Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-03-16

] churches and everywhere be out and O,
Americans. DO not try to establish her
ihe Dose foreign Sabbaths or iraisecen'
dAem spun into a religion OF mush A,t
inc0nshlne, or 1OleIrn libertinis.u or taa
coiGt nsatiop Of aii inievery, scounGS-
Ism, AIst, murder and pcrIijion which /
Kussla Is called nihllism and in Franc
called communism and in America calle,
anarchlsH. Unite with US in making b,
the grace OF God the fifteen million sularr
miles Of America on both sides thI
lsthmus of PaDama the paradise of virtu,
and religion.
My other word suggests what Ameri
cans ought TO do for foreigners. By al
possible means explain to them cur insti
tutions. Coming here, the vast majority
OF them know about as much concerning
republican or democratic form Of govern.
ment as you in the United States know
about politics OF Denmark or France Oh
lta.y or Switzerland, namely nothing.
Explain to them that liberty i'm this coun.
Try means liberty to do right, but not lib
erty TO do wrong. Never in their pres.
ence say anything against their native
and, for, no matter how much they may
have been oppressed there, in that native
land there are sacred places. cabins or
mansions around whose doors they played,
and perhaps somewhere there is a grave
into which they would like, when life's
tolls are over, to be let down, for it is
mothers grave and it would be like 20.
ing again into the loving arms that first
held them and against the bosom that first
pillowed them. My! my how low down
a man must have descended to have no
regard for the place where his cradle W as
rocked, Don't mock their brogue or
their stumbling attempts at the hardest of
all languages TO learn, namely the Eng
lish language. l warrant that they speak
English as well as you could talk Scandi-
navian. Treat them in America as you
would like to be treated if for the sake Of
your honest principles or a better liveli-
hood FOR yourself or your family you had
moved under the shadow of Jungfrau, or
the Rigi, or the Giant Causeway, or the
Bohemian + crest, orthe Franconlan Jura.
III they get homesiCk, as some of them
are, suggest to them that God is as near
to help them here as he was near them
before they crossed the Atlantic, and that
the souls final flight is less than a second
whether from the beach Of the Caspian
sea or the banks of Lake Erie. Evangel.
ize their adults through the churches and
their children through the schools, and
let home missions and tract societies and
the Bible translated in ali the languages
Of these foreign people have full swing.
Rejoice as Christian patriots that in
stead of being an element of weakness
the foreign people thoroughly evangelical
Will hp nnr mIuhtiaGt 1nfanaa anai,ct oil
the world. The congress of the United
States recently ordered built new forts
all mp and down our American coasts,
and a new navy is about to be projected.
But let me say that $500 000. 900 ex-
pended in coast defense viii not be SO
mighty as a vast foreign population liv-
thousands Of Germans living in New
York Germany would as soon think Of
bombshelling Berlin IS attacking us.
With hundreds of thousands of French
men in New York, France would as soon
of firing On Paris. With hundreds
Of thousands Of Englishmen in New
York, England would as soon think Of
destroying London. The mightiest de-
Tense against European nations is "a wall
Of Europeans reaching all up and down
IhC hibtIiCdu COutlucnl, IL wall OF BcdlS
and hearts conseCrated TO free govern
ment. A hulwark of foreign humanity
heavcd up all along our shores, re.en-
forced by the Atlantic ocean, armed rs ii
is with tempests and Caribbean whirl-
and giant pillows ready to fling
mountains from their catapanlt, we need
rs a nation fear no one in the universe
but God, and if found in his service we
need not fear him, AS 600. 600. 900 peo- |
pie will yet sit down at our national table, |
let God preside. To him be dedicated
metal Of our mines, the sheaves of
our harvest fields, the fruits of our
orchards, the fabrics Of our manufac.
the telescopes Of our observator-
the volumes of our libraries, the
of Our churches, the affections Of
hearts, and all our lakes become bap-
fonts and all our mountains affairs
of praise and all our valleys amphithea-
tres Of worship, and our country, hav-
ing become fifty nations consolidated in
one, may it's every heart throb be a pull
sation Of gratitude TO him who made "of
one blood all nations and ransomed
that blood by the payment Of the last
drop of his own.