Connecticut western news., 1895-12-05


 A-4 ,l,5e U l1e : -2-s4 si's'-s. a gl---S lope's. and stings like adders. Liea raw and scalloped and banned and stewed- Crawling lies and jumping, lies z and soaring lies. .Lies with attachment screws and ruffiers and braiders and ready wound bobhins. Lies by Christian people who never lie except during cleo tions. and lies by people who always lie. but beat themselves in 8 presidential campaign.
 A Potent Force.
 I confess am ashamed to have . for eigner visit this country in such times. I should think he would stand dazed, his hand on his pocketbook, and dare not go out nights. What will the hun dreds of thousands of foreigners who come here to live think of us? What disgust they must have for the land of their adoption. The only good thing about it is many of them cannot under i, stand the English lang uage. But sup pose the German and Italian and .Swed I ish and French papers translate it all and peddle out the internal stuff to the subscribers. aat,,1., 4s
 Nothing but Christianity will ever stop such a food of indecency. The Christian religion will speak after awhile. The hilingsgate and low scandal through which we wade every year or every four years must be rebuked by that religion which speaks from its two great tmountains-from the one mountain intonipg the command. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neiehhor, and from the other mount making plea for kindness and blessing rather than cursing. Yes, we are going to have national religion. There are two kinds of national religion. The one is support ed by the state, and is 8 matter of hn- man politics, and it has great patronage, and under it men will struggle for prominence without reference to quail fications. and it's archbishop is supported by a salary of $76, 1000 2 year, and there are great cathedrals, with, au the ma chinery1 of mnsic, and canonicals, and room forla . 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 wa want this kind of national Religion --thesast majority of the people con verted md eYangelized-apdt then they will manage the secular as we'll as the housfou tis 1s .sstja -ef d.tss vv1 Ut,s ]
 Do you say that thin is impracticahlef No The, time is coming just as.oer g tainly as there is God, and that this is his book, and that he has the strength and the honesty to ful6u his promisAs-r One of the ancient emperors. used~to pride himself on performing that which his oounselors said was impossible, and have to tell you tc}ay that mans i'm possibles are Gods eGsies. Hath he said, and shall he not do-it? Hath he commanded, and will he not bring it to pass?" The Christian religion is coming to take possession of every ballot box, of every schoolhouse, of evcy home, of ev- cry valley, of every mountain, of every acre of, our national domain. This na- tion, notwithstanding all the evil influ- ences that are trying to destroy it, is going to live.
 Never since, .accoxding to John Mil ton, when .'satan was hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal skies in hid eous ruin and combustion down, have the powers of darkness been so deter mined to win this continent as now. What a jewel it is-a jewel carved in relief, the cameo of this planetl On one side of us the Atlantic ocean, divid- ing us from the wornout governments of Europe. On the other side the Pacific ocean, dividing us from the supspti- tions of Asia.. On the north of ps the arctic sea which is the gymnasium ir which the explorers and navigators de- velop their courage. A coptinent, l0, ,500 miles long, 17,0O0, 900 square miles, and all of it but about one-seventh capa-s ble of rich cultivation. One hundred millions of population on this continent of North and South America-100,0 ,000,- 900, and room for many hundred mil lions 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 Darien, the narrow waist of giant con- tinent. all to be under one government. and all free, and all Christian, and the scene of Christ 8 personal reign on earth if, according to the expectation of many goo6 peoples he shall 1t last. sat 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 Colorades, the telescopes of her ob- servatories, the brain of her universities, the wheat of her prairies, the rice of her savannas, the two great ocean beaches the one reaching from Baffin's bay to Tierra del Fuego, and tho other from Bering strait to Cape Horn-ands an the moral and temporal and spiritual and everlasting interests of population vast beyond all human. computation2 Who shall have the hemisphers2a sYou and I will decide that, or help to de- eide it, by conscientious vote, by earnest prayer, by maintenance ofChristian in- stitutions, by support of great philan- thropies, by putting body, mind and soul on the right side of all moral, re- hgious and national movements.
 The Final Needs.
 Ah, it will not make, any difference to you OF to me what becomes of this continent, so far as earthly comfort is concerned. All we will want of it will be feet by 8, 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 an anxiety about the welfare and the happiness of the genera tions that are coming on, and it will be grand thing if, when the archangel's trumpet sounds, we find that our sepulchre, like the one Joseph of Arima- thea provided for Christ, is in the midst of garden. yj
 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 ha covered it. with nlasfar and tn nleas.,