The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1897-11-03

while Rum is to run the government. 1t
is done by vote Of the people. Twelve
million voters-six and a half millions
Of them are christian, but the other six
millions win every timei II the situa-
ton were not so serious the conduct OF
the actors would be amusing. 1t re-
minds us Of another sermon-this time
by white brother, who boosted that he
never studied. but was led, who con-
stantly quoted at shall be given YOU
in that day what We shall say" He
never selected his text beforehand but
always took the first passage his eve
rested upon on the text: Awake,
psaltery and harp p And he pronounc-
ed the p, and added syllable to it
and read: Awake, Pesaltery-tree and
harp" He had never heard of such a
thing before, and hardly knew what to
make of it; but there it was and he put
brave face on it and said:
Yes, my friends, it is a Pesaltery-
tree. This was a tree that growed in
the region where David lived. 1t had
branches and leaves and roots. | do not
know whether it bore no fruit, but it
was Pesaltery tree. Now the circum
stances under which this ERE text was
writ was just this ERE David was very
fond OF laying in bed in the morning,
which is a very bad practice, my friends.
And one day he told his man to call
him up at o'clock in the morning and
he opened the win, er. and there was a
Pesaltery-tree a-growing outside; and
he got out OF that winder and sot on one
OF the branches Of that ere Pesaltery-
tree; and while lie sat there, he told his
man to bring him harp, and when he
got it he he played: Awake, Pesalt-
ery-tree and harp ;"and that's the origin
OF this 'ere text" Alas for good. Old
David (the christian voter perched
high upon the Pesalterv-tree calling for
his harp instead Of his sling-calling for
high license which is music TO the giant
instead of using the vote, the smooth,
round stone in the sling already in his
hand
"Discouraging?" Yes, but for the
one enduring fact:
"Work done for God ii dieth not
In closing let me repeat the words of
a great temperance advocate:
'sLet us not be disheartened, though
the evil we seek. to remove seems to
stand solid and unyieldng against all
our Efforts
On our rugged and romantic coast we
see tUe mlgnty DasllOn OF Tock Nltn-
standing the fnry OF the waves, and APP
parently impregnable. Hark to the
thunder OF the coast, as they dash
themselves against these cliffs, and some
in full, sweeping charge against these
rocks. They fall back, broken, weak
and discounted. Yet they only give
place to fresh levies repeating the as
sault and they, like their predecessors,
are hurled back defeated. The war
seems endless Yet by slow degrees the
sea gains on its silent enemy; it under
mines, 1t channels, it gnaws caverps, it
eats out chasms, it wears away the sur
face little by little, it grnds into sand,
it gashes with sears, and will never rest
till it has dragged down its opposing
walls into its depths" So in the great
conflict OF right and wrong, generation
after generation may pass away, appar-
emily defeated, and the wrong appears
to gain the mastery and hold it, but vic
tory must come. ''If it tarry wait for
it; for it will surely cone"
j. n. MARSH.