The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-10-26

And as God is not apt to fail in any of
His undertakings tat any rate, l have
never heard of His having anything to
do with a failure), America is going to
be gospelized, and from the Golden Gate
of California to the Narrows OF New
York harbor, and from the top of North
America to the foot of South America,
from Boring straits to Cape Horn, this
| is going to be Immanueps Land. All
the forms of irreligion and abomination
that have cursed other parts OF the
! world will land here-yea, they have
| already landed-and they will wrangle
| for the possession of this hemisphere,
and they will make great Roadway and
| feel themselves almost established. But
God will not forget the prophecies
| which encouraged Columbus about the
lends of the earth seeing the salvatio
| ofGod," nor the Christian anthem which
Columbus led on the morning of the 12th
of October, 1902, on the coast of San Sal
vador. Like that flock of land birds
which met the Santa Maria and the
Pinta and the Nina far out ut
sea, indicating to the commanders
of that fleet that they were approach
ing some country, so a whole fleet
of promise and hopes, goldcn-winged
and songful, this morning alight around
us, assuring us that we are approaching
the glorious period of American evan
| gelization. A divine influence will yet
sweep the continent that will make mi
guilty drop like Stacked lime, and make
the most blatant infidelity declare it
was only joking when it said the Bible
was not true, and the worst atheism
announce that it always did believe in
! the God of nations. Let others call Tor
Requiem and Dead March. / call for
George Frederick Handel's hallelujah
chorus. There has been much talk of
late about communication with other
worlds Mars has come 50 near we can
see its canals, and it has been hoped
that by signals after while we may
communicate with other stars. All,
that will not be possible until our
world has been reformed and evangel-
lied. 1t would not do for our world in
it's lost and ruined state to have COM
munications with other worlds. 1t
would spoil their morals But wait
until this world is fully redeemed, as it
will be, and tten,perhaps inter-stellar
correspondence may be opened. Till
then, this smitten and sickened world
of ours must be quarantined from COM
ing too near the unfallen worlds. But,
thank God, the prophecies which
cheered Columbus in his great under
taking cheer u.s. America for God! Yea,
the round world for God. There can be
no doubt about it,
That great Italian navigator also i'm
presses me with the idea that when one
does good thing he cannot appreciate
its ramifcations. To the moment OF
his death, Columbus never knew that he
had discovered America, but thought
that Cuba was a part of Asia. He
thought the island iispaniola was the
Ophir of Solomon. He thought he had
only opened Il new way to old Asia
Had he known what North and South
America were and are, and that he hao
found country three thousand miles
wide. ten thousand miles long, of sew
enteen million square miles, and fou,
times as large as Europe, the happiness
would have been too much for morta
man to endure. He had no idea thai
the time would come when nation o.
sixty million people on this side of the
sea would be joined by all the intelli
gent nations on the other side of the
sea, for the most part of year re
citing his wonderful deeds Il
took centuries to reveal the result
of that one transatlantic voyage. ST
is has always been. Could Paul, OF
that June day, when he was dccapi
tated, have had any idea of what effec
his letters and the account of his lif,
would have on Christendom? CoulC
Martin Luther have had any idea of tn,
echoes that would ring through tn,
ages from the bang of his hammer nail
ing the Latin theses against church
door at Wittenberg? Could Eli Whit
ney have realized the continents 0
wealth that would be added to TIL,
south by the invention of his cotton
gin? Could John Guttenburg, toilins
year after year, making type, anC
laboriously setting them side by side
and with presses changed now this way
and now that, and sued by Johr
Faust for money loaned, and many
of the people trying to chea
Guttenburg out of his invention, h,
toiling on until he produced what il
known as the Mazarin Bible, have any
idea that, as result of his inven
ton, there would be libraries thai
placed side by side would again ant
again engirdle the earth. or the showers
of newspapers that snow the worlo
under? When Manhattan Island wa
sold to the Dutch for s24, neither they
who sold or bought could have foreseer
! New York, the commercial metropolis
, of America, that now stands on it. Car
man who breaches a sermon, or
woman who distributes tracts, or {
teacher who instructs class, or
passer-by who utters encouraging
! words realize the infinitudes of usefu
t result? The teacher at Harrow schoo
: who toiled with. William Jones, tn,
t most stupid boy IN school, and at tn,
, foot of his class, did not know that h,
was fitting for his work the creates
oriental scholar of modern times. hi
statue now in St Paurs Cathedral
London. Every move you make TO
t God, however Insignificant in your eye
or in the eyes of Others, touches worlds
[ larger than the one Columbus
I discovered. Why talk about unim
portant things? There are n,
unimportant things. Infnity i
|. made up of infnitesmals. On
1 clear night, the smallest dewdrop hold
r a star. Each one of you is at the ccnte