The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-05-28

than his fellowmen can see. ..-
have found more true poI4tS
!, rho noets Of the English-speaking
race than | have ever found n a. 'Ee
formal treatises on political sclehee-
There i more OF the spirit OF our
own institutions in a few lines O.
Tennv0n than in all the TEXTBOOKS
on governments put together,
"A nation still. the rulers the
some sense OF duty. something Of a
faith.
some reverence for the laws our
selves have made,
Some patient force 10 change lnelh
when we will,
Some civic manhood firm against
the crowd.
Can YOU find summed up the man
", self-heIping spirit or SAXON no
ertv anywhere better than III those
few lineso Men afraid OF nobody,
afraid OF nothing but their own pas
sions. on guard against being caught
by their own sudden I'M
pulses and so getting their grapple
upon life ii tiTrn-set institutions
some reverence for the laws them
selves have made, some patience, not
passionate force, to change them
when they will, some civic
firm against the croWd. Literature,
ladies and gentlemen, is revelation OF
the human spirit, and within the
covers of this one book IS a whole
lot Of literature, prose and poetry, MS
tory and rhapsody, the sober MARIA
ton of the ecstasy of human excite
ment-things that ring In ones ears
like songs never to be forgotten. And
50 | say, let us never forget that THESE
deep sources, these wells Of insplra-
ton. must always be our sources OF
refreShnent and of renewal. 1hen
no man can put unjust power upOn
us. We shall live IN that chartered
liberty in which a man sees the things
unseen, in which he knows that he
is bound for a country in which there
are no questions mooted any longer
OF right or wrong.
Can you imagine a man who did
not believe these words, who did
not believe in the future life, stand
ing up and doing what has been the
heart and center Of liberty always
standing up before the king himself
and saying, Sir, you have sinned and
done wrong in the sight of God
and | am his messenger Of judg-
2 ment to upon you the con
domination Of Almighty God. You
may silence me, o may send me tC
my reckoning with my Maker, but
you cannot silence or reverse the
Z Judgment" That is what a man feels
. whose faith is rooted in the Bible
5 And the man whose faith is rooted
. in the Bible knows that reform can.
l not be stayed, that the finger of Goo
hat moves upon the face Of tn,
nations is against every man tia
' plots the nations downfall or tn,
: peoples deceit; hat these men ar,
simply cropping and staggering in thei
ignorance to a fearful day of judg
ment and tina whether one genera
n tim NIT pnocno II az nat tho cloI 40,
e Of revelation and Of freedom will
e come in which men will sing by tn
host Of the coming Of the Lord in Hi
T glory. and all Of those will be forgot
e ten, those little, scheming, contempt
BILE creatures that forgot the imag
Of God and tried to frame men &C
e cording to the image Of the Evil One
n You may remember that allegori
cal narrative in the Old Testamen
Of those who searched through on
g cavern after another cutting the hole
e. in h walls and going into the secre
e places where all sorts Of noisom
= things We're worshipped. Men do nc
/ dare to let the sun shine in upo
c. such things and upon such occupa
, tons and worships. And SO I sa
. there will be no halt to the gres
Re movement of the armies Of refor,
r until men forget their God, until the
4 forget this charter of their libert
ir Let no man suppose that progress ca
s be divorced from religion, or Thu
IS there is any other platform for til
y, ministers Of reform than the pla
le form written in the utterances of OF
Of Lord and Savior
SO America was born a Christia
d. nation. America was born to exen
pity that devotion to the elemen
or Of Righteousness which are deriv.
IN from h revelations OF HOLY Scri,
ture.
al Ladies and gentlemen, I have
very simple thing to ask of you.
.et ask Of every man and woman in til
ne audience that from this night {
at thew will realize that n,rt oF =,
nd destiny Of America lice IN +ho;r a.;
perusal Of this great book Of reyel
al tions-that if they would see Ameri
We free and pure they will make the
l own spirits free and pure by tt
a. baptism of the Holy Scripture.