The American citizen. [volume] (Topeka, Kan.) 1888-1909, 1889-05-10

.c.irst fhv neighbor," and from the other
.so-,,+ making nlea for kindness and love
md blessing rather than cursinR Yes,
vre are going to have q national religion y
The time is coming just as certain a.
there is a God and that this Is MS oooA
and that He has the strength ana the non. .
nstv to fulfill His promises. One or the 2
.ncant Fmnerors used to pride himself
on nerforming that which his counselors
aaid was impossible, and have to tell :
Won to-day that mans impossibilitles are
Gods easies Hath He said and snail
He not do itf Hath He commanded ana :
will He not bring it to pass" The Cnrls.
tian religion is coming to take possession
of everv ballot box, of every school house.
Of every home. of every valley, OF every
mountain, of every acre of our national
domain. This Nation notwithstanding
all the influences that are trying TO DC.
stroy 1t, is going to live
Never since according to John Milton,
when Satan was hurled headlong flaming
from the ethereal skies in hldeous rum
| and combustion down." have the powers
| Of darkness been so determined TO win this
continent as they are now. What 1eWeA
| 1t is-a Jewel carved in relief the cameo
of this planetl On one side OF US the AZ.
lantic ocean, dividing Us from the worn
ont governments OF Europe On the other
| aide the Pacific ocean, dividing US from
the superstitons of Asia. On the norm OF
us the Artic sea, which is the gymnasium
in which the explorers and navlgators oe-
velop their courage. continent 1O'OOO
miles long, II, 600. 900 spare miles, and 81!
of it but about one-seventh capable OF
rich cultivation. One hundred millions OF
vonnlation on this continent of North and
Sonth America-one hundred millions, ana
room for many hundred millions more
| All fora and all fauna, all metals ana Al
precious woods, and all grams ana Al
fruits. The Appalachian range the Dack-
hone. and the rivers the ganglia arrylnG
life all through and out to the extremltleA
Isthmus of Darien, the narrow waist OF
giant continent all to be under one gov
eminent and all free, and all ChrlstlAn'
and the scene of Christs personal reign
on earth if. according to the expectation.
of many good people, He shall at last s..
mn His throne in this world. Who shall
: have this hemisphere, Christ or Satan1
Who shall have the shore of her inland
: aeas. the silver of her Nevadas. the gold OF
her Colorados the telescopes Of her oDser"
| vatories the brain OF her universities, thO
wheat OF her prairies the rice OF NJ
eavannas, the two great ocean oeacnoS-
the one reaching from Baf1n'S pay 70
Terra del Fuego and the other from
Behring straits to Cape Horn-and all the
moral and temporal and spiritual and ever.
a lasting in erests of population vast De-
vond all human computation? VINO snall
have the hemisphere? You and VIII oe-
. eide that. or help to decide it by con-
scientious vote, by earnest prayer y
"a maintenance of Christian institutions, by
support Of great philanthropies, by put
n ting body. mind and soul on the right size
81 of all moral religious and national movO'
- ments.
y Ali it will not be long before 1t will no
n make any difference to you or TO me WhA
- hacomes of this continent so far as earth
no " comfort is concerned. All We vii
y want of it will be seven feet by three. an
TX that will take in the largest, and ther
l0 will be room to spare. That Is all or tni
90 country We will need very soon-tn
~ Youngest of us. But we have an Anxiet
"a about the welfare and happiness OF "a
no generations that are coming on, and
niS will be a grand thing it, when the arch
angels trum bet sounds. we md that on
Oh uepulcher. like the one Joseph Of Arima
w thea provided for Christ, is in the mld
-, of a garden.
Va One of the seven wonders OF the woTI
Uo was the white marble watch tower
ns Pharos of Egypt. Sostratus, the archlte
nu and scuIptor, after building that watc
-, tower cut his name on it. Then ne CO.
~. cred it with plastering and to please q
A~ King he put the monarch's name on u
outside of the plastering; and the storr
-, beat and the seas dashed in their fury a
u.s. thew washed off the plastering and thu
washed it out, and they washed 1t dow
Pc. but the name of Sostratu1 was deep cut
'o0 the impershable rock. So across t
Al" face of this Nation there have be-
a great many names written, aero
So our finances across our religion
60 names worthy of remembrance, nam
- written on the architecture OF our church
and our schools and our asy ums and
~ homes of mercy, but God Is the archit'
SEQ of this continent and He was the sculpi
'" of all its gran deurs, and long after throu
en' the wash of the ages and the tempest
uch centuries all other names shall be obllt
'no ated the Divine Signature and Div
Name will be brighter and brighter a.
30 millenniums go by. and the world 81
= see that the God who made this conrin'
H. has redeemed it by His grace from all
sorrows and from all its crimes
and Have you faith in such a thing as tn
.Lor | After all the chariots have been
co. | wheeled and after all he war charg
ansa have been crippled the chariots VIII
die Elisha saw on the morning OF his p'
= nm will roll on in triumph, followed by
ons. the armies of Heaven on white hors
rkor God could do it without US, tut he '
our not The weakest of us. the taintest
His us, the smallest Drained cf rs, shall b
say part III me triumph We may
200, have cur name Ike the name
Sostratus cut in the impeTshn bic !
that and conspicuous Tor centuries but We =
n the De remembered IN Detter piaco thah y
Pc. and in the heart OF Him who came 10
NAV deem US and redeem the woIli and
God names VIII DE seen close 10 luz s'Bn
thi. OF His wound for to-day "a he thr'
At no out His arms toward US he says:
hold, / have craven thee on the palms
al of Ny hands" By the mightiest Of al as
make cies the potency OF prayer. Big yoI
svery seek our hatiohai welfare 1oo
We in Some time ago there were 5000
l. | tarn In fha dad latter nozt nfflea III W