The Brookhaven leader., 1889-05-09

you to-day that mans impossibilisies are
Gods easies, Hath He said and shall
He not do its Hath He commanded and
will He not bring 1t to pass" The Chrls-
tian religion is coming to take possession
| OF every ballot.box, of every school
house, OF every home, of every valley, OF
every mountain, OF every acre OF orI
national domain. This Nation, notwith-
standing all the evil influences that arc
trying to destroy it, is going to live.
Never since, according to John Milton,
when Satan was
Hurled huadlohg flaming from the ethereal sky
With hideous ruin and combustion, down
To bottom!ess perdItion
Have the powers Of darkness been so de-
termined to win this continent as they are
| now. What Jewel it is-a jewel carved
| in relief, the cameo OF this planetl On
one side of us the Atlantic ocean, divid-
ing us from the worn -out governments OF
Europe. Oa the other side, the Pacific
ocean, dividing lis from the saperstitions
of Asia. On the north of US the Arctic
sea, which is the gymnasium in which the
explorers and navigators developed their
courage. A continent ten thousand five
hundred miles long seventeen million
square miles, and all Of 1t, but about
one seventh, capable Of rich cultivation.
One hundred millions of population on
this continent Of North and South Amer
ica--one hundred million, and room for
many hundred millions more. All flora
and all fauna, all metals and all precious
woods, and all grains and all fruits. The
Appalachian range the backbone, and
the rivers the ganglia carrying Ffe all
through and out to the extremities. 18th
mus OF Darieu, the narrow waist OF giant
continent, all to be under one govern
rfient, and all free, and all Christian, and
the scene Of Christ's personal reign on
earth IL, according to the expecta-
ton Of many good people, He shall
world. Who shall have this hemis-
phere, Christ or Satan' Who shall have
the shores of he inland seas, the silver
of her Nevadas, the gold Of her Colorados,
the telescopes of her observatories, the
brain of her universities, the wheat OF
her prairies, the rice of her savannaha.
the two great ocean beaches-the one
reaching from Bafin's bay to Terra dol
Fuego, and the other from Behring
straits to Cape Horn-and all the moral
and temporal and spiritual and everlast-
ing interests of population vast beyond
all human computation? Who shall have
the hemisphere? You and | will decide
that or help to decide it, by conscientious
vote, by earnest prayer. by maintenance
of Christian institutions, by support OF
great philanthropics, by putting body,
mind and soul on the right side of all
moral, religious and national move.
ments.
All! it will not be long before it will
| not make any difference to you or to mo
what becomes OF this continent, so far as
earthly comfort is concerned. All We will
want of it will be seven feet by three, and
that will take in the largest and there
will be room and to spare. That is all OF
this country we will need very soon-the
| Youngest Of us. But we have an anxiety
about the welfare and the happiness OF
the generations that are coming on, and
it will be a grand thing If, when the arch
angels trumpet sounds, we find that our
sepulcher, like the one Joseph of AIima.
thea provided for Christ, is in the midst
of garden.
One Of the seven wonders of the world
was the white marble watch tower OF
Pharos Of Egypt. Sostratus the architect
and sculptor, after building that watch
tower cut his name on it. Then he cover
ed 1t with plastering, and to please the
| King he rut the monarch's name on the
outside of the plastering; and the storms
beat and the seas dashed in their fury,
and they washed off the plastering, and
and they washed it out and
| they washed 1t down, but ths name of SO.
stratus was deep cut in the imperishabls
rock. So across the face OF this Nation
there have been q great many names
written, across our finances, across our
| NE Ia,a
names written on the architecture of our
churches, and our schools, and our asy-
lums, and our homes of mercy; but God
is the architect of this continent, and Ho
was the sculptor of all its grandeurs, and
long after, through the wash Of the ages
and the tempests of centuries, all other
names shall be obliterated, the Divine
signature and the Divine name will be
brighter and brighter as the millenniums
go by, and the world shall see that the
God who made this continent has re-
deemed it by His grace from all its sor-
rows and from all its crimes.
Have you faith in such a thing as that?
| After all the chariots have been unwheel-
ed, and after all the war chargers havo
been crippled, the chariots which Elisha
saw on the morning of his peril will roll
on in triumph, followed by all the armies
| of Heaven ON white horses. God could do
| it, without us, but He will not The weak
| est of us, the faintest of us, the smallest
Drained of us, shall have a part in the
triumph. We may not have our name, like
| Sostratus, cut in imperishable rock and
conspicuous for centuries, but we shall be
remembered in better place than that,
even in the heart of Him who came to re-
deem us and redeem the world, and our
names will be seen close to the signature Of
His wound, for as to-day He throws out
His arms toward us, He says: "Behold, ,
have craven thee ON the palms of my
hand" By the mightiest Of all agencies,
the potency of the prayer, beg you seek
our national welfare.
| Some time ago there were four million
six hundred thousand letters in the Dead
Letter Post-Onice at Washington-letter.
that lost their way-but not one prayer
ever directed to the heart of God mis-
carried. The way is all clear for the as
cent of your supplications heavenward ir
behalf of the Nation. Before the postal
communication was so easy, and long
ago, on rock one hundred feet high, on
the coast Of England, there was a barrel
fastened to post, and in great letters on
the side Of the rock, so it could be seen
far out at sea, were the words Post
Ofice;" and when ships came by q
boat put out to take and fetch
letters. And so sacred were those
deposits of affection in that barrel that
no lock was ever put upon that Darrel. al
though it contained messages for Amoica,
aud Europe, and Asia, and Africa, and all