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

nation, on the neck Of the stubborn and
heallong Saxon race, will be lighter than
the down Of n linnct's wing aud the laws
now so mild and so safe, will become like the
drv leaves of autumn before the wrath of
Il whirlwind We should send the ministr,
10 lag and ereeme lie plans for sysiem 81
education. There are others who are quail
fled to do il but, busy with their farms and
merchandise, they will neglect it. The COM
mon school is the Child of the Gospel, and
they will keep company together through the
settlements Of the West Generous men, in
and out OF the church, have contributed TO
lay the foundations of one hundred and
eighteen colleges, and thousands Of acade-
mics in the United States. But ministers Of
the Gospel have mainly led IN the enter
prise; and now mainly control and instruct
in those institutions The same thing will
occur again if the proper agents are in the
field II those territories are not supplied
with colleges and academies, and dotted all
over with school houses, they will come
up a land of ignorance, and a land Of guilt
1t will be a shame to Christianity, if the
Pacific shore shall give up all her treasure
and gel nothing in return. Cortes was
thought TO have gained amazing wca ltb,
when he carried SIX million and three hund-
red thousand dollars from the halls Of Mon
tezuma, a sum scarce equal to the income of
n single month of the present time. In II
year, the world has sent out hundred thou
sand men, with an outfit OF thirty millions Of
dollars, for the sake OF gain. Cannot the
church contribute hundredih part of as
many men, and three -hurdredth part Of as
much money to send The word of lile TO all
the territories Our own brethren aud KIN
dred are there. Scarce church or a neigh
/ borhood but has sent on representative.
Par. will return some rich, some poor. Part
will remain some as a matter oI choice, and
/ thousands as matter of compulsion they
are too destitute ever to get home, unless led
back by the hand Of charity. There is an
other new class on those shores. Formerly
Asiaics have no, cmgralcd, as Europeans
have done, to settle On our land. Occasion
ally, one has been brought home for exhib-
tion, TO give Americans additional proof that
life may irgcr and flicker in the system
alter the clamp and pully have done their
worst to torture the work Of God. The at
traction has loosencd moro mer than any
other cause, for century. They are now
on your western coast. Christianity has sent
out missionaries 10 convert the he athen -
and hearhenism, following the example OF
Scpio, has come to our land and bids the
church TO make new enlistments, or check
the career Of liaunibas, and bring them to
the defence Of her own firesides and affairs
An eminent Il. ION has lately given US the
friendly admoEiiira-long since uttered b,
4 venerated an still living leader in th,
churches of Verront--to save on countr,
for the sake of the world Christians abroaC
seem to regard Is as peculiarly qualified t,
lead in the cow ion Of tue world % Christ
and hence the eXlortation to save our owI
, republic. Their nave been re- lLlics be
f fore. We have heard Of that in Greece
with twenty hoo to single frOelAan ant
Of the extendcd 2 wer and domia,'n OF nil
itarv Rome, tha +, The tread of hot cohorts
G and at the scream of her eagle, zen trcm
c bled as at the pr nonition of coming earth
t quaae. There &c been rcput in mod
n ern Europe. 1re was one o. iis cont
= men. two hundre' years before It's discovery
: Tha, brave band c' mountaineers maintaine
r their indepenle e against the sweepin
n armies of Monic una. But no repull
:. before ours, know ng Christianity has bee
ir able to extend it, CaLined, cribbed, an
d confined, they h'vc had no power or roo
l. to expand; whlo the danger with US is lh
* we cannot stop tho expansion. The viz
er brought out of Egypt, not clGmbering II
It, walls of narrow homo, but covering Il
" hills with its SHADOW and stretching its WI
n. to the river and sea, leads US to fear It m,
ar not carry in its extended branches the Writ
10 and vigor of the parent stock
Another source of confidence reposcd
to us is, that in this nation men command thel
as selves and their resources. In Scotland, t
ed land is in the hands Of three thousand pr
ev pretors; in England, in The hands Of thil
~. thousand. Thirty-Gve millions ofseris lat
he to uphold the extended despo'ism of Russ
OF IN Egypt, seris tolled to build mausoleu
ri l,, IA -,
ch build hanging bridges and highways for I
-er march of lncas and armies. In this matt
nd men own the soil they till, and garner /
ed products for themselves they erect the g
We ernmenis, and make the laws, and cho'
nee the rulers for themselves they ply the co
ere merce and rear the factories, and build
not railroads G'r themselves. There is one II
ere road they will yet build it will reach to
the going down of the sun, aud form cont
ave uous and unbfoken line from ocean to oce
ac- 1t will be n great werk for civilization,
l agriculture, for commerce, and Christian
or! Your Society has deep interest in it. y
zen OF our age will live TO see it done and
was telegraph following in its footsteps; and
be- telligepce crossing the continent in a1va
no' of the sun and the morning news of y
ier' York Transmitted, and printed, and read
nsh the morning news in San Francisco. I'll
fee truly, deep will call unto deep the ALA
tile and Pacific may join in the morning m
one aad evening vesper
ueh Let the people, having the resource