling miscreants, and to a mar
tyrdom 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 q favorlte
than he had ever been; but, coming
again, he is on earth now, and the ma
tions are gathering to his standard. Fol
lowing him were the Scotch c~ovenanters,
the Theban legion, the victims of the
London Haymarket, the Piedmontese
sufferers, the Pilgrim fathers, the HUI
guenots, and uncounted multitudes OF
the past, Joined by about 400, 600, 900 of
| the present, and with the certainty that
| all nations shall huzza at his chariot
wheel he goes forth, the moon under
his feet and the stars of heaven for his
tiara-the mighty leader, he of Drum
| clog and Boutwell, Bridge and Bannock-
burn and the one who whelmed Spanish
armada, "Coming up from Edom, with
| dyed garments from Bozrah, travelling In
the greatness 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. Hosan-
| nal Hosanna! Wave all the palm
branchesl At his feet put down your sill
yer and your gold, as in heaven you
will cast before him your %coronets.
The Leader Assures Victory.
With such a leader, do you not think
we can do it? Say, do you think we can?
| Why, many ramparts have already been
taken. Where is American slavery?
Gone, and the south, as heartily as the
| north, prays, "Peace to its ashes"
Where is bestial polygamy? 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 1916 retreated to Salt Lake City, now
divorced from it's superfuity of wives,
| will soon retreat into the Pacific, and
| no basin smaller than an ocean could
wash out its pollutions. Illiteracy 60
ing down under the work of Slater and