Milford chronicle., 1889-03-08
parted this life for the perdition from whence
it came. No peace TO its ashes"

DtAGl MAAl We ought TO 90 LOT foreigners
First, to foreigners. Lay aside all apologetic
air and reaSize you have as much right as any
man who was not only himself born here, but
his father and his grandfather and great
grandfather before him Are you an
Englishmani Though during the revolution.
sry war your fathers treated our fathers
roughly, England has more than atoned for
that by giving to this country at least two
denominations Of Christians, the Church of
England and the Methodist church Witness
the magnificent liturgy Of the one and the
Wesleyan hallelujahs Of the other. And who
shall ever pay England for what Shakespeare
and John Milton and Wordsworth and
thousand other authors have done
FOR Americai Are you a Scotchmanl
Thanks for John Knox's Presbyterian
ism, the balance wheel Of all other
denominations. And how shall Americans
ever pay your native land for what Thomas
Chalmers and Macintosh and Robert Burns
and Christopher North and Robert McCheyne
and Candlish and Guthrie have done for
Americansi Are you a Frenchmanl We
cannot forget your Lafayette, who in the
most desperate time of our American revO-
luton, New York surrendered and our armies
flying in retreat, espoused our cause and at
Brandywine and Monmouth and Yorktown
put all America under eternal obligation
And we cannot forget the coming to the
rescue of our fathers Rochambeau and his
French fleet with six thousand armed men
Are you a Germanl We have not forgotten
the eleven wounds through which your Baron
De Kalb poured out his life blood at tho head
of the Maryland and Delaware troops in
the disastrous battle at Camden, and after
we have named our streets and our cities
and our counties after him we have not paid
1.-THE of what we owe Germany for his valor
and self sacrifice And what about Martin
Luther, the giant German who made way for
religious liberty for all lands and agesl Are
yoa Polandersl How can we forget your
brilliant Count Pulaski, whose bones were
laid in Savannah river after a mortal wound
gotten while in the stirrups Of one Of the
fercest cavalry charges of the American rev.
olutionl But with no time to particularizc
say, IAN hail to the men and women Of other
lands who come here with honest purpose"
Renounce all obligation to foreign despots
Take the oath of American allegiance Get
out your naturalization papers. Don't talk
against our institutions for the fact that you
came here and stay shows that you like ours
better than any other If you don't like them
there are steamers going out Of our ports al
you should be detained for parting civilities, /
bid you good-by now. But if you like it here
then l charge you, at the ballot box, in legis-
lative hall, in churches and everywhere be
out and out Americans Do not try to es-
tablish here the loose foreign Sabbaths,
or transcendentalism spun into a religion of
mush and moonshine or foreign libertinism,
OF that condensation of all thievery, scoun-
drelism, lust, murder and perdition which in
Russia is called nihilism and In France called
communism and in America called anarch-
ISM Unite with US in making by the grace
of God the fifteen million square miles Of
America on both sides the lsthmus of Pana-
ma the paradise Of virtue and religion.
GIVE THE FOREIGNERS INFORMATION ABOUT
AMERICA
My other word suggests what Americans
ought to do for foreigners. By all possible
means explain to them our institutions Com
ing here, the vast ma jority Of them know about
as much concerning republican or democratic
form Of 4oeyernment as you in the United
States know aput politics Of Denmark or
France or Italy o. Switzerland, namely
nothing Explain to item bat liberty Il.
this country means liberty to do right, but
not liberty to do wrong Never in their
presence say anything against their native
land, for, no matter how much they may
have been oppressed there, in that native
land there arc sacred places, cabins or man
sions around whose doors they played, and
perhaps somewhere there is a grave into
which they would like, when lfe's tolls are
over, to be let down, for it is mothers grave,
and it would DO like going again into the
lov3as arms that first held them and against
the bosom that first pilicTsoS suehI Myl
myl how low down a man must have de-
scended to have no regard for the place where
his cradle was rocked Don't mock their
brogue or their stumbling attempts at the
hardest of all languages to learn namely the
English language. | warrant that they speak
English as well as you csuld talk Scandina-
vian Treat them in America as you would
like to be treated if for the sake of your hon
est principles or a better livelihood for your
self or your family you had moved under the
shadow of Jungfrau or the Rigi, or the
Giants Causeway, or the Bohemia forest, or
tho Franconian Jura. If they get homesick,
as some of them are, suggest to them that
God is as near to help them here as he was
near them before they crossed the Atlantic,
and that the souls final flight is less than a
second whether from the beach Of the Cas-
plan sea or the banks of Lake Erie, Evan
gelize 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 instead
OF being an element Of weakness the foreign
people, Thoroughly evangelical, viii be our
mightiest defense against all the world. The
congress Of the United States recently or
!. all
American coasts and new navy is about to
be projected. But let me say that three hun
dred million dollars expended in coast de
fansA will not be so mighty as a vast foreign
population living in America With hun
dreds OF thousands Of Germans In New York,
Germany would as soon think Of bombshell-
ing Berlin as attacking us. With hundreds
Of thousands of Frenchmen in New York;
France would as soon think Of firing on Paris.
With hundreds Of thousands Of Englishmen
in New York, England would as soon think
Of destroying London. The mightiest defense
against European nations is a wall of Euro
peans reaching all up and down the Ameri-
can continent, a wall of heads and hearts
consecrated to free government. A bulwark
Of foreign humanity heaved up all along our
shores, REINFORCED by the Atlantic ocean,
armed, as it is, with tempests and Caribbean
whirlwinds and giant billows ready to cling
mountains from their catapult, we need as a
nation fear no one in the universe but God,
and if found in his service we need not fear
him As six hundred million people will yet
sit down at our national table, let God pre-
side. To him be dedicated the metal Of our
mines, the sheaves of our harvest fields, the
fruits Of our orchards, the fabrics Of our
manufactures, the telescopes Of our observa-
tories the volumes Of our libraries, the songs
Of our churches, the affections Of our hearts,
and all our lakes become baptisns& fonts and
all our mountains altars Of praise and all our
valleys amphitheatres of worship, and our
country, having become fifty nations consoli-
dated in one, may its every heart throb be a
pulsation Of gratitude to him who made ''of
one blood all nations" and ransomed that
blood by the payment Of the last drop Of his
own
The Heart Often Rests.
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