Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1895-12-11
NO. So.

ganglia carrying life all through and out
to the extremities. isthmus of Darien.
the narrow waist OF a giant conti-
nent, all to be un'er one Government.
and all free, and all Christian. and the scene
of Christ's personal reign on earth it, Accord
ing to the expectation of many good people,
He shall at last set up His throne in this
world Who shall have this hemisphere.
Christ or satan? 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 universe
ties, the wheat of her prairies, the rice OF her
savannas, the two great ocean beaches-the
one reaching from Baffin's Bav TO TERRA del
Fuego. and the other from Bering Strait to
Cape Horn-and all the moral and temporal
and spiritual and everlasting interests of a
population vast beyond all human computa-
ton? Who shall have the hemisphere? You
and I 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 movements.
Ah, it will not make any difference to you
or to me what becomes of this con ntinent so
FAR as earthly comfort is concerned All we
will want of 1t will be seven feet by three.
and that will take in the largest, and there
will be room and to spare. That is all of
this country we will need very soon-the
Oh us al. but we nave an ANXIETY
about the welfare and the happiness of the
generations that are coming on. and it will
oe grand thing If. when the archangers
trumpet sounds. We find that our sepulchre.
ike the one Joseph of Arimathea provided
Tor Christ. is in the midst of garden.
One of the seven wonders of the world was
he white marble watch tower of pharos of
Egypt. Sostratus, the architect and sculp-
:or, after building that watch tower cut his
name on il. Then he covered il with plaster
and to please the king he put the monarch's
name on the outside of the plastering and
he storms beat and the seas dashed in their
Jury, and they washed off the D p'asterne. and
they washed it out and they washed it down,
but the name of Sostratus was deep cut in
The imperishable rock. So across the face
Of this Nation there have been n great many
names written. across our finances, across
our religions. names worthy of remembrance,
names written on the architecture of our
churches, and our schools. and our asylums,
and our homes of mercy. but God is the archi-
'ect of this continent, and He was the sculp-
:or OF all its grandeurs, and long after
through the wash Of the ages and the temp
ssts of centuries-lll other names shall be
,blterated the divine signature and divine
name will be brighter and brighter as the
nillenniums go by, ani the world shall see
that the God who male this continent has
redeemed it by His grace from all its sor-
rows and from all its crimes.
Have you faith in such thing as thati
After all the chariots have been un wheeled.
and after all the war charots have been
crippled. the chariots which Elisha saw on
The morning of his peril will roll on in triS
amph, followed by all the armies of heaven
On white horses. God could do it without
ns, but He will not. The weakest of us,
the faintest of US, the sma lest 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-
fn ant lNtrt l,.II -.
nembere1 in a better place than that. even
IN the heart of Him who came to redeem
as and redeem the world, and our names
will be seen close to the signature of His
wound, for, as today He throws out His
arms to us, He SAYS, sBehold. I have
craven thee on the palms of Ny hand" By
the mightiest of all agencies, the potency of
prayer, 1 beg you seek National well
iare
Some time ago there were 1000. 900 letters
In the dead letter )stoffice in this city-let-
ters that had lost their way-but not one
prayer ever directed to the heart of God mis-
carried. The way is all clear for the ascent
of your supplicatons heavenward in behalf
Of this Nation. Before the postal commune.
.ation was so easy, and long ago on a rock
100 feet high on the coast of England there
was barrel fastened to a post. and in great
letters on the side of the rock, so it could be
'een far out to sea. were the words "Post-
oface," and when ships came by a
boat put out to take and fetch LETT
!ers. And so sacred were those de.
posits or affection in that barrel that no lock
pas ever put upon that barrel. although it
contained messages for America and Eu-
rope and Asia and Africa and all the islands
sf the sea. Many a storm tossed sailor,
aomesick, got messages of kindness by that
:ock, and many a homestead heard good
news from boy long gone. Would that all
he heights Of our National prosperity were
N interchange of sympathies-prayerS go.
Ing up meeting blessings coming down, pos
tai celestial, not by storm struck rock on
= wintry coast, but by the Rock of Ages.