A Logging Camp in the Sierra Nevada Mountains

of these States under a general Constitution which guarantees to each State a republican form of government and to every man the enjoyment of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, free from civil tyranny or ecclesiastical domination?"

So much for the department of civil liberty. In the domain of spiritual things the position of this government is no less explicit and no less broad and liberal. In the Old World, what multitudes have been deprived of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," on account of a peculiarity of belief in religious matters! What woes have been inflicted upon humanity by the efforts of spiritual tyrants to fetter men's consciences! What a grand safeguard is erected against these evils in the noble provisions of our Constitution, that no person shall be prohibited from freely exercising his religion (on the implied condition, of course, that no other person's rights

A Log Raft on the Columbia River, Oregon

are infringed upon); that Congress shall make no law in regard to any religious establishment; and that no religious profession shall qualify a person for, and no lack of it debar one from, any office of public trust under the United States. Thus the right of worshiping God according to the dictates of his own conscience is guaranteed to every man.

In the chapter on the political and religious influence of this nation (Chapter III), these points are brought out more fully; and to the matter of that chapter the reader is referred.

Here, then, are two great principles standing prominently before the people, Republicanism and Protestantism. And what can be more just, more innocent, more lamblike than these? And here, also, is the secret of our strength and Had some Caligula or Nero ruled this land, we

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Dress Parade, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md.

should look in vain for what we behold to-day. Immigration would not have flowed to our shores, and this country would never have presented to the world so unparalleled an example of national growth.

One of those two lamblike horns may therefore represent the great principle of civil liberty in this government; and the other, the equally great principle of religious liberty, which men so highly prize, and have so earnestly sought. As Mr. Foss says in his sermon before quoted, "The two evangels of civil and religious liberty are ours." How better could these two great principles be symbolized than by the horns of a lamb? This application is warranted by the facts already set forth respecting the horns of the other powers. For (1) the two horns may belong to one beast,

and denote union instead of division, as in the case of the ram (Daniel 8); (2) a horn may denote a purely ecclesiastical element, as the little horn of Daniel's fourth beast; and (3) a horn may denote the civil power alone, as in the case of the first horn of the Grecian goat. On the basis of these facts we have these two elements, Republicanism and Protestantism, here united in one government, and represented by two horns like the horns of a lamb. And these are nowhere else to be found; nor have they appeared, since the time when we could consistently look for the rise of the two-horned beast, in any nation upon the face of the earth except our own.

And with these horns there is no objection to be found. They are like those of a lamb, the Bible symbol of purity and innocence. The principles are all right. The outward appearance is unqualifiedly good. But, alas, for our country!

its acts are to give the lie to its profession. The lamblike features are first developed. The outward appearance and the outward profession are at first good. There is nothing to

excite suspicion or create apprehension. But this innocentlooking animal afterward speaks; and then a striking phenomenon occurs; for the voice is that of a dragon, denoting tyranny and oppression. This dragon voice is even now beginning to be heard, and is hereafter to be more fully heard, in our own land.