Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-05-05

In hideous ruin and combustion down."
have the powers OF darkness been so
determined to win this continent as
they are now. What a jewel it is-a
jewel carved in relief, the cameo OF
this planetl On one side OF US the At
lantic ocean, dividing US from the
worn out governments Of Europe. On
the other side the Pacific ocean, divid-
ing us FROM the %superstitions Of Asia.
on TIE north Of us the Arctic sea,
which is the gymnasium in which the
explorers and navigatQrs develop
their courage. A continent 10, 500
miles long, l7,00O,0 900 square miles,
and all of il but about one-seventh
capable OF rich cultivation. One hun
bred millions of population on
this continent of North and South
America-one hundred millions, and
room for many hundred millions
more. All fora and all fauna, all
metals and all precious woods, and all
grains and all fruits. The Appala-
chan 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 expectation Of many good peo-
pie, he shall at last set up his throne
in this world. Who shall have this
hemisphere, Christ or Satang Who
shall have the shore of her inland seas.
the silver Of her Nevadas, the gold
of her Colorados, the telescopes of her
ob~servatories, the brain of her uni
versities, the wheat of her prairies. the
rice of her savannas, the two great
ocean beaches-the one reaching from
BafIin's bay to Terra del Euego, and
the other from Behring straits 10 Cape
Horn-and all the moral andtemporal
and spiritual and everlasting interests
of a population vast beyond all hui
man computation2 Who shall have
the hemisphere You and | will
decide that, or help to decide it,
by conscientious vote, by earnest pray
err, by maintenance of Christian in
situations, by support of great phi
lanthropies, byputting body, mind and
soul on the right side of all moral, re-
ligious and national movements.
All! il will not be long before il will
not make any difference 10 YOU or TO
me what becomes of this continent, so
far as earthly comfort is concerned.
All we will want of it will he even
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 gen
erations that are coming on. and il will
be a grand thing il, when the archan-
gels trumpet sounds, we find that our
sepulcher, like the one Joseph Of Arr
mathea provided for Christ, is in the
midst of a garden.
AN ILLUSTRATION FULL OF SUGGESTIVE
NESS.
One of the seven wonders of the
world was the white marble watch
tower of Pharosu of Egypt. Sostratus,
the architect and sculptor, after build
ing that watch tower cut his name on
il. Then he covered il with plaster
ing, and to please the king he put the
monarch's name on the outside of the
plastering; and the storms beat and
the seas dashed in their fury, and they
washed Oft the plastering, and they
washed il out, and they washed it
down, but the name of SoStratus was
deep cut in the imperishable rock. So
across the face of this nation there
have been q great many names
written, across our finances, across
our religions, names worthy of re.
membrance, names written on the
architecture of our churches and
our schools and our asylums aud u
homes of mercy, but God is the archi-
tect OF this continent, aud lie was the
sculptor Of all its grandeurs, aud long
after through the wash of the ages and
the tempests of centuries, all other
names shall be obliterated, the divine
signature and divine name viii be
brighter and brighter as the millen-
NUNS 60 by, and the worl shall see
that the God who made tins continent
has redeemed it by his grace from all
Its sorrows and from all its crimes.
Have you faith in such a thing as
thatl After all the chariots have been
unwheeled, and after all the war
chargers have been crippled, the char.
lots which Elisha saw OH the morning
Of his peril will roll on in triumph,
followed by all the armies of heaven
on white horses. God could do il
without us, but he will not. The
weakest of us, the faintcst Of us, the
smallest Drained of us, shall have a
part in the triumph. We may not
have u name, like the name of Sos.
tratus, cut in im~perishable rock and
conspicuous for centuries. but we shall
be remembered in a better place than
that, even in the heart him who came
TO redeem us and redeem the world,
and our names will be seen close 20
the signature Of his wound, for as to-
day he throws out his arms toward us,
he says: Behold, / have craven thee
on the palms OF my hand" by the
mightiest Of all agencies, the potency
of prayer, l beg you seek our national
welfare.
Some time ago there were 1900, 600
letters in the dead letter postoilice at
Neutrality-suspicious. that lost their
way-but not one prayer evsr direct
ed to the heart of God miscarried.
The way is all clear for the ascent OF
your applications heavenwmd in be-
half Of this nation. Before the postal
communication was so easy, and long
ago, on a rock one hundred feet high,
on the coast Of England, there was a
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