Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-05-16

| try belongs 10 UOQ, ana we OuSnG LII ef-
cry possible way to acknowledge it.
From the moment that on an October
morning In 1902, 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
q thorn and 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 i'll 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. Tie 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, "Wlat is the noise?" The
officer said, cit is the voice of prayer
and praise" Then the general said:
"God 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 irfidel, "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 I have heard good Chris
tian people COMPOUNDED with the infidel
statement, when it is as plaih>to me as
my right hand. Yes, the northern peo-
pie prayed in one way, and the southern
people prayed in another way, and Gcd
answered i'll his own way, giving to the
north the establishment of the gov
eminent and giving to the south larger
opportunities larger than she had ever
anticirA;cd-the Harvesting Of her rivers
in greet manufacturing interests, until
the Mobile ard the Tallapoosa and the
! Chattahocchce are southern Merrimacs
and the unrolling of great southern
J mines Of coal and iron, of which the
world knew nothing, and opening be-
fore her opportunities Of wealth which
will give 90 per cent mere CT affluence
than she ever possessed, and, instead of
the black hands Of Am "''ican slaves,
there are the more industrious black
hands of the coal and iron mines Of the
south, which are achieving for her fab
ulous and unimagined wealth.
And there are domcs Of white blossoms where
spread the white tents,
And there are plows Ill the track where the
war wagons went,
And there are songs where they lifted up
- -.dchels lament.
Lincoln's Prayer.
Oh, you are a stupid man if you do
not understand how God answered
Abraham Lircolns prayer in the White
House, and Stonewall Jackson's prayer
in the saddle, and answered all the
prayers Of all the cathedrals On both
sides Of Mason and Dixon's line! Gods
country all the way past, Gods country
now! Put his name i'll your pronuncia-
! mentos. Put his name on your ensignsl
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 in
the past-will be the God of our Ameri-
can institutions III the days that are to
come. Oh, when all the rivers that emp
ty into Atlantic ard 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 1000, 900, 900
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
and west, four doxologies rolling to-
ward each other and meeting midcon-
tinent with such dash of holy JOY that
they shall mount to the throne
And heaven s high arch resound again
With peace earth, good will to men.
take a step farther and say that
before the gavels of our senate and
house of representatives and our politi-
cal conventions pound adjournment
there ought to be passed law OF adopt
ed a plank of intelligent helpfulness
for the great foreign populations which
are coming among us. 1t is too late now
to discuss whether we had better let
them come. They are here. They are
coming this moment through the Mar
rows. They are this moment taking the
first full inhalation of the free air Of
America. And they will continue to
come as long as this country is the best
place to live i'll.
You might as well pass law prohib-
iting summer bees from alighting Oh a
field of blosscming buckwheat; you
might as well prohibit the stays of the
mountains from coming down to the
deer lick, as to prohibit the hunger bit
ten nations of Europe from coming to
this land CT brcad-as to prohibit the
people of England, Ireland, Scotland
Italy, Norway, Sweden and Germany
working themselves to death on small
wages on the other side the sea-from
coming to this land where there are the
largest compensations under the sun.
Why did God spread out the prairies OF
the Dakotas and roll the precious Gre
into Colorado? 1t was that all the
earth might come and pillow, and come
and dig. Just as long as the centrifugal
force of foreign despotisms throws them
off just so long will the centripetal
force of American institutions draw
them here. And that is what is going
to make this the mightiest nation on
the earth mtermarriage Of nationall-
ties, not circle intermarrying circle
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