The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-09-28

reason that they could prevent it if
they chose to do it, They could pre-
vent 1t without organizing league,
without framing platform, without
making any speeches or passing any
resolution-in word, without concert
of any kind. They could accomplish
it by each individual voting for God
at the polls that is to say, vote for the
candidate whom God would approve.
Can man imagine such thing as
God being republican or a democrat,
and voting for criminal or black
guard merely because party loyalty re-
quired it: Then can we imagine that
a man can improve upon God S attitude
in this matter, and by help of profess
sional politicians invent a better pol
icy? God has no politics but cleani-
ness and honesty, and it is good enough
for men.
\ mans second duty is to his family.
There was Il time when clergyman's
duty to his family required him to be
hi, congregation political slave, and
vote his congregations ticket in order
to safeguard the food and shelter OF
his wife and children. But that time
has gone by. We have the secret bal
lot now, and a clergyman can vote for
God. He can also pl, id with his con
gregation to do the 80.
Perhaps. We car rot be sure. The
congregation woulc probably inquire
whom he was going to vote for; and II
he stood upon his manhood and an
swered that they had no Christian
right which is the same as saying no
moral right, and of course, no legal
right to ask the question, it is conceiv-
able-not to say certaln-that they
would dismiss him, and be much OF.
Tended at his proposing to be man as
we'll as a clergyman.
Still. there are clergymen who are
so situated as to be able to make the
government. 1t would be worth while
10 try it. If the Christians of America
could be persuaded to vote God and a
clean ticket it would bring about a
moral revolution that would be meal
cnlahlv beneficent. 1t would save the
co,ntrv-a country whose Christians
have betrayed it and are destroying It,
The Christians of Connecticut sent
RnIkelev to the Senate. They sent to
legislature the men who elected hlm'
rbase two crimes they could have pre-
vented: they did not do it, and upon
.hoo, rast the shame and responsibility,
only one clergyman remembered MS
Christian morals and his duty to God,
and stood bravely by both Mr.
smytbe is probably an outcast now
hnt sucb man as that can endure os-
,r,cism: and such man as thaI Is
likely to possess the treasure OF a
family that can endure 1t with him'
-. 10, Il.
and be proud to do it, KISS Inc mem
of his garment
Four wears ago Greater New orK
had two tickets in the field: one Clean
,ho other dirty, with single eNcep-
ton. an upspeakabls ticket with thao
lonely exception. One-half OF the
christians voted for that foul 'iche'
I'D AGAINST God and the Christian cooe
IS Morals. putting loyalty to party
above loyalty to God and honorable ora
citizenship, and they came wlth'h d
fraction of elecring it; whereas Il 'nes
haa stood by their protested morals
thew would have buried it out OF slsn''
Christianity was on trial then 1t Is on
,rial now. And nothing important Is
on trial except Christianity.
|, was on trial in Philadeiph'a' anu
e,;Iod. in PENNSYLVANIA, and ia'ieo' III
rhode Island, aud failed; III ,onne.'',
en-, and failed in new ork, anu '"i'0'
IN delaware, and failed; IN every 'o"N
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