The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-02
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, DECEMBER p 1885,

"a jewel carved in relief. the cameo Of
this planet. On one side OF US the Allan
tic ocean, dividing us from the WORKOUT
governments of Europe. On the other
side the Pacific ocean, dividing US from
the suDertitiOns Of Asia. on the nOrtI
of us The Arctic sea. which is the gym
nasium in which the explorers and nav
igatOrs develop their courage A conu-
nent 1850 miles long, I0y,OO square
miles, and all Of il but about One-seventh
capable Of rich cultivation. one hundred
millions Of population on this continent
of North and South Amcrica-One nun
bred millions. and room for many hum
dred millions more. All flora 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 extremities. Isthmus of DaTlen,
the narrow waist Of giant continent,
all to be under one government and all
free. and all Christian, and the scene of
Christs personal reign on earth if, ac-
cOrding 10 the expectation OF many good
people, he snail at last set up his throne
in this world. Who shall have this hemis-
phere, Christ or SatanE Who shall nave
the shore of her inland seas. the silver
of her Nevadas. the gold of her COlora-
dos, the telescopes Of her ObserVatOries,
the brain of her universities, the wheat
Of her prairies, the rice of her sayannas,
the Two great ocean beaches-the one
reaching from Baffn's Bay to Terra del
FuegO, and the other from Boring straits
10 Cape Horn-and all the moral and tenn
ests of a population vast beyond all hui
man computation Who shall have the
hemisphere? You and ! VIII decide that,
or help to decide il 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, re-
ligious, and national movements.
An. IL VIII not be long before It will
not make any difference to you or to me
what becomes of this continent so far as
concerned.
want of il 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 youngest Of us all. But We have
and anxiety about the we fare and the hap
pness Of the generations that coming on
AMI 1t viii be "A grand thing if, when the
archangels trumpet sounds. we fnd that
our sepulchre, like the one Joseph of Ar
imathea provided for Christ is In the
midst OF a garden.
one Of the seven wonders of the world
was the white marble watchtower of
Pharos of Egypt. Sostratus. the architect
and sculptor, after building that watch
tower, cut his name on it. Then he COW
cred 1t with plaster. and to please the
king, he put the monarch's name on the
outside of the Dlastering; and the storms
beat and the seas dashed in their fury,
and they washed off the plastering, and
they washed 1t out, and they washed IL
down, but the name of Sostratus was deep
cut in the imperishable rockTSo 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 aSylums and our
homes OF mercy; but God is the architect
of this continent, and he was the Sculp-
tor of all its grandeurs: and long after
through the wash of the ages and the tenn
pests OF centuries-all other names shall
be obliterated, the divine signature and di-
vine name will be brighter and brighter
as the millenniums go by, and the world
shall see that the God who made this con-
tinent has redeemed IL by his grace from
all its sorrows and from all its crimes.
Have you faith in such thing as that2
After all the chariots have been unwheeled
and after all the war chargers have been
crippled, the chariots which Elisha saw
on the morning of his peril will roll on in
triumph, followed by all the armies of
heaven on white horses. God could do
IL without us, but he will not. The weak
est of us, the fantest of us,
the smallest-brained of us, shall
have a part in the triumph. We may not
have our name, like the name OF SoStrat-
us cut in imperishable rock and conspic-
uous for centuries, but we shall be remem-
bered i'm 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 to-day he throws out his
arms to us he says: Behold, / have
craven thee on the palms of my hand" "
By the mightiest of all agencies, the po-
tency of prayer, l beg you seek our ma
ttOnal welfare.
Some time ago there were 100000 let
tiers in the dead letter. postOffice in this
city-letters that lost their way-but not
one prayer ever directed to the heart OF
God miscarried The way is all clear for
the ascent of your supplications heaven
ward in behalf of this nation. Before the
postal communication was so easy, and
long ago. on a rock 100 feet high, on the
coast of England, there was a barrel fas-
tened to a post, and in great letters on
the side of the rock, so ii could be seen
far out at sea. were the words Post
Office" and when ships came by boat
put out to take and fetch letters And so
sacred were those deposits of affection in
that barrel that no lock was ever put
upon that barrel, although ii contained
messages for America, and Europe, and
Asia, and Africa, and all the islands of
the tea. Many a storm-tossed sailor,
homesick, got messages of kindness by
that rock. and many a homestead heard
good news from boy long gone. Would
that all the nights of our national pros
perity were in Interchange of sympathies
prayers going up meeting blessing COM
ing down; postal celestial. not by a storm
struck rock on wintry coast, but by the
Rock of Ages.