The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1926-01-06
(Fairmont Sentinel)

(FalrmOnt SenClnei)
In a sermon at the Methodist
church Sunday morning, using as ?
text Isaiah go, "The government
shall be upon his shoulder" DR.. E.
G. Horn asserted that the outstanding
men of the official world have declar-
ed their allegiance to the fundamental
teachings of the Christian religion.
Robert Blake, admiral Of the Brit
fsh navy, having won victories ove-
Portugal, Spain, Italy and France,
establishing thereby the naval SUI
premacy of the British Empire,
showed his attitude to the Christian
religion in his declaration:
eve have great cause to everlast-
ingly praise the Lord for his wonder
full goodness, and to rejoice in his
salvation
Ofricialdom was excellently repre-
scented in the Christian ranks by Viii
liam E. Gladstone, England's mos
noted statesman, who was a member
OF the British Parliament at the age
of %, later became Prime Minister,
and gave unqualified testimony to his
attitude to the Christian religion in
remarkable book entitled "The I'M
p ..-.ble nock &C Holy Scripture"
which asserts: "Christianity has not
only contributed to the world its
brightest and most precious jewels,
but has been what our Savior pro-
nounces it, the salt, or preserving
principle of all the residue"
Of Sir William Blackstone it may
be said that he was a maker of states
men as author of the commentaries
on law which must be read and di-
gested by every person who would
aspire to the bar, and it may also be
asserted that he assumed the status
of the preacher with an international
pulpit in hurting bomb into the
ranks of non-religionists in assert
ing that "All moral evidence, all con-
fidence in human veracity must Oe
overthrow by total infidelity." In
other words he made it plain that
there is nothing to be gained of con-
sequence in hearing the testimony i'll
court of those who throw the Christ
ian religion overheard in its entire
ty Garibaldi, Italy's greatest states
man, founder Of the constitutional
kingdom of Italy, bore witness, l am
Christian. l love and venerate the
religion of Christ, because Christ
came into the world to deliver hui
manity from slavery for which God
had not created it,
Among those who scaled the heights
in the official world were the law in
terpreters and jurists who reached the
supreme court, and there witnessed
to what is basic in the Christian re-
hgion.
Chief Justice John Jay, the first
chief of the supreme court, member
of the Continental Congress, author
of the constitution of New York, ne
gotiator of Jays Treaty, when asked
if he had any farewell address to
leave to his children, declared:
"They have the Bible"
To him that was sufficient; they
would be rich with the Bible though
they had no other legacy.
Justice of the Supreme Court JOS
eph Story, formerly professor of law
in Harvard, asserted that Christianity
is at the very basis Of right govern
ment in his startling statement: Zone
of the beautiful boasts of our juris-
prudence is that Christianity is a
part of the common law, from which
law seeks the sanction of it's rights,
and by which it endeavors to regu-
late it's doctrines"
There never has been period in
which the common law did not recog-