Columbia's Apostasy: With Other Poems and Essays (Classic Reprint) (Meki povez)

Excerpt from Columbia's Apostasy: With Other Poems and Essays Within the Feast of St. Michael, the Archangel, Philadelphia, May 10, 1899. "In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and the Holy Ghost." Amen. As one who has known the degradation resulting from the bondage of Satan and the slavery of sin; as one who has known the elevation and dignity and grandeur of the privileges of the child of God; as one who realizes that the conflict daily and hourly waged in the soul of the individual is the same as that being waged on a more extended scale in the soul of the nation; as one who has long since realized, with the Apostle Paul, that the conflict of men and of nations is not merely with flesh and blood, but with the invisible, superhuman, and supernatural agents of evil, "with the principalities and powers of darkness in high places"; as one to whom it has been given to know, in a special manner, the mighty providence of God as manifested in the aid and assistance rendered us by benign and heavenly spirits in our conflict between good and evil, I speak to my fellow men. In this time of commemoration of the great commander of the heavenly forces, St. Michael the archangel, who cast fallen Lucifer as Satan out of heaven, I call upon all citizens of this great republic who still revere the name of Christ; upon all who exalt the name of Deity over the Satanic principle; upon all who are still lovers of good and haters of evil, to stand faithful to each other in the present contest, crying out as children of the Most High, "Who is like unto God?" and as citizens of a free land, "What is like unto Holy Liberty?" until we shall see hurled over the protecting ramparts of this great heaven-born republic, those traitorous thoughts and principles of action, which have risen up in the hearts and minds of too many of our fellows, a menace to the life and the integrity of the institutions of this great nation, and against the perpetuation of its God-given mission of declaring just rights unto the people of all lands, the essential equality and fraternity of mankind under the supervising Fatherhood of God. "Who of you are so low that would be a bondman? If any, speak." Let the grand palladium of our liberties be ever preserved sacred among us. In one grand sentence, the fathers of this great Republic anticipated the materialistic apostates of the present day. We will have no Caesarism in our free land. Our rights are God-given. We accept not the theory of human-made rights, nor will we prostitute our sacred privileges upon the altar of brute force. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.