The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1892-11-19
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20, buried Herculaneum and Pompeii
so deep in ashes that the 1873 subse-
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
meroJ. These ulcers on the body polite
bleed and Rangrene away the life ofthe
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 n the Inn
Get of moral surgery and burn
ing them out with the caustic of
holy wrath and with most decisive
amputation cuttin, off the scabrous
and putrefyinga denominations. AS tho
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 obsequics
unless we first attend theirs.
Superstition tells of q marine reptile.
the cephaloptera, which embodied and
crushed q ship of war; but it is no
superstition when l tell you that the
history OF many of the dead nations
proclaims to us the fact that
OUR SHIP OF srATE is IN DANGER
of being crushed by the cephaloptera
OF mental depravity. Where is the
Hercules to sIay This hydra2 Is it not
time to speak by pen, by tongue, by
ballot box, by the rolling of the prison
door, by hangman's halter, by earn
est prayer, by Sinaitic defamation?
A son OF King Crusus is said to
have been dumb and to have never
uttered a word until he saw his ather,
being put to death. Then he broke he
shackles OF silence, nd, cried out: "Kill
not my father, CrGsus!" When see the
cheatery and the wantonness and the
manifoldcrims of this country at
tempting tocommit patricide,yea mat.
ricide upon our institutions, it seems
to me that lips that heretofore have
been dumb ought to break the silence
with tones of fiery protest.
This nation is not gong 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: 81 am keeping
hope!" And that jewel l keep bright
and shining in my soul, whatever else
] ahall surrender. Hope thou in God.
He will set back these oceanic tides of
moral devastation. What q 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 worn-out govern
Mlents of Europe. On the other side
the Pacific ocean. dividing us from the
superstitions OF ASIA. On tho 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.sev-nth capable OF rich
cultivation. Cine hundred millions of
population on this continent of
North and South ,OOO,-
600, and room for m.ny hundred
millions ore. All flora and all
fauna, all metals and all precious
woods. and all grains anil all fruits.
The Appalachian range the backbone
and the rivers the ganglia carrying
life all through and out to the extre-
mites Isthn,ns Of Darien the mar.
row waist of a giant against comm.
ent, all to be under one government,
and all Christian, and the scene OF
Christ's personal reign on earth &C.
cording to the expectation Of many
good people he shall at last set up
his throne in this world. Who shnll
this hemisphere? Christ or Sa-
tan? Who shall have the sho 9 of
her inland seas tn" silver of her,
the gold of her Colorados,
the telescopes of her observ .tori.s,
the Train of her universities, the
wheat of her prairies, the rIce OF her
savannahs, the two great OCEAN
beArhee-the one reaching from BAT.
FMS Bay to Terra del Fuego, and the
others from Beriny straits to Cape
all the moral and tempo
raj, and spir,tua and everlasting in
terestt OF " population vast beyond
I'll computation save by Him with
whom u thousand years are rs me
lay7 Who shall have the hemis.
You and I will decide that or
1elp to d~iie it,
- BY CONSCIENTIOUS vote,
~ earnest prayer, by m%rintenance of
institutions, by support of
'reat philan'hrop IN. by putt Rhody,
mind and soul on the right 81 IL of al
moral, religious and national move
nentn.
All! it will not liz. long before il will
lot make any difference to you or 10
ne what becomes of this continent. 40
ar as earthly comfort is concerned.
We will want of it will be seven feet
y TIRES, and there will te room and
o spar, That is all of this country
70 will need very soon. the youngest
US. But we have an anxiety abont
he welfare and the hapl,ine . of the
enerations tn t are coming on. and
! will he a grand thing If, when the