Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-10-10


the .sends of the earth" and he felt him
self called by God to carry Christianity
to the lends of the earth Then the
administration of the last supper before
they left the Gulf of Cadiz, and the
evening prayers during the voyage, and
the devout ascription as soon as they saw
the New World, and the doxologies with
which they landed confirm me in saying
that the discovery of America was a re-
ligious discovery.
Atheism has no right here; infidelity
has no right here: vagabondism has no
right here. And as God is not apt to
fail in any OF his undertakings (at any
rate have never heard of his having
anything to Go with failure), America
is going to be Gospelized, and from the
Golden Gate Of California to the Mar
rows of New York harbor, and from the
top of North America to the foot of
South America, from Behring straits to
Cape Horn. this is going to be Imman-
uel's land. All the forms of irreligion
and abomination thaG have cursed other
parts Of the world will land here-yea,
they have already landed-and they will
wrangle for the possession of this hemi-
sphere, and they will make great head
way and feel themselves almost estab-
lished.
But God will not forget the prophe-
cies which encouraged Columbus about
the lends of the earth seeing the saliva
ton Of God nor the Christian anthem
which Columbus led on the morning of
! the 18th Of October, 1892, on the coast
of San Salvador. Like that flock of
land birds which met the Santa Maria
and the Pinta and the Nina far out at
sea, indicating to the commanders Of
/ that fleet that they were approaching
some country, SO whole flock Of prom
Uses and hopes, golden winged and song
full, this morning alight around US, as
surfing US that we are approaching the
glorious period Of American evangelical
ton.
A divine influence will yet sweep the
! continent that will make iniquity drop
like Stacked lime, and make the most
blatant infdelity declare it was only
! Joking when it said the Bible was not
true, and the worst atheism announce
that 1t always did believe in the God of
nations. Let others call for requiem
and dead march. call for George Fred
erick Handel's "Hallelujah Chorus"
There has been much talk Of late about
communication with other worlds.
Mars has come SO near we can see its
canals, and it has been hoped that by
signals after awhile we may commune
cate with other stars. All, that will not
be possible until our world has been re-
formed and evangelical!
It would not Go for our world in its
lost and ruined state to have communi-
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spoil their morals. But wait until this
world is fully redeemed, as it will be,
and then perhaps interstellar correspond
ence may be opened. Till then this
smitten and sickened world of ours must
De quarantined from coming too near
the unfallen worlds. But, thank God,
the prophecies which cheered Columbus
in his great undertaking cheer us.
America for God. Yea, the round world
for God! There can be no doubt about it.
That great Italian navigator also i'm
presses nue. with the idea that when one
does a 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 q part of Asia. He thought
the island Hispaniola was the Ophir Of
Solomon. He thought he had only
opened new way to old Asia. Had he
known what North and South America
were and are, and that he had found q
country three thousa nj miles wide ten
thousand miles long, Of seventeen million
square III: 'es, and four times as large us
Europe, tie happiness would have been
too much for mortal man to endure.
He had 40 idea that the time would
come when q nation of sixty million peo-
pie on this side of the sea would be joined
by all the intelligent nations on the other
side the sea for the most part of a year
reciting his wonderful deeds. It took
centuries to reveal the result of that one
transatlantic voyage. So 1t has always
been. Could Paul on that June day
when he was decapitated have had any
idea Of what effect his letters and the
account of his life would have ON
Christen&om? Could Martin Luther
have had any idea of the echoes that
would ring through the ages from the
bang Of his hammer mailing the Latin
theses against a church door at Witten-
berg?
Could Eli Whitney have realized the
continents of wealth that would be
added to the south by the invention of
his cotton gin? Could John Gutenberg,
toiling year after year making type
and laboriously setting them side by
side, and with presses changed now
this way and now that, and sued by
John Faust for money loaned, and
many of the people trying to cheat Gut
enberg ont of his invention, he toiline
on until he produced what is known us
the Mazarin Bible, have any idea that
as result of his invention there would
be libraries that placed side by side
would again and again engirdle the
earth, or the showers of newspapers
that Snn1u the world 11ndnr2