Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-29

all grains and all fruits. The Appalachian
range the backbone, and the rivers the gangna
tremities. Isthmus of Darien, the narrow waist
of
A GIANT CONTINENT,
all to be under one government and all 1ree
and all Christian and the scene of Christs 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 shal
have this hemisphere, Christ or satanf Who shall
have the shore of her inland seas, the silver OF
her Nevadas, the gold of her Colorados, the
telescopes of her observatories, the brain OF
her universities, the wheat of her prairies, the
rice of her savannas, the two great ocean
beaches--the one reaching from Bafin's Bay to
Terra del Fuego and the other from Behring
straits to Cape Horn-and all the moral and
temporal and spiritual and everlasting inter
esrs of a population vast beyond all human
computation? Who shall have the hemisphere?
You and will decide that or help TO decide u,
by conscientious vote, by earnest prayer, py
maintenance of Christian institutions, by sup
port of great philanthropies, by putting pouy,
mind and soul on the right side of all moral,
religious and national movements.
All! it will not be long before it will not
make any difference to you or to me what De-
comes of this continent, SO far as earthly com
fort is concerned. All we will want of 1t VIII pc
seven feet by three, and that Will take IN the
largest and there viii be room ana 70 spaIe, arx
soon-the youngest of us. But we have an
anxiety about the welfare and the happiness OF
the generations that are coming on, and IL Will
be a grand thing If, when the .arcnangeFs
trumpet sounds we find that our sepulcher,
like the one Joseph of Arimathea provided for
Christ, is in the midst of a garden.
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
far a1aoc 1lnD iDfrh ho mn ho
on the outside of the plastering: and the storms
beat and the seas dashed in their fury, and they
washed off the plastering, and they washed 1t
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. across our religions, names worthy
of remembrance, names written on the archl-
lecture 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
after all the war chargers have been crippled,
the chariots which Elisha saw on the morning
of his peril will roll on in triumph, followed by
all the armies of heaven on white horses. God
could do it without us, but He will not. The
weakest of u.s. the faintest of US, the smallest
Drained of u.s. shall have part in the triumph.
We may not have our name, like the name of
Sostratus, cut in imperishable rock and con-
spicuous 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
redeem the world and our names will be seen
close to the signature of His wound, for as
to-day He throws out His arms toward us. He
of My hand" By the mightiest of all agen-
cies, the potency of prayer, beg you seek our
national welfare.
Some time ago there were 100000 letters in
the Dead Letter Postoffice at Washington
letters that lost their way-but not one prayer
ever directed to the heart of God miscarried.
The way is all clear for the ascent of your sup
p:ications heavenward in behalf of this nation.
Before the postal communication was so easy,
and long ago, on a rock 100 feet high, on the
coast of England, there was a barrel fastened
to a post, and in great letters on the side of the
rock so it could be seen far out at sea. were the
words, 'Postofice;, and when ships came by a
boat put out to take and fetch letters. And SO
sacred were those deposits of affection in that
barrel, that no lock was ever put on that barrel,
although it contained messages for America
and Europe and Asia and Africa, and all the
islands of the sea. Many storm-tossed sailor,
homesick, got message of kindness by that
rock, and many homestead heard good news
from a boy long gone Would that all the
heights of our national prosperity were in
interchange of sympathies-prayers going up
meeting blessings coming down; postal celes-
tial not by a storm-struck rock on. a win try
coast, but by the Rock Of Ages.