Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-06-07

for all that part OF the continent already
fully settled and the two-thirds not YET
occupied. II says: "Give me all east OF
the Mississippi with the keys OF the
church and the Christian printing presses
then give me Wyoming, give mo Alaska,
give me Montana, give me Colorado
give me all the states and territories west
OF the Mississippi, and will take those
places and keep them by right Of posses
sion, long before the Gospel can be fully
entrenched."
And this sutton presses his case APP
pallngly. Shall the bans of that mar
riage be proclalmedY "Nol" says the
home missionaries of the West-a martyr
band of whom the world is not worthy,
toilsng amid fatigues and malaria and
starvation "No not if we can help II.
BY what we and our children have sui
fered we forbid the bans of that mar
riage.n "N0,m say all patriotic voicesi
sour Institutions were bought at too
dear price, aud were defended at too
great a sacrifice to be so cheaply sur
rendered. "Noi' says the God of Bunker
HIM and Independence hall and Geitys-
burg; al did not start this nation for
such farce" "No!" cry ten thousand
voices "to infdelity this land shall not
he married"
ANOTHER suIToR.
But there is another sutton that pre-
sents his hand for the hand of this re-
public He is mentioned In the verse
following my text, where ii says; GAS
the bridegroom reioiceth over the bride,
so shall thy God rejoice over thee" 1t
is not my figure, il is the figure of the
bible. Christ is SO DESTROYS to have this
world love him that he stops at no
humiliation of smile. He compares His
grace TO spittle on the eyes Of the blind
man. He compares Himself 10 Il hen
gathering the chickens, and in my
text lie compares Himself to a
sutton begging hand in mar
riage. Does this Christ, the king,
deserve this land2 Behold Pilates
hall and the insulting eNpectoration on
the face of Christ. Behold the Calvarean
massacre and the awful hemorrhage of
five wounds Jacob served fourteen years
for Rachel, but Christ, my Lord, the
king, suffered in torture thirty-three
years to win the love of this world. AS
often princesses at their very birth are
pledged in treaty of marriage to princes
or kings of earth, so this nation at its
birth was pledged to Christ for Divine
marriage. Before Columbus and his
hundred and twenty men embarked on
the Santa Maria, the PiDta and the Nina,
for their wonderful voyage, what was the
last thing they did? They kneeled down
and took the holy sacrament of
the Lord Jesus Christ After
they caught the first glimpse of
this country, and the gun of one ship had
announced il to the other vessels that
land had been discovered, what was the
song that went up from all the three
decks? "Gloria in EXcelsis." After
Columbus and his 100 men had stepped
from the ships decks to the solid ground,
what did they do? They knelt and
CoNsECRATED THE NEW WORLD
to God. What did the Hugenots do after
they landed in the Carolinas? What did
the Holland refugees do after
they had landed in New York?
What did the Pilgrim Fathers do after
they landed in New England? With Bonded
knee and uplllted face and heaven.b esieg-
ing prayer they took possession Of this
country for God. How was the first
| American congress opened2 BY prayer,
| in the name ot Jesus Christ. From its
birth this nation was pledged for holy
marriage with Christ.
And then see how good God has been
| to us! Just open the map Of the conti-
nent and see how 1t is shaped for i'm
measurable properties. Navigable rivers
more in number and greater than any
other land-rolling down on all sides into
the sea, prophesylng large manufactures
and easy commerce, Look at the great
ranges of mountains timbered with wealth
on the top and sides, metaled
with wealth underneath. One hundred
and eighty thousand square miles of coal
100000 square miles of iron The lant
so Contoured that extreme weather
hardly lasts more than three days-eX
IRENE heat or extreme cold, Climate fol
the most part bracing and favorable tol
Drawn and brain. All fruits, all minerals
4 all harvests. Scenery displaying an au
} tumnal pageantry that no land on eartl
! ptetends to rival. No South American
r earthquakes. No Scotch mists. No Lon
: don fogs, No Egyptian plaques. M
Germanic divisions, The people of tn,
United States are happier than an,
1 people on earth 1t is the ties
S timony of every man that has travele,
; abroad For the poor, more sympathy
e for the Industrious, more opportunity
G On, how good God was to our fathers
? and how good lie has been to us and GU
Z children! To Htm-bleSSed be Hi
n mighty name--to Him of cross and tri
d umph, TO Him who still remembers tn
= prayer of the Huguenots and Hollau
o refugees and the Pilgrim fathers-to Hir
:, shall this land be married. Oh y
/ Christian patriots by your contribution
o and your prayers hasten on the fulfil
/. ment ofRthe text.
e We nave during the past six or seve
" years turned new leaf in our nations
o history by the sudden addition of mi
d lions of foreigners. AT Kansas City
e was told by a gentleman who had oppoI
IS tunity for large investigation, that grel
d multitude had gone through there, ave-
Is aging in worldly estate $780, | was tol
% in the City Of Washington by au officer
* the government, who had opportunit
lie for authentic Investigation, tbat thol
lt sands and thousands had gone, ayeragiu
v $1,000 Ia possession each. WI
n told by the commissioner OF emigratio
e. that twenty families that had arrived
20 Castle Garden brought 700 with then
to Mark you, families, not uamps-add
r tons to the national wealth, not SUI
le fractions therefrom. l sawsome Of the
e. reading their bibles and their hyu