The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-13

the century 10 the attempt to destroy this book;
yet inhdelity. loathsome, stefcnful, leprous
its hand. ichorous with the second death,
to take the hand of this republic. 1t
stretches it out through seductive magazines and
through caricatures of religion. 1t asks for all
that part of the continent already fully settled,
and the two-thirds not yet occupied 1t says
Give me all east of the Mississippi, with the
keys OF the church and the Christian printing
| presses then give me Wyoming, give Alas
ka, 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 possession long before the Cos
pei can be fully intrenched." And this sutton
presses his case appallingly.
Shall the bans of that marriage be proclaimed?
mol" say the home missionaries of the West
"a martyr band of whom the world is not wor
thy, toiing amid fatigues, and malaria and starv
| alton. mo! not if we can help it. By what we
and our children have suffered, we forbid the
bans of that marriagep mol" says all patri-
otto voices; our institutions were bought at too
dear a price, and were defended at too great
| sacrifice to be so cheaply surrendered" mo"
says the god of Bunker Hill, and Independence
ton for such a farce MOP cry ten thousand
voices;~'to infdelity this land shall not be mar
ried!"
But there is another sutton that presents his
hand for the hand of this Republic. He is men,
toned in the verse following my text, where it
says: las the bridegroom rejoiceth over the
bride, SO shall thy God rejoice over thee" 1t is
not my figure it is the figure of the Bible.
Christ Is SO desirous to have this world love Him
that He stops at no humiliation of simie. He
compares His grace to spittle on the eyes OF the
blind man. He compares Himself to a hen gath
ering the chickens, and in my text He compares
marriage. Does this Christ, this King, deserve
this land2 Behold Pilates hall and the insulting
expectoraton in the face of Christ Behold the
Calyariar massacre and the awful he,norrhage
Of five wounds. Jacob served fourteen years for
Rachel, but Christ, my Lord, the King suffered
torture thirty three years to win the love of this
world AS often princesses at their
very birth are pledged in treaty of mar
riage 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 Pinta and the Nina, for their wonder
full 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 it to the other vessels that
land had been discovered. what was the song
Excelsis." After Columbus and his hundred
the ships decks to the solid ground,
what did they dol They all knelt and conse
Grated the New World to God What did the
Huguenots do after they landed in the Caro-
linas2 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 uplifted face
and heaven besieging prayer. they took posses
sion OF this county for God How was the first
American Congress opened? By prayer in the
name of Jesus Christ. From the birth this Ma
ton was pledged to holy marriage with Christ
We have, during the past six years.
turned a new leaf in our national history by the
sudden addition of millions of foreigners At
Kansas City was told by gentleman who had
opportunity for large investigation that great
Sks,AA Nd -
worldly estate $500. ! was told in the city of
Washington by an officer of the government
who had opportunity for authentic investiga-
ton, that thousands and thousands had gone,
averaging ST, 600 in possession EACH / was told
by the Commissioner of Emigration that twenty
families that had arrived at Castle Garden
brought $S5, 600 with them. Mark you, families,
not tramps-additions to the national wealth,
not subtraction tberefrom. l saw some of them
reading their Bibles and their hymn books,
thanking God for His kindness in helping them
cross the sea- Some of them had Christ in
the Storage all across the waves, and they
will have Christ IN the rail 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 and the sharpers, and in the
name of God and humanity passed on to their
destination; and there they will turn your Terri
tories into States, and your wildernesses into
gardens, if you will build for them churches and
establish for them schools, and send to them
Christian missionaries.
Are you afraid this continent is going to be
overcrowded with this populationl Ah that
shows you have not been to California; that
shows you have not been to Oregon; that shows
you have not been to Texas. A fishing. smack
to-day on Lake Ontario might as we'll be afraid
of being crowded by other shipping before
night as for any one of the next ten genera
tions of Americans to be afraid of
being ,oyercrowded by foreign populations
10 for <hoD o11f 49,,
pre- yet the Austrian Empire supports 35, 000
600 people. The one State of Texas is larger
than all France and France supports 36, 200. 900
people The one State of Texas far surpasses in
Empire supports 100000 people / tell you
the great want of the Territories and of the
Wssterp States is more population.
While some may stand at the gates of the city
saying: Stand back" to foreign populations, I
press out far beyond those gates as can press
ont beyond them, and beckon to foreign nations
saying: 'Come, comet" "But," say you, II am
so afraid that they will bring their prejudices
for foreign governments and plant them here"
Absurd. They are sick of the governments that
have oppressed them. and they want free Amer
Give them the great gospel of welcome.
Throw around them all Christian Inequalities.
They will add their industry and hard-earned
wages to this country, and then we will dedicate
all to Christ land thy land shall be married"
But where shall the marriage altar be9 Let it
be the Rocky mountains, when through arti-
fetal and mighty irrigation all their tops shall be
covered as they will be, with vineyards and
orchards and grain fields. Then let the Bostons,
and the New Yorks, and the Charlestons of the
Pacific coast come to the marriage altar on the
one side, and then let the Bostons and the New
Yorks, and the Charlestons of the Atlantic
coast come to the marriage altar on the other
side, and there between them let this bride of
nations kneel; and then if the organ of the
loudest thunders that ever shook the Sierra Ne
vadas on the one side, or moved the foundations
fLA nntA tha al. It'd
march that organ of thunders could not
drown the voice of Him who should take
the hand of the bride of nations, saying las
bridegroom rejoiceth over bride, so thy God
rejoiceth over thee" At that marriage banquet
the platters shall be of Nevada silver, and the
chalices of California gold, and the fruits of
Northern orchards, and the spices of Southern