The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-10-13

mining opportunity. What is to be the
character of this nation when every
acre of arabic land shall be doing its
best, and all the rivers are pulling their
utmost on the factory band, and the
mines of Nevada and Colorado and Cali
fOrnia and Arizona and New Mexico
shall have disgOrged all their treasures,
and from ocean to ocean the continents
shall be fully peOpled? In twenty-five
years our population will be one hun
dred millions. In a hundred years il
will be at least five hundred millions.
What then shall be the moral condition,
of this country? The prayers of the
last three months, and the prayers yet
to be offered, will help to decide that
question. Columbus was happy when
two hours before midnight he called the
attention of Pedro GuttieTez, a page of
the Queens wardrobe, and said: 'LOokI
look! light on shOre" More blessed
will that man be who, two hours before
the daybreak of national publication,
shall hail regeneraGe America. The
signs are most exhilaTating. This
whole continent in answer to prayer is
to be given to Righteousness. Do you
know the rapidly-increasing moment
um? Only three million additions to the
evangelical churches of America in
the first fifty years of this century
There have been as many additions as
that in the last ten years, the last ten
years accomplishing as much as the
preceding fifty. Clear the track for the
Lords chariot The white horses that
drew that chariot for a long while
came on slow walk, but for the last
few years they have been put upon the
gallOp, and soon they will come down
to full run. Say you: 81 can not see
how my poor prayers for the nation
will.ever amount to anything What
if the rivers should say as the morning
mist rises and is drawn up and floats
away into the heavens: "That mOis-
ture will never be heard of again."
God would say, "Be patient" And af-
ter awhile the earth wanting rain the
despised mist takes the form of the
angel of the shower and comes floating
through the air and from silver chalice
of cloud baptize the valleys, while the
mountains stand sponsor. So our
prayers are exhaled by the son of righ-
teOusness, and so they come again in
gracious distillatiOn. Your prayers for
the nation have been answered. Your
prayers for the nation will be an
swered. QuOd erat demOnstrandum.
In all the theOlOgies it has been be-
ieYed .thateaeh~ individual has a guar
dian angel sent from God especially to
protect and defend and foster. The
JewislT Rabbis said that Adams guar
dian angel was named Raziel, and Abra-
hams guardian angel was Zachael, and
Isaac's guardian angel was Raphael,
and Jacobs guardian angel was Peniel.
Why not each nation as well have
guardian angels sent forth from God for
special defense and blessingP Who
shall they be? Those who never knew
us? Those who never fought in our be-
half? Those who never suffered for our
cOuntryp Nayl Gather above us, ye
assassinated Presidentsl Ye men of the
National councils, and those mighty
in our defense on land or seal Ye
who preached and prayed as well as
ye who fought! Spirits of departed
patriots, hover! Come down out of the
insufferable light into the shadows of
earth and lead the wayl Washington and
Adams and Lincoln and Everett and
Sumner and Garfield and Burnside and
John Mason and WitherspOOn and Ed
wards and Alexander and ChanningI
Speak, ye once quiet vOicesl Strike, ye
once palsied arms! Ride down into this
fight in which all the forces of earth
and hell and heaven are set in battle ar
ray! And above all, come thou the God
of our fathers and brothers who fell at
Lexington and Gettysburg and Shiloh
and South Mountain and Bunker Hill
and Yorktown, and strike back all ma
tiOnal evil, and give all national de-
fense, and prove thyself the same God
who didst answer the prayers of Elijah
and Deborah and Joshua! Thine, o Lord,
is the kingdom.