The Newtown bee., 1903-06-19

could know how he felt the next morn ing. Let us stand together as a unit and by the very force of our union bring about the ends we desire.
 I can imagine that our Christian citizen will also at times play more important part in the public life of his town than merely that of voting. He will at times be candidate for office. Here again he will stand for honesty and truth above all else. One of the most pleasing things of the fall campaigns, albeit attended by the de- feat of the man concerned, was the candidacy of one of the leading Christian men of New Haven for the gubernatorial nomination. He made public the statement that he would accept if the nomination came to him honestly but not otherwise, and I at least have not heard even the sug- gestion of any other dealings in his campaign. Would that there were more such men in the political circle, and that instead of being defeated, the Christian men of our land would rally to their support. We need such men in our public affairs. We need their integrity and moral stamina, men who will stand against all forms of corruption and vice, honest and open in all their dealings so that the eye of any man may look upon all their lives, past and present.
 SUCH WILL OUR IDEAL CHRISTIAN BE in coming before the community for election, ready to serve if hon. estly elected, but scorning all suggestions of dishonest dealings in his campaign, man who will stand as the honest candidate for honest men. He may be, probably will be defeated, for it will take some time to educate pure men to the standard where they will vote for man because he is honest, but it will come in time and the party that consistently puts up such men for office will ultimately win out also. And I believe 1t would not take so very long either to educate our men out of their lethargy and indifference to the consistent support of such men who will finally be elected on the honest mans ticket, of whatever party he may be.
 And this brings us to another con- sideration of our Christian, namely, as an office holder. He will occasionally be elected, not as often at present as I wish he would, but still at times he will be. How can he apply his Chris tianity in practical way there?
 First he will recognize that as an otfice-holder in our democratic form of government he is the servant of the people, not their tyrant, not his own pleaser. He will recognize that he holds office only by the pleasure of the people, and that in whatever position placed he is there to do the people $ will. Be he president of the United States or the humblest officer in this town he will seek in the performance of hls duties to do only those things
 which the people desired. He will
 never please the few at the expense of
 the many, nor will he be influenced by
 the rich to the detriment of the poor,
 but that which he honestly believes
 to be the will of the majority of the people will determine his action. If he represents his town or state in state or national representative gatherings he will never seek to enrich himself
 without regard to the wishes or the
 welfare of those he represents. I can
 imagine that he will think himself as but the voice or agent of his commun. ity and as such he will seek always to do what he feels they would do if a majority vote could determine their action. If his office is such as gives him the handling of public funds he will be as scrupulously honest and careful in using these, even more so, than he would of his own pers onal funds. It is constant surprise to find how difficult it is to find men who will be careful and honest in handling public funds. They will either give friends of theirs contracts for work and supplies at exhorbitant prices or else they will seek to gain for them selves the so called ''rake-off" on every transaction to add to their private incomes.
 Have we no public spirited men to fill these positions of trust and stand before the people as honest in their