The Russellville Democrat., 1889-05-09

/ on performing tl1f Wntth sAA7 pvttN'1AtA.
said was impossible, and I have g tel
you to-day that mans impossibiitties are
I Gods casies. sHath He said and shall
He not do itg Hath He commanded AID
will He not bring il to passs" The Chris
! tan religion is coming 10 take possession
Of every ballot-box, Of every school
house, OF every home, ~ every valley, 81
every mountain, OK every acre % our
| national domain. This Nation. notwith
| standing all the evil influences that are
/ trying TO destroy IL is going % live.
/ Never since. according to John Milton
when Satan was
4 Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky.
/ with hideous ruin and combustion. down
TO bottomless perdItion-
Have the powers Of darknesa been 80 De.
| termined TO win tEis continent A. they are
now. What Jewel ii ls-a jewel carved
| in relief, the cameo Of this planetl o.
one side OF us the Atlantic ocean, divid-
| ing us from the WORKOUT governments -
Europe. On the other side, the Pacihc
ocean, dividing Us from the supsrstitious
Of Asia. On the north % US the Arctic
sea, which is the gymnasium IN which the
/ explorers and navigators developed their
/ courage. continent ten thousand ave
| hundred miles long. seventeen million
square miles, and all Of a. bu, about
| one-seventh, capable % rich cultivation.
| Ore hundred millions Of population on
| this continent OF North aud South Amer
| ica-one hundred million, aud room Tor
many hundred millions more. All fora
and all fauna, all metals aud al precious
woods, and ali grains and all fruits. The
| Appalachian range the backbone, and
| the rivers the ganglia carrying life al
| through and out 20 the extremities. 18TH
mus of Darien, the narrow waist OF giant
continent all to ne under one govern
ment, and all free, and all Christian, and
the scene of Chrisps personal reign ON
earth IL, according to the expeeta.
tion OF many good people, He shall
at last set up His throne in this
world. Who shall have this hemis-
phere, Christ or Satan? Who shall have
the shores of her inland seas. the silver
of her Nevadas, the gold OF her Colorados,
the telescopes of her observatories, the
brain of her universities, the wheat t
her prairies, the rice Of her savannahs.
the two great ocean beaches--the one
reaching from Baffil's bay so Terra del
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 philauthropics, 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 1t will
not make any difference TO you or to me
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 u.s. 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 IL, when the arch
angels trumpet sounds, We find that out
| sepuicher, like the one Joseph OF Arima-
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 it with plastering, aud to please the
King he put the mouarch's name on the
outside of the plasteripg; 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 it down, but the name of So
stratus was deep cut in the imperishable
rock. SO across the face OF this Nation
there have been q great many names
written, across our finances, across our
religions, names worthy OF remembrance,
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 He
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 oblterated the Divine
signature and the Divine name will be
brighter and brighter as the millennums
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 thing as that?
After all the chariots have been unwheel-
ed, and after all the war chargers have
been crippled, the chariots which Elisha
saw on the morning of his peril will roll
OF Heaven on white horses. God could do
it, without us, but He will not The weak
est of us, the faintest of MS, 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 wouQd, for as to- day He throws out
His arms toward us, He says: "Behold, l
have craven thee on the palms of my
hand" BY the mghtiest Of all agencies,
the potency of the prayer, l beg you seek
o ur national welfare.
Some time ago there were four million
six hundred thousand letters in the Dead
Letter Post Office at Washiugt on-letters
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 applications heavenward in
behalf of the Nation. Before the postal
communication was so easy, and long
ago, on rock one hundred feet higA, on
the coast of England, there was 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
Onice;" and when ships came by o
boat put ont to take and fetch
letters. And so sacred were those
deposits of affection in that barrel that
no lock was ever put upon that barrel, al
though it contained messages for Ameica,
and Europe, and Asia, and Africa and all
the islands of the sea. Many a storm-
tossed sailor, homesick, got message OF
kindness by that rock, aud many a home
stead heard good news from a boy long
gone. Would that all the heights of our
national prosperity were in Interchange
Of sympathie prayers going up meeting
blessings coming down; postal celestial,
moi hN a aLnrm- atrnck rock ON q MlntrN