The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1892-10-14

self called by God to carry Christianit,
to the lends of the earth" Then tn
administration of the last supper befor
they left the Gulf of Cadiz. and tn
evening prayers during the voyage, anC
the devout ascription us soon as they say
the New World, and the doxologies will
which they landed confirm me in sayins
that the discovery of America was re
ligious discovery.
Atheism has no right here; infdelity
has no right here; vagabondism has NJ
right here. And as God is not apt t.
fail in any of his undertakings lat any
rate have never heard of his having
anything to do 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 tC
Cape Horn, this is going to be Imman
uel's 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 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, 1899, 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
ises 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 it always did believe in the God of
nations. Let others call for requiem
and dead march. call for George Fred
erick 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
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!
1t would not do for our world in its
lost and ruined state to have communi-
cation with other worlds. 1t would
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 aud 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 God! There can be no doubt about it.
That great Italian navigator alsS~i11
presses me with the idea that when one
does good thing he cannot appreciate
it's ramifcations. To the moment of his
death Columbus never knew that he had
America, but thought that
Cuba was part of Asia. He thought
the island Hispaniola was the Ophir Of
Solomon. He thought he 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 a
country three thousand miles wide, ten
thousand miles long, of seventeen million
square miles, and four times as large as
Europe, the happiness would have been
too much for mortal man TO en-, .ure.
He had no idea that the time would |
come when a 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. 1t took
centuries to reveal the result of that one
voyage. So it has always
Oeen. Could Paul on that June day
when he was decapitated have had any
dea of what effect his letters and the
account of his life would have on
Christendom? Could Martin Luther
nave had any idea of the echoes that
would ring through the ages from the
Bang of his hammer mailing the Latin
heses against a church door at Witten-
,erg?
Could Eli Whitney have realized the
continents of wealth that would be
Idded to the south by the invention Ct
lis cotton gin? Could John Gutenberg
oiling year after year making typ
md laboriously setting them side by
ide, and with presses changed now
his way and now that, and sued by
Ohm Faust for money loaned, and
many Of the people trying to cheat Gut
nberg out of his invention, he toiling
n until he produced what is known as
he Mazarin Bible, have any idea that
S a result of his invention there would
'e libraries that placed side by side
would again and again engirdle the
arth, or the showers of newspapers
hat snow the world under?
When Manhattan island was sold to
he Dutch for twenty-four dollars, neither
hey who sold or bought could have