The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1889-01-09


Music.
( Adjourned.
TUESDAY EyENING SESSION.
Opening chorus, Song Of the New
Year conducted by Prof Case-Mrs.
Cromwell, pianist
Song BY Miss HaTison-Miss Ella
( Masselnan, pianist. Eacors-
/ Prof Berkey then introduced the lee
tufer Of the evening, Rev. Robert Nourse.
Of Washington, p. C., who delivered his
lecture, John and Jonathan" he said :;
Il viii ask you to imagiEe before you
two gentIenea-one short, heavy, fair
/ faced, weighing about 200 pounds-that
/ is john The other about six feet high,
/ sharp, angular features, and Weighing
about / 70 pounds-thatis Jonathan. John
las been working about 1850 years, and
/ hence he is fat Jonathan has only been
I working about sixth Of that time and
mas been 50 busy ne has had no time to
gnow fat
Imagine a lady with coed. wearable
complexion, one that will not come of.
able to wals dozen mihss, that is Dame
/ Britannia
/ Imagine another lady able to ride,
saddle a horse, bake and sew-that is
Miss Columbia. These two are the other
sex Of John and Jonathan.
The English don't know the size OF
America we don't know it ourselves !;
few people know that the central city of
our country Is San Francisco, and vet its
true. There are Just as many longitude
nal degrees from San Francisco to the
western point of our country as there are
to the east of it. The English cannot
possibly comprehend the size of this
country.
At the close Of the presidential cleo
ton four years ago, great London news
paper announced that Mr.. Cleveland
4 Ohio had been elected While the Eng
lish cannot comprehend America, may it
not be equally true that Americans do
not comprehend the greatness of Eng
/ land In England Is a little city-s0OO00
babies are born in it every year over
eight million people in it-enough houses
to belt the equator Ia London there
are $50 railway stations. All the rail-
ways OF the United States carried 250,-
/ 100000 passengers last year one in Lon
don carried l60ee0,0OO passengers, and it
4 was only one ofl7 doing an equal amount
( of business. Land a few days ago sold in
London at 100000 per acre, and a few
/ months ago for SIS 600 600 per acre. Lon
I don is noted in other rIines-Dickens, and
Thackeray, and Byron, and Moore, and
Carlyle, and shakspere and Bunyan,
and an hundred others lived, and wrote,
and died there. SO we see how much of
/ all that is best in our lives we owe to
London. There is in England preju-
I dice against America, ana that prejudice
takes very peculiai forms. A clergyman
came to this country, was sell treated,
and went back and wrote little book
called Come 20 Jesus "a book that has
done much good He visited America
( again, and went back disrnntled about
something. He wrote a little book, and
sent 20 friend TO suggest title. He
suggested, $ Go 70 the Devil,n by the au-
thor of Come to Jesus" That book
was never published. There Is more
prejudice in this country against England
than against the whole world beside
Ny little boy came home one day and
saidto me; o, papa, we Americans lick
ed you British" said to him, If you
had not been British, you wouldn't have
dared TO fight you British in the right
whipped rs British in the wrong, and
/ am glad OF it,
The most unfortunate day for the world
would be when John and Jonathan
shall cease to be friends. England made
America possible she has done as much
for America IS the Old Testament Dis
pensation did for the New-as much as a
mother could 10 for her child she gave
Us our language We have improved the
language by adding slang The Com
mon Law Of England is the Common
Law OF America. The civil law is slow
er, the criminal law more rapid there
than here. levers never deck feion's
cell there. People don't banker after
murderers' autographs there. Felons are
bot pardoned TO vote against honest men
in doubtful elections there. Nearly eve
ry book you ever read, or ever will read,
is an English book. She gave Us our lit
erature-Shakspere, Milton, Byron, etc,
ali English. We are too young to have
an extensive literatuFe-to be good vri-
ters.
England gave Us our religion. The
form Of it was Calyinism Hume, and
aIaeanley, and Buckle, and Bancroft, and
host of others all agree on this point.
The Episcopal church in this country
came from England--so did the Quakers,
and sIethodists, nearly every sect except
the Mormon church.
There is but one paper published in
this country in the interest Of the five
million English voters Of the country.
No politician ever lifts his voice to whis-
per to ask for the English vote. When
man comes to this country and takes
the oath Of allegiance he has no
right TO remain in this country unless he
doqs-ha efs,Saas N ba ar L-rs,Ifsl =, and
becomes an American. There's only one
country in Gods universe better than
this, and that's Heaven. When a man
can't be an American citizen, don't
think he ought TO 90 to heaven. nov
want TO tell YOU what America has done
for England The commerce between
the two countries is most advantageous
TO England. We have persuaded Eng |
land to modify her form Of government. |
The time is not far distant when heredi- /
tary monarchy viii cease in England /
through the action Of the people We |
have taught England that there is no ne |
cessity for union Of Church and State.
We have interested England in popular
education America set the example F: /
to-day the humblest PEASANTS child has I
royal path from the elements up to the |
highest and most ancient university in !
England, and the reason is that we first |
educated American children. We've Civ I
en- England the steamboat, and hun