Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-09-20

Here is my sisters grave. Out yonder, I'M
der that large tree, my father died. An ia
vader comes, and proposes to drive me off
and take possession Of my property. He
crowds me back, he crowds me on, and
crowds me into a closer corner. and still
closer corner, until after a while | say:
"Stand back. don't crowd me any more, or
I'll strike. What right have YOU 10 come
here and drive me Off my premises' got this
farm from my father, and he got it from
his father Mhat right hSgS g9g to sT
''Oh, know more than you do. l belong to
higher civilization. 1 cut my hair shorter
than you do. I could put this ground to a
great deal better use than you do" And
you keep crowding me back and crowding me
on into a closer corner and closer corner, un-
til one day look around upon suffering fam
lily, and fired by their hardships / hew you
in twain. Forthwith all the world comes
to your funeral to pronounce eulogium,
comes to my execution to anathema-
tie me- You are the hero l am
culprit. Behold the United States Govern
ment and the North American Indian. The
red man has stood more wrongs than 1
would, or you. We would have struck
sooner, deeper That which is right in de-
Tense of a Brooklyn home or a New York
| home is right in defense of home on top of
the Rocky Mountains. Before this dwindling
red race dies completely out, l wish that this
generation night, by common justice, atone
for the I'M inanity of its predecessors. In
the day of Gods Judgment, would rather
there be a blood-smeared Modoc than
a swindling United States officer on an In
dian reservation One man was barbarian
and a savage, and never pretended to be
anything but a barbarian and a savage. The
other man pretended to be representative
of Christian nation. Notwithstanding all
this, the general disgust with war and the
substitution of diplomatic skill for the gilt
tering edge of keen steel is a sign unmistaka-
BILE that ''the day is at hand"
| find another ray of the dawn in the COM
preston of the worlds distances. What
slow, snail-like, almost impossible thing
would have been the worlds rectification
with fourteen hundred millions of population
and no facile means of communication; but
now through biography for the eye and
telephone intimacy for the ear and through
steamboating and railroading, the twenty.
five thousand miles Of the worlds circumfer.
ence are shriveling up into. insig
nifcant brevity. Hong Kong is near
er to New York than a few years ago New
Haven was Bombay, Moscow, Madras, Mel
bourne within speaking distance. Purchase
Geographic chart, and by the blue lines see
the telegraphs 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
it is constructed it may do all its
work in twenty minutes. Christianity has
been planting its batteries for nineteen cen
turtles, and may go on,in the work through
other centuries; 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 1t not take science five
thousand six hundred and fifty-two years to
find out SO simple a 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, do not
know that the redemption of the world will
be more than the work of half day. Do
we not read the Queens speech at the
proroguing of Parliament the day before in
LondonH If that be SO, is 1t anything mar
velous to believe that in twenty-four hours a
divine communication can reach the whole
earthP Suppose Christ should descend on the
nations-many expect that Christ will come
among the nations 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; l came to pardon all your sins and to
heal all your sorrow; to prove that 1 am
q supernatural being, l have just descended
from the clouds, do you believe Me, and do
you believe Me nowY' Why, all the tele-
graph stations of the earth would be crowded
as none of them were ever crowded just af-
ter shipwreck. tell you all these things
&r,c 10,
ties or even the improbabilities that Christ
will conquer the whole earth, and do it in
stanter, when the time comes. There are
foretokeningS in the air. Something
great is going to happen. l do not
think that Jupiter 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. think the world
has had it hard enough Enough, the Lon
don plaques. Enough, the Asiatic choleras.
| Enough the wars. Enough, the shipwrecks.
Enough, the CONGREGATIONS. | think our
world could stand right well a procession of
properties and triumphs. Better be on
| the lookout. Better have your observa-
tories open toward the heavens and
the lenses of your most powerful telescopes
| well polished. Better have all your Leyden
| jars ready for some new pulsation Of mighty
influence. Better have new fonts of type in
your printing offices TO set up some astound-
| ing good news. Better have some new ban
| ner that has never been carried. ready for
sudden professions. Better have the bells in
| your church towers well hung, and rope with
| in reach, that you may ring out the mar
riage 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 Lawgiver may be
about to come. Drive off the thrones Of
| despotism all the occupants, for the King of
heaven and earth may be about to reign.
The darkness of the night is blooming
and whitening into the lilies of morning
cloud, and the lilies reddeding into the roses
of stronger day-fit garlands whether white
or red, for Him on whose head are many
crowns. 1.-THE day is at hand"
| 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 between sin and righteous
ness2 Which is going to prove himself
the stronger, God or Diabolus? Is this
world going to be all garden or all desert2
| Now let us have that 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
| 1t is going to be all garden. But let us have
| it settled. Let us know whether we are
working on toward a success or toward q
dead failure. If there is child in your
house sick, and you are sure he is going to
get well, you sympathize with present pains,
but all the foreboding is gone. II you are
In a cyclone off the Florida coast, and the
Captain assures you the vessel is staunch
and the winds are changing for better
| quarter, and he Is sure he will bring
you safe into the harbor, you patient
ly submit to present distress with the
thought of safe arrival Now want to
know whether we are coming on toward dis
may, darkness and defeat, or on toward light
and blessedness. You and believe the lat
ter, and if so, every year we spend is one
year subtracted from the worlds woe and