The Worthington advance., 1888-08-02
,,AxRRIcA m PROPHECY.

tion was led to the fact that number
of them appear ed to refer to the Amer
ican continent and to the American
government and people. They fore
shadowed that in due time the ''people
OF God" should be gathered together
in 4 new Canaan." This land is de-
scribed by the prophets as land Of
great rivers and great mountains. It
was to be land with great sea on
each side Of it. All the people and na-
tions of the earth were to come up to
this land, and they even went 80 far as
to namo one of these nations by saying
that ''Sin2 shall come" The Amer
lean continent and the American gov
ernment are found to be tho only ones
which meet these prophecies. Amer
ica is q land of great rivers like the
Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio and above
all. the great river of the Northern
lakes, a chain of inland seas which is
simply one great river from MINES
0ta to the mouth of the st. Lawrence
river. America is land of great noun.
tains like the Rocky, the Allegheny and
tho Pacific coast mountains. All ma
tions and peoples of the earth have been
coming up to this ''new Canaan" for
centuries, and are still flowing in with
an ever increasing tide. And in abs0.
lutte and literal fulfillment of the pro-
phecy "Sine," (the ancient name
for the Chinese has been coming for
years, and the Chinese problem in one
with which our government is still
wrestling.
And thus we are led to hold, with the
more advanced Interpreters. that if
there Is any literal meaning at all in
these prophecies, the ''peOple of God"
aDd the ''new Israel'' refer to the hu-
man race under free government and
the ''new Canaan" refers to the Amer
ican continent. The old Canaan is
not land Of great rivers and great
mountains; it has not a great sea on
each side of it. it is scarcely as large in
area as one Of the counties In the sin.
gle state of California or AZ some of the
northern counties Of Minnesota.
And now my friends, this is merely
view Of ourselves from q scriptural
standpoint. Viewed from other stand
points. We are emphatically ''the peO.
ple of God" 80 long as we maintain hu-
man equality and freedom; we are the
new fsrael'' so long as We welcome
tho whole Gentle world to our shores;
we are "peculiar people'' 50 long as
We maintain free government and the
equality Of the race.
In theory. We are right. The aim
and the purpose of our government is
to make and keep men free. Our OBJ
ject is self.government. or as Lincoln
put it, government OF the people, by
the people, for the people," But thus
far all things are In a crude state. The
machinery works in oumbrous and
numbering manner, and justice is ham
pered and defeated under our system
nearly as often a. IL is secured. Some
one has said that under the civilization
Of the present day, with all its artificial
and unnatural habits, the man who ex.
l,ects to live must fight for his life:
Some ono else has said that ''eternaI
vigilance il the price Of liberty" Both
are true as TO our political existence.
Without eternal vigilance and without
. constant struggle, human freedom
| will fail in America ~ it has elsewhere
throughout tho earth.
II.
DANGERS WHICH THREATEN Ue.
Let us then look for u few moments
at some of the dangers which threaten
u0.
MONARCHICAL TENDENCIES.
l. And, first. is tho tendency to.
ward what is called . ''strong gov
ernment." Since the war, the Amer.
lean people have heard much about
.'centfalizati0n." ''str0nR govern
| ment," ''CeaseIisnn," "M0narchism'
and ':Angl,cism." Under the mill.
tary necessity" plea during the war,
the people submitted to . centraliza.
ti,n of the power rofgOvernmenta and the
| commission of acts which were in every
respect contrary to the spirit of our
constitution and our system of govern
mont. Having submitted time and
again. under military necessity, the
habit was formed and still exists. The
American people submit to-day to out.
RACES upon personal liberty. to usurpa.
tions OF power and to insults and
wrongs to American citizens abroad
which before the war would have rails.
ed storm from one end Of the nation
to tho other.
During the war also, our people were
brought face to face with this danger
Of M0narchism in another form. Ma
poleon the Third wrote his long studied
life OF Ceaser to laud and to justif,
Ceaserism, that IL, personal or One.maI
Government, and he placed Maximiliau
upon . throne in the Republic Of Mexi
CO, upon tho American continent, witt
the avowed object, as he saic, of ''in
PRODUCING OLD WORLD ideas into
the NEW WORLD" This Ceaserisu
10 the dominant European idea to
day. In Russia, the Gar means Ceas
OF and Ceaserism. In German,
it becomes Kaiser and Kais
erism. We had our hands full at th'
time slanghtering our wicked and way
ward brethren. and could not say (,
him "hands off of this continent, " bu
even the "Greasy Mexicans," as the,
are called, would not su bmit to thi
and they sent Maximilian to a 'hos
pitable grave" and "poor Carlotta" t,
an insane asylum.
But. my friends, while Monarchisn
was not formally established on th
continent. It's emissaries spread owe
tho United States and have been indus
triously at work, gradually changin
tho ideas OF tho American people, On