Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1896-10-09

me any more, or I'll strike. what right nave
you TO como here and drive me on my prem
isesi got this farm from my father and ne
| got it from his father. What right nave you
10 come here and modest me?" You bland
| ly say: ooh, know more than you GO.
belong to a higher civilization. l cut my
hair shorter than you do. could put
this ground to great deal petter use
than you do" And you keep crowding me
back and crowding me on into the closer
corner and closer corner, until one DAY
look around upon my suffering family, and
fired by their hardships 1 hew you in twain.
| Forthwith all the world comes to your lu-
neral to pronounce eulogium. comes to my
execution to anathematize me. You are the
hero, l am the culprit. Behold the United
States Government aud the North American
Indian. The red man has stood more
wrongs than would, or you. We would
have struck sooner, deeper. That which
is right in defence of Washington home
| is right in defence of 20 top
OF the Sierra Nevada. Before lis ldling
red race dies completely OUT, w4sn that
this generation might by common justice
atone for the inhumanity of its predecessors.
In the day Of Gods judgment, | would
rather be blood-smeared Modoc than a
swindling United States officer on an Indian
reservation One was barbarian and
savage, and never pretended to be anything
but barbarian and saw" The other
| pretended to be representative OF a Chris
tian Nation. Notwithstanding all this. the
| general disgust with war and the substltu-
ton OF diplomatic skill for the glittering
edge of keen steel is sign unmistakable
that "the day is at hand"
find another ray Of dawn In the COM
preston of the worlds distances. What
slow, snail-like, almost impossible thing
would have been the worlds rectl6cation
with fourteen hundred millions of popula-
ton and no facial means OF communication;
| but now, through telegraphy for the eye and
telephone intimacy for the ear, and through
steamboating and railroading, the twenty
| five thousand miles OF the worlds circum-
ference are shriveling up into insignlfant
| brevityl Hong Kong Is nearer New York
than few years ago New Haven was; Bonn
| bay, Moscow, Madras, Melbourne, within
speaking distance. Purchase telegraphic
chart, and by the blue lines see the tele
graphs OF the land, and by the red lines the
cables under the ocean. You see what op-
portunity this is going to give for the final
| movements of Christianity. A fortress may
be months or years In building but after it
is constructed it may do al its work In twen-
ty minutes. Christianity has been planting
| its batteries for nineteen centuries, and may
! go on In the work through other centuries;
| but when those batteries are thoroughly
| planted, those fortresses are fully built, they
! may all do their work in twenty-four hours.
| Suppose Christ should descend on the
Nations-many expect that Christ will come
among the Nations personally-suppose that
tomorrow morning the Son Of God from
lowering cloud should descend upon these
cities Should not that,fact be known all the
world over in twenty-four hours7 Suppose
Heshould present His Gospel in q few lords,
saying: II am the Son Of God; came to
pardon all your sins and to heal all your sOr-
row; to prove that l am supernatural
being, have just descended from the clouds.
Do you believe Ne, and do you believe Ma
now?" Why. all the telegraph stations Of
the earth would be crowded as none Of them
were ever crowded just after a shipwreck. l
tell you all these things to show you it is not
among the impossibilities or even the i'm
probabilities that Christ will conquer the
whole earth, and do it instanter, when the
time comes.
There are foretokenings in the air. Some
thing great is going to happen. do not
think that Jupiter is going to run US down,
or that the axle OF the world Is going TO
break; but mean something great for the
worlds blessing and not for the worlds
damage is going to happen. think the
world has had 1t hard enough. Enough, the
famines and plaques. Enough. the Asiatic
choeras Enough, the wars. Enough, the
shipwrecks. Enough the confagratiors. /
think our world could stand right we'll
procession of properties and triumphs.
Better be on the lookout. Better have your
oLservatores open toward the heavens, and
the lenses or your most powerful telescopes
we'll polished. Better have all your Leyden
jars ready for some new pulsation OF mighty
influence. Better have new fonts OF type In
nrinfi0O offices TO set RStOUDft-
ing good news Better have some new ban
ner, that has never been carried, ready for
sudden professions. Better have the bells
in your church tower we'll hung, and rope
within reach, that you may ring out the
marriage of the Kings Son. Cleanse all
your court houses, for the Judge OF all the
earth may appear. Let all your legislative
halls be gilded. for the great Lawgiver may
be about to come. Drive off the thrones OF
depotism all the occupants, for the King of
heaven and earth may be about to reign.
The darkness of the night is blooming and
whitening into the lilies of morning clouds,
and the lilies reddening into the roses of
stronger day-ft garlands, whether white
or red, for Him on whose head are many
crowns. 1.-THE day is at hand
Ore more ray of the dawn l see in facts
chronological and mathematical. Come,
now do not let us do another stroke Of work
going to be the final issue Of this great con-
test between sin aud righteousness? Which
is going to prove himself the stronger, God
or Dabolusl Is this world going TO be all
garden or all desert2 Now let US have that
matter settled, If we believe Isaiah, and
Ezekiel, and Hosea, and Micah, and Malachi,
and John, and Peter, and Paul. and the Lord
Himself, wa believa that 1t is - "a - all
garden. But let rs have Ii set,l.1. - US
know whether we are working on toward a
success or toward a deaf failure. If there
is child in your house sick, and you are
sure he Is going to get WE'LL you sympathize
with present pains, Dut all the foreboding s
gone
ing on toward dismay, darkness and defeat,
or on toward light and blessedness. You and
believe the latter. and il so every year we
spend is one year subtracted from the
worlds woe. and every event that passes,
whether bright or dark, brings us one event
nearer "a happy consummation, and by all
that is inexorable in chronology and mathe-
MATES, commend you to good cheer and
courage If there is anything 1t arith-
metic. if you subtract two from five and
leave three, then by every rolling sun we are
coming on toward magnificent terminus.
Then every winter passed is one severity
less for our poor world. Then every sum-
,ner gone by brings US nearer unfading ar
borescence. Put your algebra down on the
top Of your Bible and rejoice.
=. IS nearer morning at three o'clock
than II is at two, it Is nearer morning at four
o'clock than it is at three, then we are
nearer the dawn Of the worlds deliyerance.
Gods clock seems to go very slowly. but the
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