The evening times., 1896-11-26

rel of meal has not wasted nor the cruise of
| oil failed.
You may not possess all these blessings
! OF paror and drawing room and library and
dining hail, but still you all know some
IhID=. "a 1iIr agI-nu, auI uritn anu length
and breadth ~ thal sweet, Tender. Joyous,
triumphant Home Look not upon 1t mere
II as place To stay, as the lion looks upoa
| his iair or the iUx nis Durrow or the eagle
his eyre.
Call IL not your RESIDENCE or your
house or your lodging or your ''domt-
ciie.'' but Tor the sake OF your father and
mother, whether here or translated; for
the sake of your childhood, for the sake
OF the dead. for the sake OF all that Is
beautiful and true and blessed, call 1t
Home
Look abroad and see this great country.
For these many years, whose hand has
turned back from our land the violence Uf
plaques which have swept with their train
OF terror through other countries? VINO has
grown in our fields harvests richer thGp
siCilian or Russian grain fields?
THE GENESIS OF THE NATION.
Who hath raised our national enterprise
to beat back wildernesses and plant town
after town, till every eleam of the waves
on the lakes 5 answered by the gleaIn or
city fires, and the roar OF the ocean ut one
side of the harbor has been answered by the
din OF Il great metropolis at the other.
Something higher than the American
plow cultured the harvest, something
sharper than the Americanaxe hewed 'ioyn
the American forests, something heavier
than the American hammer built the city.
He who walked Galilee hath traversed our
lakes He who helped Simon Peter with
his net hath blessed our fisheries He who
plucked the golden ears of corn, rubbing
them in His hands, hath helped to gather
..ttr hpF Ha no flr rt..h AZ R.afI my
hath set all around about us the villages.
Not ships keel, but He helped launch il.
Not 4 wheels tire, but He helped forge it
or blossom, but He helped to grow it;
or robbins wing, but He tiDged it.
To inspire our poets and kindle The
painters emotion, we have stupen.lous
mountains rolling up from tableland to
tableland, higher and higher, SCARED
with great agonies of ruin. and heights
with forests, where God drops the meat
into the eagles eyrie, while in twisted,
cloven sheets Of silver, come down the
torrents. agleam and adash and afJam,
tangled under rocks moist and century
rusted, while elsewhere the student Of IA
ture may find awful cataracts which stand
in walls OF byrl and amethyst and Jasper,
rumbling like thunder and flashing like
fire. then plunging into unfathomed abyss,
from which comes up the wall of their
despair and mists that Seem like the
and ever.
FREEDOM OF wORSHIPS.
l also rehearse her civil and religious
liberties. While thousands Of our fellow
men are In bondage and ruled by despot-
ism, we worship God in our own way,
and no official spies watch our entrance,
nor doth an armed soldiery interfere with
our honest utterance of truth. We stand
here today with our arm free To work,
our head free TO think, and our tongue
free to speak.
This Bblel See, it is all unclasped. This
pulpit. There is no chain around about it,
There is no snap OF musketry in the street.
Blessed be God, that today We are freemen,
with the prospect and determination OF al
ways being free.
We have no state religion. 1 glory in the
fact that there is not on all our statute
books one law that gives advantage to one
sect above another. All are equal in the
sight OF the law-Israelite and Gentiie Ar
menian and Calvinist, Trinitarian and Uni
tartan. Protestant and Catholic-and il
time of persecution should come in this
country arms would be strong and hearts
would be stout and blood would be free
and he'll would he baked. and the right OF
man to worship God would be ackno wledged,
though 1t We're at the point OF the bayonet
Aye! Overlapping all other brightness,
a coming heaven for all who through Christ
the Lord seek it. At that Thanksgiving
table many of our loved ones are already
seated.
They will keep place for us right beside
them, and after awhile we will go in and
take it, and though today we sorely and
tearfully miss them from our homes here
the present separation will make the final
reunion more eXultant.
Therefore. praise God, the L ord, all
Ships, all houses, all churches, all lands,
all seas, all earth, all heaveni
After we have sung one more hymn. we
will adjourn for dinner, and declare If in
all this assem- bly, there are any who have
nothing to eat, and they will come around
to my house No. 400 Massachusetts, ave-
nue., will provide them with means for a
good dinner. if it should take the last po-
tato Ind the last turkey wing off my table
Instruments Not Injured.