The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1903-06-26

thing ike this:
f oh. give us men, a time Ike this demands
Clean minds. pure hearts. true faith and
ready hands.
Mon who possess opinions and a will.
Men whom desire for Office does not XIII.
10 supply this national demand for
pi-n countries have been giving us for
centuries their best treasures. They
have given US their sturdiest men Of
mental and moral worth and their fair.
est daughters. whose virtues are. a.
King solomon says, "above the price
Of rubics." Surely for such priceless
gifts America must acknowledge she
is n debtor TO the Greeks and to the
barbarlans"
Religious liberty's cradle also was
built across the seas. True, il was
loated across the Atlantic and during
its tcmpestuOus voyage Of many miles
its infantle occupant grew and waxed
stronger. But, after all, we should not
forget that the cradle Of civil and rell-
gious liberty was first hammered to-
gcther on foreign shores.
Can we ever reach the day when we
shall feel that our religious liberty is
not q natural outgrowth Of the Chris
tan heroes and hcrolncs who dared TO
defy Bloody Alya the prosecutor OF
the Netherlands, or Lord Claverhouse,
the prosecutor Of old Scotland, or de-
moniac Catherine. the fiendish female
iusdgat0r Of the ST. Bartholomew mas
>acre, or the bloody Queen Mary of the
English thronet When that grand old
man, Hugh Latimer, then over eighty,
stood among the burning logs that
were cremating him. he turned to Bish-
0p Ridley, his fellow martyr near by,
and said: "Be Of good comfort, Master
Ridley. and play the man. We shall
this day light such a candle by Gods
grace i'm England as. | trust, shall new
cr be put out" Aye, they did; they
did. They not only lighted a gospel
torch for England, but a torch which
would blaze in America centuries after
ward. We have religious liberty In
America because the first great battles
. for the enchainment and the decapta-
ton Of Satanic bigotry were fought up
on the other side Of the seas.
+ America Is indebted TO foreign lands
I'm q commercial and an artistic sense
as well as in a moral and spiritual
sense. Some political speakers love TO
boast that commercially we are inde-
pendent Of the world. They assert It
would make very little difference to us
whether or no foreign countries held
any trade relations with US at all. But
this is not true. You are a wealthy
man. You invite me TO your home
some night 10 a banquet. | accept
|AsI sit waiting for the other guests to
arrive I say: "Mr. So-andsO, this is a
beautifully designed home. Where did
your architect get the ideaW You an
swer: "The plans Of this house are not
his ideas. lie merely worked them
out I'm detail after had described them.
Some years ago. while / was in Eng
land. l came across beautiful cOun-
try home. / then said 10 myself that
II I should ever have money enough /
would build q house upon that plan.
This home is the result of my resolve
made at that time" Under my feet Is
T q rug Of exquisite workmanship. Where
was II made? In the city OF Damas-
Gus. II is an imported rug. When
your wife comes I'm TO greet me, she IS
dressed I'm a beautiful costume. II
came from the silkworms Of France.
That diamond glitterlng upon your fin
ger was dug out Of the African mines.
How, then, is America to cancel the
national debt i'm a moral and spiritual
sense which she owes TO the modern
Greeks and 10 the barbariansl well
answers some one, Il suppose the best
way 10 repay the debt we owe to for
algn lands is TO make our goods better
and cheaper than they can make them
and then 90 forward and capture their
markets for our home industries" All,
my brother, / am not here TO fritter
away my time answering these selfish
propositions prompted by mere com
mercialism; I am here today 10 tell you
how, I'm the language and the spirit OF
the apostle Paul, we are to cancel the
national debt we owe TO foreign lands;
I am here today to tell you how best
we can pay the debt as individuals az
well as a nation We can repay our
national debt first by conveying to for
cien lands the sweet message Of the
Calvary cross. When many years ago
five humble, consccrated students met
behind a haystack in old Williamstown.
where / used TO 20 10 college, and
founded the first American foreign
missionary society. one Of the greatest
purposes Of Americas future life was
given practical form. Those five young
men planned an evangelistic work
which had the same worldwide scope
that Paul's mission had for the Chris.
tlan religion. If the religion Of Jesus
Christ IS the benehcent thing that we
profess to believe IT, are we justified in
keeping the knowledge OF it TO our
selves? Are we not bound as debtors
10 the whole world to repay our obli-
cations by making it known far and
widef
The medical profession sets US an
example in its performance OF this
duty. No sooner does physician dis
cover a means OF alleyiatlng physical
suffering than he places IT at the dis
posal Of his professional brethren the
world over. When Eiwad Jenner
demonstrated the marvellous immunity
OF a human being who was yaccinated
with cowpox, did he keep his discovery
from the world? Did he refuse TO ad-
yocate It lest he might be prosecuted
by such medical authorities as Dr. In
genhousz and Or. Pearsonl Oh. no.
AS an intelligent man he deplored the
awful destruction made by this terri
BE scourge Of smallpox. He knew that
whole countries had been almost depop-
ulated by the pest Mexico was not
conquered so much by Cortes as ii was