The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1908-07-29
MOST TERRIFIC
ARRANGEMENT
OF Candidate Taft and His
Religious Views
BY THE PENTECOSTAL HERALD
Belonging to the Unitarian
Church, Taft Believes
Not in Christ.

Under the nearing, Snall we raw
for President of this Nation a Man
Who Repudiates Christi" a recent
issue Of the Pentecostal Herald pub
fishes the following stirring appeal
to all christians:
Think of the United States with
President who does not believe that
Jesus Christ was the Son of God, but
locks upon our immaculate Saviour as
a common bastard and low, cunning
inipostor What must Mr. Taft's feel
ings be towards our civilization, which
is so permeated and interviewer with
the religion of Jesus Christ? Take
Christ, the inspiration Of His gospel,
His sacrifice and his church on. OF
our national history and life, and what
would We have left? Try to imagine
the discovery and civilization of this
great continent passing through its
many trials and conflicts without the
ministers of Jesus and His grace.
Take His name and power out of
our civilization, tear away the
churches which have been erected fCr
His worship, the schools that have
been erected TO His honor, in which
His teachings have been repeated and
emphasized, blot out the charitable in
situations which have sprung out OF
devoted love for Him, take
,f
ture, His praise out of our songs,
His doctrines from our society and
homes, HIS promises from The foun-
dation of our hopes and His love
from our hearts, and what would be
left?
Are we ready by electing this COM
morplace unbeliever our chief magis-
trate, 10 repudiate our faith in The
worlds Redeemer? VIII we dare the
reckless risk Of crucifying the Son OF
God afresh; will we, after all our
preaching of His word, praise of Him
and praying TO Him, put him to open
shame before the civilized and heathenI
world? What would Europe think Of
us? l venture to say that civilized
Europe would not think of putting
he crown upon the head of man
who denied the Messiahship of Christ
How would our missionaries answer
the questions of shrewd and smiling
heather who must inquire how it is
that our Christian nation has elected
a man to the Presidency who has no
more faith in Jesus Christ than a
naked savage?
How could Mr.. Taft, if he were
President, represent us? His belief is
so different from ours, or rather his
unbelief is so contradictory to our
faith-he cannot sympathize with us;
cannot enter with us into our feelings
and holy hopes and aspirations. What
stupid idolaters we must appear to
him! AS he passes by the church
buildings, they are to him but the
monuments Of our ignorance and SUI
perstition. And this man asks our
Christian ministers to trail the ban
ner of the Cross in the dust and vote
for him for the Presidency. He would
have the Christian manhood Of this
nation to turn their backs upon the
Christ who died for them, and lift him
upon the price OF their apostasy, to
the highest place in the nation. How
could he enter with us into the joys
of our Christmas celebrations?
1t would seem that a man with
mind so twisted as to have no faith
in the Christ and a heart so cold that
in It there is no love for the Son OF
God, who gave Himself for the ransom
OF the race, would prefer to go and
live among the Turks and worship
with the Mohammedans. There is
much closer sympathy between the re-
ngious faith of Mr.. Taft and the
Turks than there is between his faith
and that of the Christian faith Of
the American people. Every min
lister Of the gospel and lay
Every minister of the gospel and lay
man of the faith, and every mother
who loves our Lord, and every Sab
hath-school child in the nation, ought
to ris up and march to the polls on
election day, singing "All hail the
Power Of Jesus Name" and give Mr..
Taft a rebuke that will go ringing
around the world, up to heaven, and
down through the centuries.
Jesus, the name high over all,
In hell or earth or sky;
Angels and men before it fall,
And devils fear and fly"