The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-09-25

WarQ DarDar1anS carry ourselves III q IudllIeI
unprovocative Of contest. rs.-.
inherit large estate, and the waters are
rich with fish, and the woods are songful With
birds, and my cornfelds are silken and golden.
Here is my sisters grave. Out yonder, I'M
der that large tree, my father died. An in
vader comes, and proposes to drive me OF
and take possession of my property. he
crowds me back, he crowds me- on. and
crowds me into closer corner, and still
closer corner, until after a while l say
"Stand back, don't crowd me any more, or
rll strike. What right have you to come
here and drive me off my premises? got thh
farm from my father, and he got it from
his father. What right have you to come
mere ana molesJ meE' 1ou ola1uy say:
NOh. know more than you do. belong to
a higher civilization. I cut my hair shorter
than you do. I could put this ground to a
great deal better use than you do" And
you keep crowding me back and crowding me
on into a closer corner and closer corner un'
til one day I look around upon suffering fam.
ily. and fired by their hardships hew you
in twain. Forthwith all the world comes
to your funeral to pronounce eulogium,
comes to my execution to anathema-
tie me. You are the hero, am
culprit. Behold the United States Govern
ment and the North American Indian. The
red man has stood more wrongs than l
would, or you. We would have STRUCK
sooner. deeper. That which is right in de-
home is right in defense Of home on top OF
the Rocky Mountains. Before this dwindling
red race dies completely out I wish that this
generation might, by common Justice, atone
for the inhumanity of its predecessors. In
the day of Gods Judgment. would rather
there be blood-sneared Modoc than
q swindling United States officer on an In
dian reservation! One man was barbarian
and savage, and never pretended to be
anything hut barbarian and savage. The
other man pretended to be representative
of a Christian nation. Notwithstanding all
this, the general disgust with war and the
substitution Of diplomatic skill for the gilt
tering edge of Keen steel is sign unmlstaka-
BILE that "the day is at hand"
find another ray of the dawn in the COM
preston of the worlds distances. What a
Slow. snail-like, almost impossible thing
would have been the worlds rectifcation
with fourteen hundred millions OF population
and no facile means Of communication; but
now through telegraphy for the eye and
telephone intimacy for the ear, and through
steamboating and railroading. the twenty
five thousand miles of the worlds circumfer'
ence are shriveling up into lnslg
nifcant brevity. Hong Kong is near
er to New York than few years ago Ne% rs
bourne within speaking distance: Purchase
telegraphic chart, and by the blue lines see
the telegraphs 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. A fortress
may be months or years in building, but after
it is constructed it may do all lts
work in twenty minutes. Christianity has
been planting its batteries for nineteen CEN
turies, and may go on In the Work 1nrougn
thoroughly planted, those fortresses are fully
built, they 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 years to
find out so simple thing as tne
circulation Of. the human biood'
With the earth and the sky full of electricity
science took five thousand eight hundred
any practical use that might be made of thl:
subtle and mighty element When good mer
take possession Of all these scientific forces,
and all these agencies Of invention, do not
know that the redemption Of the world will
be more than the work Of half day. DO
we not read the Queens speech at the
proroguing Of Parliament the day before In
London? If that be 50, is it anything mar
velous to believe that in twenty-four hours
divine communication can reach the Whoie
earth? Suppose Christ should descend on tht
nations-many expect that Christ Will come
among the nations personally.supPose ina,
lowering cloud should descend upon thest
cities. Would not that fact be known al
the world over in .twenty-four hours
Suppose He should present His Gospel
in q few words saying: II am the Sor
of God; I came to pardon all your sins and tx
heal all your sorrow; to prove that l am
supernatural being, I have just descended
from the clouds; do you believe Me, and do
you believe Me now~ Why, all the tele-
graph stations of the earth would be crowded
as none Of them were ever crowded just af
ter a shipwreck. tell you all these things
to show you it is not among the impossibiii.
ties or even the improbabilities that Christ
will conquer the whole earth, and do it in
stanter, when the time comes. There are
foretokenings in the air. Something
great is going to happen. do not
think that Jupiter is going to rim us down
or that the axle Of the world is going to
break; but I mean something great for the
worlds blessing and not for the worlds
damage is going to happen. think the world
has had it hard enough. Enough, the Lon
don plaques. Enough, the Asiatic choleras.
Enough, the wars. Enough, the shipwrecks
Enough, the confagrations. think oul
world could stand right well procession ot
properties and triumphs Better be or
the lookout Better have your observa
tories open toward the heavens, and
the lenses of your most powerful telescope:
| well polished. Better have all your Leyder
jars ready for some new pulsation of mighty
| influence. Better have new fonts Of type II
-;pti n III
| ing good news. Better have some new ban
uer that has never been carried, ready fol
sudden professions. Better have the bells in
your church towers well hung, and rope with
in reach, that you may ring out the mar,
court houses, for the Judge of all the earth
may appear. Let all your legislative halls
! be gilded, for the great Lawgiver may be
| about to come. Drive or the thrones Of
despotism all the occupants, for the King OF
! beaver and earth may be about to reign.
The darkness of the night is blooming
and whitening into the lilies Of morning
cloud, and the lilies reddeding into the roses
of stronger day-ft garlands, whether white
or red for Him on whose head are many
crowns. 1.-The day is at hand"
One more ray of the dawn see in facts
chronological and mathematical Come
| now, do not let us do another stroke OF
work until we have settled one matter
| What is going to be the final issue OF this
great contest between sin and righteous:
ness9 Which is going to prove himself
The stronger, God or Diabolus? !. Is this
world going to be all garden or all desert:
Now let us have that matter settled. II
we believe Isaiah and Ezekiel and Hosea,
and Micah and Malachi and John and
Peter, and Paul and Christ we believe that
it is going to be all garden. But let us have
it settled. Let us know whether we are
working on toward a success or toward a
dead failure If there is child in your
La..ra ciolr and You are su1ra he is going TO