The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-11-17

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tiousness in American cities today to-
bring down upon them the wrath OF
that God who, on the Oath oflAugust,
1 70, buried Herculaneum and Pompeii
80 deep in ashes that the /, S13subse-
quent years have not been able to
complete the elimination. There are
IN some OF the American cities today
whole blocks Of houses which the au-
thorities know to be infamous, and
yet by purchase they are silenced, by
hush money, so that such places are as
much under the defence ofgovernment
as public libraries and asylums of
mercy. These ulcers on the body polite
bleed and gangrene away the life of the
nation, and public authority in many
| OF the cities looks the other way. You
cannot cure such wounds as these with
a silken bandage. You will have to
cure them by putting deep in the lam
Get OF moral surgery and burn
ing them out with the caustic of
holy wrath and with most decisive
amputation cutting off the scabrous
and putrefying denominations AS the
Romans were after the Celts, and as
the Normans were after the Britons,
SO there are evils after this nation
which will attend it's obsequies
unless we first attend theirs
Superstition tells Of a marinereptile.
the cephaloptera, which embodied and
crushed ship of war; but it is no
superstition when tell you that tine
history of many of the dead nations
| proclaims to us the fact that
OUR SHIP OF STATE IS IN DANGER
of being crushed by the cephaloptera
OF mental depravity. Where is the
Hercules to slay this hydra? Is it not
time to speak by pen, by tongue, by
ballot box, by the rolling of the prison
door, by hangmans halter, by earn
est prayer, by Sinaitic defamation?
A son Of King Croesus is said to
have been dumb and to have never
uttered a word until he saw his father,
being putIto death. Then he broke the
shackles OF silence, a. nd, cried out: "Kill
not my father, Crmsus!" When see the
cheatery and the wantonness and the
manifOldcrime of this country at
tempting to commit patricide, yea mat
rlclde upon our institutions, it seems
to me that lips that heretofore have
been dumb ought to break the silence
with Generous tones of fiery protest.
This nation is not going to perish.
Alexander, when he heard of the
wealth of the Indies, divided Mace
donia among his soldiers. Some one
asked him what he had kept for him
self, and he replied: Il am keeping
hope!" And that jewel I keep bright
and shining in my soul, whatever else
1 shall surrender. Hope thou in God
He will set back these oceanic tides of
moral devastation What O Jewel it
is-a jewel carved in relief,
THE CAMEO OF THIS planet
On one side of US the Atlantic ocean,
dividing us from the WORKOUT govern
ments OF Europe. On the other side
the Pacific ocean, dividing us from the
superstitions of Asia. On the north
OF us the Arctic sea, which is the gym
nasium in which the explorers and
navigators develop their courage. A
continent 10, 500 miles long, 17,OOO,-
600 square miles, and all OF it but
about one-seventh capable of rich
cultivation. Cine hundred millions of
population on this continent of
North and South America-1O, OOO,-
900, and room for many hundred
millions more All fora and all
fauna, all metals and all precious
woods, and all grains and all fruits.
The Appalachian range the backbone
and the rivers the ganglia carrying
life all through and out to the extre-
mites. 1sthmus OF Darien the mar.
row waist of giant against contin-
emit, all to be under one government,
;tnd all Christian, and the scene OF
Christ's personal reign on earth &C.
cording to sthe expectation OF many
good people he shall at last set up
his throne in this world. Who shall
have this hemisphere? Christ or Sa-
tan? Who shall have the shore OF
her inland seas the silver of her,
Nevadas, the gold of her Colorados,
the telescopes OF her observatories,
the brain of her universities, the
wheat OF her prairies, the rice of her
savannahs, the two great ocean
beaches-the one reaching from BAT
fms Bay to Terra del Fuego, and the
others from Boring straits to Cape
Horn-and all the moral and tempo
raj, and spiritual, and everlasting in
terests Of q population vast beyond
all computation save by Him with
whom a thousand years are as one
day? Who shall have the hemis-
| phere? You and [ will decide that or
| help to decide it,
BY CONSCIENTIOUS vote,
by earnest prayer, by maintenance of
! Christian institutions, by support OF
great philanthropies, by putting body,
mind and soul on the right side of all
moral, religious and national move
ments.
All! it will not be long before it will
not make any difference to you or to
me what becomes OF this continent, so
far as earthly comfort is concerned.
All we will want of it will be seven feet
by three, and there will be room and
| to spare, That is all of this country
we will need very soon, the youngest
| of u.s. But we have an anxiety about
the welfare and the happiness OF the
generations that are coming on, and
it will be a grand thing if, when the
archangels trumpet sounds, we find
that our sepulchre, like the one Joseph
! of Arimathea provided for Christ. is in