Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-06-25

King. suffered IN bfture thiTtv-three wears 10
win the love of this world Often princesses
At their very birth are pledged in treaty
OF marriage to princes or kings of earth. so
this ration at Its biz tn was pledged to Christ
Tor divine marriage. Before Columbus and
his 1870 men embarked on the Santa Maria,
the Pnta and the Nina, for their wonderful
VOYAGE what was the last thing they didl
they sat down and took the holy sacrament
Of the Lord Jesus Christ After they
saught the first glimpse of this country
and the gun of one ship had announced
It to the other vessels that land
bad been diIcove-ed, what was the song
That went up from all the three decksl
"Gloria in excelsisn After Columbus and his
100 men had stepped from the ships deck TO
the solid ground, what did they do 2 They
all Knelt and cOnSecrate1 the new world to
Col. What did the Huguenots do after they
landed in the Carolipasl What did the
Holland refugees do after they had landed in
New York What did the Pilgrim Fathers
30 after they landed in New England With
pended knee and uDlifted face and heaven
Oesieging prayer they took possession of this
continent for God. How was the first Amer
| lean Congress opened By prayer, in the
lame OF Jesus Christ. From its birth this
nation was pledged for holy marriage with
| Christ.
And then see how good God has been to us!
lust open the map of the continent and see
how it is shaped for immeasurable prospect
| lies; navigable rivers, more in number end
| greater than of any other land, rolling on ell
sides into the sea, prophesying large manu-
.actures and easy commerce. Look at the
| great ranges of mountains timbered with
wealth ON the top and Sides metalled with
wealth underneath. One hundred and eighty
thousand square miles of coal, 10000 square
miles of iron The land so contoured that
extreme weather hardly ever lasts more than
;hree days-extreme heat or cold. Climate
,Or the most part bracing and favorable for
those places and keep them by right of poses
sion long before the Gospel can be fully en-
trenched.r
And this sutton pre- -ses his case appallingiy.
Shall the bauns of that marriage be pro-
claimed3 "No!" say the home missionaries
of the West, a MARTYR band of whom the world
Is not worthy, toling amid fat'gues and
malaria and starvation, "nol not il we can
help it. By what wo and our children have
suffered, we forbid the bannS of that mar
riagem "No" say all patriotic voices, 'Our
institutions were bought at too dear price
and were defended at too great sacrifice to
he so cheaply surrendered" "No," says the
God of Bunker Hill and Independence Hall
and Gettysburg, 81 did not start this nation
tor such farce" ''No,n cry ten thousand
voices, Ito infdelity this land shall not be
'larried.n
The only impulse in the right direction
that this world has ever had has come from
the Bible. 1t was the mother of Roman law
and of healthful Jurisprudence That book
has been the mother of all reforms and all
charltieS-mother of English Magma Charta
aud American Declaration of Indendence.
BENJAMIN Franklin hold that holy book in
his hand, stood before an infidel club at Paris
and read to them out of the prophecies of
Habakkuk, and the infide's, not knowing
what book 1t was, declared it was the best
poetry they had ever heard. That book
brought George Washington down on his
knees in the snow at Valley Forge and led
the dying Prince of Wales to ask some one
to sing " Rock of Ages
tell you that the worst attempted crime
OF the century is the attempt to destroy this
book; yet intidelity, loathesome, stenchful,
Ieprous, pestiferous, rotten monster, stretches
olt its hand, icherous with the second death,
to take the hand of this republic. 1t
stretches 1t out through seductive magazines
and through lyceum lectures and through
carl"atures of religion. 1t asks for all that
part of the continent already fully settled
and tho two-thirds not vet occupied 1t
saws: "Give ire all east of the Mississipri,
with the keys of the church and the Christian
printing .rresses-then give me Wyoming,
give me Alaeka, give me Montana give me
Colorado, give me al the States and Terri
tn"io- ut IF +''o NFi i "'o~i on1 will ta,a
Drawn and brain. Ali fruits, all min
ERALS, all harvests. Scenery dis
playing an autumnal pageantry that
no land on earth pretends to
rival. No South American earthquakes. No
Scotch mists No London fogs No Egypt
tan plaques. No Germanic divisions The
people of the United States are happier than
any people on earth. 1t is the testimony Of
every man that has Travelled abroad. For
the poor more sympathy for theindustrious,
more opportunity. Oh, how good God was to
our father and how good He has been to us
and our children. To Him-bles. ell be His
mighty name!-to Him ofi2rOss and triumph,
to Him who still remembers the prayer Of
| the Huguenots and Holland refugees and the
| Pilgrim Fathers-to Him shall this land be
married. Oh, you Christian patriots, by
your contributions and your prayers hasten
on the fultilment of the text.
We have during the past six or seven
! years turned a new leaf in our national his
| tory by the sudden addition of foreigners.
At Kansas City was told by q gentleman
/ who had opportunity for large investigation,
| that great multitude had gone through
there, averaging in worldly estate $500. T
was told in the city Of Wash ingtou
by an officer of the Government
who had opportunity for authentic
investigation that thou ands and thousands
had gone, averaging 81 900 in possession OF
each. was told by the Commission of Emf
grafton that twenty families that had arrived
1t Castle Garden brought 49, 900 with them
Mark you, families, not tramps. Additions
70 the national wealth, not subtractions
sherefrom. l saw some of them reading theil
Bibles and their hymn books, thanking
God for his kindness in helping then
cross the sea. Some of them had
Christ in the steerage all across the
waves and they will have Christ in the
tail trains which every afternoon start for
the great West They are being taken by the
Commission OF Emigration in New York
taken from the vessels, protected from the
Shylocks ami the sharpers and in the namt
Of God and humanity passed on to their DIES
hnation; and there they will turn your Ter
r!tories into States and your wilderness int
gardens, if you will build for them churches
and establish for them schools and send tx
them Christian mis- ionaries
Are you afraid this continent is going t.
- overcrUwded with this population? Oh,
nat shows you have not been to California
chat shows you have not been to Oregon
that shows that you have not been to TIE ;as
A fishing smack to-day, on Lake OMAR
might as we'll be afraid of being crowded by
other shipping before Eight as for any
one of the next ten generations o
Americans to be afraid Of being
ia this country. The one State of Texas i
far larger than all the Austrian empire, ye
the Austrian empire supports 35,00O,000 PEG
pie The one State of Texas is larger THAI
all France and France supports 100000
people. The one State of Texas far surpasse
in size the Germanic empire yet the Ger
manic empire supports Al, 900 people.
: tell you the great want of the Territories anC
of the Western States is more population.
While some may stand at the gates of thu
city, saying: "Stand back" to foreign pop
. aations, ! press out as far beyond thos
gates as can press out beyond them ant
beckon to foreign nations, saying: Come
comen But say you, Il am so afraid tina
they will bring their preiulice3 for foreig,
governments and plant them here" Absurd
They are sick of the governments thai havt