Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-10-10

Isaiah had said aboct the ENDS ~ the
earth. % was persuaded 10 20 oat ard nad
the .-s1ds u EAe earth. and he felt him
self called - tfod 70 carry CHRISTIANITY
% the ENDS Of lie EARTH Then The
administration Of tie last supper bsfors
taey ieft the Gulf q Cs4ix. and the
eyeE.lug prayers darlas the voyage, aud
the d=vouJ ascraptlon az soon - they SAW
the New Weird. and fhe doxelogies with
y aich they landed colhrm me IL saying
that tAe discovery Of AElsrica w@s = ~
lgious discovery.
Alarism has no right here; infdelity
has 10 right here; vagaboHdlsIa has 10
right here. And As God j. not apt 70
fail N any ef his undertaking. TAT any
rate have never heard of his having
any thing 10 do with fSiiGfel. America
Is going 10 DC GospeLzsd, and from the
Golden GATE Ct California y the Mar
rows Of New York harbor, and from tie
top Of North America 70 The foot "
South America, froIa Behring straits 10
Cape Horn. THIS Is going 10 be imman-
uel' 5 land All the forms Of irreli giua
ard abOminaIion that have cursed Other
parts OF the world Will land here-yea.
they have already landed-and they VIII
wrangle for the possession OF this henri
sphere. and they viii 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. l492. 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 feet that they were approaching
some country. so whole flock of prom
ises and hopes. golden winged and song
ful, this morning alight around US. as
surfing Us that we are approaching the
glorious period OF American evangelical
ton.
a divine influence viii yet sweep the
continent that viii make iniquity drop
like Stacked lime, and make the most
blatant infdelity declare it was only
joking when il said the Bible was not
true, and the worst atheism announce
that IL always did believe in the God Of
nations. Let others call for requiem
and dead march. | call for George Fred
erick Harders "Eallelujah Chorus"
There has been much talk of late about
communication with other worlds.
Mars has come so near we can see its
canals, and IL has been hoped that by
signals after awhile we may communi-
cate with other stars. All, that will not
be possible until our world has been re-
formed ard evangelical!
1t woull not do for our world in its
lost and ruined state to have communi-
cation with other worlds. 1t would
spoil thsir morals. But wait until this
world Is fully redeemed, as it will be,
and then perhaps in.erstellar correspond
ence may be opened. Till then this
smitten and sickened world OF ours must
be 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 Godl 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 ramifications. To the moment Of his
death Columbus never knew that he had
discovered america, but thought that
Cuba was part Of Asia. He thought
the island Hispsniola was the Ophir Of
Solomon. He thought lie had only
opened a new way to old Asia. Had he
known what North and South America
were and are, and that he had found q
country three thousand miles wide, ten
thousand miles long, of seventeen million
square niles, and four times as large as
Europe, the happiness would have been
too much for mortal man to endure.
He had no idea that the time would
come when 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 year
reciting his wonderful deeds. 1t took
centuries 10 reveal the result of that one
transatlantic voyage. So it has always
been. Could Paul on that June day
when he was decspitated have had any
idea of what effect his letters and the
account of his life would have on
Christendom? 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 church door at Witten-
bergl
Could Eli Whitney have realized the
continents OF wealth that would be
added 10 the south by the invention of
his cotton gin? Could John Gluten berg,
toiling year after year making type
and lsboriously setting them side by
SIDE. and with presses changed now
this way and now that, and sued boy
John Faust for money loaned, and
many Of the people trying to cheat Gut
enberg ont of his invention. he toiling
on until ne produced what ia known as
the Mszarin Bible, have any idea tina;
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 snow the world under?
When Manhattan island was sold 10
the Dutch for twsntyfour dollars. neither
they who sold or bought could have
forcseen New York. the commercial me-
tropolis Of America that now stands on
it. Can man who breaches sermon.
or woman who distributes tracts. or q