Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1885-12-03

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ideas; these take possession of conscience;
conscience engenders new institutions;
! new institutions produce new revolutions.
J Out of this chaos of the elements of civil
ization emerge Germany, the kingdom Of
philosophy, England, the model mon
archy of history, anu France, our sister
republic It. was the onward march of
this dual power, liberty and christianity.
that has turned the current of civilization
into the new channel that has unsealed
the IRON bound lips Of truth, that has
opened the door of justice and education
to woman; that blew the Mayflower
across the seas and anchored it to Amer
ica's shore; that gave to our age nation
that is the grand elimination of the evo-
luton of government. Ii liberty and
christianity still march on to victory, and
they will, there will come future free in
the plentItude of christian equality.
This is not too much to expect. 1t is in
keeping with Gods promise, for he said
"knowledge shall run to and fro,'' and it
does. 1.-The kingdoms of this world shall
become the kingdoms of our Lord and
His Christ" God keeps His promises.
He has wonderfully guided us in the past.
A look at our national history will con-
vince US of that fact. Somehow when
new continent was needed Genoese
dreamed of western world. God put
the idea into the brain of Columbus that
if there were western world 1t must be
inhabited, and if SO perhaps these inhab-
ltants had never heard of Christ. So, with
this christian missionary story he went to
the christian queen, Isabella, whe said
he should 60 if it took her jewels. He
went, and God had wonderfully prepared,
by conflict with ideas and prosecutions,
race of people ''picked from the center
OF the EARTH for that continent. And
when England oppressed those colonies
somehow handful of people drove back
fifty times their number, declared them
selves free and independent, and with
superhuman wisdom formed that match
less declaration that ought to be hung in
the palace of every king and potentate.
"Surely God means US to be blessing to
the earth and we shall fail of our destiny
if we do not so become" Our mission as
a nation is an important one. The ma
tions of both hemispheres are following
our example. If we fail they will fail,
and the knell of popular liberty will be
sounded for ages to come. The fate OF
the future depends greatly upon us.
More propiIlous crsARAtsbBfsasss
publlcaniam than III the founding 81 our
government at Plymouth Rock, in the es-
tablishing of independence At Yorktown,
and in the maintenance of the union at
Gettysburg. If all this be true,
the hundreds of hard fought battles for
independence and union; the remnants of
veteran flags bathed in blood; the sac1i.
flee of brave sons dying with hope as
enduring as the stars, are as nothing
when compared with the anguish and
suffering that will be endured by the
generations of the future if we fail
Since so much is depending upon US as
citizens as a nation; since these things are
so by the deathless memories of the past,
by the golden needs of the present, by the
undying hopes of the future, we should
thank God for the past as christians,
stand by our country as true citizens and
take courage for the future, hoping and
laboring that the tree of political and re-
liglous liberty planted under Gods special
providence in American soil may grow
until all people rest beneath its foliage
and utter heartfelt thanks to God Tor
protection.