The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-09
Wants to Know What Right
Legislators Had to Attend
a Human Dog Fight
Preacher Pays an Eloquent
Tribute to Presidents
Washington, Iilcoln and
Mckinley.

\ W a right had our legislators last
Tuesday night to attend a human dog
fight?
What right has this city to have a
red light district
What right have the saloons to be
open on Sunday?@
Rev. w. Ell. w. Boyle, INstor Of the
House of Hope Presbyterian church.
IS not from Missouri, but he wants to
be shown. He asked these questions
at the close of his sermon last night,
but 40 a of the vast congregation
present vouchsafed an answer. The
query had nothing in particular to do
with the sermon which was on the
subject of National Crisis and Gods
Men" but it filed in very well just
before the p~eroration when the pas
tor was dealing with patriotism with
out God. Insthe course of his ermon
he said:
Every great nation has it's abstract
principles of right and justice. and it
is the work of1a genuine patriotism to
harmonic its general practices with
its abstract principles. !. Every great
nation has it's sacred institutions and
1T is the work of, a genuine patriotism
to reduce to actuality, the ideals of its
Institutions. Every great nation has
its VaIhalla of sainted heroes, and it
is the workaof "a genuine patriotism to
glcrify its heroes, not by a mere adu-
ls tion of their5heroic qualities, but by
an imitation Of them.
'The hero. Of a nation at the crisis
| of its birth, Moses, is the first and
foremost of Gods men whom history
Loves to honor, and | think at the same
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degree, of that man whose name is
craven, alone nj conspicuous, on the
foundation stone of his nations his
tory, George Washington.
Compares Moses to Washington.
1.-THE call Of Moses to be the leader
of. a people of elect destiny out or
Egypts prison house OF unjust condi-
tions, was not more clear and definite
than was the call Of George WASH.
fington to be the leader of long-suf-
fering colonies into the .unspeakable
/ privilege of personal and political lib
erty. The generalship of the Hebrew
Who was able to convert a rabble of
liberated slaves into the orderly
strength of a. disciplined army for the
perilous smarches of. thee DESERT was
not more magnetic .sandih resourceful
thanAwas his Who. by his overnaster-
ing Valor, changed a company of half
clad civilians into the %steadfast RANKS
Of victory.
THE heart of the old-time soldier
who e~mblaZoned on his battle flag 'Je-
hovah is my banner while victory
tremhled in the uncertainty of the is
sue for Amelek or Israel at Rephidin,
was not more heroic than was his heart
who, said to the worn out patriots at
Long Island: THE fate of unborn
millions will now depend, under God,
on the courage and conduct of his
army. The wearied warrior, tired,
yet glorying in the fight of faith, was
not more worthy of rest as on Nebo's
sacred heights he laid down the rod
which a placed the Red sea between
the oppresSor and the oppressed than
was he Of whom Fox, the great Eng
lish commoner.. said in that day when
Mount Vernon rose nearer heaven to
dismiss a hero,s spirit: The breath Of
censure has not dared to impeach the
purity of his conduct, nor the eye of
envy to raise its malignant glance to
the elevation Of his virtues
Tribute to Lincoln.
Gods men are the p~rogenitors, in
natural generation, OF Gods men, and
as David, son of Jesse, was raised up
in the line of hope of Moses to reunite
scattered tribes to reconstruct the ed
ifce of national Legislation and to kin
die on the ~desecrated affairs of national
religion a new fhQpe, so Abraham Lin
coin in the fuHneSs of time was called
out of obScurity to solve the problems
of a magnificent destiny, to stand be
meath the trembling armament of blue
in his nations ensign, and to say from
the throne of conviction which own
ed no mastership but Gods, No star
shall ever forsake it,
"The true pilot is the man who navi-
gates the bed of the ocean more than
its surface, and when the great soul
which famed within the rugged frame
work of Abraham Lincoln's being be-
came conscious that beneath the sur
face of the current of national exist
ence lay a rock Of ruin, on his ship of
state he ooh the helm. And did he
finch? Never. Dark, beyond portray
al, was that tragic day of history from
Fort Sumter's first muttered thunder
to the tremendous sacrifices of Gene
terry Ridge. The hungry altar of Mars
demanded it's victims, and UP to the
hard moriah of broken homes and
broken hearts crowded the heroic souls
of Gods Wonen to give up husbands
and SON and brothers to make their
offering. But while the world breathed
bated breath, Grant gave his hand to
Lee, and they were brOtherS still.
The via doIorosa-the way of sor-
rows-for a nations bleeding feet, was
a way of glory; the noise of a fratri-
cidal war broke away into the -Jubilate
Duo of a new epoch; the wrong of a
suffering race were righted in the equi-
| poise of an impartial Justice, and ev-
cry Witnessing slab of the blue or the
gray on the blood-Sanctified fields Of
buried strife marks the purchase price
of two emanGfpations, the emancipa-
ton of a being made in Gods image
who did not even own himself, and
the emancipati0no of a man who per-
jured his best5belf in making that be-
ing his chatteLeTt 49,
1.-THE third great national crisis is
here but not passed. Washington's
broken colonies Dhave taken on the
dignity of a great nation; the Union,
later saved blythe cruel arbitratement
of war, is a. union. consolidated by
universal loyalty into an unbroken em-
pire of hearts, with the North-land and
the Southland merged into the sover-
eighty Of Gods land, because 1t is the
homeland of,tthes free. and the crisis,
with it's significant word, expansion
is not less associated with peril than
were the crises of creation and liberia
ton. 0s4
William McKinley's Humanity.
eff the war Of the first crisis had for
it's bugle note political liberty, and If
personal liberty were the pretext of
the second, not less inspiring was the
~watchword of the third, in a word
which fell from the lips of Gods man
for the crisis, William Mckinley, the
word humanity.
Il abhor war. 1t is devilish to fight
vindictively. to let human blood to sat
isfy the claims of human ambition, and
yet the God Of justice was William Nc
Kinley's God, and he said to sthe chill
dren of the patriots. Set Cuba free
May God keep Our estment clear