Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-12-02

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miles long, 1000, 600 square miles.
and all of it but about one-seventh capa-
BILE of rich cultivation. One hundred
millions of population on this continent
of North and South America-1OO, OOO.-
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 fruits. The Appalacbian
range the backbone, and the rivers the
ganglia carrying life all through and
out to the extremities, isthmus of
Darien, the narrow waist of a giant con-
tinent, all to be 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 I'D 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
the one reaching from Baffin's bay to
TERRA del Fuego, and the other from
Boring strait to Cape HOrn-and all
| the moral and temporal and spiritual
and everlasting interests Of population
vast beyond all human computation?
Who shall have the hemisphere? You
and I 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 the right side of all moral, re-
ligious and national movements.
The Final Needs.
All, it will not make any difference
to you or to me what becomes Of this
continent, SO far as earthly comfort is
concerned. All we will want of it will
be feet by 3, and that will take in
the largest, and there will he 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
lions that are coming on, and it will be
a 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.
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 Oh it. Then
he covered it with plaster, and to please
the king he put the monarch name on
the outside of the plastering, and the
storms beat and the seas dashed in their
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 oeen a 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-
lums, and our homes of mercy, but God
is the architect of this continent, and he
was the sculptor of all it's 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 as 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
It's SOIIOWS ttuu IIOLI al IIS CIlul6S
The Mightiest Agency.
Have you faith in such a thing as
that? After all the chariots have been
unwheeIed, and after all the war char
gers have been crippled, the chariots
which Elisha saw on tho morning of his
peril will roll Oh i'll triumph, followed
by all the armies of heaven Oh 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 Il part in the triumph.
We may not have our name, like the
name Of Sostratus, cut in imperishable
rock and conspicuous for centuries, but |
we shall be remembered i'll a better
place than that, even i'll 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 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 potency Of |
prayer, beg you seek our national well
fare.
Some time ago there were 1900, 900 |
letters in the dead letter postoffice in
this city-letters that lost their way
but not one prayer ever directed 60 the
heart of God miscarried. The way is al!
clear for the ascent of your supplica-
tions heavenward in behalf of this ma
ton. Before the postal communication
was SO easy, and long ago on a rock go
feet high on the coast of England there
was a barrel fastened to a post, and in
great letters Oh the side of the rock, so
it could be seen far out at sea, were the
words "Postoffice, and when ships
came by boat put out to take and fetch
letters And so sacred were those de-
posits of affection i'll that barrel that no