Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1860-12-19

. by the very throne Of God. and clasps i
foundation pillars. do stands unharme
J and unmoved, though the waves Of hums
passion roll aud surge at his feet, thoug
the lightnings fash and the thunders rat
tie.
Have faith in God. Riot, rebellion, eve
a partial and temporary secession ma,
come. But l have faith to believe tha
that God who brought us safely througl
all the dangers Of the Revolution, and VIII,
has ever since nurtured us with ever grow
ing prosperity, who would hive saved
even Sodom and Gomorrah il ten righteoui
men had been found therein, will preserv,
America so long as praying christian men
and women are 10 be found within its Dor.
dars. My faith is not in platforms, OF
} afsies or politicians or statesmen, but in
ais. that the Lord God Omnipotent
reigneth. Strong in this faith, have no
fear Of final disruption of the Union. II
may DO that We shall be led even through
wars and convulsions, Of which as yet we
have but faint conceptions. But these /
believe will be but as the furnauce whence
we shall come forth ss gold tried in the fire,
the dross Of our national corruptions and
sins cleansedaway. love to look bsvond
the clouds now lowering dsrkly upon the
horizon. ACd look With hopeful sutici.
pations. l behold the Union es these
State9 stronger In tee HANDS OF fraternal
affection than sver before. / behold every.
whers slavery melting away by universal
consent Before the Genial warmth of lib
erty rs snow before the summer su,. see
knowledge growing moro 6if1used; schools
academies and ,olioseH 5pringirg up with
rapid growth; fo-eets bcripg to the woods.
mans axe, and mf;:iag room for sunny
csrn-6elds; mouptai7 streams alive with
many mills; the helf civilized emigrants
that are pouring iato cur country, becom
ing iroa men, christian men; the African
race educated and developed to the full lin
it ofits capability; and above all 1 see the
light OF christianity growing brighter and
brighter unto perfect deg, undimmed by a
single spot, iu danger Of no eclipse and
scattering from berore its path every mist
Of superstition and dark cloud Of sin that
dare interpose in ito way. l see the
church of God In America growing daily
in wisdom aud in favcr with God and at
last also with ran, Trusting in those
foundation principles, on which as on
granite our Union is built, and in the
power and love of God who has SO signally
blessed US as nation in times past, look
into the future with hopeful-with joyful
anticipations. believing the time to be not
far distant when the words of the Psalm
list, already partially fulfilled, shall be true
Of the whole American continent, "Then
shall the earth bring forth her increase,
and God, even our own God shall bless
u.s." ~ 'N9f
Let those that will, walk in the midst Of
daIk forebodings. Though dangers of tho
most serious kind environ US, nevertheless
rejoice that live in this nineteenth CEN
tury;-not SO much because it is an age of
railroads and steamboats, and telepraphs,
and of all abounding material prosperity,
but because 1t is an age in which we can
already see the first dawning signs of the
Millennial day. Yea! Let thy kingdom
come, Oh! God. and thy will be done on
h ia in
ever think what that prayer meant--"Thy
kingdom come."f Do you think that in
the kingdom Of Heaven Saints will draw
their swords upon their brother saints in
horrid fraternal war; When you pray,
"Thy kingdom come" you pray for the
reign of peace upon the earth. Do you
think that some saints will go staggering
drunk with wine through the streets Of
Heaven9 When you pray "Thy kingdom
come" you pray that intempsrance may be
swept from the earth. Do you think that
In the kingdom of Heaven Saints will owl
their brother Saintsf When you pray "Thy
kingdom come" you pray that God will sci
those causes at work which will eventual.
IN the final extinction OF slavery. There ID
~ a man who in cushioned pew pravs
by kingdom come," who the momea
at God begins to answer his prayer
quickly tnrns over the leaves of his prayoi
book to the Lltany and cries out "From al
seditiop, privy conspiracy and rebellion
from ell false doctrine, heresy and schisu
Good Lord deliver u.s."
Though Love not agitation and conflict
thank God that live in an age in which
the world trembles under the tread o
Jehovah, coming to establish righteous
ness aud truta. and GO eternal peace upor
the earth. For the souvulsions which ar
shaking all Kingdoms aud nations NOR
than ov,r bcforc, ore but the thr,es and Ia
; Dor peias OF the world which ure TO Civ
!: birth 10 Liberty, and lovo and ths Kingdom
Of Cod. dc-ten tLe iins OF thy coming
on Loril .isrtel sia time when the King
oczlo ci this world naell become the king
dous OF our Lord, aud Of his Christ. Amen
| and Amenl 8it