San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1886-06-24
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uTTPSDAY JINE2
Admirable Sentiments.

The annual address to the students
of the Texas State University wna
this year delivered by Bishop A O..
Garrett, of Dallas, his subject being
"The Mission and Position o. the
United States Among the Nations OF
the World" OF which the following
is brief synopsis:
He said every one was bound to
feel proud and acquire a lesson from
that early period of the history Of
that university, the university OF the
gallant State Of Texas, which with
the United States in general was
making rapid growth in educationgl
institutions of the highest order and
merit.
He supposed it would not be de.
MED by any person that in propor7'
ton as intelligence developed apd
growed could they hope to hold their
place among the nations OF the eartR
The days of mere animalisln an
brutalism were passed. They fonrd
that wars were not now won by vir-
tue of armed knights as of yore, but
by science. skill, genius, a multiplica-
ton of contingencies that these alone
could grasp and by whose effect Tho
great victories of the world are won
His theme that day for the few me
ments he would address them would
be on the mission and position ol the
United States among the nations o.
the world. God has determin ed tho
time, and things were before ap
pointed, to the bounds of the habita-
ton of nations. He ruled according
to his will among the inhabitants Of
earth, and therefore assisting in tbe
ruling of that which brought peo
pie to distinctive place and position
He had given to every nation o cer-
tain portion of truth which was to b.
preserved by them, and in proportion
as they preserved it they prospered
in their ordinary experiences of the
world. To one nation had been given
the great fundamental verify of the
unity of God, to be preserved by
them against all antagonisms, and
and they knew as well as he knew
that only in proportion as. ancient
Israel preserved that fundamental
verify could she prosper. Her king
dom was invulnerable SO long as the
truth God gave her was recognized
and received among her people. Tho
Greeks and the Egyptians he referred
to in similar terms. Speaking of ex-
elusive Legislation, he said they had
a territory in the United States COM
paratively unlimited in extent. Was
it for nothing these great plains were
filed with fertile soil, was it for moth
ing these great lakes served with
springs that never ran dry, were ore-
ated? Hill and valley, river and
plain, which went to constitute tho
United States, were made to sustain
population of uncounted millions,
no matter where they came, or what
ever their creed or condition. They
could, therefore, conclude it had been
planned as the inevitable end from
the beginning. God had whispered
in the car Of all the nations; they
had heard his voice and understood
his meaning, and they were in conse-
quence leaving the over-crowded CEN
ters of population in the east and
west; leaving the bogs of poor old
Ireland; leaving the barren heaths of
Scotland; the over-crowded shores Of
the lakes of Cumberland; leaving
Germany and the isles of the sea-
Continuing, G he spoke Of the wonder
full progress which the United States
had made politically, Notwithstanding
the avalanche OF ignorance which
had been poured on them. He was
glad, though, that slavery had been
abolished. 1t was contrary to the
laws of nature and Of God.
After speaking for more than an
hours, Bishop Garrett resumed hia
seat amid great applause,