The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1880-08-31
OUR SUNDAY SERMON.

"In the beginning God created the
heavens and the EARTH" And Whist a be-
ginning was commenced when be did it |.
The beginning Of world that should stand
for countless decades and hOsry centuries;
the beginning Of human destinies; the
living truths of mighty ages, OF glorious
nations and beautiful languages; of arts,
of sciences, Of Literature and OF Immortality
For this great world Was this little earth
created. All that is Of the earth is Of the
world: all that il Of the world IL Of futU-
rity and immortality.
As We look at the world today, how
weak sud puerile our ideas are, and how
incapable of cOnceivIng It's vastne-s are our
minds. Here is a great nation of great
works. Mark how il was born, little
trite, centuries age; trace IL from iis youth
no 10 its manhood, and note il you can, Its
vsri.tions and ch ,nging Influences. Then,
= puny child now . mighty nation "A
worldly power. In ell its growth 1t has
been gaining strength from outside or Co
temporary influences. And right here the
intelligent eye cannot help remsrking how
like the nation is the individual. Ia him
ia magnified the weaker qualities of the
great nation for his success depe2ds ON
the aid Of friends. He look. 10 them for
that help which is not ia himself, and With
ont winch he must fall. In truth, every
man trusts in his fellow being, on the rea-
sonsble principle that everything earthly
depends upon something else, similar an
being, construction. or Influence.
Il "a Il -
varying phases, il il a dependent world
in all iis greatness, sPlendor, magnificence,
vastness and enormiiy. il is world this,
exists on the cooperation of IFS natural
forces a world that il regulated by the in
Huences and changes Of It's own formation
Nobody knows how old the world il; no
body knows how long il will exist. Per
haE,s an hour, perhaps ten thousand years
we think more likely the latter. For event
ualiy the world will BECOME q finely or.
ganized thing; i. e.. will he one grand, dis.
tinct nation; free, enlightened, glorious
And that nation will he situated on tbs
continent of Africa The nations oi Eu
rope are even now commencing Ia decay
and in few centuries Americs will be the
gre n home Of the Caucasian rsce, and I'll
will speak the English tongue. And after
that change takes place the countries q
France, England, Germany, etc, will be
come obscure. and will he TO the grea
world what Greece and Italy now are
Then. after many centuries. during which
the American race will reach the glory an,
spIendor Of the nations of antiquity, thu
great country will decline, and African cen
iraliz alton will commence. Perhaps anew
tongue will be spoken there; perhaps tn
English, or the French, or the Germ N
BE that az it may, a great people vii
spring from the earth, and Africa will b
the one center..of universal enlightenment
There shall all earthly perfection be; tn
arts will he fully matured science will b
explained: literature will be a second ma
ture; the Bible will be the king Of earthl
power. and the only secret in the worl
shali he the question of death-the que.
ton of Immortality which never on cart
shall be solved.
And "a Africa shall be the creates
standing place of all earthly power, it ~i
also be the last. In the midst Of its glor
il will fall IA will have fallen its predece-
sors, but not, like they. to make way for
successor; because when it falls there wi
he no more human power below HEAVIER
and the great day will have come.