Milford chronicle., 1889-05-03

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Of their adoption The only good thing
about it is, many of them cannot understand
the English language But | suppose the
German, and Italian and Swedish, and
French papers translate it all and peddle out
the Internal stuff TO their subscribers
THE ONE REMEDY FOR a GREAT EVIL
Nothing but Christianity will ever stop
such food Of indecency The Christian re
/ ligion will speak after a while. The billings
gate and low scandal through which we wade
every year or every four years, must be re
buked by that religion which speaks from its
two great mountains, from the one mountain
informing the command, "Thou shalt not bear
false witness against thy neighbour and from
the other mount making plea for kindness
and love and blessing rather than cursing.
Yes We are going to have a national ligiOn.
There are two kinds Of national religion
The one is supported by the state, and is
matter Of human politics, and it has great
patronage, and under it men will struggle
| for prominence without reference to qualif
/ cations, and its archbishop is supported by
| salary of $751; 900 year, and there are great
] cathedrals, with all the machinery Of music
and canonicals, and room for Thousand
people, yet an audience of fifty people or
twenty people or ten or two.
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national religion; but we want this kind of
national religion; the vast majority of the
people converted and evangelical, and then
they viii manage the secular as well as the
religious.
Do you say that this is impractieablel No
The time Is coming just as certainly as there
! is God and that this is his book and that lie
has the strength and the honesty to fulfill his
promises One Of the ancient emperOrs used
| to pride himself on performing that which
his counselors said was impossible, and have
to tell you today that mans impossibles are
| Gods easies. Hath he said and shall he not
do itl Hath he commanded and will he not
bring it to passgn The Christian religion is
coming to take possession of every ballot box,
of every school house. of every home, of every
valley, of every mountain, of every acre Of
our national domain This nation, notwith-
standing all the evil influences that are trying
to destroy it, is going to live.
Never since, according to John Milton,
when Satan was hurled headlong flaming
from the ethereal skies in hideous ruin and
combustion down. have the powers Of dark
ness been so determined to win this continent
as they are now. What jewel it is-a jewel
carved in relief, the cameo Of this planetl
On one side of us the Atlantic ocean, dividing
from inc WOIll Oul Va
On the other side the Pacific ocean, dividing
us from the superstitions Of Asia On the
north OF us the Arctic sea, which is the gym
nasium in which the explorers and navigators
develop their courage. A continent ten thou
sand five hundred miles long, seventeen
million square miles, and all of it but
about one-seventh capable Of rich cult
walton. One hundred millions Of pOpula-
ton on this continent of North and South
America-one hundred millions, and room
for many hundred millions more All fora
and all fauna, all metals and all precious
woods and all grains and all fruits The
Appalachian range the backbone, and the riv-
ers the ganglia carrying life all through and
out TO the extremities. Isthmus of Darien
the narrow waist of a giant continent, all to
be under one government, and all free, and
all Christian, and the scene Of Christ's per
sonal reign on earth if, according to the ex-
pectation of many good people, he shall at
last set up his throne in this world. Who
shall have this hemisphere, Christ or Satans
Who shall have the shore of her inland seas,
the silver of her Nevadas, the sold of her Colo
radios, the telescopes of her Observatorles, the
brain of her universities, the wheat of her
prairies, the rice Of her savannas, the two
great ocean beaches-the one reaching from
l1aIl0S Day 10 1GIIu QGA AI3os anu LAAe
other from Behring straits to Cape Horn
and all the moral and temporal and spiritual
and everlasting interests Of a population
vast beyond all human eomputationi Who
shall have the hemispherel You and viii
decide that, or help to decide it, by cOnscien-
tious vote, by earnest prayer, by mainte-
nance Of Christian institutions, by support Of
great philanthropies by putting body, mind
and soul on the right side Of all moral, relig-
ious and national movements.
All! it will not be long before it will not
make any difference to you or to me what be-
comes of this continent so far as earthly com
fort is concerned. All we will want of it will
be seven feet by three and that will take in
the largest, and there will be room and to
spare. That is all of this country we will need
very soon-the youngest of us. But we have
an anxiety about the welfare and the happi-
ness of the generations that are. coming on,
and it will be a grand thing if, when the arch
angels trumpet SQUADS, we fad that our sep
ulcher. like the one Joseph Of Arimathea pro
vided for Christ, is in the midst Of a garden.
AN ILLUSTRATION FULL OF sUGGEsTIvENEss.
One of the seven wonders of the world was
the white marble watch tower of PharOs Of
Egypt Sostratus, the architect and sculptor,
after building that watch tower cut his name
on it. Then he covered it with plastering,
and to please the king he put the mOnarch's
name on the outside Of the plastering; and
the storms beat, and the seas dashed in their
fury and they washed of the plastering, and
they washed it out, and they washed it
down, but the name Of Sostratus was deep cut
in the imperishable rock So across the face
Of this nation there have been great
many names written across our finances,
tsn1io~iona worthy
of remembrance, names written ON the
architecture Of our churches and our
schools and our asylums, and our homes
of mercy, but God is the architect Of this
continent, and he was the sculptor Of all its
grandeurs, and long after, through the wash
of the ages and the tempests of centuries, all
other names shall be obliterated, the divine
signature and divine name will be brighter
and brighter as the millenniums go by, and
the world shall see that the God who made
this continent has redeemed it by his grace
from all its sorrows and from all its crimes.
Have you faith in such thing as that
After all the chariots have been unwheeled,
and after all the war chargers have been
crippled, the chariots which Elisha saw on
the morning Of his peril will roll on in tri
umph, followed by all the armies of heaven
on white horses God could doit without us,
but he will not The weakest OF US, the
faintest of us, the smallest Drained of us.
shall have part in the triumph We may
not have our name, like the name Of Sos
tratus, cut in imperishable rock and conspic-
uous for centuries, but we shall be remem-
bered in a better place than that, even in the
heart of him who came to redeem us and re-
deem the world, and our names will be seen
close to the signature Of his wound, for as
today no throws out his arms towards us he
says; behold, | have craven thee on the
palms Of my hand" By the mightiest of all
agencies, the potency Of prayer, beg you
seek our national welfare.
Some time ago there were 100000 letters |
in the dead letter postofflce at Washington
letters that lost their way-but not one
prayer ever directed to the heart Of God mis-
carried. The way is all clear for the ascent
of your supplications heavenward in behalf |
of this nation Before the postal commune !