The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-12-12

| Confederation Of All Nations and Races
The New Age and the Good Time Coming.
The matter for our first lesson this morning
to the grand congregation of the readers of
the Sunday HERALD is embraced in two ex-
tracts from the Holy Scriptures. The first is
from the Book Of Psalms (Old Testament, and
! will be found in Psalm lxxii., and in the six
teenth and seventeenth verses, as follows -
10, There shall be a handful Of corn In the earth
| upon the top Of the mountains; the fruit thereof
flourish like grass OF the earth.
II. his name shall endure forever; his name shall
| be continued as long as the sun. ana men shall be
blessed IN MIN; all nations shall call him blessed.
| And the second is from the twentieth chap
ter of the Book of Revelations (New Tesla
ment), and embraces the first, second und
| taird verses, which read:-
Land saw an angel come down from heaven, hav-
ing the key OF the Dottomless pit and great cham
| IN his hand.
| 3 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old SER
pent which is the devil ana Satan, and bound him
thousand years,
g. And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shat
him up, and set seal upon him, that he should de-
ceire the nations more TILL the thousand years
should be fulfilled and after that he must be loosed
q little season
Now let us first consider the sublime pro-
phecy of David, s'the sweet singer, and as sol
der, king and statesman, the founder of the
glory Of the kingdom Of Israel. He was
great man. 1t may be said that in his younger
days he was somewhat given to flibustering
and free love but in his maturer years he ex-
hibited much Of the sterling character of Gen.
eral jackson. He was great as king, great
as teacher of religion in his devotional
psalms and great as prophet We think it
can be shown from the extract we have given
that he was one Of the greatest Of the
prophets He says, ''There shall be handful
Of corn in the earth upon the top of the noun
tains," and that ''the fruit thereof shall shake
like Lebanon" What does he mean by this bold
| figure? What is to be expected from mere
handful Of corn in the earth on the top Of the
mountains? Corn does not usually flourish in
such cold places. 1t must be remembered,
too, that the corn spoken of in the Scriptures
is not Indian corn, but that the term Is equiv
alent to our word grain, or, to be more precise
''small grain, such as wheat, barley and oats
as distinguished from corn, which with US
means maize or Indian corn. David, there
fore, means wheat in his ''handful OF corn, =
, and Judea was always and is to this day a
great wheat country. Indian corn is Of Amer
lean origin, and its native name maize, or
, nlohtS, comes from the island Of Hayti.
/ But how is handful of wheat in the earth
on the top Of the mountains to grow till its
: fruit shall shake like Lebanon2 And what is
: meant by shaking Ike Lebanon? The handful
|. of corn, or rather wheat, referred to by David
n means certain great moral and religious prnci-
pies, the first planting Of which in the world,
> he means to say, shall be apparently as foolish
= and improbable as a handful of wheat in the
barren, frozen soil on the top of some lofty
J, mountain. And when he says the fruit thereof
Z shall shake like Lebanon he means that il
shall flourish to the magnitude of the forests Of
IS the famous cedars of Lebanon, and that like
t. those ancient woods, this wonderful growth
n from a mere handful of wheat shall shake ant
70 roar as when disturbed by mighty wind
10 And as the forests of the Lebanon cedars were
ls the special wonder of the nations round about
es in the days of King David so he means to say
!, that the growth and expansion of the frui
. from the small beginning indicated shall be
" come the wonder and the glory of the whole
cultn. <uu theJ VI Iut city sllaii uOuIiSD
!. like grass Of the earth" is but another form o
= the same figure.
The application Immediately follows. 'IIi
% name shall endure forever; His name shall b,
e continued as long as the sun, and men shall b.
blessed In Him all nations shall call Hin
!, blessed This means one faith, one confede
Q ration, one brotherhood Of all nations and al
1. colors of men, and all Furnishing, al
in harmony, all prosperous and al
happy. This glorious idea, like colder
7 thread, runs through the Old and tn,
! New Testament, and The doctrine of uni
q versal human equality involved is EN-
II bodied in the fourteenth and fifteenth amend
ments OF the constitution Of the United States
! and is the very corner stone Of General Grant
policy. Thus, after the lapse of nearly thirt
q, centuries the ''handfn OF corn" referred to b