Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-05-01

% q fonler beasthood than he did, and IN IN,
stead of eating grass as an OK, wo uIu
bavs crswled, eating dust, as veriest req
.;Io had he dared say of such glory ss TINS,
ssPsboId this great Babylon which nave
hn;Idsd.n No. no, it is Gods work, all CT
y, 1i ,bs wisdom of His counsel, the work OF OF
IS, Inconvenience. Ard tell me then, II
- - can what should We render, as
1ot;on INTO God for His great mercies:
WIT what INTO God? Our great and
r,o,;ons Preseryeri Our BenefactoIl Oar
p in every storm! Our great shield IN
avery battle! What. what unto Goa
ehould America render!
Fellow Christians and Citlzens:-Never
LET us forget, amid the proud and grateful
rosmories of cur origin and our young life,
,1;tb what a mission we are charged, what
,ranscerdeut good is within our reach,
vybst possibilities to be realized or lost,
and what irneasursDle interests for mill
lions vet unborn, are involved in our ex-
nsrimsnt of self-government. Though 1t
has stood well the test of whole century,
ia calm and in storm, it IS, as the time ad-
vancss, and population increases, and COM
plicsted questions are evolved, al expert
ment still. The theory, the fair ideal Of
DUB AMERICAN GOVERNMENT,
is the very minimum of restraint on the
individual will of the citizsn that is con-
sistent with the general welfare. II IN
changing the form of government, respon'
sibility is shifted from the one or few to
the many, let us keep the eye fixed with
concentrated gaze on the critical point OF
our salvation, the intelligence and the re-
lieious virtue of all the people. Why
every reason for congratulation and
song and happy memorial in the past,
the great drama of history is not yet
complete, and we are enacting now for our
children. as our fathers did for us, one OF
many scenes which hasten or retard The
great cOnsummation.
Thanks bs to God for sll that is past and
secure already; fof deliverances wrought in
the sea and the wilderness, and for the
largeness and wealth and opportunity OF
our national heritage! Blessed be HIS
name for a hundred years of new things IN
a new nation-for onr flag, our Union, our
nationality; for the magnificent ideas OF
liberty and equality, of human right and
progress, which have been evolved into
form snd action and fruit in this period of
our existence. Blessed be God that the
visions and yearnings of godly patriotism
at the beginning have not been disappoint-
ed, bat have been fully realized in the
happiness and freedom and security and
honor of this our dear native land, sought
an open to the oppressed and weary OF all
lands. Blessed be God for religious Iber-
ty, liberty of conscience, liberty OF
thought, and, beyond and above golden
mines and laughing harvests, for all the
churches, the schools, the institutions of
learning and art and philanthropy which
have sprung up over all the land, out OF
the free will OF an intelligent people, like
flowers in the path of the sun. Blessed be
God for all the good and heroic men who,
from the beginning of our history till now,
in times of calm and in times of war,
in all questions of right, and sentiment,
and conscience, and duty, have been raised
up to be guides and leaders, teaching the
people Whist should be done and how TO do
it. All that the highest craftsmanship can
do, is to discover and re-enact the laws OF
the Maker, in the worlds affairs. All our
studies in medicine, in political economy,
in social science, point outside the range OF
human wit and craft aud force to divine
order, obedience to which brings welfare
and advancement. The hope Of America
is not IN any remnant" nor in any ''cul-
ture,n but in learning and keeping the
divine commandments which insure per
msnent welfare and happiness. And
never before were so many people striving
to learn the conditions of social and pOliti'
cal prosperity aud to insure their fulfil
ment, as in this country at the present
time. 1t Is this fact. which is consF"aeS d
and enforced by the increasing power and
influence of Christianity among all classes
of people, that make the prospect OF the
future full of glorious good cheer.
"Ou fathers God. to Thee,
Author of liberty,