Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1908-02-22

nenis 10 this Constitution. Those
amendments woe the best that al that
time cvu12 be framed But those
amendments could aud should De- i'm.
| proved upon The work OF cnistIiu.
/ tiOnal convention had lis dct t10umrnt
I ~ the thirteenth, fourteenth und nj.
! tecnth amendments. But the work Of
our ancestors Is still unfinished High
er aud higher must we climb higher
and yet higher. Aud as the patriots
| OF the past. like Moses. devised our
constitutional form OF government 50
we. like Joshua. must continue their
| labors and complete their unfinished
work
And by the grace OF God we are do
/ ing IT, Just ms certainly as the sun
rises In the east and sets In the west
I believe one OF the next great amend.
/ ments upon the constitution of the
1 United States is TO be clause pro-
/ hibiting the sale OF intoxicating poi.
sons rs beverage The southern
states have set before us an example
of what the temperance people can
/ do. The northern people helped the
! southern people TO free themselves
/ from the curse OF slavery But today
/ the southern people are helping the
northern states 10 get rid Of even
greater curse. They are setting us an
/ example that deserves our imitation.
They are showing us how TO get rid
1 OF curse that is enslavlng the souls
OF thousands OF our citizens When
/ the north sees the south prospecting
i without the saloon. growing In atllu-
ence and happiness. II. too. viii awak-
/ Ell. and one community after another
will declare for abolition OF the traf-
/ hc until we become sober as well
as a free people There are TO come
constitutional amendments In refer
ence to our divorce laws and consti-
tutional amendments In reference to
our interstate businesses. Gradually
aud yet surely the work of constitution
al development Is going To continue as
II has In the past under divine guild
ance been continued. Moses did his
/ difficult work well and faithfully.
Joshua succeeded him and completed
It, Thus God bids us 10 complete the
work which our ancestors have begun
In the constitution OF the United States.
as our children and children's children
must continue our work after we are
gone
A Nation Under Protection.
Oh. that we would plead as much for
the divine protection In the develop
ment OF our government as our ances-
! tors pleaded for that grace before we
were born, We cannot In too many
ways honor that divine guidance. Some
time ago the president of the United
States had stricken off one of our ma
tionai coins the famous motto first put
there by Salmon T. Chase God
We Trust" Our president is dcvout
man whose motives are above suspi-
cion. He removed the words. he ex-
planned. because they We're made a sub
I tect Of ridicule. But many of us re-
+ greet the act The motto was appro-
pirate for a nation with such Il history
us ours. AS | looked at those words
/ | could see the Mayiiower pilgrims
/ crossing the Atlantic 10 Plymouth rock.
could picture the strange and Won
derful movements which led up 10 the
Revolutionary war. | could see our
/ forcfathers standing with the Declare
ton OF Independence In one hand and
with the constitution of the United
States IN the other. | could see Wash
! Ington on his knees at Valley Forge,
aud John Marshall and Alexander
Hamilton doing their work. ana Thorn
as jefferson and Livingston and Mar
Gus Whitman doing their work. and
Abraham Lincoln on his knees in the
White House. Each generation had
work for Moses 10 do. May we as
true patriotic Joshuas trust him and
continue 10 trust him In our hearts and
| lives though the words I'm God We
Trust he obliterated from every coin
turned out from our national mlnts.
God has blessed our national life In
the past. "And Joshua left nothing
undone of all that the Lord command
ed Moses"
But when thinking OF the great law
givers of our political life my mind
naturally turned 10 the great leaders
Of our theological life. Some Of you
know that 1t has been asserted that the
form of the United States government
was copied from the form of the Pres.
byterian church OF old Scotland. James
g. Blaine in one OF his speeches claim
ed this fact 10 be true: but. whether II
is true or not. one fact is certain-no
temporal government Is better than the
prevailing spiritual creed. II people
have cruel. uniformed. a bestial
idea of divine truth. the government
Of that people is sure 10 be a debased
government. and there is no exception
to the rule. so back OF the movers OF
the amendments of the constitution of
the United States. back OF the signers
OF the Declaration OF Independence.
back OF Samuel Adams and Harrison
Gray Otis. we must find our John Eli
OTIS. and Roger Williamses, and La
sales. and John Knoxes. and Latlmers.
and Ridleys. and Luthers. and Calvins,