The free press., 1896-03-26

7 This audience hundreds OF men and women
would, If need be, march out and die for
Him.
Am too confident in saying, America
for God?" If the Lord will help me, l will
show the strength and extent of the long
line OF fortresses to be taken aud give you
my reasons for saying it can be done and
will be done. Let us decide, in this battle
for God, whether we are at Bull Run or at
Gettysburg Tnere is Fourth of Julyish
way Of Dragging about this country, and the
most tired and plucked bird that ever flew
through the heavens is the American eagle,
so much so that Mr.. Gladstone said to me
facetiously at Hawarden, II hear that the
fish in your American lakes are so large that
when one of them is taken out the entire
lake is perceptbly lowered" and at dinner
given in Paris an American offered for a
sentiment, Here is to the United States
bounded on the north by the aurora borealis,
on the south by the procession of the equi-
noxes, on the east by primeval cnaos and on
the west by the day of judgment" The ef
feet OF such grandiloquence is to discredit
the real facts which are so tremendous they
need no garnishing The worst thing to do
in any campaign, military or religious, is to
underestimate an enemy, and will have no
part in such attempt at belittement.
This land to be taken for God, according
to HasSe. the statistician. has Ia 2I9, 1867
square miles, width and length that none
but the Omniscient can appreciate. Four
Europes put together and capable of holding
and feeding, as it will hold and feed. accord
ing to Atkinson, the stalistician if the world
continues in existence and does not run afoul
of some other world or get consumed by the
fires already burning in the cellars OF tho
planet-capable, say. of holding and .sed-
ing more than 600, 900 900 inhabitants. For
you must remember 1t must be h9id for God
as we'll as taken for God, and the last 5OO,-
900, 900 inhabitants must rot be allowed to
swamp the religion OF the first 500 OOO, ,O00
Not much use in taking the fortress If we
cannot hold it. 1t must be held until the
archaNsels trumpet bids living and dead
arise from this laundering planet.
You must remember it is only about Z
o'clock in the morning of our Nations life
Great cities are to flash and roar among
what are called the "Bad Lands" of the Da-
kotas and the great Columbian plains' of
Washington State, and that on which we put
our schoolboy fingers on the map and spelled
out as the "Great American DESERT is,
through systematic and consummating irri-
cation, to bloom like Chatsworth Park and
be made more productive than those regions
dependent upon uncertain and spasmodic
rainfall. All those regions, as we'll as all
those regions already cultivated. to be in
habited That was sublime thing said by
Henry Clay while crossing the Allegheny
Mountains, and he was waiting for the stage
horses to be rested, as he stood on rock,
arms folded, looking off into the valley, and
some one said to MIN. 'Mr. Clay, what are
you thinking about?' He replied, II am
listening to the oncoming tramp of the fu-
fure generation of America"
Have you laid our home missionary scheme
on such an infnitude of scaley If the work
OF bringing one soul to God is so great, can
1000, 900 be captured? In this country,
already planted and to be overcome, pagan
ism has built its altar to Brahma, and the
Chinese are already burning incense in their
temples, and Mohammedanism, drunk in
other days with the red wine of human blood
at Lucknow and Cawnpur and now fresh
from the diabolism in Armenia, is trying to
| get foothold here, and from the minarets of
her mosques will yet humble her blasphe-
mics, saying. "God is great, and Mohammed
Is His prophet" Then there are the vaster
muititudes with DO religion at all. They
worship no God, they live with no consola-
non, and they die with no hope No star oi
peace points down to the manger in which
they are born, and no prayeris uttered over
the grave into which they sink. Then there
Is alcoholism, its piled up demijohns and
beer barrels and hogsheads OF fiery death. a
barricade high and long as the Alleghenie.
and Rockies and Sierra Nevadas. pourine
forth day and night their ammunition O
wretchedE IS and woe. When a German
wants to taNe a drink. he takes beer. Wher
an Englishman wants to take drink, b,
takes ale. When Scotchman wants to tax,
a drink. he takes whisky. But when al
American wants to take drink hetakes any
thing he can lay his hands ON.
Plenty of statistics totell how much none,
is spent in this country for rum, and how
many drunkards die. But who will give IL
the statistics of how many hearts are crushed
under the heel of this worst demon of tn,
centuries2 How many hopes blasted2 How
many children turned out on the world ac
cursed with the stigma of a debauched an
cestrY! Until the worm of the distillery be
comes the worm that never dies and tn,
smoke OF the heated wine watts becomes tn,
smoke of the torment that ascendeth up for
ever and ever! Alcoholism, swearing-no
with hand uplifted toward heaven, for from
that direction it can get no help, but will
right hand stretched down toward the per
dition from which it came up--swearlng tina
| 1t Will not cease as long as there are an,
homesteads to despcil, any magnificent mel
and women to destroy. any immortal soul
to damn. any more Nations TO baik, any
more civilizations to eXtinguish.
Then there is what in America we ca,
socialism. in France communism and IL
Russia nihtlism. the three names for one anC
the same thing, and having but two doc
trines in its creed. First, there is no God
second. there shall be no rights of property
One OF their chief journals printed this senti
J ment: Dynamite can be made out Of thu
dead bodies of capitalists as well as out o
| hogs" One of the leaders of communism
left inscribed on his prison wall where ht
had been justly incarcerated, these words
when once you are dead, there is an end o
everything. Therefore, ye scoundrels, grai
whatever you can-only don't let yourselve
be grabbed. Amen" There are in th
country hundreds of thousands of these laz,
scoundrels. Honest men depIore 1t whei
they cannot get work, but those OF whom
speak will not do work when they can get it
triec to employ one who asked me fol
none | said. Down in my cellar hav
some wood TO saw. and / will pay you 70
it. For little while heard the saw 20
ing. and then | heard Il no more. / wen