Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1895-12-07

lntOnlng the command, lh0u shalt not
bear false witness against thy neighbor,"
and from the other mount making plea
for kindness and blessing rather than
cursing. Yes, we are going to have a
national religion. There are two kinds
Of national religion. The one is support
ed by the state, and is matter of hu-
man politics, and il has great patronage,
and under it men will struggle for
prominence without reference to quail
iications, and its archbishop is supported
by salary Of SO. 900 Il year, and there
are great cathedrals, with all the ma
chinery of music and canonicals, and
room for n thousand people, yet an au-
dience of fifty people, or twenty people,
or ten or two. We want no such religion
as that, no such national religion, but
We want this kind of national religion
the vast majority Of the people COLI
verified and evangelized-and then they
will manage the secular a. well as the
religions.
Do you say that this is impracticable?
! No. The time is coming just rs Ger
| tainly as there is God, and that this is
and the honesty to fulfill his promises.
One of the ancient emperors used to
! pride himself on performing that which
his counselors said was impossible, and
have To tell you today that mans i'm
possibles are Gods easies. Hath he
said, and shall he not do it? Hath he
commanded. and will he not bring il to
| pass" The Christian religion is coming
TO take possession of every ballot box, of
every schoolhouse, of evey home, of ev-
cry valley, of every mountain. Of every
acre of our national domain. This ma
tion. notwithstanding all the evil influ-
ences that are trying 10 destroy it, is
going 10 live.
Never since, according TO John Mil
ton, when satan was hurled hsadlong
flaming from the ethereal skies i'll hid
eous ruin and combustion down, have
the powers of darkness been so deter
mined to win this continent rs now.
What a jewel it is-a jewel carved in
relief. the cameo Of this planet. On
one side Of rs the Atlantic ocean, divid-
ing us from the wornout governments
of Europe. On the other side the Pacific
ocean, dividing us from the supersti-
tions of Asia. On the north Of us the
arctic sea. which is the gymnasium in
which tho explorers and navigators de-
velop their courage A continent 10, 500
miles long, 1900, 900 square miles,
and all of il but about one-seventh capa-
BILE of rich cultivation. One hundred
millions of population on this continent
| of North and South America-l00.0 00,-
600, and room for many hundred mil
lions more. All flora and all fauna, all
metals and all precious woods, and all
grains and all freits. The Appalachian
range the backbone. and the rive the
ganglia carrying life all through and
ont to the extremities, isthmus of
Darien, the narrow waist of a giant con-
tinent, all to DO under one government,
and all free, and all Christian, and the
scene Of Christ's personal reign on earth
if. according 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 OBJ
servatories. the brain Of her universities,
the wheat OF her prairies, the rice of her
savannas, the two great ocean beaches
tho ono reaching from Bafiin's bay TO
TERRA del FueGo. and the other from
Boring strait 10 Capo Horn-and all
tho moral and temporal and spiritual
and everlasting interests of a population
vast beyond all human computation?
Who shall have the hemisphere! You
and / will decide that, or help to de-
eide it, by conscientious vote, by earnest
prayer, by maintenance Of Christian in
situations, by support Of great philan-
thropies. by putting body, mind and
soul on tho right side of all moral, re-
ligious and national movements.
The Final Needs.
All, it will not make any difference
to you or TO mo what becomes of this
continent, SO far as earthly comfort is
concerned. All wo will want of it will
DO Z feet by 3, and that will take i'll
the largest, and there will be room and
to spare. That is all of this country we
will need very soon-the youngest of us
all. But we have an anxiety about the
welfare and the happiness of the genera
tions that are coming on, and il will be
grand thing if, when the archangel' S
trumpet sounds, we find that our
sepulchre, like tho one Joseph Of Arima-
thea provided for Christ, is in the
midst of garden.
One of the seven wonders of the world
was the white marble watch tower of
pharos of Egypt. Sostratus. the archi-
tect and sculptor, after building that
watch tower, cut his name on it, Then
he covered it with plaster, and to please
the king he put the monarch's name on
the outside Of the plastering, and the
fury, and they washed off the plaster
ing, and they washed it out, and they
washed it down, but the name Of Sos
tratus was deep cut in the imperishable
rock. So across the face of this nation
there have been 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 asy-
| OuE ubltcs vi but 0Oti
is the architect of this continent, and he
was the sculptor of all its grandeurs,
and long after-through the wash of the
ages and the tempests Of centuries-all
other names shall be obliterated the
divine signature and divine name will
be brighter and brighter rs the millen-
NUNS go by, and the world shall see
that the God who made this continent
has redeemed it by his grace from all
its sorrows and from all its crimes.
The Mightiest Agency.
Have you faith i'll such thing Us
that: After all the chafiots have been
unwheeled, and after all the war char
gers have been crippled. the chariots
which Elisha saw on the morning Of his
peril will roll on i'll triumph, followed
by all the armies of heaven on white
horses. God could do it without us, but
he will not. The weakest of us, the
faintest of us. the smallest Drained OF
us. shall have a part i'll the triumph.
We may not have our name, like the
name Of SoStraius, cut i'll imperishablC
rock ard conspicuous for centuries, but
we shall be remembered i'll 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,
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