The national leader., 1889-05-18

J shall He not do it9 Hath He CON-
\ manded, and will He not bring it to
fpass?" The Christian religion Is COM
ing to take possession OF every ballot
box, of every school house, of every
tain, of every acre of olr national
domain. This nation, notwithstanding
all the evil influences that are trying to
destroy it, is going to live.
Never since, according to John Mil
ton, when ''Satan was hurled headlong
flaming from the ethereal skies in
hideous ruin and combustion down."
have the powers of darkness been so
determined to win this continent as
now.
WHAT A JEWEL 1T IS
"a jewel carved In relief, the cameo Of
this planetl On one side Of us the
Atlantic Ocean, dividing US from the
worn-out governments Of Europe. On
the other side the Pacific Ocean,
dividing us from the superstitions
of ASIA. On the north of US
the Arctic Sea, which is the gymna-
sium in which explorers and naviga.
tors develop their courage. A
continent 10, 500 miles long 100000
square miles, and all of 1t but about
one-seventh capable of rich cultivation.
One hundred millions Of population on
this continent of North and South
America-One hundred millions, and
room for many hundred millions more.
All flora and all fauna, all metals and
all precious woods, and all grains and
all fruits. The Appalachian range the
backbone, and the rivers the ganglia
carrying life all through and out to the
extremities. Isthmus OF Darien, the
narrow waist of a giant continent, all
to be under one government. and
ALL FREE, AND ALL CHRISTIAN,
and the scene of Christ's personal
reign on earth If, according to the ex-
pectat1on 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 shore Of her inland seas, the silver
of her Nevadas. the gold OF her Colora-
dos, the telescopes of her observatories,
the brain of her universities, the wheat
Of her prairies, the rice OF her savan-
mas, the two great ocean beaches-the
one reaching from Baffin's Bay to
Terra del FuegO and the other
from Behring Straits to Cape Horn
and all the moral and temporal and
spiritual and everlasting interests OF a
population vast beyond all human
computation? Who shall have the
hemisphere? You ana 1 will decide
that, or help to decide 1t, by conscien-
tious vote, by earnest prayer. by main
tenance of Christian institutions, by
support of great philanthropies, by
! putting body, mind, and soul on the
right side of all moral, religious, and
national movements.
All! it will not be long before it will
not make any difference to you or to
me what becomes Of this continent, 80
far as earthly comfort is concerned.
All we will want of 1t 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
us. But we have an anxiety about
the welfare and the happiness of the
generations that are coming on, and it
will be grand thing if, when the
archangel's trumpet sounds, we find
that our sepulchre. like the one Joseph
of Arlmathea provided for Christ, Is in
the midst Of garden.
THE NAME IN THE ROCK.
One Of the seven wonders Of the
world was the white marble watch
tower of Pharos of Egypt. Sostratus,
the architect and sculptor. after build
Ing that watch-tOwer, cut his name on
it. Then he covered 1t with plaster
ing, and to please the King, he put the
monarch's name on tile outside of the
plastering; and the storms beat and the
seas dashed in their fury, and they
washed off the plasterlng, and they
washed it out. ana they washed it
down, but the name or Sostratus was
deep cut in the 1mperlshable rock.
So across the face of this
nation there have been great
many names written, across our 6nan-
ces, across our religions, names worthy
of remembrance names written on the
architecture of our churches and our
schools and our asylums and our homes
of mercy but God is the architect of
this continent, and He waSthe sculptor
of all its grandeurs and long after
through the wash of the ages and the
tempests Of centuries-alI other names
shall be obliterated, the divine sigma
| ture and divine name will be brighter
and brighter As the mlllenniums go by,
and the world shall see that the God
who made this continent has redeemed
it by his grace from all its sorrows and
from all its crimes.
HAVE YOU FAITH
IN such thing as that? After all the
chariots have been unwheeled, and
after the war chargers have been Grip
pied, the chariots which Elisha saw On
the morning of his peril will roll on in
| triumph. followed by all the armies OF