The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-12-18

circumstances can) eacn military being 10
ave the fullest possible life.
An liberty has social limitations, and
is problem b 10 reduce these limitations
10 the lowest terms necessary to and con.
sistcut with It's own utmost diffusion.
Freedom also Is law.
IL Is not the commercial, the strategic.
bearings Of the Monroe doctrine that
makes 10 strong In our American hearts
and determination, but its immense moral
meaning that democracy shall not have is
proyidential arena narrowed, nor is scope
thwarted by the imposition Of another
theory Of the people America noble
America Is the vantage ground and the
Duwark of popular free government, and
to maintain this high theory Of man I'm.
endangered, we will fight IL need be
Though God forbid the NEEDY II all the
seas are 90 run red! IL was this tremeu.
dous instinct in wihch in one Of the no.
bosJ wara Of time we rose up 70 lit Cuba
rom under the bloody heel of the line of
Philip ii. and Of Alva. The peoples day
| advances.
! come, therefore, to assert that which
have tried to approach, and this IL is.
That the aim of true democracy is in
the most complete accord with the aims
OF the gospel Both are emancipatve
Their implications are mutual They alike
s.dnd or fall upon the proposition OF the
universal spiritual rights of all men as men.
zach breaks down all middle wall OF
partition" and unlooses "the yoke OF
bondage" opens the gates of day to
every creature under heavenw Each
seeks the greatest quantity Of the highest
quality. Christianity, truly measured,
comes lin the strong words OF Henry
Mesh, in that splendid little volume, 'The
Genesis of the Social Conscience") 10
make the best the world knows native to
the humblest"
I'm His name-"Son of Man"-the great
| Emancipator has authority 10 execute
judgment" upon all expressions. He is
mans Man! His authority intends the
commonalty 0, all souls yielding TO Him
supreme loyalty. His church IS the
democracy of freed men. Abolishtng bar
riers. rending divisive artihcianties level.
| ing up, not down. He introduces the an.
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 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, a unity, in which all are common
/ shareholders In an uplfted and celestial
/ lied manhood.
Democracy. justly conceived, is indi-
/ geno~s to Christianity-Ch Christianity inn
I plies democracy and nothing short Of it.
/ Dependence upon Cod; independence
/ (of all insalutary duress); interdepend-
ence (as 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 fail They
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
- excludes, has been. consciously or not,
an appreciation and Incorporation OF
Christ's ideas of man. It 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 it will con-
quer.
The errors and follies of men in the sa.
cred name of mankind have been appalling.
Liberty has been acclaimed those who
were themselves the servants of corrup-
ton" but the very curr' .cy OF the coun
terfeit is a 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 magnificent is the enuunclat!on
of new society 1t is a prophecy. Ar
apocalypse is folded in it, "He hath put
down the mighty from their seats and ex-
allied 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 lawful
rose of dawn" the lanterns of cropping
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 instil,s 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 II
we are shut up. This is the peoples land
BY Christianity democracy shall stand
and by naught else. If it denies tha law
of Christ it denies that which hegat it
, A divinely human society, from God anC
through men, with the two great and last
, commandments as its pillars, is that t.
which we are summoned if we are t
keen 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 evad,
the duty, and we must not sell the bless
, ing To retreat or to retract would be t.
, reinduish that opportunity of whicl
L America is the trustee-not to exploit
= continent. but to up,ead q world. New
= and emphatic providences thrust this dou
t bic faith upon us.
e The cause of the peonies-of all the pee
no Tho ca7,sa of y,oDl,ir1 oOJ oe o,ror,