Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1895-12-07

/ national religion. but want this kind
of national religion-the vast majority of
the people converted and evangcli2cd-
and then they VIII manage the secular IS
well as the religious.
Church Will Rulc the Ia lot Box.
Do you say that this i inoracticable?
No. The time Is coming just as certainly
rs there is God. and that tins is his
book, and that he has the strength and the
! honesty 10 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 to-
day that mans impossibles are Gods
easies. Hath he said. and shall he not
do II: Hath he commanded. and will he
not bring it to pass" The Christian re-
ligion is coming to take possession of ev-
cry ballot box, Of every schoolhouse. of
every home, of every valley. of every
mountain, of every acre of our national
domain. This nation. rcs outstanding all
the evil influences that are trying TO de-
stroy IT. is going to live.
Never since. according to John Milton,
when satan was hurled headlOng fam
ing from the ethereal skies in hideous ruin
and combustion down. have the powers
of darkness been so determined TO win this
|
| jewel carved in relief, the cameo of this
planet! On one side of us the Atlantic
Ocean, dividing us from the wornOut gov
| ernments of Europe. On the other side
the Pacific Ocean. dividing us from the
superstitions of Asia. On the north of rs
the Arctic Sea, which is the gymnasium
in which the explorers and navigators de-
velOp their courage. a continent 1880
| mIlnS lCnU A (hll iuln ,,,iinC 81
ali of it but about one-seventh capable ui
rich cultivation. One hundred millions
of population on tins continent of North
and South America-100.0000 and
room for many hundred millions more
! All fora and all fauna. all metals and all
! precious woods and ali grains and all
| fruits. The Appalachian range the back
| bone and the rivers the ganglia carrying
| life all through and out to the eXtremitiCS.
lSthmuS OF Darien the narrow waist of =
| giant continent all to be under one gov
! eminent 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 ut last set zip
| his throne in this world. Who shall have
! this hemisphere-Ch or satan? Who
| shall have the shore of her inland seas
! the silver OF her Neyadas. the gold of her
! COlOrados. the telescopes of her observa-
| torres, the brain Of her universities. the
! wheat of her prairies. the rice of her
savannas. the two great ocean beaches,
! the one reaching from Baiiin's Bay to
! TERRA del FuegO and the other from
: Berlng Strait to Cape Horn, aad all the
moral and temporal and spiritual and
/ everlasting interests of Il population vast
| beyond all human computations Who
! shall have the hemisphere! You and
Will decide that. or help to decide il, by
conscientious vote. by earnest prayer,
| by maintenance of Christian institutions.
! by support of great philanthropics by put
ting body, mind and soul on the right side
| of all moral, religious and national move
ments.
When the Trump Sounds.
All. it Will not be long before it will
not make any difference to You or 10 ne
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 viii be
room and to spare That is all of this
country we will need very so0n-the
! Youngest Of Us all. Eat we have an anx-
| iety about the welfare and the happiness
/ of the generations that are coming on ana
I ii will be- Il grand thing if, when the
archangels trumpet sounds. we find that
our sepulcher. Ike the one Joseph of Ari-
mathea provided for Christ. is in the
/ midst of garden.
Have you faith i'll prayers for national
/ welfare? After all the chariots have been
unwheeled. and after all the war chargers
! have been crippled. the chariots which
/ Elisha 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 weakest of us, the faintest of
us, the smallest Drained of Us. shall have
a part in the triumph. We may not have
our mare. like the name of SOstratus. cut
in impcrishable rock and conspicuous for
centuries. but we shall be remembered in
n better place than that. even III the heart
! of him who came to redeem us and re-
| deem 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, 1 have craven thee
on the palms of my hand" BY the might
lest of all agencies, the potency of prayer,
l beg you seek our national welfare.
Some time ago there were 1000. coo let
ters in the dead letter pOstofiice in this
, ctN-lCtlcrS tlldt lOSC tnelf NaE-Dut not
! one prayer ever directed to the heart of
| God miscarried. The way is all clear for
the ascent of your supplication heaven
ward in behalf of this nation. Before the
| postal communication was so easy. and
| long ago. on rock 100 feet high. on the
| coast of England there was barrel fa St
ened to post. and i'll great letters Oh the
side of the rock. SO it could be seen far
| ont at sea. were the words. ''iostoflice."
and when ships came by. Il 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 it contained messages
for America and Europe and Asia and
Africa. and all the islands of the sea-
| Many storm tossed sailor. bomesick got
messages of kindness by that rock, and
many homestead heard good news from
| q boy long gone. Would that all the
heights of our national prosperity were
in interchange Of sympathies-praycrs 60
ing up meeting blessings coming down.
Postal celestial, not by "a storm struck
rock on a wintry coast. but ny the Rock
of Ages.
| Morality.