Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-10-26

who made laws to restrain intemper-
ance, the consecreated platform ora
tors who thrilled the generations that
are gone, with righteousness, temper
ance, and judgment to come"-Albert
Barnes and John B. Cough were there
to greet him, and golden-tonguee pa
triarch Stephen III. Tying was there,
and John w. Hawkins, the founder OF
the much derided and gloriously use
full "Washingtonian Movement" was
there, and John Stems and Commo-
dore Foote, and DR.. Marsh and Gov
ernor Briggs and Eliphalet Mott, and
my lovely friend Alfred Colquitt, the
Christian Senator, and hundreds of
those who labored for the overthrow
of the drunkenness that yet curses the
earth, were there to meet him and es-
cort him to his throne and shout at
his coronation.
God let him live on for near CEN
fury, to show what good habits and
cheerfulness and faith in the final tri-
umph of all that is good, can do for d
man in this world. and to add to the
number OF those who would be on the
other side to attend his entrance. But
he will come back again! Yes" say
some Of you, with Martha, about LaZa-
rus to Jesus, II know he will rise at
the Resurrection of the last day" All!
I do not mean that. Ministering spir-
its are all the time coming and going
between earth and .heaven-the Bible
teaches it-and do you suppose the old
hero just assembled will not come down
and help US in the battle that still
gees on? He will. Into the hearts OF
discouraged reformers he will come to
speak good cheer. When legislators
are deciding how they can best stop
the rum traffic of America by legal
enactment, he will help them vote for
the right and rise up undismayed from
temporary defeat. In this battle will
Neal Dow be until the last victory is
gained and the smoke OF the last dis
tillery has curled on the air, and the
last tear Of despoiled homesteads shall
be wiped away. o departed homage
MARIAN! After you have taken a good
rest from your struggle of seventy act
i've years, come down again into the
fight, and bring with you host of the
old Christian warriors who once
mingled in the fray.
In this battle the visible troops are
not so mighty as the invisible. The
gospel campaign. began with the SUI
a inv hn mir NJ oh oh vi hot
woke the shepherds, the hushed sea,
the eyesight given where the patient
had been without the optic nerve, the
sun obliterated from the MONDAY
heavens. the law Of gravitation loosing
its grip as Christ assembled; and as
supernatural, it will close with the SUI
pernatural; and the winds and the
waves and the lightnings and the
earthquakes will come in on the right
side and against the wrong side; and
our assembled champions will return,
not see them. do not think that those
great souls departed are going to do
nothing hereafter but sing psalms and
play harps, and breathe frankincense.
and walk seas of glass mingled with
fire. The mission they fulfilled while
in the body will be eclipsed by their
post-mortem mission, with faculties
quickened and velocities multiplied;
and it may have been to that our dy-
ing reformer referred when he said, 81
long to be free" There may be bigger
words than this to be redeemed, and
more gigantic denominations to be over
thrown than this world ever saw; and
the discipline gotten here may only be
preliminary drill for a campaign in
some other world. and perhaps some
other constellation. But the crowned
heroes and heroines, because OF their
grander achievements in greater
spheres, will not forget this old world
where they prayed and suffered and
triumphed. Church militant and
Church triumphant but two divisions
Of the same army--right wing and
left wing.