Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-10-03
WgEEI IN1i w. Va. MONDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 8 1881

at sharpeburg could preach in q hos
pital where there were fifty shattered
and dying Federals and in q barn to
fifty sbsttered and dying Confederaies,
and yet get through with my sermon.
Right in the midst OF these hardening
times lincoln was assassinated. But
this last Presidential assassination was
in time OF profound peace and the ma
ton fell prcstrate and sick under the
calamity. Even blasphemers went down
on their knees before God. Those who
had not prayed since they uttered their
infantile supplication beside the trundle-
bed formulated appropriate petitions
The nation never was 80 chastened or 30
tender or 30 worshipful as now. In that
respect your prayer has been answered.
Another consideration. From what
you now know OF our departed Presi
dent you must know that the paragraph
in his inaugural which referred to the
extirpation OF Mormonism was the most
earnest part of it. That institution is
an insult to every man in America.
James A. Garfield as husband and
father felt ordained of God to destroy
that abotaination. He would not have
allowed it TO pass one more year with
out being struck of the lightning. He
would have, by law passed in Congress,
proclaimed that polygamy was against
the Interests Of good government, and
while the polygamist, because OF present
complications, might retain his numer-
Gus wives, he who hereafter took more
martial companionship than what is al
lowed in the other States
Should 60 to Prison.
and should be denied suffrage. The
United STATES military encamPment on
the bills Just back of Sat Lake City,
whose guns could rake that Sodom into
ashes in one forenoon, aided by q few
other regiments in Utah and Wyoming,
could enforce the law. ! will not say
that Guiteau isa Mormon. l dare not
say he has not been employed as an
agent.
In addition to the blessing already
attained by the nations prayers there
will have been blessings born OF these
prayers the next thousand years il
American institutions continue. As
tronomers tell us that there are worlds
thousands OF years ago created the light
OF which has not yet reached us. 80
there are blessings thousand years in
fight. Are we 30 selfish as to want all
the blessings to come in our own time?
David and Isaiah ami Jeremiah made
prayers thousands OF years ago that are
being answered now The prayers OF
Christ made more than eight centuries
ago are now coming to fultillment. You
touch an electric wire and the bell rings
in the far distance, and some OF the
prayers during the last eleven weeks OF
the late Presidential illness will be an
swered in the 500th year of American
independence. God has gathered them
all up in a reservoir at the foot OF
His throne, gathered there from the
north from the south, from the east and
from the west, gathered them from
thrones and from cottages, from this side
the Atlantic and the other side the At
lantic, from this side the Pacific and the
other side the Pacific, and they are one
great suspended mercy, floods made up
OF the the tears Of many nations, and as
God wills it from this great reservoir OF
divine remembrances the streams OF
blessing will rOll down upon this nation
and because Of these the harvests will
be greater and the schools will be more
prospered and the commerce will be
swifter winged and the nation will be
swifter and the morals purer. 1t will
take good many centuries to answer
this three hundred Authenticated
~ ha,nio nhnrao nnr N a.
tional sins cry to heaven for vengeance.
These national
Prayers Cry to Heaven for Mercy,
and hope the latter will overpower the
former. In David's Psalms il is sug-
gested that God puts the tears Of one OF
his children in a bottle. Am not right
then in supposing that he puts the tears
OF q nation in reservoir. The TACT IS
do not want all the nations prayers an.
swered in our time. The present state
of the nation is not SO much matter OF
concern TO me as the future. You and
can get along for the few years Of our
earthly lot, even il the national politics
may not suit us. But how about the
generations followingl There, are 30
many forces Of darkness struggling for
the supremacy Of this country, that !
want a great 'storehouse OF prayer full
for future exigencies. The nation has
only started. 1t has just got out OF its
cradle. We have, as 1t were, only one
wheel OF our manufacturing capacity in
motion. We have reaped, as
it were, only one sheaf OF our
agricultural resources We have
picked up only one lump OF coal and
iron and copper and silver and gold Of
our 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 ut
most on the factory band and the mines
of Nevada and Colorado and California
and Arizona and New Mexico shall
have disgorged all their treasures, and
from ocean to ocean the continent shall
be fully peopled? In twenty-five years
our population will be one hundred
millions. In o hundred years II will be
at least five hundred millions. What
then shall be the moral condition OF
this country? The prayers OF the 'lar
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 Gattierez, page OF the Queens
wardrobe, and said: Look
! look, light on shore"
More blessed will that man be who two
hours before the day break Of national
publication shall hail regenerate Ameri-
ca. The signs are most exhilarating.
This whole continent in answer to
prayer is to be given to righteeusness.
Do you know The rapidly increasing
momentum? Only three million sddi.
tions TO the evangelical churches Of
America in the first fifty years OF this
century. There have been as many ad.
ditions 20 that in the last ten years The
last ten years aceonplishing 20 mach ss
the preceding atty. Clear the tfacE for
the Lords chariot! The white horses
that drew that chariot for Q long while
came on slow walk, but for the last few
years they have been put upon the gal
lop and soon they will