The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-09-19

INC NOIbu pay III CONb Vi war IOuT DllllOu
seven hundred million dollars, and the
South pay four billion seven hundred and
fifty million dollars, the destroying angel
leaving the first born dead in so many
houses all the way from the Penobscot to
the Alabama. Ye aged men, whose sons
fell in the strife, do you not think that
would have been better! On yesl we
have came to believe, l think, in this
country, that arbitration is better than
battle.
inherit large estate, and the waters
are rich with fish, aud the woods are
songful with birds, and my corn fields
are silken and golden. Here is my sis
ter's grave. Out yonder, under that large
tree, my father died. An invader comes,
and proposes to drive mo off and take
possession Of my property. He crowds
me back, he crowds me on, and crowds
me into a closer corner, and still closer
corner, until after awhile say:
"Stand back; don't crowd me any more,
or I'll strike. What right have you to
come here and drive me off of my prem
isesi got this farm from my father, and
he got it from his father. What right
have you to come here and molest me-"
You blandly say: ''Oh, know more than
you do. 1 belong TO a higher civilization.
l cut my hair shorter than you do.
could put this ground to a great deal bet
ter use than you do"
And you keep crowding me back and
| crOwding me into q closer corner and
closer corner, until one day look around
upon my suffering family. and, fred by
their hardships, hew you in twain.
Forthwith all the world comes to your
funeral to pronounce eulogium; comes to
/ g.. fIA,,
are the hero; l am the culprit. Behold
the United States Government 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 defense
| of q Brooklyn home or a New York home
Is right in defense of a home on top Of
| the Rocky mountains. Before this dwin-
ding red race dies completely out, |
wish that this generation might by
common justice atone for the inhumani-
| ty of its predece ssors. In the day of
| Gods Judgment | would rather there be a
| blood -smeared Modoc than q swindling
United States officer on an Indian reser-
vationl One man was a barbarian and a
savage, and never pretended to be any
thing but a barbarian and a savage.
The other man pretended to be repre-
sentative of a Christian nation. Not
withstanding all this, the general disgust
with war, and the substitution of diplo-
matte skill for the glittering edge of keen
steel, is a sign unmistakable that "the
day is at hand"
| find another ray of the dawn in the
compression of the worlds distances.
| What a slow, snail like, almost impossi-
BILE thing would have been the worlds
rectification with one thousand four hun
dred million of population and no facile
means of communication; but now,
through telegraph for the eye and tele-
phonic intimacy for the ear, and through
steamboating and railroading, the twen-
| ty-five thousand miles of the worlds cir
cumference are shriveling up into in
significant brevity. Hong Kong is near
er to New York than few years ago
| New Haven was; Bombay, Moscow,
Madras, Melbourne, within speaking dis
tance. 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 build
| ing, but after it is constructed it may do
| all its work in twenty minutes. Chris
| tianity has been planting its batteries for
| nineteen centuries, and may go on in the
work through other centuries; but when
those batteries are thoroughly planted,
those fortresses are thoroughly 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? d id it not take science five
thousand six hundred and fifty-two years
to find out so simple thing as the circu-
lation 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 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
day. Do we not read the
| Queens speech at the proroguing of Par
| lament the day before in London? If
that be so, is it any thing marvellous to
believe that in twenty -four hours a di-
vine communication can reach the whole
earth? 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 lowering cloud should
descend upon these cities. Would not
that fact be known the world over in
twenty-four hours?
Suppose He should present His Gospel
in few words saying: II am the Son of
God; come to pardon all your sins and
to heal all your sorrow; to prove that l
am q supernatural being. have just de-
scended from the clouds; do yOu believe
me, Sad do you believe me now" Why,
all the telegraph stations of the earth
would be crowded as none of them were
| ever crowded just after shipwreck.
tell you all these things to show you it is
not among the impossibilities 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. 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 ID going to happen.
think the world has had it hard enough
Enough, the London plaques. Enough.
the Asiatic choleras. Enough, the wars
Enough, the sbipwrecks. Enough. the
confagrations.
think our world could stand right vel
u procession of properties and tri.
umphs. Better be on the lookout Bet.
| ter have your observatories open toward