The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-07-21
Eight as You Pray.
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wrong doing right in the face of those
who have recovered from the spasm.
My good friend, the mayor of your
city, has taken stand in your behalf
for good government; and he has the
right to the support of every citizen
who believes inlgood government, and
that citizen who would refuse him his
support only because of his political
faith needs more light from some
source.
1t is not his fight he is waging but
your fight, and you ought to rally to
his support as long as he fights for you
and your rights.
i Don't wait until you meet him where
no one can see you, to tell him that you
are with him and that he may depend
upon you as long so he is fighting for
good government, but go to him to-
morrow morning and let your going
serve as notice to those opposed to good
government, that you are With your
official who has the back bone to insist
upon civic rights, duties and obedience
to the law.
If God reigns, and he does, whatever
control he exercises over the affairs of
men must be done through men.
God knows towards and must deplore
the weakness of those, who implore
Him, to do for them, the work they
should do for Him.
The man who prays God to do, what
God has given him to do, may as well
so far as the accomplishment of any
good is concerned, join the forces op-
posed to Gods will.
Don't think that money contributed
to the church releases you from your
duty to meet the blows.
Let us determine to do right as we
understand it, let us meet our duties of
citizenship in patriotic spirit; spirit
that makes soldiers for the right, and
let US turn to God, beseech His guild
ance, ascertain His will, keep His COM
mandments, and go forward as men in
the discharge of duty, ready to account
for our trust at any time to Him who
knows even as we know whether we
are living up to the standard we know
to be right.
How many we see who are not
honest with themselves, who insist on
doing things to make money their
sense of right condemns, and justify
themselves because others do the
same things; who want special privi-
leges at the expense of their neigh
bors; who insist upon violating laws
enacted for good experiment. and good
order.
How few are honest with God. A
man must not think because he is in
Gods sanctuary he is any better than
his life out of it calls for.
Men with themselves must pass for
what they are. They know when
they do wrong, and stand convicted
Of this wrong doing, by their con-
science, whethersthey are ever discov-
cred by men or not.
Does the saloon keeper who violates
the law respect the citizen who winks
at his transgression, or does he count
him partner in his wrong doing,
without the benefit of sharing in the
profits arising out of his violation?
Good people are not made in a day,
and bad man, in private life, cannot
upon entering public life, so cast his
old life as to be a good man in such
Office. But where does the response
blity rest when a rascal is elected to
public office?
Those who select an unworthy
man as candidate for public office
are just as good citizens as those
who vote for him, knowing what
kind of a man he is, and 1 don't
care what ticket he is on, either.
There should be no more sentiment
in politics than in any other business
transaction.
No man can do unclean things to
get an Office and enter that Office free
of the dirt he has waded through to
reach it. No public conscience and no
official conscience can rise higher
than their mentor, private conscience.
The man who debauches the voters to
get an Office, will not respect those
who have been party to his crime,
in knowingly giving him the office.
Men who go into certain business
know what the law is and IL they are
not content to abide by the law. then
let them stay out of that business, or
take the punishment the law gives for
it's violation, if they do violate the
law.
Men who seek and receive public
Office know what duties the law
places upon such officers and IL they
do not approve Of the law, or dare not
through cowardioe enforce it they
ought to stay out or resign.
/ believe in the decent observance Of
the Sabbath day.
believe in obeying the law.
do not believe that any power,
short of that created by the people,