West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-05-09

brain OF her universities, the wheat of her
pranfies, the rice of her savannas, the two
great ocean beaches-the one reaching from
Bafiin's bay TO Terra del Fuego, and tho
other from Behring straits &c Cape Horn
and all the normal and temporal and spiritual
and everlasting interests of a population
vast beyond all human computationf Who
shall have the hemispheres You and 1 will
decide that, or help to decide it by conscien-
uous vote, by earnest prayer, by maintenance
or Christian institutions, by support Of great
philanthropiesl by putting body, mind and
soul on the right side OF all moral, religious
and national movements.
Ali ft will not be long before it will not
make any difference TO you or 10 me what be-
comes of this continent, so far as earthly COM
fort is concerned. All we will want of it will
DC seven feet by three, and that win take i'm
the largest, and there will DO room and To
spare. That is all Of this country we Will need
very soon-the youngest OF u.s. But we have
AN anxiety about the welfare and the happi-
ness OF the generations that ar coming on,
and 1t viii be grand thing &C. when the arch
angels trumpet sounds, we find that our sep
ulcher, like the one Joseph of Arimathea pro-
vided for Christ, Is in the midst OF n garden.
One of the seven wonders OF the world was
the white marble watch tower of Phnros OF
Egypt. Sostratus, the architect and sculptor.
after building that watch tower cut his name
on IT, Then no covered il with plasterinR
and to please the King he put the monarchy
name ON the outside of the plasterin9; and
.HN oAcA I'D OctiNt anu Tue seas O0SnC0 III their
fury, and they washed off the plastering, and
they washed IL 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 havo been a great
many names written, across our finances
across our religions, names 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 viii be brighter
and brighter as the nillenniums 60 by and
the world shall see that the God who made
this continent has redeemed IL by His grace
from all it's SORROWS and from all its crimes.
Have you faith in such a thing as thatY
After all the chariots have been unwheeled.
and after all the war chargers have been
crippled, the chariots which Elisha saw on
tho morning of his peril will roll on in tri-
umph, followed by all the armies OF heaven
ON white horses. God could do il without us
but He will not. The weakest of us. the
faintest of us. the smallest Drained of us.
shall have part i'm the triumph We NAV
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-
htNih INC NoIlu. anu our ualileS VIII DE seen
close to the signature of His wound, for as
to-day He throws out His arms toward us He
says: behold, have craven thee on the
palms on My hand" BY the mightiest of all
agencies, the potency of prayer, beg you
seek our national welfare.
Some time ago there were 4, 600 600 letters
in the dead letter postoffice at Washing ton
letters that lost their way--but not ono
prayer ever directed to the heart of God mis-
carried. The way is all clear for the ascent
of your supplcations heavenward in behalf
of this nation. Before the postal commune
cation was so easy, and long ago, on a rock
one hundred feet high on the coast of Eng
land, there was a barrel fastened to n post
and in great letters on the side of the rock so
it could be seen far out at sea, were the
words: "Postofice;n 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 upon
that barrel, although it contained messages
for America, and Europe, and Asia, and
Africa, and all the islands of the sea. Many
n storm tossed sailor, homesick, got message
of kindness by that rock and many n home
stead 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 celestial, not by storm struck
rock on a wintry coast, but by the Rock OF
Ages.