The Newtown bee., 1898-10-21
sanction of law, nor the appreciation OF

sanction OF law, nor the appreciation OF
my own conscience?
The papers throughout the country are
full during these autumn weeks of q
strong and o netimes bitter partisanship
The fall campaign is on. AS 60 to the
polls, clothed with the sacred privileges
which by the right Of suffrage are mine
do go with the determination to cast
my vote for the ticket which promises
most for ''the punishment of wickednese
and vice and the maintenance of true re.
iigion and virtue" or do hold my balloq
for the party which pays my price, no
matter what its past record or future
Intentions may be7 II am elected to
any office large or small in the gift of the
people, do purpose to administer the
duties OF my office according to those
principles which my conscience tells me
to be right, Or shall / as soon as my off,
ciai badge is won, go down into the mud
for the glitter of piece of gold? Shall
L stand four square to every wind that
blows and exercise my Office with an eye
single to the performance of q manly
duty; or shall veer my course with
every passing breeze, and trim my sails
at every moment to the wind of popular
| opinionP That is just what PLATE did.
And until men In Office come to recognize
public office as a, public trust and to
realize the responsibility of the man In
power, 1t Is but an acknowledgement
that had they been In Pilates position,
/ they would have acted much as PLATE
did.
L have have said enough, perhaps, to
| serve the purpose with which 1 started
out; enough to call attention to the fact
| that this question, "What shall do with
Jesus which is called Christ" is a pres
ent day question. It was not answered
| once for all in Pilates judgment hall.
Lie demands an answer here to-day. just
as truly as it did in Jerusalem in the
days Of Christ's incarnate life. And
above all, it 10 q perso' al question.
PLATE could not answer it for Judas, nor
| Judas for PLATE, nor they for as. Every
problem of life in it's final analysis re-
duces to this: What shall do? not nv
brother, not my neighbor, not my fellow
church-member, not my rival in politics
nor my competitor in trade, not what
| shall he do; but what shall do with
Jesus which Ia called Christ? In every
step, so far as my life counts, am de-
Gliding the fate of Christ in the world.
The ambitlon fo- worldly position, the
| lust for popularity, the thirst for poiiti-
cal distinction, the greed for paltry
gain, these are the sins which hedge us
round; these as we read the story are the
Temptations under which Judas, PLATE
| and the rabble at Jerusalem fell; these
are the powers which sent the Lord of
life and glory to Calvary and to the
Cross.
The answering OF this question de-
| termines and fixes character. It was
| but shortly before his death that the late
Dean Church of ST Paul's, London, said
| to friend: II often have q kind OF
waking dream; up one road the image of
man decked and adorned as IL for q
| triumph. carried up by rejoicing and
exuitipg friends who praise his goodness
and achievements and ON the other road,
turned back TO back to it, there is the
very man himself, In sordid and squalid
apparel, surrounded not by frlends, but
by ministers of justice, and going on,
while his friends are exulting, to his GER
tain and perhaps swful Judgment"
y, there Is. believe, In Dean Church's
visio ;, a lesson for us all. Not what we
appear to fiattering friends to be. but
1.-THE very man hin SELF lie, after all, the