Part 31 (2/2)
”The National Deo convention selected for the Presidency a distinguished statesreat Northwest
For the first time in more than one hundred years of our history, a candidate for the great office has been taken fro west of the Mississippi
”In the nomination of our standard-bearer, the convention builded better than it knew Each passing hour has but emphasized the wisdom of its choice Truly it has been said: 'When the tireat leader--the great leader has appeared! His cae
From the Atlantic seaboard, two thousand miles to the ard, his eloquent words have cheered the despondent, given new hopes and aspirations to the people, touched the hearts ofhis election we have kept the faith
We have not departed fros of our fathers We sacredly preserve the ancient landmarks--the landmarks of all previous Democratic conventions”
Rarely has a speech been uttered so effective in its immediate results as that of Mr Bryan in the Democratic National Convention of 1896 The occasion was one never to be forgotten When Mr
Bryan began his speech he had not been mentioned as a candidate for the Presidency; at its close there was no other candidate
The closing sentences of the memorable speech were:
”Our ancestors, when but three e to declare their political independence of every other nation; shall we, their descendants, e have grown to seventy millions, declare that we are less independent than our forefathers? No, my friends, that will never be the verdict of our people Therefore, we care not upon what lines the battle is fought If they say biood, but that we cannot have it until other nations help us, we reply that, instead of having a gold standard because England has, ill restore biland have bimetallism because the United States has it If they dare to coood thing, ill fight the behind us the productive masses of this nation and the world, supported by the co interests, and the toilers everywhere, ill answer their de to them: 'You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucifysentences of his ”Prince of Peace” have been read in all languages:
”But this Prince of Peace proht His teachings fit only for the weak and the tiy, and a could be farther froeous
Confident that he fights on the side of Jehovah, he doubts not the success of his cause What matters it whether he shares in the shouts of triumph? If every word spoken in behalf of truth has its influence and every deed done for the right weighs in the final account, it is immaterial to the Christian whether his eyes behold victory or whether he dies in the h thou lie upon the dust, When they who helped thee flee in fear, Die full of hope and manly trust, Like those who fell in battle here
Another hand thy sword shall wield, Another hand the standard wave, Till from the trurave'
”Only those who believe atte, prove that one with God can chase a thousand and two can put ten thousand to flight I can iine that the early Christians ere carried into the arena to e than the beasts, were entreated by their doubting co in the centre of the arena, they prayed and sang until they were devoured
How helpless they seemed and, measured by every human rule, how hopeless was their cause! And yet within a few decades the pohich they invoked proved ions of the emperor, and the faith in which they died was triumphant o'er all that land It is said that those ent tothemselves, 'What is it that can enter into the heart of reater conquerors in their death than they could have been had they purchased life by a surrender of their faith
”What would have been the fate of the Church if the early Christians had had as little faith as many of our Christians now have? And, on the other hand, if the Christians of to-day had the faith of thewould it be before the fulfilue confess?
”Our faith should be even stronger than the faith of those who lived two thousand years ago, for we see our religion spreading and supplanting the philosophies and creeds of the Orient
”As the Christian grows older he appreciates more and more the completeness hich Christ fills the requirerateful for the peace which he enjoys and for the strength which he has received, he repeats the words of the great scholar, Sir William Jones:
'Before thy mystic altar, heavenly truth, I kneel in manhood, as I knelt in youth
Thus let me kneel, till this dull forhtened by thy ray'”
xxx THE COLONELS
A CONVIVIAL MEETING OF LAWYERS--HILARITY SMOTHERED BY THE MAINE LAW--A FAINTING WAYFARER IS REFUSED A DRINK IN A MAINE VILLAGE-- THE APOTHECARY DEMANDS A PHYSICIAN'S PRESCRIPTION--SNAKE-BITES IN GREAT DEMAND
Soo, I spent a feeeks of incleia Upon calling at his office to renew my acquaintance with a well-knoyer, he soon invited in the re was propitious, and the conversation never for a al practitioners of the South and of the North being related with happy effect
I at length remarked that since my arrival, I had, somewhat to my surprise, learned that ”local option” had been adopted in their county An aged brother, in a tone by no means exultant, assured me that such was the fact I then observed that I was not a hard drinker, but being a total stranger and liable to sudden sickness, I asked what I would do under such circumstances