The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-05-02


valid promise of unceasing glory and
power. We must keep this war to its
avowed end; righteousness.
What we insist the nation shall do we
must do. If the nation is teaching the
world righteousness we must protect it.
And we must begin now. There are some
unrighteousnesses we are guilty of. We
must stop them at once all of than. We
are a righteous nation. Thieves have no
place in such nation. Then there are
righteous acts we have not done. Begin
to do them now. Likely enough these
neglected acts are in the religious domain.
Achilles thought of neglected hecatombs
and neglected prayers. Look about and
see if you have rendered God and His
holy institutions their due. Look into
your life among men. We are giving food
to the starving-have you fed the poor ut
your door. We are delivering slaves.
Have you not made slaves of some in your
household in your employ? The nation
is unbinding fetters. Soc that You do the
same The nation is removing burdens.
See that you do like righteous acts. Why
should these things be done now? Because
the nation has committed itself to
righteous conduct. It demands it, en-
forces it with all it's power. Doing this
the units in the nation must do the same.
just now unrighteousness is treason.
There should be righteous practices
among the people because thereby the
nation can more certainly bs held to it's
lofty mission. Corrupt the people. give
them over to greed and faction and the
nation will turn its war from righteous
ness to war for gain. Every man or
woman, who today practices righteous
ness helps the nation, possibly as much
as the soldier in the army or a sailor in
the navy. Let this be noted. Righteous
ness give national strength. The Span
iards have failed in Cuba, it is said, from
the avarice of its officers. Avarice among
us will work a like effect. We shall OBJ
tain splendid and most complete victory
duct as has been insisted upon is accept
able to God, and it is good to have Him
on our side, and He is on our side if our
side is the righteous one. We do not ex-
pect to bride God or to buy His favor by
acts of ours. Not at all. We believe
that He governs the world in the interest
of righteousness and when we cooperate
with Him His power is with us. Nothing
is clearer than our duty today. We need
not run after news-we need Ut be un-
duly excited by success or u-duly de-
pressed by failure. We need not fesr at
all. Our concern should be to do righteous
ness as never before.
Every citizen should now be doing what
the nation is doing with army and navy,
teaching Righteousness. He should he
teaching it in the family, on the streets,
to all associates, to all who serve you.
And if there be agencies that specially
favor righteousness then be specie ,y &C. &C.
voted to them. These srsnoies are
Christian and its institutions. They are
in the world If. .sne interest of righteous
ness. They are here to diffuse the per-
feet righteousness that was Christ's. For
man there is no better use to make of
himself than teaching and spreading the
Righteousness of Christ. And If the nation
is called in a grand arena before all the
great world powers to use its force to
plant Christian. righteousness where it is
not for nation there can be no higher
service, and for what might man more
willingly die than to establish and make
permanent in the world the righteousness
of Christ.