The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-09-19

lily, 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 ansthema-
tie me. You are the hero, l am
culprit Behold the United States Govern
ment and the North American Indian, The
red man has stood more wrongs than |
would, or you We would have struck
sooner, deeper, That which is right In de-
Tense Of Brooklyn home or New York
home In right in defense OF home on top OF
the Rocky Mountains, Before this dwindling
red race dies completely out, wish that this
generation might, by common justice, atone
for the I'M nanity of its predecessors. In
the day Of Gods Judgment, would rather
there be a blood ,smeared Modoc than
a swindling United States officer on an In
dian reservation! One man was barbarian
and savage, and never pretended to be
anything hut a barbarian and savage. The
other man pretended to be a 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 upmistaka-
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
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.
enee are shriveling up into insig
er to New York than few years ago New
Haven was; Bombay, Moscow, Madras, Mel
bourne within speaking distance Purchase
a 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 its
work in twenty minutes. Christianity has
been planting Its batteries for nineteen CEN
turies and may go on in the work through
other centuries; but when those batteries are
thoroughly planted those fortresses are fully
built, they may all do their work in twenty
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 a thing as the
circulation of the human blood?
With the earth and the sky full Of electricity,
science took five thousand eight hundred
years before 1t 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
be more than the work Of half a day. O. Do
we not read the Queens speech at the
proroguing of Parliament the day before in
1ondon' If that be so, lis It anything mar
velous to believe that in twenty -four hours a
divine communication can reach the whole
earth' Suppose Christ should descend on the
nations-many expect that Christ will come
among the nations personally that
tomorrow morning the Son Of God from a
lowering cloud should descend upon these
cities. Would not that fact be known all
the world over in twenty-four hourss
Suppose He should present His Gospel
in a few words saying: II am the Son
of God; came to pardon all your sins and to
heal all your sorrow; to prove that | am
supernatural being, have just descended
from the clouds; do you believe Me, and do
you believe Me nows Why, all the tele-
graph stations of the earth would be crowded
as none of them were ever crowded just af-
ter shipwreck. ] tell you all these things
to show you it is not among the impossible
will conquer the whole earth, and do it in
stauter, when the time comes. There are
foretokenings in the air. Something
great is going to happen. l do not
think that Jupiter Is going to run us down
or that the axle of the world is going to
break; but | 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 CONGREGATIONS. | think our
world could stand right well procession of
properties and triumphs Better be on
the lookout. Better have your observa-
tories open toward the heavens, and
L. e Gel A~No
well polished Better have all your Leyden
jars ready for some new pulsation of mighty
influence. Better have new fonts of type in
your printing offices to set up some astound-
Ing good news. Better have some new ban
ner that has never been carried. ready for
sudden professions. Better have the bells in
your church towers well hung, and rope with
in reach, that you may ring out the mar
riage Of the Kings Son. Cleanse all your
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 off the thrones Of
despotism all the occupants, for the King Of
heaven 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-f1t garlands. whether white
or red, for Him on whose head are many
crowns 1.-THE day is at handr'
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
ness? Which is going to prove himself
the stronger, God or Diabolus? Is this
world going II be all garden or all desertl
Now let us have that matter settled. If
we believe Isaiah and Ezekiel and Hosea,
and Micah and Malachi, and John and
Peter, and Paul and Christ we believe that
II is going to be all garden. But let us have
IT settled. Let us know whether we are
dead failure. If there is a child in your
house sick, and you are sure he is going to
get well, you sympathize with present pains,
but all the foreboding Is gone. II you are
In a cyclone of the Florida coast, and the
Captain assures you the vessel Is staunch
and the winds are changing for better
quarter, and he is sure he will bring
you safe into the harbor. you patient
" submit to present distress with the
thought Of safe arrival. Now want TO
know whether we are coming on toward dis
NAV, darkness and defeat or on toward light
and blessedness. You and I believe the lat
| ter, and Ii so, every year we spend is one
year subtracted from the worlds woe and
e-ery event that passes, whether bright
! or dark, brings us one event nearer a
happy contamination, and by all that
is inexorable in chronology and mathematics
l commend you to good cheer and courage.
If there is anything in arithmetic If you sub
| tract two from FIVE and leave three. then by
every rolling sun we are coming on toward
| a magnificent terminus. Then every winter
passed is one severity less for our poor world
Then every summer gone by brings us nearer
unfading arborescence. Put your algebra
| down on the top of your Bible and rejoice.
| If 1t is nearer morning at o'clock than Il
| is at 2. if lis nearer morning at O'CLOCK
than it is at 3, then we are nearer the dawn o,
the worlds deliverance, Gods clock seems
| to go very slowly, but the pendulum swings
and the hands move, and it will yet strike
noon. The sun and the moon stood still once
! they will never stand still again until they
stop forever If you believe arithmetic as
wei as your Bible, you must believe We are
| nearer the dawn "The day is at hand"
There is class of phenomena which makes
me think that the spiritual and the heavenly
world may. after while, make demonstrt'
| ton In this world which will bring al, mora
| and spiritual things to climax. Now, an
no spirituallst; but every intelligent man hal