Gloucester County Democrat., 1900-02-15

you cannot advocate it on the ground that
that we go there to educate; but there Is
an argument that has been urged believe
it has had mere influence than the money
argument, and that is the religious argu-
meDt; that God is in it. A Republican
Senator said the other day that God opened
the door of the Philippine Islands, pushed
us in and shut the door. Laughter and
applauseI The question that arose in my
mind was, who told him so LaughterJ
When man tells me that it is Gods will,
/ demand to know when God told him so.
[Applause]. want to know when and
where the revelation was made, and If he
got it from somebody else, want to know
from whom in order that | may demand
that mans credentials. Applause]
believe in God believe that lie in
fiuences the thoughts aud the purposes Of
men but l am not willing to blame God
for every thought and every purpose that a
man may have. If | feel in my heart an
impulse to do good, will trace it to God.
If | feel in my heart an impulse to do
wrong, | will not blame him. If | feel in
my heart an impulse TO put my hand into
my own pocket and take my money and
give it to some one in distress. | will trace
the impulse to God but if | feel in my
heart an impulse to put my hand into some
other persons pocket and take his money i
will not lay it onto the Almighty there is
another old fellow that / will lay it on
daughter and applause] l heard of a
colored man once who was very fond OF
chicken, laughter |, but not always mind
full of the commandments; and he said that
when he prayed to God to send him a
chicken, God seldom did it but that when
he prayed to God to send him after a
chicken, he nearly always gotit. Laughter
and applausel l believe the Repu 5lican
party has prayed to God to send it after
The chicken. Laughter1. l believe that
it has simply yielded to temptation. Temp
tations will come. The Bible tells as that
1900 years ago, the devil took the SaviouI
up on a high mountain and pointed out all
the Kingdoms of the earth and their glory
and offered them to him if he would fall
down and worship him; but Christ said !:
Get thee behind me, Satan; )" but when
the Republican leaders were taken up on a
high mountain and shown the Philippine
Islands, instead of saying" Get thee behind
me, Satan" they hunted up the Spanish
monarch, and said We will give you 50 so
dpltCc 4OI buC l. ip'hOo- LASN6ANSl oHN
applause long continued
| want to denounce this doctrine that
God has selected the Republican party to
wage in His name a war of conquest. /
say / believe in God. will not deny that
there may be prophets to-day. But the
trouble is to tell the true prophets from
the false ones. The Bible says that false
prophets will arise, and it tells us how to
distinguish the false from the true 1t
says: By their fruits ye shall know
them" And if you want to know whether
a man is speaking with the voice of God
when he tells you of our benevolent pur-
poses in the Philippine Islands, see if he
mas acted with the spirit of God in his
treatment of the American people. LAp-
plause7. There may be prophets, but you
will pardon me if l express it as my delib-
crate opinion that when God gets ready to
speak to the American people he will
choose somebody besides Mark Hanna as
his mouth-piece. Laughter and ap-
plause1.
How we are to find out Gods will ? From
his own word and | read that when be
visited village of Samaria, and the peo-
pie refused to receive Him and his diciples
consume them, Christ rebuked them and
said: Ye know not what manner of spirit
ge are of. The Son of Man came into the
world not to destroy mems liyes but to
save them" That is the doctrine of the
Saviour Against the internal doctrine OF
conquest, want to place the words of the
Master himself that He came not to destroy
but to save. CApplause].
And now Egland's cry is for 100000
more men, to bring $4,000 Ignorant
slouchy Beers" to a proper realization Of
the benefits of British rule.
Governor Roosevelt says he will not be
McKinley's running mate. The wiley
" Teddy sees the handwriting on the wall
and don't propose to be in the crash next
Fail. A wise man is Ted"