The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-07-03

of the republic. The mother is not al
lowed to show her benign face in her
own home. This literature Of the Bible,
which has come down to us in "a lit
erary dress as brilliant as that OF
Greek literature, in lyrics which Pin
dar cannot surpass, in rhetoric as fore
ible as Demosthenes in contemplative
prose not inferior to Plato's, this Mt
erature that came from people whose
| ideas of purity and justice moved them
| to "a poetic passion as fervtd, and
speech as musical, as when Sappho
sang of love or Aeschylus tthundered
his deep notes of destiny" this litera-
ture of freedom and righteousness we,
in our colossal folly, have banished
from our public schools.
The truth want to emphasize is,
that our democratic ideas of the worth
and equality of man, came to US orig
| inally from the scriptures. The root
| idea Of all modern movements toward
| democracy, movements that emphasize
| the rights and liberties of man, that
teach that institutions are the sery-
ants of man, were made for man, and
| not man for them, the root idea of
| all these movements is in that first
| chapter of the Bible. which declares
| that God created man in His own i'm
| age. The entire book from Genesis TO
Revelation is filled with that sublime
| idea. The Bible never belittles man.
PHILOSOPHERS have, theologies have,
| but the Bible never. Gods thought Of
| man, Gods interest in man. Gods love
| for man, for all men equally, glow and
! CLEAN from every page. The worth Of
man, the sacredness of man, the SOW
ereignty Of man, the rights of man lie
at the basis of the legislation of Moses,
| the oratory of Amos, the logic of Paul,
| the vision of John, and most of all in
| the matchless sermons and atoning
! sacrifice of Him who called Himself
| the Son of Man. The Bible is the
charter of mans liberty and the cham
pion of his rights. He who from this
| book has learned his high place in
creations plan and in redemptions
| purpose, will not bow to the dictation
of priests in religion, nor to the des-
potism of kings in politics.
! Wherever the Bible goes it cuts
| path for freedom and humanity. 1t ig-
nores all racial and Social distinctions,
| emphasizing the truth that God hath
| made of one blood and redeemed by
/ one sacrifice, all the nations of the
| earth. The cross of Jesus is the high
est expression of the doctrine of the
| worth of man. Wherever that cross is
i lifted an enthusiasm for humanity is
! created. Christianity by teaching the
| worth of every man to God, has con-
| ferred more than royal dignity on
/ the weakest and meanest of the race
| If THE Man With the Hoe ever comes
| to his manhood and to his birthright,
! and he will, it will be by the inspira-
| ton and help he will receive from this
book, and the Savior it reveals.
| The democracy of the Bible is great
and suggestive fact. We owe our lib
critics, civil and religious, to men and
women who were nursed into stalwart
character at the bosom of this old
| Bible. Years ago when liberty was
the scott of every grinning courtier,
there arose in England a body of peo-
| pie who got their ideas of human gov
eminent from reading the Bible They
We're called in derision Puritans. These
/ men arose in the might of God and
wrenched the authority from the hands
of Inscriptions monarchs and trans
| ferred it to the people, where it right
fully belonged. The Puritan reared a
democracy because he asserted a the
ocracy He Frustrated himself in the
dust before his Maker, but set his foot
on the neck of kings These men
We're the creators of all our modern
democratic institutions. Macauley the
historian, pays them a deserved tri-
butte when he says, IF they were UNI
acquainted with the works of philoso-
pliers and poets they were deeply read
in the oracles of God. If their names
We're not found in the registers of her
aids they We're recorded in the Lambs
Book of Life. If their. steps were not
accompanied by a splendid train of
menials, legions of ministering angels
had charge of them. Their palaces
We're houses not made with hands,
their diadems crowns of glory which
should never fade away. On the rich
and the eloquent, on mobiles and priests
they looked down with contempt; for
they esteemed themselves rich in a
more precious treasure and eloquent
In a more sublime language; mobiles by
the right of an earlier creation, and
priests by the imposition Of a mightier
hand" 1t was men Of that moral fiber
and force that broke the arm Of des-
potism in England, and crossing
stormy seas in the Mayflower, with the
Bible In their hands, laid the founda-
lions of the grandest and mightiest re-
public that ever blessed the earth. And
let us not forget that as the teachings
OF this book created the republic, IT'S
teachings are equally necessary to con-
serve and perpetuate the republic Our
great soldier-statesman was right, we
must hold fast to the Bible as the sheet
anchor of our liberties.
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