West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-09-19


unprovocative Of contest
inherit large estate and the waters are
rich with fish, and the woods are songful with
birds, and my cornfields are slken and golden
mere Is my sisters grave. Out yonder I'M
der that large tree, my father died. An In
vader comes and proposes 10 drive me Off
ana 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 while I say:
stand back, don't crowd me any more or
III strike. What right have you TO come
here and drive me off my premisesi got this
farm from my father, and he got it from
his father. What right have you 90 come
here and modest mef' You blandly say:
"Oh, know more than you do. belong TO
a higher civilization. cut my hair shorter
than you do. could put this ground 10 a
great deal better use than you do" And
you keep crowding me back and crowding me
ON into closer corner and closer corner, I'M
I'll one day look around upon suffering fam
lily, and fired by their hardships 1 hew you
in twain. Forthwith all the world comes
10 your funeral to pronounce eulogium,
comes TO my execution 10 anathema-
tie me. You are the hero, I 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
tense OF Brooklyn home or New York
the Rocky Mountains. Before this dwindiing
red race dies completely out, wish that this
generation might, by common justice, atone
for the inhumanity OF it's predecessors In
the day Of Gods Judgment, would rather
there be blood-smeared Modoc than
n swindling United States officer on an In
dian reservation One man was a barbarian
and a savage, and never pretended to be
enything but a barbarian and a savage. The
other man pretended TO be n representative
..N -.
this, the general disgust with war and the
substitution Of diplomatic skill for the gilt
tering edge of keen steel Is a sign unmistaka-
BILE that 'the day is at hand"
find another ray of the dawn in the COM
preston of tho worlds distances What n
slow, snail-like, almost impossible thing
would have been the worlds rectihcation
with fourteen hundred millions of population
and no facie tueans of communication: but
now through telegrapby for the eye and
steamboating and railroading, the twenty.
five thousand miles of the worlds circumfer.
ence are shriveling up into insig
niticant breyity. Hong Kong is near
er TO New York than few years ago New
Haven was; Bombay, Moscow, Madras, Mel
bourne within speaking distance. Purchase
Geographic chart, and by the blue lines SEQ
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
turtles 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
four hours. The world sometimes derides the
church for slowness of movement Is science
any quicker Did 1t not take science FIVE
thousand six hundred and fifty-two years to
find out so simple a thing Us the
circulation of the human blood?
With the earth and the sky full of electricity.
science took five thousand eight hundred
years before It even guessed that there was
any practical uso 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. Do
we not read the Queens speech at tho
proroguing Of Parliament the day before i'm
Londonr If that be so, is it anything mar
Vicious to believe that I'm twenty-four hours a
divine communication can reach the whole
earthS Suppose Christ should descend on the
nations-many expect that Christ will come
among the nations perSonally-suppoSe that
tomorrow morning the Son of God from a
hoVerIng cloud should descend upon these
cities. Would not that fact be known all
tho world over in twenty-four hours?
Suppose He should present His Gospel
IN few words saying: II am the Son
of God; L came to pardon all your sins and to
heal all your sorrow; to provo that L am
supernatural being, have Just descended
from the clouds; do you believe Me- and do
you believe Me nowp Why, all the tele-
graph stations of the earth would be crowded
as none of them were ever crowded lust af-
ter shipwreck. i tell you all these THINGS
to show you it is not among the impossibiii-
ties or even the improbabilities that Christ
VIII 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 run us down
or that the axle of the world is going to
preak; but L mean something great for the
worlds blessing and not for the worlds
damage is going TO happen. think the world
has had 1T hard enough. Enough, the Lon
don plaques, Enough, the Asiatic choleras
Enough, the wars. Enough, the shipwrecks
Enough the conhagrations: think our
world could stand right well procession of
prUsperities and triumphs. Better be on
the lookout. Better have your observa-
tories open toward tho heavens. and
the lenses OF your most powerful telescopes
well polished. Better have all yolT Ievden
jars ready for some new pulsation Of mighty
influence. Better have new fonts OF type in
your printing offices to set up some asfound-
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 DO
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 tho lilies of morning
cloud, and the lilies reddeding into the roses
OF stronger day-fit garlands, whether white
or red, for Him on whose head arc many
crowns. THE day Is at handF
One more ray OF the dawn / see i'm 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
1essy Which Is going % provo himself
nc stronger, God or DiabOhs? Is this
World going TO be oil garden or all DESERT
Vow let us have that matter settled IL
20 believe Isaiah and Ezekiel and Hosea
nd Micah and Malachi, and John and
eteT, and Paul and Christ, we believe that
Is going 10 be all garden. But let us have
settled, Let us know whether we are
working on toward a success or toward a
lead failure IN there IS child iu your
house sick, end you are sure ho Is going 20
Sot well, you sympathizs with present pains
1ut all the fOrebodng IS gone. IF YOU are
bog cyclone of the Florida coast, aud the
Captain assures you the vessel is stauuch