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be diminished. But remember this, the evil is here amongst us already. The three assassins of our three mur- dered Presidents were all born on our own American soil. What does this mean? It means that
 OUR AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP ITSELF IS
 CONTAMINATED.
 It means that the conscience of American citizens is scared.
 Most of all we must look at ourselves. Look at the freedom with which we have allowed each other to criticise and denOunce and defame those high in position and honor. Look at the uprestrained senSationalism of much of the public press. Look at the in- decent advertisements found in maga- zines and newspapers. Look at the general lack of respect to everything established, office, law, age, even re- ligion and God Himself. Lcok at the introduction and adoption of the Con- tinental Sunday with it's pleasure seek ing but without it religious restraints. Lookat the ways in which the leisure class invent unique methods of entertainment, look at the strain ed relations between capital and labor, between employer and en- ployed, involving sometimes so many thousands of workingmen that the whole nation would be crippled in it's business unless some speedy settle ment were found by mutual conces- SiOnS on both sides; ''think in our day of elective government how men have come to think that we elect our rulers and therefore they are not ordained of God, and how we have come to think that God is not our ruler unless we elect Him so to be-" look at the habits of men who attend class of theatres which they themselves deem not suitable fortheir wives and sisters and daughters; look at the way in which men and women fritter away their precious time in the indulgence of luxury and the enjoyment of ease look at the readiness with which mer and women lut the affairs of daily life before the claims of religion; look at the alarming increase of divorce upOr trivial and unscriptural grounds, lead ing to marriage after divorce, con. trary to the Word of God and disci pline of this church, bringing the family into confusion; look at the los! in 1.,p >f hn <l. <,1 the home and parental authority an( tilial obedience therein; look at the freedom which over-indulgent father. and mothers allow to their sons an( daughters to go where they will an( when they will and with whom they will, without the safeguards sanction ed and required by high public opinion and necessary cOnventiOnaity, so tha it is not any wonder that so man, young men have lost forever their per sonal purity and many a young woman's name has an interrogation mark after it. Some of these things are enough to make the angels weep ! All of these things constitute d heavN indictment against our age and people for political and sOclal sins.
 Such is the emphatic call of God Ol this sad and solemn occasion to tn people of this free America to Opel their eyes to see their own sins ant shortcomings, to awake from theil slumbering and indifference, and t, rise to nobler living and greater self sacrifice and truer rcligiOn-tO realize in short, here in this favored land the Fatherhood of God and the brother hood of man. Brethren, the head 0 the nation lies dead but the republi, lives on, and 'the Lord God OmnipO } tent reigneth.''
 "CHRISTIAN RULERS AND MAGIs
 TRATES."
 A SERMON BY REV o. 0. WRIGHt PREACHED IN ST JOHNS CHURCH SANDY HOOK. SEPTEMBER l1. 1901. l Text. Romans l3:3 Ut. ND, For rulers ar l tD l.At },,t