The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-02-26

west north and south, and the angel having the
everlasting Gospel TO preach to the nations of the
earth, is now flying in the midst of Heaven, and
men of all tongues and nations are pressing into
the kingdom of God And yet there is room. AU
men shall be blessed an him all nations shall cali
him blessed. The provisions of the Gospel are
ample. In Christ dwells all the fullness of the
Godhead
The words of the Psalmist, my BRETHREN have
never had an illustration more literal, beautiful
and impressive, in the history of the world than
in the history of our own country. In every sense
our origin was casting handful of corn upon the
tops of the mountains, whose fruit shook like the
cedars OF Lebanon Nor was there ever a moment in
oui own history when the language Of the Psalmst
could be more properly applied to us, both in respect
to what we have become, and in respect to what we
ourselves now are to the rest of the world. Our
origin and history are truly wonderful, and our ex
ample is now producing results in Europe scarcely
less wonderful Our example is the handful of corn
whose fruit is now shaking from Russia to the Med
iterranean, like Lebanon in storm.
In speaking of ourselves, desire to feel that
glory is of the Lord all the praise belongs to him.
We should have some proper appreciation of our
selves, in order that may faithfully work out
our high calling of God. In our history and our
progress, we something of the designs of Provi
dence, that should fill with the profoundest graft
tude and the strongest encouragement not to faint
falter in the way TO the fuflment of our mission
nation on the earth. 1illotson, Archbishop OF
Canterbury, in sermon on the 18th February,
1885, expressed the following sentiments respecting
the progress of religion in America:
&c remember (says he) there is very odd pas
sage in Herbert's Poems which, whether it be only
the prudent conjecture and foresight of wise man,
or there be something more prophetical in it, can
not tell 1t is this:
Religion stands on tptoes in our land,
Ready to pass to the American sS strand Il,
By letting in them both, polute her streams
Then shall Religion to America flee
They have their times OF Gospel even rs we.
"The meaning is this: when the vices of Italy
shall pass into France, and the vices of both shall
overspread England then the Gospel will leave
these parts of the world and pass into America, to
visit those dark regions which have so long sat in
darkness and the shadow of death. And this is
not improbable if we consider what vast colonies
in this last age have been transplanted out of Eu-
rope into those parts, if it were on purpose to
prepare and to make way for such change. But
however that be, consider how impiety and all man.
ner of wickedness do reign among us we have too
much cause to apprehend thatif we do not reform
and grow better, the Providence Of God will find
some way or other to deprive us of that light which
is SO abused and affronted by cur wicked and lewd
lives; and God seems now to say to as our Lord
did to the Jews Yet little while is this light
with you; walk while you have the light, lest
darkness come upon you.
Such was the language Of one of the most
learned, liberal and evangelical and noble-heared
BISHOPS that has ever HOIlOItU CIglSu SHu[CI.
The passage quoted from Herbert, must have ap-
peared very strange in 1855. 1t must have come
from mind whose presentiments sprung from its
inward harmony with the spirit of Gods providen-
tial government. The prediction is being fulfilled
much sooner, and far more extensively, than its
author or the Archbishop dreamed of; for not
only is America to be filled with the glory of the
Lord, but she is destined to overthrow the super
stitions and idoatries and despotisms of the old
world. Even now high Tory writers in England
acknowledge that it must devolve on America to
uphold the power and ascendancy fthe Anglo-Sax-
on race and religion. Some remarkable paragraphs
to this effect have appeared in the leading jour
mails of England, and in Alison's history of Europe
BV the Providence of God our coast cOnfrOnts
the world. America in 1913 and 49, and onward,
is placed on isthmus between the old Western
world and the old Eastern world. From her rolls
back upon Europe the waves Of revolution, upturn-
ing, overurning and awakening the nations long
oppressed to freedom.
AT the same time America looks so far Westward
as TO begin, like the sun, to arise in the East
Already her arts and arms, her commerce and mis-
sons have appeared on the Pacific, and Asia and
China, Japan and Siam, and the Islands of the
farthest Est, stretching out their hands to-
wards America. The day is at hand when inte-
gence from London to Canton will pass through
the heart of America. And New York, New Or
leans and San Francisco, will be the three greatest
cities on the Continent, and among the largest in
the world There can be no doubt that in few
wears the Valley of the Mississippi will be con-
nected with the Pacific by railroad, and the trade
of Europe with the East in process of time pass
through our country. God, in writing out the
pages of history with his own finger, when as yet
they were imperfect, ordered that when the United
States should be prepared it, the shores of the Pa
cific should come under their dominion and that then
such discoveries should be made as would precipi
tate multitude of people upon them, carrying
with them the institutions of the Gospel and that
&c oI,a leo feIp
the Atlantic and the Pacific should be in close and
constant communication, and the commerce OF the
world be highway for the expansion OF American
institutions. The events of 1848 in Europe CORE
spond in most remarkable manner to the events
in America from 1916 to l849. They are all parts
of the same wise and Supreme Government of the
World Whether we look at our country as to
its number of acres and square miles, or count Its
millions of inhabitants, We wonder at the rapdity
of their increase, and admire our free institutions
From whatever standing point we may survey our
mighty domain, having three great maritime fronts
on the Atlantic, the Gulf of Mexico, and the
Pacifc-making in the whole extent of sea
coast exceeding five thousand ihiles-whether we
survey our country by land or by sea, whether
politically or regously, whether we look at its
past or glance at its future, whether in its do
nestle relations, or in its expanding relations to the
whole world, we behold magnitude of influence
and of destiny that can fulfill their true ends only
by the power of the Gospel of Christ.
One OF the immaculate eI1eCtS Oh lle recent reNO-
lutions of Europe, is to increase immigration to this
country. | am not able at this moment to state the
exact number of immigrants to The United States
during the past year, but it is very great And the
number will still increase. There are many
sons why immigration will continue and even to
increase to this country from Europe. In the first
place, there is settled dssatisfa ction among the
masses of Europe with the forms of society domi
nant among them-that is, with Hierarchy, aristoc-
racy and royalty. This dissatisfaction is deeply
seated-it increases every year. 1t is sometimes
ouiescent-sometimes dormant-sometimes over
powered and crushed-but it is still there, in the
hearts of the people-a deep sense of wrong, of
fraud, corruption and tyranny, that has grown upon
them for centuries This dissatisfaction has often
manifested itself, and in proportion the masses
of the people become enlightened on the subject of
liberty and religion-in proportion as they come to
understand their own inalienabe rights, and the
plicity, purity, and spirituality of the New Tesla
ment in the same proportion they will be op-