The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-11-11

| temporizing expedients Will fail. Tney
| are dozy and brittle. Paresis stamps
| them. They are judged.
| All the real progress in the idea Of what
a genuine democracy includes, and what
| u excludes, has been. consciously or not,
an appreciation and incorporation of
| Christ's ideas of man. IL mas been a
| 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 follies of men in the sa.
| cred name of mankind have been appalling.
| Liberty has been declaimed - those who
| were themselves the servants of corrup-
tion," but the very curroAcy of the coun.
| terfeit is testimony to the value of the
| true coin.
Timid souls shrink back from the birth
| pangs of change. The near.sighted and
, ease.loving refuse to think large enough
| to see what lies in that proposition. in
| which the evangel is cognate with the law
| of liberty---that every man is man. But
the virgins magnificat is the ennunciaton
OF new society. 1t is a prophecy An
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 educates the largest number, grows
with each latest day, Before its awful
| years are superseded. The law of the
spirit of life, as Christ. the peoples Man,
interprets it. making all classes danger
Gus classes" and those the most so who
must absent themselves from the concerns
of men at large; it instils 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. If it denies. the law
of Christ, it denies that which begat it.
! a divinely 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.
Signally, before the envious nations. we
| are to chasten, uphold, defend that idea,
wide. 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
| relinquish that opportunity of which
! America is the trustee-not to exploit a
continent, but to uplead world. New
and emphatic providences thrust this dou-
| bic faith upon us.
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 errand was liberation, and who. as
! the eternal deliverer, lives to accomplish
all His invincible decree.
| Hail, Thou Son Of Man! Let all the
people, praise Thee Then shall the earth
yield her increase! The enlargement of
all the sons of men is Thy supreme ar.
gument and evidence. They shall walk at
liberty because they seek Thy precepts.
II Thou shalt make us free we shall be
free indeed Love is Thy law and the fel-
lowship of love it's answer Unto Thyself
save Thou this America
Well did Grover Cleveland say this
sprin at st. Louis: at is a solemn
thing. to belong to people favored OF