The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-04-12
Ring all the Bells.

Ring all the Bells.
Under that very appropriate head line
The Independent of the 4th inst, contains
the following article which we most earnest
ly commend to the careful attention ofevery
reader of TIE TINES:
On the 30th of April, 1889, in New York
City, George Washington was inaugurated
President. In New York, but not of New
York; of the United States. The place was
local; the Office and jurisdiction were
national. On that day George Washington
belonged not to New York, but to the whole
country. AS the Inauguration was in this
city, so the chief celebration of our century
national government must be here. But not
here alone should it be celebrated. On that
3Oth day of April George Washington gave
organic national life to Virginia and Massa-
Kentucky and Ohio and Missouri and the
Dakotas; and to all the sixty states that
have come OF shall come in all this North
America to reinforce the original thirteen.
and the celebration should not be local, but
should reach from the Lakes to the Gulf,
and from the Eastern to the Western Ocean.
So we remind the people that the day
when the President of 1889 returns in
reverence to the spot where, in 1889, George
| Washington uncovered his head to take the
oath of Office is day of rejoicing and
thanksgiving the whole land over. Let it
be remembered and honored everywhere.
Let the people awake to the grandure of the
memories of the century.
Let every flag in fifty states and terrtor-
les be flung to the breeze. Have you no
bunting? Buy it. and have it, and swing
il! The nation of our love has its fluttering
emblem, and every house should have it
and hang it out. Make the day blaze with
the red and white and blue, with the stars
and the stripes draping the street fronts,
floating across the driveways, hung out
from windows, and swung high over every
tower and hilltop.
Ring all the bells! At nine O'clock i'm the
morning from every church-steeple in the
broad land let the peal of joy strike every
ear. So rang the bells, at the same hour,
on the day when the nations first chief
officer first gave us perfected government.
What story those bells will tell! The lib
erty three million people suffered for is now
enjoyed by sixty million; the nation en-
larged, enforced and purified; the thirteen
stars made forty-two; the territory trebled;
freedom made the assured heritage of the
world! Here is fruit such as no other CEN
fury has borne for no other nation. Here is
cause enough for JOY and thanksgiving to
God. Let the children hear the bells, and
let their parents tell them that one hundred
years ago to-day, i'm the loving providence
of God, the man who led our armies i'm the
war which gave the colonies independence,
made out of those states a nation all ordered
and differed for peace. Let the bells tell
the story of a hundred years ago, and of the
century's history of the blessing of God!
Let the people praise God! One hundred
years ago, at nine o, clock, the bells of every
church in this city, Protestant, Catholic OF
Hebrew, called the people to prayer to the
| God of Nations for his blessing on an un-
tried experiment i'm the government of
nations. The bells of our centennial day
will summon whole powerful nation, from
mighty cities and happy hamlets in popu-
lous states, then an unmapped wilderness,
to thank God that those anxious prayers
have been answered beyond the magma.
ton of men. A bishop of a state then PEG.
pied by savages, tells our readers today what
direction he gives to his clergy beyond the
Mississippi for this morning prayer. Lei
no church fail; let no minister neglect the
call; let no Christian remain at home; but
on that morning at nine o'clock let everyone
bring his children with him to his place o.
worship, and there let all the people praise
and thank God for the unnumbered merce.
of the century and beseech his continued
guidance during the century to come
While rulers, poets and patriots are magni
flying the grandure of the character of Wash
ington and the glory of the nation which h,
and his associates founded, let us every on,
join with our President in giving a religious
character to the celebration, in this univer
sal thanksgiving to which the representa-
tives of all forms of faith have called al
those who see the -hand of God I'm the gov.
eminent of the world.