The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-07-15
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| Flow down to south and north, to east and west,
All ways lead downward from her upland height
All ways lead up to her ideal site.
| The Pivot State! on which shall turn and rest
The balanced continent, when East and West
And North and South shall teom with human
AS thick as those that toll in Asian lands; ~---*
For up to us, so Nature has decreed,
From every point the Water Highways lead!
The Water State! that to her bosom takes, -:
III mother love, ten thousand crystal lakes!
Mother of Mighty Waters! who gives birth
| To the two Giant Rivers Of the earth!
Grandmother OF the Waters! mighty dame!
From whom the Father OF the Waters came!
Far to the north 4 thousand streams and
| lakes,
In her strong hands the y lightly mother takes,
And into one great river gives them form,
Then pours it southwark, like brided storm!
Here, at our side, it thunders down the Fall,
And far-off rivers hear the mighty call,
And from thousand miles come sweeping free,
| 10 joiu the glorious march toward the sea!
| And give their all to swell one river tide,
| Where the vast commerce Of the world may ride
Far to the north again, net Of lakes
| And thread-like streams the mighty mother
takes,
And into one vast river spins them all,
The grandest stream on this terrestrial ball!
| Which, flowing down the world toward the east,
And by Il thousand af1luents still increased,
| Expands its tide to five stupcndous lakes,
And four great rivers in its progress makes,
| Till far away it leaps the worlds great Fall,
And meets The sea at stOried MONTREAL!
Nor yet content TO call the South and East
To her own free yet sumptuous water feast,
T1a Tnt1, : -,
! Another river from her teeming breast.
| Which to the vast Pacific rolls away
| Through chains OF lakesand through the icy bay.
Here, as was said by wiser men than I,
| Shall the great seat Of future empire lie.
Here springs the Dual City which shall fill
The plain for miles and cover every hill!
Playmatcs in childhood hand in hand they went,
And grew and loved till their glad youth WAS
spent.
| Soon shall the nuptials come and nan and wife
| Go forth one flesh to one illllStriOiS life,
| And nations see the twain to wed lock given,
And say, "Behold marriage made in Heaven!"
| Now while the Muse withtlraws the veil, I
! The WondroUS vision Of what is to be:
| For miles and miles along the river banks
| The blocks Of Commerce tower in massive ranks,
4 thousand domcs are flashing in the sun,
| \ thousand streets between the structures run,
| Down which sec Il human ocean pour
With rush and surge and beat and stormy roar,
And far around the river wharis and slips,
Like dead forest, rise the maSts Of slips:
For now, through channels made by human
hand,
The seas and lakes and rivers Of the land
Are linked together, and, with fl gs unluyled
The ships come up from all the busy rli:
And now the scene expan Is brncathn eyes,
see, far out, u mile long depot rise.
Where, with great and never -ccaSng din,
The long-drawn trains from all the worl,l come
in!
Far to the north see a great train glide,
And sweep across 10 the Pacific side,
And turning northwarI through the Polar gate
Third long tunnel under Behring's Strait,
Then shout to Asia and 80 LAUNDERING down
Through many an old and many peop|eI town,
| And fleeing westward through All hundred
states,
Ger classic streams and under tunnccd str its,
Rise screaming from the ground on Britain s
shores,
And London, sea like round it breaks and roa;s
Around these Falls, ii We believe tic wise,
| The worlds great Capital may yet arise!
One constitution then S!lsli il >a.n'ii.,!l,
| And II ShtS before chscu.;. be we'll Defined
And here from year to Year, in ;s.l'!!cn's cause
The "'!l'l Shall meet to frame It's general laws
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AF7E1. ?IIi; L'-SPU;,2;:!1 MINISTER.
EDITOR ADVANCE: III your la!.cr Of
June goth we rt;t>t an article from Il
minister who thinks he is we'll posted
| concerning he Imprisonment OF d. Nj.
Bennett. There are two points iii this
article which We Wis!. to notice:
lie says, but think the purpose to
De impure or suggest iilpurity Hppeals
| i'll the only co!ni'uSlticl! trulil Mr.. Ben
nett which ever SAW. namely, an arti-
Gle purportsng to bc II Sunday School
exercise before Il class Of young ladies. -
| lie then adds: "AIr. Benefits article is
| impure III our age, as are some passages
| OF the Bible, and cannot but tend to in
crease impurity in the community where
| it circulates." The minister has frank
| ~ admitted there is impurity in the
| Holy Bible" and also that it tends to
| increase impnr!ty in tie community
| where it circulates. low inconsistent
then to think that The imprisonment OF
| ID. M. Bennett was in reality for send
| ing "Cupitl's Y oltS' through the mails,
when they are sending thousands Of BIZ
| DleS (that even christian ministers say
contain obscenity.
Mr.. Bennett is {: fearless advocate of
free thought, free speech, free press and
free mails. lie is also ail invetprate hat
Ell Of christian creetls and dogmas. lie
thinks they act rs ''clncs on the wheels
! OF progress" and incentives to crime
1t WAS BENEFITS mastery enteavOrs to
free tie minds Of the people from such
| degrading doctrines that brought down
the wrath Of the New York pretended
followers Of Jesus on lis devoted head
and not the sending through the mail
that little pamphlet which Atty Gen
eral Devans Says is not obscene, and
WIZ NOulu DC Dcttel iDlC 10 uCHnc OG-
scenity than an Attorney General?
| NO doubt the article from Bennett
concerning q Sunday School exercise,
! was written to show The worse than use
| less Absurdlty Of teaching the impurity
Of tie Bible to young people. We hope
| hereafter, that that minister will teach
| people that the Bible is a book written
| by men in barbarjc age in comparison
to this 10Th century, q book with many
good things in it and very many bad
precepts and examples too. Which
shows to any thinking, reasoning per-
son that the people four, OF even two
thousand years ago, were not capable
Of forming perfect rule Of faith and
practice for the ngc in which we live
Some may say ''why do the Liberals
keep harping about the imprisonment
Of d. NJ. Bennett?" Because it is an
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