The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-11-14

| YOU to como here and drive me on my prem
isesl got this farm from my father and he
cot it from his father. What right have you
! 10 come here and modest me?" You bland
ly say: "Oh, ] know more than you 90. L
belong to higher civilization. cut my
! hair shorter than you do. l could put
4 this ground to great deal better use
than you d." And you keep crowding me
back and crowding me on into the closer
| corner and closer corner, until one day l
! look around upon my suffering family. and
fired by their ardships hew You in twain.
| Forth with all the world comes to your iu-
neral to pronounce eulogium. comes to my
execution to anathematize me. You are the
| hero, am the culprit. Behold the United
States Government and the North American
Indian. The red man has stood moro
wrongs than ( would, or you. We would
have struck sooner, deeper. That which
is right in defence of Washington home
is right in defence of home on top
OF the Sierra Nevada. Before this dwindling
red race dies completely out, wish that
ibis generation might by common justice
atone for the inhumanity of its predecessors.
In the day of Gods judgment. I would
rather be blood-5meared Modoc than a
swindling United States officer on an Indian
reservation! One was a barbarian and a
savage, and never pretended to be anything
bat a barbarian and a savage. The other
pfGi6uutu W US " representative VI a OAl4o-
| tian Nation. Notwithstanding all this. the
general disgust with warRnd the substitu-
ton OF diplomatic skill for the glittering
edge Of keen steel is sign unmistakable
that "the day IS at hand"
l find another ray OF dawn in the COM
preston of the worlds distances. What a
slow, snail-Iike, almost impossible thing
would have been the worlds rectlncation
with fourteen hundred millions OF popuia-
1 \ ~ ~ ANN II n o.
but now, through telegraphy for the eye aud
telephone intimacy for the ear. and through
steamboating and railroading, the twenty
| five thousand miles of the worlds circum-
ference are shriveling up into insignlfant
breyityl Hong Kong Is nearer New York
than few years ago New Haven was; Bonn
bay, Moscow, Madras, Melbourne, within
speaking distance. Purchase telegraphlc
chart, and by the blue lines see the tele
graphs OF the lani, 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 twen-
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 twenty-four hours.
Suppose Christ should descend on the
Nations-many expect that Christ will come
among the Nations personally-suppose that
tomorrow morning the Son OF God from
lowering cloud should descend upon these
cities. Should not thatfact. be known all the
world over in twenty-four hours7 Suppose
He should present His Gospel In few words.
| saying: II nm the Son of God; I came to
pardon all your sins and TO heal all your sor-
row; to prove that / am supernatural
being, have just descended from the clouds.
Do you believe Me, and do you believe Ne
now?" Why. all the telegraph stations of
the earth would be crowded as none of them
were ever crowded just after shipwreck.
tell you all these things to show you it 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 comes.
There are foretokenings in the air. Some
thing great is going to happen. do not
think that Jupiter is going TO run us down,
or that the axle of the world Is going to
break; but mean something great for the
worlds blessing and not for the worlds
damage is going to happen. / 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 confagrattors.
think our world could stand right well
Better be on the lookout. Better have your
observatorles open toward the heavens, and
the lenses or your most powerful telescopes
well polished, Better have all your Leydea
jars ready for some new pulsation OF mighty
influence. Better have new fonts OF type in
your printing Offices to set up some astound-
ing good news. Better have some new BAL
ner, that has never been carried, ready for
sudden professions. Better have the bells
in your church tower we'll 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 ell the
earth may appear. Let all your legislative
halls be gfided, 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 and
whitening into the lilies of morning clouds,
and the lilies reddening into the roses of
stronger day-fit garlands, whether white
CT red, for Him on whose head are many
crowns. "The day is at hand"
One more ray of the dawn / see in facts
chronological and mathematical. Come,
now, do not let US do another stroke Of work
until we have settled one matter. What is
going to be the final issue Of this great con-
test between sin and righteousness? Which
is going to prove himself the stronger, God
or Diabolusl Is this world going to be all
matter settled, II we believe Isaiah, and
Ezekiel, and Hosea, and Micah, and Malachi,
and John, and Peter, and Paul, and the Lord
Himself, we believe that 1t Is going to be all
garden. But let US have it settled Let us
know whether we are working on toward a
success or toward dead failure. If there
is child in your house sick, and you are
sure he is going to get well, you sympathize
with present pains, but all the foreboding liz
gone.
Now, want to know whether we are COM
ing on toward dismay, darkness and defegt,
or on toward light and blessedness. You and
I believe the latter. and If so 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 consummation, and by all
that is memorable in chronology and mathe-
matics, commend you to good chesr and
courage. If there is anything it arith-
metic, IL you subtract two from five and
leave three, then by every rolling sun we are
coming on toward 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 It is at two, it is nearer morning at four
o'clock than it 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
it will yet strike noon. The sun and the
moon stood still once; they will never stand
still again until they stop forever If you
believe arithmetic as well as your Bible, you
must believe we are nearer the dawn. '.rhe
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