| Show sacred things mr bryans cross of gold and crown of thorns which figure was the climax of his greit chicago speech and lias has since ben adopted as a campaign slogan is likely to prove a boomerang the nonpartisan non partisan and religious press of the country have begun assailing its profanity with good effect the following from lesliea Le weekly gives a fair illustration of the sentiment of ef therion thenon partisan press kearly nineteen centuries ago there was lifted upon a hill in judea a cross and on it was crucified the savior of the world through agh all these centuries this cross has stood as a sacred thing around it have gathered the hopes of men and toward it the faces of the sinful and the downcast have been turned with reverence and awe it has seemed to be at once a beacon of hope and a prophecy of federr redemption eption from the ills and sina bins and despai life lu in these jatter days however the cross and th the e crown ot of thorns seemed to have lost thier hold upon the respect and veneration of a class 0 of f our fellow men behave we have recently witnessed the spectacle ofa of a can candidate didat for the presidency of the united states introducing these sacred symbols of our lords passion into a partisan harangue and ing the crucifixion as a fact on which abich to hang a profane suggestion we have seen too a howling and nd drunken mob parading around the streets street of the convention city in which this man was nominated behind a lifted cross and crown and there is some reason to fear that these emble emblems mii which are so universally ver sally regarded with reverence will come to be associated with the mere spectacular emblems of partisan con flicht and partisan parades possibly we may see them in the windows of saloons I 1 and dives along alongside sile of the vulgar cartoon the filthy placard and the flor florid id picture of the variety actress we do not wonder that everywhere throughout the country this degradation of sacred sacred emblems this eager and indecent sacrilege is awakening indignant protest and that men are beginning to inquire whether any party which is thus capable if f prostitution prostituting sacred things to unholy partisan uses and whose candidate seems to regard it as the highest oratorical achievement to ga garnish ish his speech with reference to them can be in trusted with the management of the moral and material interests of a great people the cross lifted upon calcai calvary ry speaks of purity honesty and incarnate t truth ruth and is a pledge to all generations that righteousness an and I 1 justice and that w which h i chislof is of good report shall finally d dominate 0 m binate the r aeouls so of f men and the poli bics tics of nations av whatever hat ever there is ia of civilization in the world is the outcome of the idea for which it stands the divine personality associated with it is the master force of history until mr bryan and his cohorts can discover some means of blo blotting eting out the light which that cross has cast across the centuries and obscuring that from which it stands in the thought and souls of men he and they will try in vain vain to persuade a christian people to sanction a creed of falsehood robbe robbery ry and sedition |
