The Iola register., 1900-11-09

the fire. Who so busy as Christ? And
vet who a milionth part as holy? The
busiest men the best men. All the per-
sons converted in Scripture busy at
the time of their being converted. Mat
thew attending to his custom house
duties; the prodigal son feeding swine;
Lydia selling purple; Simon Peter
hauling in the net from the sea; Saul
squirting his horse toward Damascus,
going down on his law business: Busy.
busy! Daniel with all the affairs of
state weighing down upon his soul, and
yet three times day worshiping the
God of Heaven
Again | learn from this subject
that man may take religion into his
politics. Daniel had all the affairs of
state on hand, yet a servant of God.
He could not have kept his elevated
position unless he had been thor
ough politician, and yet all the
thrusts of officials and all the danger
of disgrace did not make him yield
one iota of his high toned religious
principle. He stood before that age,
he stands before all ages, a specimen
of godly politician. So there have
been in our day and in the days of
our fathers men as eminent in the
service of God as they have been em-
inent in the service of the state Such
was BENJAMIN +. Butler. attorney
general of New York in the time of
your fathers. Such was John Me-
Lean, of the supreme court of the
United States. Such was George
Briggs, of Massachusetts. Such was
Theodore Frelinghuysen, of New Jer-
sey-men faithful to the state at the
same time faithful to God. 1t is alb
surd to expect that men who have
been immersed in political wickedness
for 30 or 40 years shall come TO rcfor-
nation. and our hope is in the young
men who are coming up, that they
have patriotic principle and Christian
principle side by side when they come
to the ballot box and cast their first
vote and that they swear allegiance to
the government Of Heaven as we'll rs
to the government of the United
States. We would have Bunker Hill
mean less to them than Cavalry. and
Lexington mean less than Bethlehem,
but because there are bad men
around the ballot box is no reason
why Christian men should retreat
from the arena. The last time you
ought TO give up your child or forsake
your child is when il is surrounded
by a company of Choctaws. and the
last time to surrender the ballot box
is when il is surrounded by impurity
and dishonesty and all sorts of wick
edness.
Daniel stood on most unpopular
platform. He stood firmly, though
the dcmagogues of the day hissed at
him and tried to overthrow him. We
must carry our religion into our pol
itics. But there are a great many
men who are in favor Of taking re-
! ligion into national politics who do
not see the Importance of taking it
into city politics. as though man
were intelligent about the welfare of
| his neighhorhood and had no concern
about his own home.
My subject also impresses me with
lne Iact lhal mons cannot huri a
good man. No man ever got into
worse company than Daniel got when
hc was thrown into the den. What
rare morseI that fair young man
| would have been for the hungry mon
/ s'erS' u iheN nae plunged ai h'm
/ ne could not nave climbed INTO niche
h'Nouu the r'a'o OF lhe'r paw or the
snatch OF their '"'ih. lh'N came,
/ pI'asrd' nI' around him. as hunters
/ hounds at tine WcII-hnoNn whist"
/ come houn''ng TO his Feet You need
| nor go TO Nuw.dla to get many lions.
/ You all have them after \ou-the lion
OF hnanclaI distress. the lion OF sick
/ ness, the ION OF persecution. Nou
saw mat non OF financial panic put
| ting his mouth down To the earth, and