The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-05-26

Christ. Pledged at ths birth to this Dl
vine marriage was America. Beside that
see what He has done for us. Open the
map of our North American continent
and see how the land was shaped for i'm
measurable prosperities. Behold the
navigable rivers, greater and more nu
melo than any other land, running
down to the sea in all directions, proph-
ecy of large manufactures and easy CON.
merce. Look at the great ranges OF
mountains, timbered with wealth on the
top and sides, and metalled with wealth
underneath; 10000 square miles OF coal;
10000 square miles Of iron. the land
80 Contoured that extreme weather eel
dom lasts more than three days. For
the most part of the year the climate IS
bracing and favorable for Drawn and
brain. All fruits, all minerals, all har'
vests. Scenery which displays an au,
tumnal pageantry which no other land
pretends TO rival, No South American
earthquakes. No ScItCh mi,ts. No'En'
glish fogs. No Egyptian plaques No
GermaniC divisions. The happiest peo;;
pie on earth are the people of the United
States. The poor man has more chance,
the industrious man more opportunity.
How good God is to us and our children!
To Him, blessed be His mighty name !!
To Him of the cross and the triumph, to
Him who still remembers the prayers OF
the Pilgrim Fathers and Huguenots and
Holland refugees, to Him this land shall
be married. Oh, ye patriots and Chris
tians, by your contributions and prayers
hasten the day for this fulfllment.
We are turning just now great leaf IN
the ponderous tome of our Nations his
tory. At the different gates of this con-
tinent last year over 500, 1000 emigrants
arrived, and at the different gates this
year over 600 600 will come. Who are
they2 They are not the paupers of Eu'
rope. was told at Kansas City last
summer that vast multitude OF them
passed through averaging $500 each. A
large number who came through Castle
Garden averaged 81 600 each. Recently
twenty families arrived With $50 600
among them Mind you, families-not
tramls, Additions to the wealth Of your
country, not subtraction. Some OF them
l saw last Tuesday at Castle Garden
reading their Bibles and hymn books.
They had Christ with them in the steer
age and they have Christ with them on
the emigrant rail train which every aft.
ernoon at five o'clock bears them West
ward. Our Commissioners of Emigra'
tion take them off the vessel, and in the
name of humanity and God forward
them to the places of their destination.
And soon they will turn the Territories
into States and the wldernesses into ga.
dens if we build for them churches and
establish for them schools and send them
Christian missionaries. Are you afraid
that this country will be overCrowded on
account of this emigration? A fishing
smack on Lake Ontario might as well to.
morrow morning fear being crowded as
the next ten generations of our people
fear being crowded in America. Do not
tell me these foreigners bring either
preference for other Governments. They
are sick of the Governments under
which they were o. pressed and they
want free America. Give them mighty
gospel of welcome. Throw around them
the hospitalities of the Christian relig
ion. They will add their industry and
hard earned wages to our national pros
perity, and then we will all 60 to Christ
and this land shall be married. Where
do you think he marriage altar shall be
lifted? Let it be on the Rocky Noun
tains, when through artificial and mighty
irrigations it's tops shall be covered with
vineyards and orchards and green fields.
The Bostons and New Yorks and
of the Atlantic coast will
come from the other side, and there
amidst them let the Bride of all Nations
kneel. And though the organ of the
loudest thunders that ever shook the
Sierra Nevadas on the one side, or, more
the foundations of the Alleghanies on
the other side, should open full diapason
of wedding march, it would not drown
the pledge of betrothal when Christ the
King takes the hand of this Bride of
the Nations, saying, "As the bridegroom
rejoiceth over the bride, 90 thy God re.
ioiceth over thee" At that marriage
banquet the platters shall be of Nevada
silver and the chalices of California gold
and the fruits from Northern orchards
and the spices from Southern groves, and
the tapestry from New England looms,
and the congratulations from all free
Nations Of the earth and all the tri.
lmphant armies of heaven, "And so
The land shall be married."