Excerpt from Pulpit and Politics

Brave soul He uttered his truthful message, and for it was smitten in the face by a false prophet, and sent to pris on by the enraged and characterless king.

Every minister of the Gospel is a bearer of messages from God to man. And neither the hatred of political powers, nor the opposition of pulpit and press should deter him from giving a full and faithful deliverance of his message.

It may be his duty to proclaim unpleasant truths to those who wear crowns, or the tiara, as did Knox and Luther, or he may find it necessary to utter his unpopular message to a proud and luxurious age ignoring the laws of God, as did Lovejoy, Parker, Beecher and Haven. But human nature is the same in all ages, whether it wears the crown, or casts a freeman's ballot. In the son of Chenaanah, it smote the cheek of the faithful prophet in Ahab, it imprisoned him in Jehoiakim, it burnt his message, in Herod it beheaded him in Queen Mary it dreaded him in a free Democracy it may banish him, as it did Aristides and in a free Republic under the voluntary system of ministerial support, it, may kill him as it did Lovejoy and Haddock, or refuse him sym pathy, or brand him with Opprobrious epithets or burn him in e¿igy.

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