Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1884 — What a Great Preacher Thinks About It [ARTICLE]

What a Great Preacher Thinks About It

Tiie ReV.- Jolm Alabaster, the leading Methodist minister of Indianapolis, and pastor of .Meridian Street M. E church, in that city, preached a ser . ipon ou the sin of adultery, last Sunday evening, and strongly advised his hearers against voting for Cleveland. In the course of his remarks he said: God forbid that I should be ready to believe evil of any man. much less to say it. But if there is any ground for the repeated stories concerning one of ti.e candidates for the "Presidency: if thirty ministers in his own city are hot liars, then this Nation is to-day disgraced. With the great political party which nominated him I can sympathise. on the supposition that these ' things are true, but were then unknown. But whether all is true or not; tlie party have the right to insist upon the withdrawal of such, a candidate, aud the people .of this great Christian land have the right to protest against holding up such an example before the young men of America. This ' is not a questi'on of party, it is a question of common dscenev. It is a question that touches every home in the land. touches every pareht, every young man: every young woman, every wife, and every* daugliier. F say it plainly, the man for President of this great .Republic should, 1 in matters of chastity, be* like Caesar's : wife 1 . :)Uove suspicion. The temper- i anefe question, the tariff question, 'and all otner questions are secondary'to the question ofinire homes. The bare possibility of lodging a libertine in the White House otight to send a shudder through ttery family in the land. As 1 husband, as parent, as son of my \ mother, aa lover of my Country, as a ; friend o{ all that is pure, and a i Christian Uitltiater, I stalet»nly jtrtjt-tat : against such a possibility j