Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-12-13

savannas the two great ocean beaches--the
one reaching from Bafln's Bay to TERRA del
Fuego; and the other from Berlng Strait to
Cape Horn-and all the moral and temporal
and spiritual and everlasting interests az
population vast beyond all human compusa-
ton? Whosha have the hemisphere You
and will decide that. or help to decide II,
by conscientious vote, by earnest prayer, oy
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 movements
All. 1t will not make any difference to you
or to me what becomes Of this continent, 80
far as earthly comfort is concerned. Al We
will want OF it will be seven feet by three,
and that will take in the largest, AMI tnere
will be room and to spare. That Is. all OF
this country we will nee1 very soon-tne
Youngest Of US all. But wa have an anxiety
about the welfare aud ths happiness OF the
generations that are coming on, AMI it will
be grand thing If, when the archangel5
trumpet sounds, we find that our sepuchre.
like the one Joseph of Arimathea provided
for Christ is in the midst Of garden.
One ofthe seven wonders OF the world was
the white marble watch tower of pharos OF
Egypt. Sostratus. the architect ani sculp.
tor, after building that watch tower. cut hi5
name On II, Then he covered it with plaster,
and to please the king he put tho monarch
name on the outside Of the p,astering, ana
the storms beat aud the seas dashed in thelr
fury. and they washed off the p as.erlng, ana
thew washed it out. an1 they washed 1t down,
but the name OF Sostratus was deep cut In
the imperlshabIe rock. So across the Iaco
Of this Nation there have bean great many
names written, across our finances, across
our religions. names worthy ofrememor!nc9,
names written on the architecture OF our
churches, and our schools. and our ssylu ms,
and our homes OF mercy, but God is the aren't
feet of this continent, aud He was the sculp-
tor of all its granieurs, and long alter
through the wash of the ages and the temp
ests of centurles-all other nanes shall De
obliterated the divine signature aud OWNS
name will be brighter and brighter as tine
millenniums go by and the world shall see
that the God who made this continent has
redeemed 1t by His grace from all Its sor-
rows and from all its crimes.
Have you faith in such thing as thatf
After ali the chariots have been unwneeled,
and after all the war charlots have oeen
crippled the chariots which Elisha saw on
the morning of his peril will rol! on IN tri-
umph, foloWa by all the armies OF heaven
Oh Wull0 uOIScSs OO4 NOulO w ~ UttHDO'
us. but He will NOT. The weakest of us,
the faintest of US, tho smallest Drained OF
us, shall have part in the triumph. We
may not have our name, like the name OF
Sostratus, cut in imperishable rock and con
spicuous for centuries, but we shall BIO re-
Numbered in a better place than that, even
in the heart Of Him who came to redeem
US and redeem the world, and our names
will be seen Close to the signature OF HIS
wound, for, as today Hs throws out His
arms TO us, He says, "Beho!d, l have
craven thee on the palms OF My hand" BY
the mightiest of all agencies, the potency o:
prayer, beg you seek our Nationll vel
fare.
Some time ago there we're 4, $4,000 letters
In the dead letter p1stoffice in tais city-let-
ters that had lost their wGy-0ut not one
prayer ever directed to the heart of Go mis-
carried. Tho way is all clear for the ascent
of YOUR supplications heavenwarl in behalf
of this Nation. Before tho postal communi-
cation was 80 easy, and long ago on rock
100 feet high on the coast OF England there
was barrel fastened to post, AM in great
letters on the side OF the rock, 50 it could b9
seen far out to sea. were the words ''Post'
office" and when ships came by a
boat put out to take aud fet;h lot
ters. And so sacred vera those de-
posits or affection in that barrel that no loci
was ever put upon that barrel. although it
contained messages for America and Eu'
rope and Asia and Africa an all thu Islands
of the sea. Many storm tossei sailor,
homesick, got messages OF kindness by that
rock, and many a homestead heard goo !
news from boy long gone. Would ina. all
the heights of our National prosperity were
in interchange of syrlpathies-2rayecs go
ing up meeting blessings coming down. pos
tai celestial. not by storm struck rock on
q wintry coast, but by the Rock Of Ages.