Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-10-18

The good We must prepare % welcome, the
bad we must prepare TO shun. Inc attempt
will again be made in 1892 as IN 1916,
% break up our American Sab6aths.
That attempt was made at the Phila'
ielphia Centennial but was defeated
The American Sabbath is the best kept
Sabbath on earth. We do not want II
broken down, and substituted in the place
thereof the Brussels Sabbath, the Vienna
Sabbath, the st. Petersburg sabbath or any
Of the foreign Sabbaths, which are no Sab
baths at all. i think the Lord is more than
generous in asking only iifty-two days out OF
the 365 for His service. You let the Sabbath
70 and with il will 60 your Bible, and after
that your liberties, and your children or your
grandchildren will be here in America under
Adespotism as bad as in those lands where
they turn the Lords day into wassail and
trolic.
Among those who come there will be, as at
other expositions, lordiy people who will
bring their vices with them. Among the
Dukes and Duchesses and Princes and
Princesses of other lands are some of the
best men and women of all the earth. Re
member Earl of Kintore, Lord Cairns and
Lord Salisbury. But there is a snobbery
and fiunkeyism in American society that
runs after grandee. q Duke. Lord or a
Prince, though he may be a walking laza-
fetto and his breath plague 1t makes
she fortune of some of our queens of
society to dance one cotillion with one Of
these princely lepers. Some people cannot
get their hat off quick enough when they see
such aforeign Lord approaching, and they do
not care for the mire into which they drop
their knees as they bow to worship. Let no
5plendor of pedigree or any pomp and para
phernalia of circumstance make him attrac-
live. There is only one set of Ten COM
mandments that ever heard of, and no class
Of men or women in all the world are excused
from obedience to those laws written by fin
ger of lightning on the granite surface Of
Mount Sinai. Surely we have enough
American vices without making any drafts
upon European vice for 1892.
By this sermon l would have the nation
made aware of its opportunity and getready
to improve it, and OF some perilS and get
ready to combat them. IrejOice to believe
that the advantages will overtop everything
In that worlds fair What an introduction
to each other of communities of states, of
republics, of empires, of zones, Of hemis-
pheresl What doors of information will be
swung wide open for the boys and girls now
on the Threshold! What national and in
ternational education! What browning
Of industry with sheaves of grain, and
what imperial robing of her with en-
broidered fabrics! What scientific ap-
paratus! What telescopes for the infnitude
above and microscopes for the infinitude be-
meath, and instruments to put nature to the
torture until she tells her last secret! What
a display of the munificence of the God who
has grown enough wheat to make a loaf of
good bread large enough for the human race,
and enough cotton to stocking every foot,
and enough timber to shelter every head,
making it manifest that it is not Gods fault,
but either mans oppression or Incidence OF
dissipation if there be any without supply.
Under the arches of the chief building Of
that exposition let capital and labor, too long
estranged, at last be married, each taking
the hand of each in pledge Of eternal fidelity,
while representations OF all nations stand
round rejoicing at the nuptials, and saying:
"What God hath joined together let not man
put asunder." Then shall the threnody Of
The needle-woman no longer be heard:
Work, work. work!
Till the brain begins to swim;
Work, work, work!
TIL the eyes are heavy and dim.
Seam and gusset and band,
Band and gusset and seam,
Till over the buttons fell asleep,
And sew them on in a dream.
O, Christian America Makeready for the
grandest exposition ever seen under the sun
Have Bibles enough bound. Have churches
enough established. Have scientific halls
enough endowed. Have printing presses
enough set up Have revivals of religion
enough in full blast. l believe you will
"Hosanna to the Son of David Blessed is he
that cometh in the name of the Lordp
Through the harsh voices of our day
low, sweet prelude finds its wayi.
Through clouds of doubt and creeds OF fear
A light is breaking calm and clear.
That song of love- now low and far,
Ere long shall swell from star to star;
That light the breaking day which tips
The golden spired apocalypse