The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1903-11-19

quality. Christianity, truly measured,
Mesh. in that splendid little volume, THE
Genesis of the Social Conscience''): 10
make the best the world knows native to
the humbIest.'
"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
supreme loyalty. His church is the
| democracy Of freed men. .Abolishing. bar
| liers. rending divisive artiicialities. level
tonomy of those He redeems from every
inhuman bondage, and recalls every child
of Adam, every prisoner Of hope" to be
in his true birthright a 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 -.
Democracy is not 1.-The multitude IN
power, with no adequate ideal to elevate
and to guide;;' for that is not rule; but
it is the people bound in a fraternity, an
equity, unity, in which all are common
shareholders in an uplifted and celestial
lied manhood.
Democracy. justly conceived, is lndl-
geno:s to MISUNDERSTANDING i'm
plies democracy and nothing short Of it.
Dependence (upon God); independence
(of all insalutary duress); interdepend-
ence las 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 expedients will fall. They
are dozy and brittle: Paresis stamps
them. They are judged.
All the real progress in the idea OF what
genuine democracy includes, and what
Il excludes. has been. consciously or not.
an appreciation and incorporation of
Christ's ideas of man. 1t has 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 1t Will con-
quer.
The errors and follies OF men in the sa-
cred name of mankind have been appalling.
Liberty has been deciaimed l. those who
were themselves the servants of corrup-
tion." but the very currency 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 magni6cat is the ennunciation
of new society. 1t is prophecy. An
apocalypse is folded in it, t'He hath put
down the mighty from their seats and ex-
ahed 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
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 instills the conviction
that an actually human relationship. yields
to no adverse possession of privilege.
and that the dynasty OF the minorit!
must pass.
For democracy America stands. To j.
We are shut up. This is the peoples land
BY Christianity democracy shall stanf
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
keep faith with men and God.
Signally. before the envious nations. we
are to chasten. uphold, defend that idea,
vide as the earth is. We cannot erade
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 8 world. New
and emphatic providences thrust this dou-
bic faith upon us. -
The cause of the peoples-o 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.
If Thou shalt make US free we shall be
free indeed. Love is Thy law and the fel-
lowship of love its answer. Unto Thyself
save Thou this America.
Well did Grover Cleveland say this
sprin at St. Louis: 1T is solemn
thing to belong to a people favored OF
God"