The Penn's Grove record., 1896-10-02

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birds, and my cornfields are silker and
golden. Here Is my sisters grave. Out
yonder, under the large tree, my father died.
An invader comes, and proposes to drive me
of cud take possession OF my property. He
crowds me back, he crowds me on, and
crowds me into a closer corner, until, after
q while, 1 say: "Stand back, don't crowd
me any more, or I'll strike. What right lave
you to como here and drive me off my prem
isesl got this farm from my father and he
got 1t from his father. What right have you
to come here and nolest me?" You bland
" shy: "Oh, l know more than you do. /
belong to q higher civilization. l cut my
hair shorter than you do. i could put
this ground to a great deal better use
than you do" And you keep crowding mt
back and crowding me on into the closer
corner and closer corner, until one day ]
look around upon my suffering family. and
fired by their hardships l hew you In twain.
Forthwith all the world comes to your fu'
neral to pronounce %eulogium. comes to my
execution to anathematize me. You are the
hero, l am the culprit. Behold the United
States Government and the North American
Indian. The red man has stood more
wrongs than l would, or you. We would
have struck sooner, deeper. That which
is right in defence of a Washington home
Is right in defence of a home on top
of the Sierra Nevada. Before thisd windling
red race dies completely out, I wish that
this generation might by common justice
atone for the inhumanlty of its predecessors.
In tho day OF Gods Judgment. I would
rather be a blood-smeared Modoc than a
swindling United States oficer on an Indian
reservation One was q barbarian and a
savage, and never pretended to be anything
but q barbarian and q savage. The other
pretended to be a representative Of a Chris
tian Nation. Notwithstanding all this, the
general disgust with war and the substitu-
ton Of diplomatic skill for the glittering
edge Of keen steel is a sign unmistakable
that sthe day ia at hand"
find another ray Of dawn In the COM
preston of the worlds distances. What a
slow, snai-like, almost impossible thing
would have been the worlds rectilcation
with fourteen hundred millions of popula-
ton and no facial means of communication;
but now. through telegraphy for the eye aud
telephone intimacy for the ear, and through
st~eamboating and r~ailroading, the twenty
five thousand miles Of the worlds circum.
ference are shriveling up into insignlfant
brevityl Hong Kong is nearer New York
than a few years ago New Haven was; Bonn.
bay, Moscow, Madras, Melbourne, within
speaking distance. Purchase a telegraphic
chart, and by the blue lines see the tele
graphs OF the land, and by the red lines the
cables under the ocean. You see what OPP.
~portunity this is going to give for the final
movements of Christianity. A fortress may
be months or years In building, but after 1t
is constructed it may do all its work in TWEEN
ty minutes. Christianity has been planting
Its batteries for nineteen centuries, and may
go on in the work through other centuries;
but when those batteries are thoroughly
planted, those fortresses are fully built, they
may all do their work In t~wenty-four hours.
Suppose Christ should descend on the
Nations-many expect that Christ will come
among the Nations personally-supposs that
tomorrow morning the Son of God from a
lowering cloud should descend upon these
cities. Should not that;faot..be known all the
world over In twenty-four hours7 Suppose
Heshould present,H His Gospel In a few words,
saying, II am the Son Of God l came to
pardon all FOUR sins and to heal all your sor-
rows; to prove that l am a supernatural
being, / have Just descended from the clouds.
Do you believe Me, and do you believe Ne
now2" Why. all the telegraph stations OF
the earth would be crowded as none of them
were ever crowded just after a shipwreck. !
tell you all these things to show you 1t is not
among the impossibilities or even the i'm
probabilities that Christ will conquer the
whole earth, and do it instanter, when the
time ZONES
There are foretokenings In the air. Some
thing great is going to happen. do not
think that Jupiter ia going to run us down,
or that the axle OF the world Is going to
break; but l mean something great for the
worlds blessing and not for the worlds
damage is going to happen. l think the
world has had 1t hard enough. Enough, the
famines and plaques. Enough. the Asiatic
choleras. Enough, the wars. Enough, the
shipwrecks. Enough, the CONGREGATIONS. /
think our world could stand right we'll a
procession of properties and triumphs.
Better be on the lookout. Better have your
observatories open Onward the heavens, and
the lenses or your most powerful telescopes
well polished. Better have all your Leyden
jars ready for some new pulsation OF mighty
Influence. Better have new fonts of type In
your printing o4ces to set up some stound
Ing good news. Better have some new ban
ner, that has never been carried, ready fol
sudden PROFESSIONS. Better have the bells
In your church tower well hung, and rope
within reach, that you may ring out the
marriage Of the Kings Son. Cleanse all
your court houses, for the Judge OF all the
halls be giided, for the great Lawgiver may
be about to come. Drive of the thrones OF
depotism all the occupants, for the King Of
heaven and earth may be about to reign.
The darkness of the night Is blooming M
whitening into the lilies of morning clouds,
and the lilies reddening into the roses OF
stronger day-ft garlands, whether white
or red, for Him on whose head are many
crowns. "The day is at hand"
One more ray OF the dawn l see in facts
chronological and mathematical. Come,
now, do not let us do another stroke of work
until we have settled N matter. What Is
going to be the final issue Of this great con
test between sin and r~ighteousness2 Which
is going to prove himself the stronger, God
or Diabolus? Is this world going to be all
garden or all desert2 Now lot us have that
matter settled, II we believe Isaiah, and
Ezekiel, and Hosea, and Micah, and Malachi,
ind John, and Peter, and Paul, and the Lord
Himself, we balieve that 1t Is going to be all
garden. But let US have 1t settled. Let US
know whether we are working On toward a
success or toward a dead failure. II there
Is a child in your house sick, and you are
sure he Is going to get we'll you ,sympathize
with present pains, but all the f~oreboding is
gone.
Now, l want to know whether we are com
ing on toward dismay, darkness and defeat,
or on toward light and bleesedness. You and
I believe the latter. and II 80 every year we
spend Is one year subtracted from the
worlds woe. and every event that passes,
whether bright or dark brings us one event
nearer a happy contamination, and by all
that Is memorable In chronology and mathe-
MATES, I commend you to good cheer and
courage. II there is anything 1t arith-
metic, II you subtract two from five and
leave three, then by every rolling sun we are
coming on toward a magnificent terminus.
Then every winter passed is one severity
less for our poor world. Then every sum-
mer gone by brings us nearer unfading ar
borescence. Put your algebra down on the
top of your Bible and rejoice.
II 1t is nearer morning at three O'Clock
than III at two, 1t is nearer morning at four
o'clock than 1t is at three, then we are
nearer the dawn of the worlds deliverance.
Gods clock seems to go very slowly, but the
pendulum swings and the hands move, and
Ii will yet strike noon. The sun and the
moon stood still once; they will never stand
still again until they stop forever. II you
believe arithmetic as well as your Bible, you
must believe We are nearer the dawn. The
day is al hand"
There is a class OF phenomena which
makes me think that the spiritual and
heavenly world may, after a while. make a
demonstration In this world which will
bring all mortal and spiritual things to a
climax. Now, I am no spiritualist; but
every intelligent man has noticed that
there are strange and mysterious things
which Indicate to him that perhaps the
spiritual world ia not so far of as some
times we conjecture. and that after awhile;