The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1908-10-16
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
Should an Infidel Be Put al the Head
of a Christian Nationa

Should an Infidel Be Put al the Head
of Christian Nation?
In mathematics there is an axiom,
that things equal to the same thing,
are equal to each other" Mahom-
med believed that Jesus Christ was
a good man, but not God. Taft, as
Unitarian, believes that Jesus Christ
is a good man, but not God. Here
comes in the above cited maxim, which
holds good in morals, in Greed, as
we'll as in Mathematics. Hence Ma
hommed and Taft are precisely on the
same footing, neither of them are
Christians and therefore both of them
are infidels. Mr.. Bryan believes that
Jesus Christ is both good man and
at the same time is, in His own per-
son, God, the son of the Father, con-
ceived by the Holy Ghost and born
of the Virgin Mary. Mr.. Bryan, there
fore, is widely different from both Ma
hommed and Taft, in that he fully be-
lieves in Jesus Christ, as both Man
and God, and therefore is not an inf
del, but Christian.
1t is very true that the Constitu-
ton of the United States makes no
mention of the Deity and therefore
works a wide displacement between
Church and State. This Is undoubt-
edly true theoretically, but is it true
practically? Let us see. The list of
those distinguished citizens of this Re
public, who have been hOnored as the
Chief Magistrates at the head of this
widely recognized Christian country,
beginning with the great and good
Washington, have been identified with
the Christian Religion, the two Adams,
Madison, Monroe, Jackson and on
down to Roosevelt. All Of them, un-
like Mahommed, unlike Taft. believed
in the Divinity of Jesus Christ and
therefore were not in any sense inf
dels. How about Thomas Jefferson,
the Patron Saint, the father and
founder of Democracy? We hazard
nothing in saying that all who have
made themselves fully acquainted
with the inner life OF the great Vir-
ginian, from the carefully prepared
pages of Garland, and the more mod
ern biographies, will conclude irresis-
tably that Mr. Jefferson was not either
an Atheist or an Infidel else he never
could have been so influential in the
coinage of the character of that noble
band of citizens, who were either his
contemporaries or his close followers,
such men as the BarbOurs, Reeves,
PendIetons, ct id omne genus.
The question then comes up narrow
ly and squarely is this Christian
country or not. If 1t is, there. is
marked consistency in all of our re-
ligious bodies Catholic and Protest
ants) bending all of their finest ener-
gies in evangeliZing the world through
those devoted bands of conSecfated
men and women sent out by them as
Missionaries to Africa, China, Japan,
and the islands of the seas. Ii not a
! Christian country, then We submit 1T
would be far wiser and more consist
ent, less paradoxical, ii the Methodist,
Baptist, Presbyterians, LutheranS, Nor
avians, Episcopalians and Catholics
would at once call in all their Miss
ionaries from foreign fields and go to
work, conamore, to make this country
Christian country like Germany,
England and even Russia and Italy
first casting out the beam out OF our
own eye, that we may see clearly now
to cast out the mote of the brother
mans eye The institutional life OF
these United States, in its various
forms and phases, is the product OF
forces. set in motion by the Almighty
dL Siudl dllu hCpI LII ACo1bbAui p1oJ otAu
lenergizing life-power by Him, even the
Son of God, who spake never as man
spake in His great sermon on the
Mount. Z
From all which it follows, as an 1r-
resistable sequitur, and unacceptable
conclusion, that the great head, the
chief magistrate of a Christian couIl-
try should be, not theoretically mere
lily but practically a Christian. Other
wise we are left fioundering about in
a great sea of ParadoX-the laughing
stock among the nations of the earth,
among whom we would have it ap-
pear that this Republic is "a great
world power" 1t is amazing that
Mr.. Roosevelt, in his remarkable re-
ligiousness, which he may mistake for
pure and undefiled Religion, should
select Mr. Taft as his successor.
We submit, in conclusion. that the
children and the grandchildren of our
ealy Christian fathers of the Repub-
lie will say mot MOhammed, not Taft,
but the Christian Bryan shall rule
over u.s. If so, the devoted Washing
ton, now we fondly believe in the Par
adise of God land who knows that he
does not knox what is now transpiring
in the land he loves so dearly and
served so faithfully will say, on the
Ides of November, my children, ye
have done well, ye have kept the
faith. h."-Cumberland Times.