American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1916-02-17

have q love that viii be with them
through life. That love u a lastins
| love and Is what they brought into this
world with them-this Is a love for
parents. / believe there shoul be a
tightening up IN regard to this matter
for this Is where the very foundation
of our national life is contaminated. I
believe when we elect people to rep
resent us at our congress and state
legislatures, they should be people
who would enact laws on this subject
lin regard to the moral sentiment OF
the people.
WE ARE A CHRISTIAN NATION.
Some OF you will perhaps remember
and others OF you have read that
through our late civil war the Con-
Igress OF the United States passed a
resolution In the darkest days Of that
war, calling upon the president OF the
United States to appoint a fast day.
| What for? For a confession Of ma
tional sin and to seek ~forgivness.
| What did our president do when this
resolution Was passed? Did he say
that there was nothing In prayer, that
There was no God or Ruler? No,
thanks be to him; he vas a Christian
president. He recognized the fact,
made and published a proclamation,
mot only that God, but the Son of God
Is the ruler OF nations and in doing
this he let the world know that he be-
llieved the word OF God 10 be the Su-
Ipreme law OF our universe, and that
we as a nation, could do nothing un-
less we recognized and obeyed this
ilaw. I ask you why II Is that we
have chaplains In our legislative halls
TO offer prayer in the name Of Christ?
Is It mockery7 No. Il Is because
that through Him that national bless
ines come as well as individual bless
ings. Then II this be true, we are a
Christian nation and are known as the
greatest nation Of the earth. Our civ
ilization and our customs are Chris
tian. We have days appointed by our
president and state governors as
Thanksgiving days; we have prayers
Offered Ian our congress and In our
legislatures, chaplains In our army
and navy; reform schools and penal
institution. Our civilization Is not
Heather, Mohammedan or Atheism.
Our nation rs a Christian nation or II
is nothing. This being true, and l be-
lieve II to be true, I for n would like
to see q recognition OF our Lord Jesus
Christ I'm every class and school room
of u nation today. This should bs
Impressed upon the mind of our you'll
while In school and II this was don'
for the next twenty years. | will ven
ture the opinion, we would have littl'
use for police officers and We woul'
then, as fathers and mothers, not b
wondering where our boy or girl 1
tonight. I presume some who hea
me tonight will say IT would not b
fair to those who are not in harmon
with the idea OF Christianity, but m
friends, as l have stated before, 20
|, certainly realize the fact that u civ
lilization Is Christianity-our custom
and usages are Christian and II tn
r fact does them no harm, the express
, ion OF this fact could not harm then
Even voltaire said III there were n
God Il would be necessary to invei
one" Daniel Webster declared tina
A "our ancestors founded their govern
Z ment on mortality and religious sent
ment-they we're brought here by n
n lliglous belief--they journeyed In II
O light and labored In Its home"
am glad to say and know that
one time the whole OF the Suprem
Court Of the State OF P%ennsylvanl
a agreed In a unanimous opinion TN,
n Is that evil which robs homes Of I'll
a the common law OF Pennsylvania.
say. friends. while l recognize II
authority of the people. / also recoI
nize the divine source from whic
that authority oomes-the Divine Ru
er with whom we have to do. and Il
20 supreme law that Is over us.
FL PURITY OF FRANCHISE
l will not undertake ut this time
say what may be the best thing to d
y 70 secure the purity Of the ballot.
have not the time TO go into this
would like. but ! would like to 81
a bow words 10 those who are ellgib
!. 10 the ballot When m elector go
into the booth to cast his ballot for Il
different officers. no matter wheth
county, state or national, l believe
should first consider whether he cou
and would conscienttously cast /
|. ballot without fear or favor. with ms
ice toward non and good will TO
= and not for his personal gain-I b
!lieve he should cast his ballot
the man who he believes could a
would II elected, treat the ooun,
state and government and his felix
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