Connecticut western news., 1889-09-18

crowds me into a closer corner, and still closer corner, until after while l say: s'Sland back. don't crowd me any more, or I'll strike. What right have you to come here and drive me of of my premises! got this farm from my father, and he got it from his father. What right have you to come here and molest mel" You blandly say: ''Oh, know more than you do. I belong to a higher civilization. I cut my hair shorter than you do. I could put this ground to great deal better use than you do." And you keep crowding me back and crowding on into a closer corner and closer corner, until family, and fired by their hardships I hew YOU in twain. Forthwith all the world comes to your funeral to pronounce eulO- gium, comes to my execution to anathema- tize me. You are the hero, am the culprit. Behold the United States Government and the North American Indian. The red man has stood more wrongs than would, or you. We would have struck sooner, deeper. That which is right in defence of a Brook lyn home or New York home is right in mountains. Before this dwindling red race dies completely out, l wish that this generation might by common justice atone for the inhumanity of it's predecessors. In the day of Gods judgment, would rather there be a blood smeared Modoc than a swindling United States officer on an Indian reservation! One man was barbarian and a savage. and never pretended to be anything but barbarian and savage. The other man pretended to be representative of Christian nation. Notwithstanding all this, the general disgust with war and the substi- tuition of diplomatic skill for the glittering edge of keen steel is a sign unmistakable that ''the day is at hand."
 I md another ray of the dawn in the com pression of the worlds distances. What a slow, snaillike, almost impossible thing would have been the worlds rectitication with four foo., hmm IraA mil of n facie means of communication but now through telegraphy for the eye and telephonic isimacy for the ear, and through steamboat ing and railroading, the twenty-five thousand miles of the worlds circumference are shriv- cling up into insignificant brevity. Hong Kong is nearer to New York than a few years ago New Haven was; Bom- bay, Moscow, Madras, Melbourne within speaking distance. Purchase tele- graphic chart, and by the blue lines see the teegraphs of the land, and by the red lines the cables under the ocean. You see what opportunity this is going to give for the final movements of Christianity. A fortress may be months or years in building, but after it is con- struced it may do all its work in twenty minutes. Chritianity has been planting it's bat teries for nineteen centuries; and may go on in the work through other centuties, but when those batteries are thoroughly planted, those fortresses are fully built, they may all do their work in twenty-four hours. The world sometimes derides the church for slowness of movement. Is science any quicker? Did it not take science five thousand six hundred and tifty-twO years to find out so simple thing as the circulation of the human blood! With the earth and the sky full of electricity, science took five thousand eight hundred years before it even guessed that there was any practical use that might be made of this subtle and mighty element. When good men take possession of all these scientific forces, and all these agencies of invention, I do not know hat hp rp1p nti nft hQ Orl wi hp m than the work of half a day. Do we not read the queens speech at the prOrOguing of parliament the day before in London? If that be so, is it anything marvellous to believe that in twenty-fOur hours a divine cOmmuni- cation can reach the whole earth? Suppose Christ should descend on the nations-many expect that Christ will come among the na- tions personally-suppose that tomorrow morning the Son of God from lowering cloud should descend upon these cities. Would not that fact be known all the world over in twenty-four hours? Suppose he should present his Gospel in few words saying: II am the Son of God; 1 came to pardon all your sins and to heal all your sor- TOW; to prove that am a supernatural being, I have just descended from the clouds do you believe me, and do you believe now?" Why, all the telegraph stations of the earth would be crowded as none of them were ever crowded just after shipwreck. I tell you all these things to show you it is not among the impossibilities or even the improbabilities that Christ will conquer the whole earth. and do it instanter. when time comes. There are fOretOkenings in the air. Something great is going to happen. I do not think that Jupiteri is going to run us down or that the axle of the world is going to break; but mean something great for the worlds blessing and not for the worlds damage is going to happen. I think the world has had it hard enough. Enough, the London plaques. Enough, the Asiatic eholeras. Enough, the wars. Er,np, hos bf pr1, fhn flagrations. 1 think our world could stand right well a procession of prosperities and triumphs. Better be on the lookout. Bet ter have your observatories open toward the heavens, and the lenses of your most pow erful telescopes well polished. Better have all your Leyden jars ready for some new pull satiOn of mighty influence. Better have new fonts of type in your printing offices to set up some astounding good news. Better have some new banner that has never been carried, ready for sudden prOceSSiOns. Better have the bells in your church towers well hung, and rope within reach. that you may ring out the marriage of the Kings Son. Cleanse all your court houses, for the Judge of all the earth may appear. Let all your legislative halls be gilded, for the great Law-giver may despotism all the occupants, for the King of heaven and earth may be about to reign. The darkness of the night is blooming and white ming into the lilies of morning cloud, and the
 
 day-fit garlands, whether white or red, for him on whose head are many crowns. 'The day is at handw
 One more ray of the dawn I see in facts chronological and mathematical. Come now, do not let us do another stroke of work until we have settled one matter. What is going to be the final issue of this great contest be- tween sin and righteousness? Which is going to prove himself the stronger, God or Diabolus? Is this world going to be all gard en- n-or all desert? Now let us have this matter settled. If we believe Isaiah and Ezekiel
 and Hosea, and Micah and Malachi, and John and Peter, and Paul and Christ, we believe that it is going to be all garden. But let us have it settled. Let us know whether we are working on toward & success or toward dead failure. If there is & child in your house sick, and you are sure he is going to get well, you sympa- thiZe with present pains, but all the forebod- | ing is gone. If you are in a cyclone off the Florida coast, and the captain assures you
 the vessel is stanch and the winds are chang | ing for better quarter. and he is sure he | will bring you safe into the harbor, you thought of safe arrival. Now I want to | know whether we are coming on toward | dismay, darkness and defeat, or on
 toward light and blessedness. You | and I believe the latter, and if so,
 every year we spend is one year sub
 tracted from the worlds woe, and every
 event that passes, whether bright or dark,
 brings us one event nearer happy eonsum-
 nation, and by all that is memorable in | chronology and mathematics commend you | to good cheer and courage. If there is any | thing in arithmetic, if you subtract two from | five and leave three, then by every rolling | sun we are coming on toward a magnificent | terminus. Then every winter passed is one | severity less for our poor world. Then every
 summer gone by brings us nearer unfadng
 arborescence. Put your algebra down on
 the top of your Bible and rejoice.
 l If it is nearer morning at o'clock than it | is at ?, if it is nearer morning at o'clock | than it is at 3, than we are nearer the dawn