The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-05-22

| full of ink and with bold hand head
the document with one significant
whereas" acknowledging the good
ness of God in the past. and begging
His kindness and protection for the
future. Why, my friends this country
belongs to God. and we ought in every
possible way to acknowledge ia
From the moment that, on an October
morning in 1909, Columbus looked
over the side Of the ship and saw the
carved staff which made him think he
was near an inhabited country, and
saw also thorn and cluster OF ber-
ries type of our history ever since.
the piercing sorrows and cluster OF ma
tional joys), until this hour our coun-
try has been bounded ON the north,
south, east and west by the goodness
of God. The Huguenots took posses
sion of the Carolinas, in the name OF
God. William Penn settled Philadel-
phia in the name Of God. The Hol-
landers took possession OF New York
in the name of God. The Pilgrim
Fathers settled in New England, in
the name of God. Preceding the first
gun Of Bunker Hill, at the voice OF
PRAYER all heads uncovered In the
war of 1912, an officer came to Gen.
Andrew Jackson and said There is
an unusual noise in the camp; it ought
to be stopped" Gen. Jackson said,
"What is the noise?" The officer said,
"It is the voice of prayer and praise"
Then the general said, GOD
forbid that prayer and praise
should be an unusual noise in
the encampment. You had better go
and join them" Prayer at Valley
Forge. Prayer at Monmouth. Prayer
at Atlanta Prayer at South Mountain.
Prayer at Gettysburg. 'Oh!'' says
some infidel. 1.-THE northern people
prayed on one side and the southern
people prayed on the other side, and
SO it did not amount to any thing"
And l have heard good Christian
people COMPOUNDED with the in
fdel statement, when it is as
plain to me as my right hand. Yes:
the northern people prayed in one ways
and the southern people prayed in an
other way, and God answered in His
own way, giving to the north the re-
esta blishment of the government, and
giving to the south larger opportuni-
ties, larger than she had ever antici-
pated, the Harvesting of her rivers in
great manufacturing interests, un~
til the Mobile and the Talla-
poosa and the Chattahoochee are
southern Merrimacs, and the
unrolling of great southern mines of
coal and iron, Of which the world knew
and opening before her OPP
portunities of wealth which will give
30 per cent, more of affluence than she
ever possessed; and instead of the
black hands of American slaves, there
are the more Industrious black hands
of the coal and iron mines of the south,
which are achieving for her fabulous
and unimagined wealth.
And there are domes OF white blossoms where
spread the white tents
And there are plows in the tracks where the
And there are songs where they lifted up Ra-
chael's lament.
There are three great reasons why
you and should do out best for this
great reasons; Our
fathers graves, our cradle, our chill
dren's birthright. When l say your
fathers graves, your pulses run quick
ly. Whether they sleep In city ceme-
terry or country graveyard, their dust
is very precious to you. l think
they lived we'll and that they
died right. Never submit to
have any government over their
tombs other than that government
under which they lived and died. And
then this country is our cradle. 1t
may have rocked us very roughly, but
it was a good cradle to be rocked in.
Oh, how much we owe to it! Our boy
hood and girlhood, it was spent in this
blessed country. never have any
patience with man who talks against
this country. Glorious place to be
born in, and glorious place to live in
It has been our cradle. Aye! it is to be
our children's birthright. You and I
will soon be through. We will, per-
haps, see few more spring blossoms,
and we will, perhaps, see a few more
summer harvests, and we will, perhaps,
gather a few more autumnal fruits;
but we are to hand this government
to our children as it was handed
to us-a free land, happy land, a
Christian land They are not to be
trampled by despotism. They are not
to be lacerated by cruelties. They are
not to be frightened by anarchies. We
must hand this government to them
over the ballot-box, over the school
desk, over the church altar, as we have
received it, and charge them solemnly
to put their life between it and any
keen stroke that would destroy it.
Go home to-day in high hopes of the