Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-12-01

American continent for a new order
OF things that was impossible under
the shadows of the palace. The bal
lot made men the free and independ
ent rulers of themselves. Its enlight.
ening influence has shaken thrones
and Nominations, and the world has
a taste of that power which belongs
versal, and the hunger it has CT Gated
will never be appeased until popu-
lar government reigns upon the yery
last throne of the Caesars. Proyi-
ldence sends out that heavenly light
of reason which burns so brightly
in the lamp of man, that the high
places of the world may be brought
low, and the valleys of human suffer
| ing and privation of mind and body
be filled up, aud the rough places in
the hearts ofnations be made smooth,
for in the fullness of time the words
of eternal life will come to pass.
Strange it seems that kings and
ecclesiastics have seen the hand of
Providence in every affection of man
kind, and recognized the designs of
the Creator in all the varying cours.
es of fortune and misfortune that
marked the history of nations,-rec.
ognized and accepted these provi-
Dental dispensations as wise and
Just and directed to some great cad;
so long only so good as they left the
established customs and privileges
and powers of the great and mighty
rulers of society and government and
religion alone: now when these same
providential mutations threaten to
crumble every form of throne and
dominion into dust, continue the
same divine principles of justice and
authority but under new form, and
place the execution of this divinely
delegated authority in the hands of
the representatives Of men who are
subject to the law instead of exempt
from II as under the old dispensation,
now they fail to see the finger of God
in the covenant of the times, and
would visit retribution upon men for
seeking new liberty, new life and
new happiness, not dependent upon
the servile will of any power but
that vouchsated by the Father of us
all to His common children.
How perfect the fruit of this new
harvest will be no prophet lives to
foretell; but we have seen more
wonders in our day than ever enter
ed into the Imagination of the cen
tury before us.
Instead Of the world going to
pieces under the change, it is com
| ing closer together in all the work
that pertains to the carrying out Of
the laws OF God.
When time shall have effaced the
barriers that the past would inter,
pose Between the progress Of the fu.
ture, then the world can better judge
whether the voice OF the people is
less divine in its authority than the
voice of hereditary degeneracy.
We have seen great things but the
world shall see greater when the
rubbish of time shall be cleared away
from the onward march of life and
labor, and when the ingenuity of
man shall find encouragement and
reward and hope beyond instead
of condemnation here and hereafter
for having been born ahead of its
age without any fault of its own.
10 the eyes of royal and ecclesias-
tical Europe there is no crime so helm
GUS and objectionable as dissatisfac-
ton with the social and religious
order as established by custom and
perpetuated by royal DEGREES enforc.
ed by racks and dungeons, at the
stake and on the gibbet.
That power is being taken away
from an unworthy people and given
to another more worthy of the divine
trust, who shall dispense it like the
sunshine and showers of heaven
wherever there is life to receive il
and live.
May not the nations that are sleep
ing the long sleep and these that are
waking to new life and those unborn
to the world curse that misuse oil
power which has kept man so long
from his lawful Inheritance as be
queathed to his forefathers at thu
creation and confirmed unto all mer
at the dawn of christianity by thu
living heir of Heaven !-curse kinf
and crown and court, diadem an(
trident,-for refusing to break thu
mental and physical letters by which
they bound man that he might b.
their slave and subject under thu
guise OF divinely commissioned au
thority which was basely used t.
maintain the pomp and majesty onc'
thought imperishable, now Pickering
, up like the dying embers of a nigh
J ty confederation that has consume,