The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1870-03-15

practically, there ''is no more sea. and
tho everlasting mountains have bowed
before ms chariot, and the nations arc
poured into each other as water, the
the whole human family are 10 work
out the same destiny aud have a like in
heritance Everything points and works
that way, ] look upon the generation
now living, and soon to live, as called
upon to decide questions wide as the
earth, aud TO solve problems that will
affect the whole human family Wheth-
er we will or no, we are linked in with
al the rest, and we cannot rise without
lslting them up with as II means some
thing to live now--iar more than ever
before.
must add, too, that the world is
rushing on It's own destiny with rapi-
dity never before known. The earth Is
becoming smaller aud time is becom-
ing longer A month now is a year,
compared with a century ago. The man
who builds his hopes for the elevation
Of his race on science, secs science ad-
yancing as never before. The man who
looks to politics aud human govern
ments to create millennium on earth,
sees the principles Of human rights
steadily marching on, and threatening
shortly TO tread tyranny under foot
The man who looks TO education to
renovate the world, sees free schools
everywhere spreading, and colleges en-
dowed most richly aud spreading like
mushrooms, And the man who looks TO
the Bible and tho church Of God to
usher in the day ofgood viii to men,
and the day of Gods glory, sees that
everything there is advancing ; that
three. .fouths of the population of this
country arc under the dominant in
lluence OF the chief Protestant church
cs that the largest increase OF Christi
anity in the world, during tho present
century, has been in the United States;
that every church reaches population
about four times as large as its mem
bership; that the increase OF our church
members, notwithstanding the great in
Aux Of foreign and papal population,
has greatly out run the increase Of the
people that in 1900, with population
of about 100000, tho church mem
Ders were $3.50, 900; while in 1860, with
population of 81 100000, we have
over 100000, church members, 1. e.,
the ratio Of professed Christians to the
population was one TO fifteen in 1900,
While Ia 1000 IL uas ono W ola. We
may add, the vast preponderance OF tai
ent, skill, enterprise, wealth and man
hood OF the nation is under the direct
influence OF the gospel OF Christ.
/ believe this nation has mighty
destiny before it; that the tide Of time
rushes as never before; that our dan
gers and our responsibilities are incon-
ceiyably great; that the gospel, in its
power and purity, going to the heart
and guiding the conscience, and con-
trolling the passions, and bringing out
the man to individual responsibility to
God, is the great power on which we
are to rely. The church Of God is cal
led upon for money, for labor, for
thought, for faith, and for love. We
ought TO see that every child in the land
is in the Sabbath school ;---one school in
every neighborhood; that the Homo
Missionary is ali over the land, treading
every mountain visiting every glen, on
the banks of oysry river, preaching
Christ, planting churches, and lifting
up humanity We ought to see that
there are free schools everywhere, as
the air we breathe, and colleges to ed
ucate and prepare the mind to act in
clear light, with expanded views, and
with noble ends. We must cast up and
prepare highway for our God, and
then occupy that highway.
You will say, perhaps, that this is
calling for money, money, to flow like
water. Truly it is Truly it is But
can you travel fast, on land or on wa
ter without spending money! Can
you live at this day without spending
money? To be Christian in this
country now, is to be lifted up to fly
with the angel that hath the everlast-
| ing gospel to preach to every creature.
/ had rather live with my generation
now, than to live the life Of Msthuse-
lab.
o my country the names Of thy
great sons will hang over thee like 30
many bright stars; the great spirit ol
ur fathers lives, and will live, and the
Son of Righteousness himself is rising
on thee with warmer an9 warmer
beams. Gods great plans move on,
and the roar Of the ocean, and the stern
silence Of the finty mountains, are
waiting at his feet Those plans, like
the century plant, are now unfolding,
in thsir beauty and in their richness. -
We have to bleed for thee, o, my
country, aud VIC will nov pray and la