The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-10-14

yoa to como here and drive me off my prem
|! isesI I got this farm from my father and he
got it from his father. What right have you
TO como here and molest me| You bland
ly say: "Oh, know more than you do. I
belong to a higher civilization. cut my
hair shorter than you do. I could put
this ground to great deal better use
than you d." And you keep crowding me
/ buck 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 hew you in twain.
Forthwith all the world comes to your fu-
neral to pronounce eulogium, comes to my
execution to mathematics me. You are the
hero, am the culprit. Behold the United
States Government and 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 home on top
) OF the Sierra Nevada. Before this dwlndllng
red race dies completely out, wish 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 taan
| swindling United States officer on an Indian
reservation! One WIS barbarian and a
savage, and never pretended to be anything
but a barbarian and a savage. The other
| pretended to be representative OF Chris
| tian Nation. Notwithstanding all this. the
| general disgust with war and the suostltu-
ton of diplomatic skill for the clitterlng
edge Of keen steel Is sign unmistakaole
that "the day is at hand
find another ray OF dawn in the COM
preston Of the worlds distances. What a
Slow, snail-like, almost impossible thing
would have been the worlds rectflcation
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 ore shriveling up into insignlfant
| brevity! 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 1t
| is constructed it may do all its work in twen-
| ty minutes. Christianity has been planting
! its batteries for nineteen centuries, and may
| 20 on IN the work through other centuries;
| but when those batteries are thoroughly
planted, CQOS0 lOrlreSSeS aCc luiiJ uuill, lHSy
may all do their work In twenty-tour 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 q
lowering cloud should descend upon these
cities Should not that,fact be known all the
world over In twenty-four hours? Suppose
He eshould present, His Gospel in few words,
saying: "I am the Son of God; came to
pardon all your sins and to heal all your sor.
row; to prove that I am supernatural
being, have just descended from the clouds.
Do you believe Ne, and do you believe Ms
now2" Why. all the telegraph stations OF
the earth would be crowded as none OF them
tell you all these things to show youit Is not
among the impossibIlities or even the i'm
probabilities that Christ will conquer the
whole earth, and do 1t 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 world 8
damage is going to happen. l think the
world has had It hard enough. Enough, the
famines and plaques Enough. the Asiatic
l
shipwrecks. Enough, the confagratiors. /
think our world could stand right we'll q
procession of prosperities and triumphs.
Better be on the lookout. Better have your
oLservatories 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
your printing Offices to set up some astound-
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 oil the
earth may appear. Let all your legislative
halls be gilded, for the great Lawgiver may
be about to come. Drive of 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. 'The day Is at hand"
One more ray Of the dawn I see in facts
chronological and mathematical. Come,
now, do not let Us do another stroke Of work
until we have settled one matter. What Is
going to be the final issue OF this great con-
test between sin and righteousness? Which
Is going to prove himself the stronger, God
or Diabolus! Is this world going to be all
garden or all desert? 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, we believe that 1t Is going to be all
garden. But let US have 1t settled. Let Us
know whether we are working on toward q
success or toward q deal failure. II there
is child in your house sick, and you are
sure he is going to get well, You sYmpathize
with present pains, Dut all the forebodinG is
gone.
Now, I want to know whether. we are com
ing on toward dismay, darkness and defeat
or on toward light and blessedness. You anC
I 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 even
nearer happy consummation, and by al
that is inexorable in chronology and mathe
matics, commend you to good cheer ant
courage. If there is anything it arith
metic. II you subtract two from five anC
leave three, then by every rolling sun we ar
coming on toward magnificent terminus
Then every winter passed is one severit.
less for our poor world. Then every sum
mer gone by brings US nearer unfad1ng ar
borescence. Put your algebra down on tn
top OF your Bible and rejoice.
II il is nearer morning at three o'clocl
/ than it is at two, it is nearer morning at fou
o'clock than it is ut three, then we ar
nearer the dawn Of the worlds deliverance
, Gods clock seems to go very slowly. bat tn
r pendulum swings and the hands move, AM
1t will yet strike noon. The sun and th
r moon stood still once; they will never stant
, still again until they stop forever. If yo'
believe arithmetic as we'll as your Bible, yo,
, must believe We are nearer the dawn. 9Th
; day Is at hand"
. There is a class OF phenomena ,whic