The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-03-09

around who's doors they played, and per-
haps there is somewhere IA grave into
which hey would like, when life's tolls
are over, to be let down. for il is mothers
grave and it would be like going again
into the loving arms that first held them
and against the bosom that pillowed them.
Myl my how low down a man must have
descended to have no regard for the place
where his cradle was rocked. Don't mock
their brogue or their Stumbling attempts
at tn. hardest of all languages to learn,
namely, the English language. | warrant
that they speak English as we'll as you
could ia k scandinavian. Trent them in
America us YOU would like to be treated IL
for the sake of your honest principles or u
better livelihood for yuurse or your
family you al moved under the
shadow OF Jungfrau, or the Rigi or the
Giants Causeway, or the bohemian
Forest, or the F~ranconian Jura. If they
get homesick, as some Of them are, suS-
gest to them that God is as near to help
them here as He was near them before
thew crcs scd the Atlantic, and that the
souls final flight is less than n second
whether from the beach OF the Caspian
sea or the banks of Lake Erie. Evanaei-
ize their adults through the churches and
their children through the schools and
let home missions and tract societies and
the Bible translated in all the languages
of these foreign people have full swing.
Rejoice as Christian patriots that in
stead o.. being an element of weakness the
foreign people thoroughly evahgeliz ID
will be our mightiest defense aga INST all
the world. The Congress of the United
States recently ordered built ne Nv forts
all up and down our American coasts,
and a new navy is about to be prof ,ctod.
But let me say that 80 q, $685. 900 expended
in coast defense will not be so mighty as a
vast foreign population living in America.
With hundreds of thousands of Ger mans
in New York, Germany would as soon
think Of bomb ,helIing Berlin as attacking
us. With hundreds of thousands
Of Frenchmen in New York, Race
would as soon think of firing on
Paris. With hundreds of thousands of
Englishmen in New York, England would
as soon think of d 'stroying London. The
mightiest defense against European Ma
tions is a wall of Europeans eaching all
up and down the American continent, q
wall of heads and hearts consecrated &c
free oyernmen A bull wark of foreign
humanity heaved up all along our shores,
reinforced by the Atlantico ocean, armed as
il is with tempest and Caribbean whirl-
winds and giant pillows ready to fling
mountains from their catapuit, we need
as a Nation fear no one in universe but
God, and if found in His service we need
not fear Him. AS 900, 00O,O 900 people will
sit down at our national table, lei
God preside. To Him be dedicated the
metals of our mines, the sheaves of oul
harvest fields, the fruits of our orchards
the fabrics of our manufactures, the tel
escapes of our o~bservatories, the volumes
of our libraries, the songs of our churches
the affections of our hearts, and all on
lakes become baptismal fonts, and all GU
mountains affairs of praise and all on
valleys amphitheaters of worship, and on
country, having become fifty nations con
solidated into one, may its every hear
throb to be n puls.tioa of gratitude t.
HIM who made Of zone blood all nations
aud ransomed that blood by the paymen
of the last drop of His own.