The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-12-25

cherib and Nebuchadnezzar, were simply the
@eatures of his divine wrath, raised up to |
punish the transgressions Of his people. In |
the rapidity and magnitude Of their conquests
we recognise the divine will systematically
directing the human mind towards one object
This accomplished, We behold the same ornni-
potent and allforgiving Power breathing into
the soul of Cyrus the inspirations necessary to
constitute him the deliverer of his people,
investing him with the qualities necessary to
the performance of his great task, and CEN
Quoting him step by step to its fnlhlmeD'..
And so it was through every stage in the
history Of the Jews, down to the pc
Rod when it was considered that. the
world was fully prepared for the advent of
the Messiah by the union Of the different ma
tions through the medium of the Greek and
Latin tongues-a condition essential to the
general dissemination Of the divine truth
through the preaching of the Apostles.
Long previous to this great epoch in the
worlds history, however, the descendants of
the old filibuster had been accomplishing
their destiny. By means of the invasion of
ander the Great in Asia and India, the conquests
of the Roman proconsuls and emperors in Ger
many, Gaul and Britain, their power had been
extended both east and west, and numberless
races subjected to their domination. Chris
tianity impaired fresh impulse and direction
to it. Its divine light forcing its way through
the darkness and ignorance in which the human
ho1h oov oh attn 1o6 nd oual
the way for their Entertainments. The gospel
missionaries have in fact been generally the
precursors Of their invasions, and may be said
to have constituted the vanguards Of their
armies Even in China, where system of
rigid exclusion against other nations had from
time immemOrial been maintained, there is
reason to believe that Christianity had pene-
trated as early as the seventh century after the
birth of our Redeemer. Although constantly
prescribed and prosecuted, it has, if we are to
credit the recent work of the French traveller,
NJ. Hue, always succeeded in maintaining its
ground there, and is probably the great political
lever by which the Mantchou dynasty will be
overthrown, and the domination of the white
races established over that vast empire
another marvellous exempliication of the
force of the patrarchal denunciation against
the colored races Il is now about two centu.
ries and half since the first modest CONNER
cial adventure which formed the basis Of the
East India Company set sail from England.
From that small beginning grew the colossal
empire which Great Britain has gradually &C
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magnitude of the results thus achieved with
the poverty Of the means employed, have we
not right to say that it is to the power OF God,
and not to the inherent force Of man, they are
to be attributed? The conquest Of India, with
its countless populations, by handfulls of
troops, can in fact only be looked upon as
another consistent feature in that grand
scheme foreshadowed IN the patriarchal ana
thema, and which, as many believe, has for
its final object the union of all branches OF the
human family by one faith and language.
Wherever modern discovery has opened mp
new regions to the research and cupidity OF
the white races, there we see the aborigines
gradually submitting to their rule, or dying
out before the influence Of civilization. In the
Asiatic archipelago, Australia and Polynesia,
the colored race are obeying the conditions Of
the divine law enunciated through the mouth
Of the patriarch, and yielding up their birth
right to force superhuman in its nature, and
against which there can be nc effectual resist
snce.
And so it has been on our own continent
Ever since it's discovery, in the fifteenth GEN.
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treating before the encroachments OF the
whites, but by some additional and inexplica-
BILE fatality, have gradually been whitening and
dying out whenever they have been brought
in contact with them. Where the blood of che
races has mingled, as in the case Of the half
breeds Of South America, this process Of ex-
tinction has been arrested for time, but de-
generacy and feebleness are the inevitable con-
dition of the amalgamation. When Anglo |
Saxon energy is brought into more general
competition with the enervated morale OF the
Central American and Mexican populations, il |
is probable that the latter will in their turn
obey the same chronological law which is ami |
hilatipg the Indian race. However this may
be, it is certain that they will all, sooner OF
later, be brought under subsection to the des- |
cendants of Japhet. When, therefore, Euro
pean nations ridicule our popular political |
doctrine Of manifest destiny" they not only |
ignore their own history, but they wilfally |
close their eyes to the evidence afforded us by |
the Scriptures, that in acting upon it we are
only fulfilling our share Of the mission assign
cd to the white race. Accepting that mission |
in all humility and sincerity Of faith, we will |
proceed confidently in the path chalked out
for US, caring but little for the taunts and
jealous representations Of those who have
turned to prohtless account for humanity the
opportunities that the Almighty has placed
within their reach
CHRISTMAS AND NO SPEAKER-C Christmas is