The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1870-01-19

mcnts-chango liEo into an aspira.
ton toward hcavon, instead Of
striving to merit that heaven.
Thoy sock to scale their way into
heaven in hot haste. Now my
experience has convinced mo that
between those two roads there is
n third opened for tho greatest
moral and religious progress man
cnn mako, and troddcn by men
who can reconcile heaven and
earth-tho present life with flu
turo cNistcncc-a task to be ac-
complishcd in these times as it was
accomplished by Christ dying on
the cross to reconcile tho things
Of heaven to the things Of earth.
open tho Bible, and | read in it
that God made man out Of dust,
and placed him in u bcautcous
garden, which, by material toll,
he was TO caro- for and cultivate.
Then ho led before him tho ami
mals-(that inferior raco which is
intended to supply slaves to man)
man, then, tho work Of God,
was tho king, the owner, tho man
agcr Of the universe.
Tho part wo havo to net now is
unchanged. We havo to continue
in these ages tho work Of Adam.
Instead Of Il small part Of Asia
Minor, though, wo have q whole
planet. God has given us steam
and electricity, and distance is an
initiated. This globe, 1 say, is
our Eden, and by our labors on it
we gain heaven and earth. ZAP
plausc.] After tho first man camo
family and society. Adam was
alone, and God thought it not
good that ho should be, or lie
know what Adam only folt hc
lacked. "Ict thcro be Ii ght," God
said, "and light was mado, and
lio bchcld it and said it was good;
and He created stars, animals and
plants, and saw that all wcrc very
good. But when IIo made whit
lIo adiudgcd Ills masterpiece, and
the cdifico was crowned by man,
lie perceived Ills work was incom-
pletc. SO God made Adam q COM
panion, aud saved him from ego
tism." Thus was the organization
OF tho family perfected -,
In modern society cciibacy cx-
lists for the sake Of God but this
exception, if you make ita rule, is
against God and against nature.
Cclibacy is cowardice if it does
not glorily marriage. The Apos-
tlos have said marriage is honora-
bic, marriage is spotlcss, before
God and mon. Tho great object
in Wow is the reconciliation OF
heaven and earth, and Of The pre-
sent life with tho future, and to
secure union on earth. Union in
the city, in the nation, and in hui
manity was tho thought Of Jesus
Christ, who first proclaimed that
which tho Prophets but dimly
saw and the Jews never did see.
The centuries that will realize
this great union the nations hav~
began. The labor has commenced
Steam and electricity remove all
obstacles. Agassiz says The Amer
lean Continent was the first crca-
tod it will bo tho last in tho full
fillmcnt Of the designs OF tho Gre.
ator. a cosmopolitan land--cos-
mopolitan in tho intentions Of it's
founders, in tho bloody struggle
Of its dcfcndcrs-God has in store
for you who pooplcd it tho accom-
plishmcnt Of admirable results.
Northward arc tho Esquimaux ;
southwark is Africa. You sum.
mon from walled China tho un-
moving pcoplo to dwell amid the
moving nation, the stationary to
minglo with the progressive; all
impcllcd by the breath of you, the
great hum n / taria pcoplc.
[Groat applauso.] Tho tounda-
tion Of your people is tho Bible,
tho book that speaks Of God, tho
living word Of Jesus Christ. IN
m admirable manifesto from your
President, their shines through
his words tho Christian faith. n
belief in Jesus is ut tho root of
this nation. May Jesus Christ
protect your country and develop
old Europe preparing amid strife,
unity and religious and material
prosperity. And when / ro.urn,
shall tell Europe that 1 have found
hcrc liberty associated with Chris.
tianity, and have boon among q
people who DO not think that to
90 free they must be parted from
God. [Grcat applauso.]
WISHES OF IADIEs.-First, n
husband; second, q fortune; third,
y baby; fourth, trip to Europe
fifth, bcttor looking dross than
any of hor ncighbors; sixth, to bo
vol buttorod with Aattory SOY,
enth, TO havo nothing to do in par.