Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1903-11-19

10 eHe IOWesI terms necessary 20 and Con-
sistent with its own utmost diffusiau>
Freedom also is law.
1t Is not the commercial, the strategic
bearings OF the Monroe doctrine that
makes it strong in our American hearts
and determination, but its immense moral
providential arena narrowed, nor its scope
thwarted by. the imposition of another
theory Of the people. America (nobla
Amerlca) is the vantage ground and tho
ouiwark Of popular free government, and
to maintain this high theory OF man un-
Though God forbid the needy if all the
seas are to run red! 1t was this tremen-
dous instinct in which, in one of the No
blest wars OF time, we rose up to lift Cuba
from under the bloody heel of the line sf
Philip II. and of Alva. The peoples day
advances.
come. therefore, to assert that whick
have tried to approach, and this it is:
That the aim OF a true democracy is in
the most complete accord with the alma
Of the gospel. Both are emancipative.
Their implications are mutual. They aliks
sand or fall upon the proposition Of tho
universal spiritual rights Of all men as men.
Uach breaks down all middle wall ct
PARTITION and anlooses ''the yoke Of
bondage" opens the gates Of day. e
every creature under heaven" Each
quality. Christianity, truly measured.
comes Tin the strong words Of Henry
Mesh, in that splendid little volume, The
Genesis of the Social Conscience"): '"Io
make the best the world knows native to
the humb4est''
''In His name-"Son of Man"-the great
Emancipator has ''.authority to execute
judgment" upon all expressions. He is
mans Man! His authority intends the
commonalty of all souls yielding to Him
q supreme loyalty. His church is the
riers. rending divisive. artifcia.ities. level
ing up, not down. He introduces the au-
tonomy Of those He redeems from eva-y
inhnnan bondage, and recalls every Child
of Adam, every prisoner of hope," to be
in his true birthright prince aed
the bold and beautiful charter to which
His SIGNATURE is given, and which is sea'ed
with the sign of the cross! Under it at
Suffer and rejoice together"
Democracy is not ''the multitude in
power, with TO adequate ideal to e,evate
it is the people bound in fraternity. an
equity, unity, in which all are common
shareholders in an uplifted and celestial
ICED manhood.
Democracy, justly conceived, is indi-
geno-s to Christianity i'm
Dependence (upon God); independence
(of all insalutary duress); interdepend-
ence (as members of one great human
bodv); these are the three august watch
| words Of what the Son of Man prepares
and will perform. They are cardinal All
are dozy and brittle. Paresis stamps
| them. They are judged.
| All the real progress in the idea of what
! genuine democracy includes. and what
| = excludes. has been. consciously or not.
| an appreciation and incorporation OF
1 CT nf haS n
| painful process, slowly penetrating the
| intricate processes and eodden 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 fol'ies of men in the "a
cred name of mankind have been appalling.
! Liberty has been dec,aimed those who
| were Themselves the servants of co~rnp-
tion." but the very currency of the coun-
terfeit is a testimony to the value of the
| trre coin.
Timid souls shrink back from the birth
pangs OF change. The near-sighted and
ease-lovirg refuse to think large enough
to see what lies in that pronosition, in
which the evangel is cognate with the law
Of ibertv-that every nan is a man. Rut
| the virgins magnifcat is the enrunciation
of new society. It is a pronhecy: An
anocalypse is folded in it, 'He hath nut
| down the mighty from thnir seats and ex-
alted them of low degree
| That cause of the people, which by the
utmost widening of responsibility epea~es
and edueates the largest number, frow.
rose of dawn the lanterns. Of groping
years are superseded. The law Of the
spirit Of life, as Christ, the peonle's Man,
| interrrets it, making all classes "danrer-
Gus classes" and those the most so who
must absent themselves from the concerns
/ nf Of Iarn 20 fha
that an actually human relationship Yields
to no adverse possess;on" of PRIVILEGE,
and that the dynasty Of the minority
must pass.
lFoc democracy America stands. To it
we are shut up. This is the peoples 'and.
| BY Christianity democracy sha' stand
AID by naneht else. IF it denies the lew
OF Christ, it denies that which beeat it..
| A div;7e1y human society, from God and
through men, with the two great and 'ast
commandments as it's pillars, is that to
which we are summoned If we are to
L" ;, fifth with men and God.
Signallv, before the envious ma IONS. we
ara to chasten. uphold, defend that idea,
vide as the earth is. We cannot evade
the duty, and we must not sell the bless
ing. To retreat Or TO retract would be to
reiinouish that opportunity of which,
America is the trustee--not to exploit a
continent. but to uplead wo-f. NV
!. and emphatic providences thrust this doa-
bic faith upon us.
; Tho cause Of the peor'es,of al the peo-
p,e, -'the cause of mankind and OF every
ma,. snec;anv the lowest ana the loast-
, s The carse and the only cause Of der,nc-
: rscy, and it also is the cause OF Him
whose errand was liberation. and who. as
tire eternal de'iverer. lives to accomplish
/ all His invincibe decree:
Hail, Thou Son Of Man! Let all the
neon,e praise Thee! Then shall the earth
/ Weld her increase! The enlargement of
all the sons Of men is Thy sunreme ar
, er,ment and evidence. They shall walk at
.ihertv because they seek Thy p:ecepts.
TT Thou shalt make IFS free we shall be
free indeed Love is Thy law and the fei-
, ,owshin of love its answer. Unto Thyseli
save Thou this America.
: Well did Grover Cleveland say this
sprin at st. Louis: s'It is solemn
: tFnc. to belong to people favored OF
God"
"A New Note.
, Make uD your minds that definite and
settled opinions in theology, if not within
/ easy reach. are possible, are desirable. are
: worthy of intense inquiry. Shake off this
: lethargy which allows yon to remain In
eterna, suspense, this indifference which
YOU call liberalty, ,nis apathy you name
i | pcndc T fruhf not some finer