Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1903-11-12
NOVEMBER IL, 1903

quality. , Christianity, truly measured,
comes lin the strong words OF Henry
Mesh, in that splendid little volume, "Iha
Genesis of the Social Conscience'): "lo
make the best the world knows native to
the humLiest."
an His name-"Son of Man"-the great
Emancipator has authority to execute
Judgment" upon all expressions. He is
commonalty of all souls yielding to Him
supreme loyalty. His church is the
democracy of freed men. .At-;lishing. bar
riers rendng divsive artifcialites, level
ing up, not down. He introduces the au-
inhuman bondage, and recalls every child
of Adam, every prisoner Of hope," to. be
in his true birthright q prince and a
priest. All for each and each for all is
the bold and beautiful charter to which
His signature is given, and which is sealed
with the sign of the cross! Under it all
suffer and rejoice together"
power, with no adequate ideal to elevate
and to guide" for that is not rule; but
it is the people bound in fraternity, an
equity, a unity, in which all are common
shareholders in an uplifted and celestial
lied manhood
Democracy, justly conceived, is indi-
geno.,s to Christianity Christianity i'm
plies democracy and nothing. short OF it.
Dependence upon Cod; independence
(of all insalutary duress); interdepend-
cnce (as members of one great human
body); these are the three august watch
words of what the Son of Man prepares
and will perform. They are cardinal. All
temporizing expedents will fail. They
are dozy and brittle: Paresis stamps
them They are judged.
All the real progress in the idea of what
n
II excludes, has been. consciously or not:
an appreciation and incorporation OF
Christ's ideas of man. 1t has been
painful process, slowly penetrating the
intricate processes and sodden politics OF
the world attended by harsh parodies and
bitter failures: but it has been continuous
and eliminating and at last it will con-
Quer.
The errors and foles of men in the sa-
cred name of mankind have been appalling.
Liberty has been declaimed ~ those who
were themselves the servants of corrup-
ton" but the very currcmcy of the coun.
terfeit is testimony to the value OF the
true coin.
Tmid souls shrink back from the birth,
ease loving refuse to think large enough
to see what lies in that proposition. in
which the evancel is cOgnate with the law
Of hhertv-that every man is n man. But
the virgins magnilicat is the ennunciation
of new society. 1t is prophecy. IN
apocalypse is folded in it.. He hath put
down the mighty from their seats and eX-
alted them of low degree"
That cause of the people. which by the
utmost widening of responsibility engages
and educatcs the largest number, grows
with each latest day. Before its lawful
rose of dawn the lanterns of cropping
years are superseded The law of the
spirit of life, as Christ, the peoples Man,
interprcts it, making all classes danger
must absent themselves from the concerns
of men at large; it instis the conviction
that an actually human relationship yields
to no adverse possession of privilege,
and that the dynasty of the minority
must pass.
For democracy America stands. To it
we are shut up. This is the peoples land.
BY. Christianity democracy shall stand
and by naught else. II it denies. the law
of Christ, it denies that which bcgat it:
\ divinc!y human society from God and
through men, with the two great and last
commandments as its pillars, is that to
which we are summoned if we are to
keep faith with men and God.
Signaliy, before the envious nations. we
are to chasten, uphold, defend that idea,
vide as the earth is. We cannot evade
ing. To retreat or to retract would be to
reiinGush that opportunity of which
America is the trustce-not to exploit
continent, but to uplcad world New
and emphatic provdences thrust this dou.
bic faith upon lis.
The cause of the peoples--of all the peo'
pie, the cause of mankind and of every
man, specially the lowest and the least
is the cause and the only cause of democ'
racy. and it also is the cause of Him
whose eTrand was liberation and who, as
the eternal de,iverer lives to accomplish
all His invincihe decree.
Hail, Thou Son of Man! Let all the
people praise Thee Then shall the earth,
all the sons of men is Thy supreme. ar.
gument and evidence. They shall walk at |
liberty because they seek Thy precepts.
If Thou shalt make us free we shall be |
free indeed Love is Thy law and the fel: |
lowship of love its answer. Unto Thyselt |
save Thou this America.
Well did Grover Cleveland say this
sprin at st. Louis: at, is a solemn
thing 10 belong to people favored OF
God"