THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, I’A. THURSDAY, MAY 41, 18086, CHRISTIAN PATRIOTISM. We Should Do Our Very Best for | Our Country. An Appeal to the Lawmakers to Name of God in tho stitution Nationaal Con- He is on Our Side. Jv. Talmage's latest timely and appropriate. wi throug wns trances the tional his- sermon He finger of Ge nour no tory and happier than any other people on earth. text he selected base his re- marks was: claims we are noe on which Psalm 106: his senators wisdom.” Senators in this text makers. Joseph was the Lord Tr of the Eg among otl according to my text, was to senat m; and if an earth ought to be endowed dom it is ser yptian government, wer great things which wisdo wntors, whether tl in cor stags, By their down Lawm tempted by pre] preferences, by op] advancement, best to ought to bx 1gresses, parliaments, or assemblies, or Nsions al . p AKErs § and do is so 1 hey OO any- r Al and ’ thing i mighty he Maker y Jesus Christ The a fallure of He Aven His only constitut earth, and gotten Son." have been the divine interference The members of the convention could agree on nothing until, in response to Benjamin Franklin's request that the meetings bo opened by prayer, the Lord God was ealled on to interfere and help, and then the way was cleared, and all the states signed the document; a his torical fact that all the rat-terriors of modern infidelity cannot bark out of existence! I know that there was an exception to the fact that the promi. nent men of those times were good men. Tom Paine, a libertine and a sot, be m would had it not been for did not bellove in anything good until | shrieked | he was dying, and then he out for God's merey. And Ethan Allen, from one of whose descendants I have reccived within a few days & confirma tion of the incident I mentioned in a recent sermon, as saying to his dying daughter that she had better tike ber mother's Christian religion than his own infidelity. The article sent me says: “The story has been denied by some of the Allen family, but the Bron. son family, some of whom were with the dying girl, affirm that it is sub- stantially true. In such a matter one confirmation is worth more than many denials.” So says the article sent to me. There is no doubt that Ethan Al len was the vulgarest soito! ar inf lel, { that Pat the | | for, sitting in a Presbyterian church, | kilo 0 i | or adopted a plank of intelligent his admirers say ho struck the pew in front of him and swore out loud, so ns to disturb the meeting, and no gentie- man would do that, 1 do not wonder of his descondants are ashamed of him; but, of they could not help it, and are not to blame. But all the decent mon of the Revolu- tion belioved in God, and Ameri san congress, now assembled, will only sentiment of the fathers when w of God in the © NOW Ht AON dgment of sOmao COUrso, our acho the they enthrope the na sonstitution, We hi for AY ne red 1 inserting ‘Knowl fathers thnt divinity an our had Since then the has been opled At to 1 ¥ 7 and all 1} pence, continent Pt and gre: tl from the antic the showing Pacific been war muss supernal Since of 1513, and rs Y Yi wy! ines 8, out pleased to insert the gested by the Methodiss Not only because of the d to this nation in the hh a reverential insertion it because of the facet that r to want divine mterposi- } nal history. our wand we will need » next one hundred ' ¥ our hands Ly years olf good gove so, and le mittee on resolutions convention take a with bold with hnowle virman in your national full of ink and the document “Whereas” pen head cant hand signifi ne the goodn s8 of God in as and Why, belongs to God, ging His kindne for the future 5 country and in ever, pos to ackncwledge It From the that, on an October morning Columbus the past, and beg protection thi ought my friends, we moment in 1492, looked over the side of the ship and saw the earved staff which made him think he was near an in- babited country, and saw also a thorn and a cluster of berries (type of history ever since, the plercing sorrows oar and cluster of national joys), until this hour our country has been bounded on i the north, south, east and west by the goodness of God, The Huguenots took possession of the Carolinas, in tho name of God. William Penn settled Philadel- phia, in the name of God. The Hol- landers took possession of New York, in the name of God, The Pligrim fathers sottlod New England, in the name of God, Preceding the first gun of Bunker | Hill, at the voles of prayer all heads un- covered. And there are domes of white blossomns where spread the white tents, And there are plows in the track whore the War wagons went, And there are songs wheres they lifted up Rachel's lament. I take n step further and say that before the gavels of our senate and house of representatives and our poe ‘a cosvenlions pwd adlourns path FTA ment, there ought to bo pass fulness for the great 10} tions which are coming among us is too lato now to discuss wheth had better let thom here, They are coming this moment through the Narrows. They moment taking the first full inhalation of the freo air of America, And they will continue to come as this country is the live in You might prohibit ing summer bees from alighting on a fleld of might as well from coming to ons of foreign come, The) as long best place to as well pass a law blossoming prohibit the sta down buckwheat; you rs of the mountain to lick, os bitten nat to this the land « is 0 bo different rc to-day. Germain Freuneh civility, Scot glish loyalty, Ita Mito one lntermar: nto one m earthquakes English fogs The of the lo than any is the testi led abroad For the more the industrious more opportunity! how good God was to our fath United ie on pe ople nony of eve ry mas trave sympathy! For Oh, ™ wor and how good God has been to us and our children! To Him--blessed be [His glorious name! To Him of cross and triumph be consecrated the United States of America! ors, Go home to-day in high hopes of the future. The Eternal God is on the side of this nation. Our brightest days are yet to come, He hath sounded forth the trumpet that will never eall retreat, He is sifting out the hearts of men before the | the judgment seat; Pe swift, my soul, to answer Him: be jubilant my tevt—our God Is marching on A Genial Thing In Spiders There is a spider in Now Zenlam that usually throws coils of its web about the head of Ita prey, until the wretched victim is first blinded and then choked. In many unfrequented dark nooks of the jungle you come neroas most perfect skeletons of small Firds esught in these terrible snares Highest Falls The highest falls are those of the Jonatan, some of which exceed 8,000 ced are this | | are sold | spring | heavily if they are to make money, TWO LITTLE ASGIETANTS | Paggested by a Poansylvanis Correapond- out In The Gountry Gentleman, Tho corn $lo illustrated should have a stout cord about six feat long with a loop on one end to bo hooked on the tie at time of uso and taken off when put away. 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