Thus Jotham'l fable or pnrahle
tenches us that n man has a responsi?
bility to his government as well as to
his home; a responsibility to those who
Shall rule over him as well as to those
under him. By this statement am I
here to tell you for whom to vote? Oh,
nol I would speak to you Just as that
great and good man Andrew Jackson
said to that great future statesman,
j Richard Thompson of Indiana, when a
young boy he went with his father to
call upon tho president After a short
conversation Richard Thompson's fa?
ther turned and said: "Mr. President,
my son Dick is not of my political
faith. 1 fear he ls going to vote against
you In the next election." Instead of
upbraiding tho son, -iHd Hickory"
turned and said: "Yoong mun, I have
no advice to give you except this: 'Al?
ways think for yourself and let your
conscience be your guide.'" So in tho
coming election 1 say to you, "As a
Christian man think for yourself and
let your conscience be your guido."
But hereafter, in the homo or on the
street and In church always make your
public business your christian busi?
ness. Always make your duty to your
city, to your state, to sour nation, your
Christian duty. Then tho grout dan?
gers which threaten this our native
land from the rulershlp of the worth?
less bramble and its kind will be done
away with, for the olive and the :';g
and the vino will be bending the knee
In national worship at the foot of the
cross.
[Copyiiffht I9W, by Louis Klopsch.]
Hf I.ILetl lo I'rriu-li.
