Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-08-25

world the flesh aud the devilr with an
energy that v flags. a vigilance
that never sleeps and a conraea that
knows no fear. His life is a continu.
Gus mission Of substantial sympathy,
encouragement and help. For him the
fruits Of righteous victory are sweesen-
ed by the knowledge of his own earnest,
honest efforts to achieve it. He is
above all things, a strict moralist. He
does not lie, steal, scsndalize, drink,
blackguard and swear. He loves his
wife more than any other woman, and
treats her as if she was an angel.
10 short, the Christian citizen loves
and fears God and keeps His com
mandments. He is the salt Of the earth
and the saviour and preserver OF his
country.
His chief enemy and the one who
causes him so much painful solicitude
and agonizing apprehension is the un-
christian citizen, and Pollok, in terser,
stronger language than we command,
tells who and what he was and is:
"He was a man
Who stole the livery of the court of heaven
To serve the devil in; in virtues guise,
Devoured the widows house and orphans
bread.
In holy phrase transacted villainies
That common sinners burst not NEEDLE
with.
AT sacred feast he sat among the saints,
things,
And none of sin lamented more, or sighed
More deeply, or with graver c%ountenance
Or longer prayer, wept DER dying man,
Whose infant children, at that moment
He planned to rob .
He prayed by quantity
And with his repetltions long and loud,
All knees were weary.
Seest thou the man!
A serpent with angels voice a grave
With flowers bestrewed and yet few were
deceived.
His virtues being overdone, his face
To- grave, his prayers too long, his charities
Toe p%ompously attended, and his speech
Larded too frequently and out OF time
With serious phraseology-were rents
That In his garments opened in spite of him
Through which the well accustomed eye
could see
The rottenness of his heart.p
This is the contrast between the
Christian citizen and the citizen who
is principally and wholly for himself,
regardless of the claims, rights and
merits of all others and especially oil
those who will not debase themselves
to serve him.
Notwithstanding old DR.. Sam John.
son dogmatically asserted that ''patri
otism is the last refuge of the scoun
drel," a citizenship founded on Chris
tianity must be intense with this quail
ty, for n of the main factors of re-
ligion is feryid conservation to the
form and spirit of liberty and to what
ever %eleyates, ennobles and glorifel
the human race
The pertinent, predominating query
Is: Is this republic 80 puissant anC
deeply moored in Christianity as to b,
able to resist the dangerous forces ant
influences of its bad citizenehip-t,
outlive the prejudice, passion, super
%stition, ignorance, selfshness, greco
and anarchy harbored within til
All evils and perils were not remove
when the fierce, relentless spirit of dis
union expired, and the ANGER of sla
very was cut out of the "body polite
by the surgery of war.
/ When the nation received "a new
birth of freedom" then came also
new brood of mischiefs and dangers.
Is it true that such evil times hav
grown out of a corrupt citizenship tina
the private station is the post of homer