The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-10-12
ID. !. relIrIou. aisco1erv. Atheism

His undertakings lat any rate, / have
never heard of His having anything TO
do with failure), America is going TO
be pospelized, 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 Bering 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 prophecles
which encouraged Columbus about the
lends of the earth seeing the salvation |
of God" nor the Christian anthem which /
Columb bus led on the morning OF the l2th |
of October, 1892, on the coastof San Sal !
vador. 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 approach
ing some country SO q whole heet
of promise and hopes, golden-winged
and songful, this morning alight around
u.s. assuring us that we are approaching
the glorious period of American evan
pelization. A divine influence will yet
sweep the continent that will make ini-
ouity drop like Stacked lime, and make
the most blatant infdelity declare 1t
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 for
REQUIEM and Dead March, | call for
George Frederick HandePs 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 siguals after while we may
communicate with other stars All,
that will not be possible until our
world has baen reformed and evangel-
lied. Il would not do for our world in
its 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 1t
will be, and tkenperhaps inter-stellar
correspondence may be opened. Till
then. this smitten and sickened world
of ours must be quarantined from COM
J ing too near the unfallen worlds But,
thank God, the prophecies which
cheered Columbus in his great under
taking cheer us. America for God! Yea,
the round world for God. There can be
no doubt about 1t!
That great Italian navigator also inn
presses me with the idea that when one
does a good thing he cannot appreciate
It's ramiAcatfons. To the moment OF
his death, Columbus never knew that he
had discovered America, but thought
that Cuba was part OF Asia. lie
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 country three thousand miles
wide, ten thousand miles long, OF sew
enteen million square miles, and foul
times as large as Europe, the happiness
would have been too much for morta
man 10 endure He had no idea thai
the time would come when nation o.
sixty million people on this side OF the
sea would bo joined by all the intelli
, gent nations on the other side OF thu
sea, for tho most part OF a year re
. citing his wonderful deeds II
took centuries 10 reveal the result
Of that ono transatlantic voyage. *
, Is has always beOn. Could Paul, OF
, that June day, whom ho was decapi
, tated, have had any idea OF what effec
4 his letters and the account Of his lif'
, would have on Christcndomp Coult
Martin Luther have had any idea of th'
4 echoes that would ring through th'
q ages from the bang of his hammer nail
, ing the Latin theses against churcl
3 door ut Wittenberg? Could Eli Whit
. ney have realized the continents o
r wealth that would be added to tn
y south by the invention OF his cottoi
= gin? Could John Guttenburg, toilinI
v year after year. making type, an'
v laboriously setting thom side by side
|. and with presses changed now this wa.
v and now that, and sued by JohI
+ Faust for money loanod, and man.
Q of tho people trying TO chea
Guttenburg out Of his invention, h
4 toiling on until he produced what
n known as the MazariD Bible, have an.
A idea that, as result OF his inven
: ton. there would DO libraries tina
. placed side by side would again an
y again engirdle the earth, or the shower
g OF newspapers that snow the worl
d under? Whom Manhattan Island wa
l. sold TO the Dutch for S94, neither the
D. who sold or bought could have ioresee
e New York, the commercial metropoli
"a OF America, that now stands on 1t. Ca
- man who breaches sermon, or
3 woman who distributes tracts, or
y teacher who instructs class, or
'r passer-by who utters encouragin
ID words realize the infnitudes Of usefr
1t result? The teacher at Harrow schoC
D. who toiled with William Jones, Oh
,t most stupid boy In school, and at th
u foot OF his class did not know that b
was fitting for his work the creates
y oriental scholar Of modern times, h
IL statue now in St Pauls Cathedra
IT London. Every move you make fC
ut God, however insignificant In your ey'
or in the eyes OF others, touches worlt
AZ larger than the one Columbt
"A discovered. Why talk about unin
a. portant things2 There are I
!" unimportant things. Inhnity
y made up of inHnitesmals. On
Oh clear night, the smallest dewdrop holt
er a star. Each one Of you is at the cent
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