The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-04-22

this time near the close of the nineteenth
century. And the young man VINO uoes
not feel himself fired..with an amp.tioh
to do something and to be some1ouy
would have stood under the 1asnlng
and thunders of Siani unmoVed. 1here
is but one America and that is Cnrls-
tian America, Whatever there has peen
grand or historic or good ABOUT ehe
America of the past has been que TO
Christianity, and to the America TO come
give this apellation dug out OF tnls
grand old book: "a people whose GOD
is the Lord.n
like to talk to young men OF enls.
our country. The American Caesar is
to be the American citizen. take thls
American flag and breathe over . all
that the Holy Spirit said through this
book,..I fash over itEall that Goo has
said of any people, and claim the
country over which it floats from our
| God. Benjamin Harrison was rightavhen
he said that there should be an Aneri-
can flag in every home, but let it be such
flag. Emerson said that America is
another name for opportunity. The zine
has come when the young men of.this
country. can take this nation and chain
it to the car of God for ages.
| No matter where you are from, be
proud Of your country. A man once said
after l addressed meeting: II suppose
that brother is from the west" Think
of it. A man born in Boston supposed
to have come from the wild and wooley
west. and yet what difference does it
make whether you come from the west
on the bosom of cyclone, or from the
north on an iceberg, from the south on
zepher, or from the east on the east
wind if you only get there. God will
ask for Rnothing more. Be somebody.
God ties around life the cord OF desti-
ny, and hangs ND by the hook ofindi-
viduality on the wall of opportunity. 1t
is with you as it was with Adam, the
first man in the procession. One God
and one man. There isn't man but
has the same blazing throne of God be-
hind him.
Succeed and it will be enough, bat let
it be the right kind of success. Men
may swear at you,, hut you can make
them swear by you. The tear will come
| before the cheer, the lash gees before the
| laurel, the cross before the crown. Send
q young man to the college to train his
head, to the seaside to train his nerves
and body, but send him to Jesus Christ
| to get his soul set right. If / could
| take all the sunlight of my lif, and
all the sunlight of every Christian life,
/ would put it around that head and
sing: "All for Christ" He repeated i'm
pressively the portions Of. Edwin Arnolds'
Light of the World" where the person.
ality of Christ was SO beautifully de-
| scri bed, and said: "Put your hand in
that of Christ and walk from this time
forward with God"
Some day will come when evil will be
driven out, the saloon closed, the last
temptation annihilated, and the last sin
assassinated. The Douglass threw the
dead heart of the Bruce into the thick.
of the fight, and then said to his fol-'
lowers: HGo where that heart hath
gomez / have not come here to throw
| before you into the battle the heart Of
dead leader, but to point to you liy-
ing Christ. Be fearless in that fight.
There will be shadows, but There stands
God AMID the shadows, keeping watch
above His own.n
Let the 200 young men of this assooi-
alton take this grand old book and
go forward to make the manhood of
Portland the type of what American
manhood will be, and that manhood
must bear the image of the highest.
Rev. Matt S. Hughes pronounced the
| benedction.