Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1896-03-12

lea for Godp New York city The way
Paris goes, goes France. Tho way Berlin
goes, goes Germany. The way Edinburgh
goes, goes Scotland. The way London
goes, goes England. The way New York
and couple other cities go, goes America
May the eternal God wake as up to tho
stupcndous issuel
Another thing quoted pessimistically Is
tho vast and overlapping fortunes in this
country, and they say 1t means concen-
tratcd wealth, and luxurousness, and dis
play and moral ruin. 1t is my observation
that 1t is people who have but limited re-
sources who make tho most splurgc, and
ask you, Who are ondowing colleges and
theological scminariesp Did you ever hear
of Peter Cooper, and James Lenox, and
sainted William +. Dodge and tho Law
rences. Amos and Abbott, while refrain
from mentioning living benefactors who,
quite as generous and Christian, are in
this assembly at this moment planning
what they can do in these days, and in
their last will and testament in this cam
paign that proposes taking America for
GodP The widows mite honored of tho
Lord, is to have its part in this continent
al capture; but wo must have more than
that, and more right away. Many of tho
bestowing tho Widows mite will not get
tho blessing In the first place, they arc
not widows, and in tho next place, they
have no might"
A Grand Assimilation.
The time is coming-hasten 1t, Lord
and think you and will see it, when,
as Joseph, tho wealthy Arimathean, gave
for tho dead Christ costly mausoloun,
the affluent men and women OF this coun-
try will rise in their strength and build
for our King, one Jesus, the throne of this
American continent.
Another thing quoted for discourage
ment, but which 1 quote for encourage
mont, is foreign immigration-now that
from Castle Garden we turn back by the
first poor ship tho foreign vagabondism-
we are getting people the vast majority
Of whom como to make an honest living,
among them some of tho bravcst and tho
best. If you should turn back from this
land to Europe the foreign ministers Of
the gospel, and the foreign attorneys and
the foreign merchants, and the foreign
philanthropists, what u robbery of our
pulpits, our courtrooms, our storehouses
and our bonofcont institutions, and what
putting back Of every monetary, merci-
full, moral and religious interest of tho
land This commingling here of all ma
tionalities under the blessing of God will
produce In 75 or 100 years the most mag
niflcont style of man and woman the world
ever saw. They will have tho wit of ono
race, the eloquence OF another race, tho
kindness OF another, the generosity of an
other, the aesthetic taste of another, tho
high moral character of another, and when
tbV man and woman stop forth, their
brain and nerve and muscle an intortwin-
ing of the 1bors of all nationalities, moth
ing but tho now electric Photographic APP
paratus, that can see clear through body,
mind and soul, can take Of them an ade-
quate picture. But the foreign population
of America is less than one-eleventh Of all
our population, and why all this fuss about
foreign immigrationY Eighty nine Amer
leans to IL foreigners! II 80 of us New
Jerscymen, or 80 of us New Yorkors, or SO
of us Ohioans or 80 of us Georgians, or SO
Of us Yankees, are not equal to | l foreign
ers, then we are starving, lilliputiun
group of humunculi that ought to BIO
wiped out Of existence.
Useful Weapons.
But now what arc the weapons by
which, under our omnipotent leader, the
cvangelization, the 10000 mile Sevasto-
polls, are to be loveledp The first columbiad,
with range enough to sweep from eternity
to eternity, is the Bible millions of its copies
going out, millions on millions-this the
monarch of books, that has made all the
difference between China and the United
States, between Africa and America; a
book declaring In every style of phraseol-
n a taI
and does not that include our nationp If
the Apocalyptic angel is to fly across the
continents, will he not fly across this con-
tinent2 The worst insult could offer you
would be to doubt your veracity, and shall
we doubt Gods promiseP Then there are
all the gospel batteries, manned by 70,0 600
pastors and homo missionaries, over the
head of each one Of whom is the shield of
divine protection, and in the right hand
of each ono tho cleaning, two edged sword
of the Infinite Splritl Hundreds of thou
sands of private soldiers for Christ, march
ing under the one starred, blood striped
flag of Emanuel They are marching on |!
Episcopacy, with the sublime roll Of its
liturgies; Methodism, with It's battlecry
OF Tho sword Of the Lord and John Wes-
ley;" the Baptist church, with Its glorious
navy sailing up our Orogons and Sacra-
Dentos and Mississippis, and Presbyterian
ism, moving on with the battlecry Of 1.-THE
sword OF the Lord and John Knox" and
then after awhile will come tho great tides
of revival, sweeping over tho land the
600, 900 conversions in 1857 oclipscd by tho
salvation Of millions in a day, and the
four American armies Of tho Lords host
marching toward each othof, tho eastern
army marching west, the western army
marching east, the northern army march
ing south, the southern army marching
north, shoulder to shoulder Tramp,
tramp, tramp, until they meet midconti-
nent, having taken America for God!
The thunder Of the bombardment is al
roady in the air and when the last bridge
of opposition Is taken and the last port.
Quilts Of satan is lifted, and the last gun
spiked, and the last tower dismantled, and
the last charge Of iniquity shall have been
hurled back upon Its launches, what a
time of rejoicing! We will SEQ 1t, not with
these eyes, which, before that, will be
closed In blessed sleep, but with strong
and better vision, when the Lord once in
awhile gives us vacation among the dox
ologies to como down and see tho dear old
land which pray may always be the lamb
Of the text, mild and peaceful, inoffensive,
but In case foreign nations assail 1t, hay
ing two horns OF ARMY and navy strong
enough to hook them back and hook them
down, and voice louder than dragon
yea louder than 10000 Misunderstanding
to the pillows OF Asiatio superstition and
European arrogance, "Thus far shalt thou
go, and no farther, and here shall thy
proud waves he staidP'