Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1896-03-19

sentiment: dynamite can De mace
out Of the dead bodies of capitalists as
well as out Of hogs" One OF the lead.
ers Of communism left inscribed on his
prison wall, where he had been justly
incarcerated, these words: "Wheu
once you are dead, there is an end Of
everything; therefore, yc scoundrels,
grab whatever you can, only don't let
4 yourselves be grabbed. Amen" There
are in this country hundreds OF thou
sands of these lazy scoundrels. Honest
men deplore it when they cannot get
work, but those of whom speak will
not do work when they can get it.
tried to employ one who asked me for
money. / said: Down infmy cellar
have some wood to saw, and will pay
you for it." For little while heard
the saw going, and then heard it nc
more. went down stairs and found
the wood, but the workman had dis
appeared, 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 70
be overcome are those organized cie-
ments of domestic, social, and political
ruin.
deity, and atheism, and fraud, and po-
litical corruption, and multiform, hy-
dra-headed, millicn-armed abomina-
| tions all over the land. While the
mightiest agencies for Righteousness
on earth are good and healthfui news
papers and good and healthful books,
and our chief dependence for intelli-
gence and Christian achievement is
upon them, what word among the
more than 100, 900 words in our voca bu-
larry can describe the work of that arch
angel of mischief, a corrupt literature?
What man, attempting anything for
God and humanity, has escaped stroke
of its filthy wing? What good cause
has escaped it's Underwent? What
other obstacle in all the land so appall-
ing? but ! cannot name more than one
half the battlements, the bastions, the
Entertainments, the redoubts, the forth
tications to be stormed and overcome
if this country is ever taken for God.
| The statistics are so awful that if we
had nothing but the multiplication
table and the arithmetic, the attempt
to evangelize America would be an abb
surdity higher than the Tower of
Babel before it dropped 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 unlimbered
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 who will be our leader
un til the work is done. Garibaldi with
1000 Italians could do more than an
other commander with 10000 Italians.
Gen. Sherman, on one side, and
Stonewall Jackson on the other,
each with 10000 troops, could do more
than some other generals with 10000
troops. The rough boat in which Wash
ington crossed the icy Delaware with a
few half-frozen troops, was mightier
than the ship Of war that, during
the American revolution came through
the Narrows, a gun at each portfolio,
and sunk 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 CON-
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 boyhooG
that mother was ever proud of, and
from IL to so years of age was off in
India. if traditions there are accurate,
and for three years had His pathway
surrounded by blind eyes that He illu-
minated, and epileptic patients to whom
He gave rubicund health, and tongues
that He loosed 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 para
lytic limbs He had warmed into health
full pastor at Capernaum,
but flaming evangelist everywhere,
hushing crying tempests and turning
rolling seas into solid sapphire, and for
the rescue of a.race submitted to court
room filed with bowling miscreants.
and to a 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 a favorite than He had ever been;
but, coming again, He is on earth now,
and the nations are gathering to His
standard Following Him were the
Scotch covenanters, the Theban legion.
the victims of the London Haymarket.
the Piedmontese sufferers, the Pilgrim
Fathers, the Huguenots, and uncounted
multitudes of the past, joined by abont
400, 900, 900 Of the present, and with the
certainty that all nations shall huzzah
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 Drumclog, and Boutwell,
Bridge, and Bannock burn, and the one
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