The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-11-21

Ilty ullllOH uOIldFS, the destroying anger
| leaving the first born dead in so many
| houses all the way from the Penobscot to
the Alabama. Ye aged men, whose sous
fell in the strife, do you not think that
would have been better? GA yes! we
have came to believe, 1 think, in this
country that arbitration is better than
battle.
inherit a large estate, and the waters
are rich with fish, and the woods are
songful with birds, and my corn fields
are silken and golden. Here is my sis
ter's grave. Out yonder, under that large
tree, my father died. An invader comes,
and proposes to drive me off aud fake
possession of my property. He crowds
me back, he crowds me on, and crowds
me into a closer corner and still closer
corner, until after awhile l say:
stand back; don't crowd me any more,
or Pll strike. What right have you to
come here and drive me off of my prem
ises? got this farm from my father, and
he got it from his father. What right
have you to come here and modest me?"
You blandly say: "Oh, know more than
you do. l belong to a higher civilization
l cut my hair shorter than you d.. 1
could put this ground to great deal bet
ter use than you do"
And you keep crowding me back and
crOwding me into a closer corner and
closer corner, until one day look around
upon my suffering family and, fired by
their hardships, l hew you in twain.
Forthwith all the world comes TO your
funeral to pronounce eulogium; comes to
my execution to anathematize me. You
are the hero; am the culprit. Behold
the United States Government and the
North American Indianl The red man
has stood more wrongs than l would, or
you. We would have struck sooner,
deeper. That which is right in defense
OF Brooklyn home or New York home
is right in defense of a home on top of
the Rocky mountains. Before this dwin-
ding red race dies completely out,
wish that this generation might by
common justice atone for the inhumani-
ty of its predecess Ia the day Of
Gods Judgment would rather there be a
blood -smeared MOdoc than a swindling
United States officer on an Indian reser-
walton! One man was barbarian aud q
savage, and never pretended to be any
thing but a barbarian and savage
The other man pretended to be a repre-
sentative of Christian nation. Not
outstanding all this, the general disgust
with war, and the substitution of diplo-
matte skill for the glittering edge of keen
steel, is sign unmistakable that "the
day is at hand"
/ find another ray of the dawn in the
compression of the worlds distances.
What slow, snail like, almost impossi-
bic thing would have been the worlds
rectiication with one thousand four hum
dred million of population and no facile
means of communication: but now.
through telegraph for the eye and tele-
phonic intimacy for the ear, and through
steamboating and railroading, the TWEEN
ty-ive thousand miles of the worlds cir
conference are shriveIing up into in
significant brevity. Hong Kong is near
er to New York than few years ago
New Haven was; Bombay, Moscow,
Madras, Melbourne, within speaking dis.
lance. Purchase telegraphic chart
and by the blue lines see the telegrapls
OF the land, and by the red lines the
cables under the ocean. You see what
opportunity this is going to give for the
final movements of Christianity,
fortress may be months or years in build
ing, but after it is constructed it may do
all It's work in twenty minutes. Chris
tlan1ty has been planting its batteries for
nneteen centuries, and may go on in the
work through other centuries; but when
those batteries are thoroughly planted,
those fortresses are thoroughly built,
ihey may all do their work in twenty
four hours.
The world sometimes derides the church
for slowness Of movement. Is science
any quicker? Did it not take science five
thousand six hundred and fifty-two wears
to md out so simple thing as the circu.
lation of the human blood. With the
earth and the sky full OF electricity,
science took five thousand eight hun lred
years before at even Guessed that there
was any practical use that might be made
of this subtle and mighty element. When
good men take possession of all these
scientific Forces, and all these agencies of
invention, / do not know that the
redemption of the world will
bs more than the work of half
a day. Do we not read the
Qneen's speech at the proroguing of Par
lament the day before in London? If
that be So is it any thing marvellous TO
b elieve that in twenty -four hours a di-
VINE communication can reach the whole
earth? Suppose Christ should descend
on the nations-many expect that Christ
VIII come among the nations personally
suppose that tomorrow morning the
Son OF God from a lowering cloud should
descend upon these cities. Would not
that fact be known the world over in
hours?
Suppose He should present His Gospel
10 few words saying: II am the Son of
God; | come to pardon all your sins and
10 heal all your sorrow; to prove that [ !
IN supernatural being, have Just de-
'cended from the clouds; do you believe |
ne, ard do you believe me now?" Whv |
Ill the telegraph stations of the earth |
would be crowded as none of them were /
ever crowded just after shipwreck. I |
ell you all these things to show Won if is |
lot among the impossibilities or even |
he improbabilities that Christ will
conquer the whole earth, and do it in
tauter, when the time comes. There are
oretokenings in the air. Something
treat is going to happen. do not think
nat Jupiter is going to run us down or
hat the axle of the world is going to
Freak; but mean something great for
he worlds blessing and not for the
Forld's damage is going to happen.
hink the world has had it hard enough.
enough, the London plaques. Enough.
ne ASlatlc choleras. Enough the wars