Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-05-11

can do its duty unless it acknowledges
that Gcd who built this continent and
/ revealed it at the right time to the dis
coyerer. and who has reared here a
prosperity which has been given TO no
other people. "Oh," says some one,
"there are people in this country who
do not believe i'll a God, and it would
be an insult to them" Well, there are
people in this country who do not be-
| lieye in common dece,4cy, or common
honesty, or any kind Of government,
| preferring anarchy. Your very platform
| is an insult to them. You ought not to
regard a man who does not believe in
| God any more than you should regard
| man who refuses to believe in common
| decency. Your pocketbook is not safe
moment in the presence of an atheist.
God is the only source Of good govern
ment. Why not, then, say SO and let
the chairman of the committee on reso-
buttons in your national conventions
take a pen full of ink and with bold
hand head the document with one sig
nifcant whereas, acknowledging the
goodness Of God in the past and beg
ging his kindness and protection for
the future. Why, my friends, this coun-
try belongs to Gcd and we ought in ev-
cry possible way to acknowledge it.
From the moment that, on an October
morning in 1892, 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 a cluster of berries (type of
our history ever since, the piercing sor-
rows and cluster of national joys), until
this hour our country has been bounded
on the north, south, east and west by
the goodness of God. The Huguenots
took possession of the Carolinas in the
name of God. William Penn settled
Philadelphia in the name of God The
Hollanders took possession of New York
in the name of God. The pilgrim ia
theirs settled 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
General Andrew jackson and said :
''There is an unusual noise in the camp.
1t ought to be stopped. General Jack
son said, what is the noise?'' The
officer said, cit is the voice of prayer
and praise. - Then the general said:
'tGod forbid that prayer and praise
should be an unusual noise in the en-
campment. You had better go and join
them" Prayer at Valley Forge. Prayer
at Monmouth. Prayer at Atlanta. Pray
er at South Mountain. Prayer at Gettys-
burg. "Oh, says some infidel, "the
northern people prayed on one side, the
the southern people prayed on the other
side, and SO it did not amount to any
thing!' And | have heard good Chris
tian people COMPOUNDED with the infide
statement, when it is as plain to me &a
my right hand Yes, the northern pee
pie prayed in one way, and the southern
people prayed in another way, and [ {
answered in his own way, giving to t:
north the establishment of the gov
eminent and giving to the south larg
opportunities, larger than she had eve
anticipated-the Harvesting of her rivers
in great manufacturing interests, unti
the Mobile and the Tallapoosa and liz
Chattahoochee are southern Merrimac
and the unrolling of great southern
mines Of coal and iron of which tho
world knew nothing, and opening be
fore her opportunities of wealth which
will give 80 per cent more Of aff1uenc
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 CT the
south, which are achieving for her fab
ulous and unimagined wealth.
And there are domes of white blossoms where
spread the white tents,
And there are plows in the track where the
war wagons went,
And there songs where they lifted UP
Racheps lament.
Lincoln's Prayer.
Oh, you are stupid man if you do
not understand how God answered
Abraham Lincoln's prayer in the White
House, and Stonewall jackson prayer
in the saddle, and answered all the
prayers of all the cathedrals Gu beth
sides of Mason and Dixon's line Gods
country all the way past, Gods country
now! Put his name in your prOnuncia
mentos Put his name on your ensigns!
Put his name on your city and state
and national enterprises! Put his name
in your hearts. We cannot sleep well
the last sleep until we are assured that
the God of our American institutions i'll
the past will be the God of our Ameri-
can institutions in the days that are to
come. Oh, when all the rivers that emp
ty into Atlantic and Pacific seas shall
pull on factory bands; when all the
great mines of gold and silver and iron
and coal shall be laid bare for the ma
ton; when the last swamp shall be re-
claimed, and the last jungle cleared,
and the last American desert Edenized,
and from sea to sea the continent shall
be occupied by more than 1, 900, 900, OO0
souls, may it be found that moral and
religious influences were multiplied in
more rapid ratio than the population!
And then there shall be four doxologies
coming from north and south and east