The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1851-10-15


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We have so long called ourselves great
nation. that when we nave made additions
large enough to swallow The strongest Euro
pean powers. we have left no unchartcred
terms by which TO indicate the extent of our
augmented whole. But, much as we have
talked, doubt whether, as friends of Home
Missions, VIC fully realize how wide a field is
now before us that. after two centuries nj
progressive settlement one half of our ter
! ritory is not yet organized into States. Since
your last meeting, California has joined the
Union. She has come into that Union with
dover of gold, such as none bni the hand
of her Creator could give. Long yea
forever-may she hold her place MS IA bright
star gliding the armament Of the Wcst but
so far as regards the action of your Society
she is in the condition of territory, and, in
many respects, has stronger claims than any
other Since your last meeting, Congress
has &amcd State and territorial governments
covering an area eleven times as large a;
| New York, who has so long and so gracefully
borne the name and honor of the Empire
Stale. For generations to come, new addi-
lions will be discussed, and new States will
present thcmsclvcs at the national altar for
baptism into the name Of our glorious Union
Into those extended territories, now so rap
idly setiipg, the pending resolution urges
YOU 10 enter early, and work earnestly for
,hc salvation of men. know the field is
large. and the work as important us any ever
laid at he door of Missions, since the found
alton of the church. ! trust that we have
reached our limits, add pray God to give no
more additions by the conquest of arms.
But, if it be tue rs predicted, that our re-
public is destined to csvcr the whole North
American Comment, then the church, who
gave The world the first idea Of rcprcser-
talivc government, should be prepared to
lcngthcn her cords, and strengthen her stakes
over the same extended empire. If the
work he great, there has been great ard
long preparation for it. God saved this
land from the power Of the Mortimer, and
turned the foot of the Spanish advcn'urer to
more fertile and tempting fields, on which TO
try his disastrous experiment. He held back
the Saxon, struggling Ike Il chained eagle
for freedom, till at nc bidding of a tyrlnt,
pcdaui, forty seven men had expended a
hundred and forty Que years of labor in
transaling the Bible. When that was printed
and put into .he hands of our fathers, he
brought them slowly % their work, as The
chosen seed wa7 sflcd from the masses of the
old world. He bid tas savage hold them in
check, till they should coalcsce in forming
societies and churches flc gave them 4 free
constitution and 'hrcc score years of uncx-
ampled prospcr;, under il More to oui
purpose, he gave lem fifty years Of expo,
ricnce in rlanliy cha-.aos 10y the agency o
Domestic M. 1n,, til there is not tloub
or doubter le. - p lte power or safety o.
that agent. ~ this done, the gates arc
again lifted, ouI nrw tide is heavinr on
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