The Yale expositor., 1896-05-15

revealed 1t at the right time to the dis
coverer, and who has reared here a
prosperity which has been given to no
other people. "Ohw says some one,
there are people in this country who
do not believe in God, and 1t would be
an insult to them" Well, there are
people in this country who do not be-
lieve in common decency, or common
honesty, or any kind OF government,
preferring anarchy. Your very plat
form is an insult to them. You ought
not to regard man who does not be-
lieye in God any more than you should
regard man who refuses to believe in
common deoency. Your poeket-book is
not safe moment in the presence Of an
atheist. God is the only source Of good
government. Why not, then, say so,
and let the chairman Of the committee
on resolutions in your national conyen-
tons take pen full of Ink
and with bold hand head the
document with one significant where
as" acknowledging the goodness of God
in the past, and begging his kindness
and protection for the future. Why, my
friends, this country belongs to God,
/ and we ought in every possible way to
acknowledge it. From the moment that,
on an October morning in 1892, Column
] bus looked over the side of the ship and
saw the carved staff which made him
think he was near an inhabited coun-
try, and saw also thorn and cluster
of berries type of our history ever
since, piercing sorrows and cluster Of
national joys) until this hour our coun-
try has been bounded Oh the north,
south, east and west by the goodness
Of God. The Huguenots took posses
sion of the Carolinas, in the name Of
God. William Penn settled Philadel-
phia, in the name of God. The Hol-
landers took possession of New York,
! in the name of God. The Pilgrim
Fathers 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 Gen. Andrew
Jackson and said There is an I'M
usual noise in the camp; it ought to be
| stopped" General Jackson said, What
is the noise?" The officer said, "It is
the voice of prayer and praise" Then
the General said, God forbid that
prayer and praise should be an I'M
! usual noise in the encampment. You
had better go and join them" Prayer
at Valley Forge. Prayer at Monmouth.
Prayer at Atlanta. Prayer at South
Mountain. Prayer at Gettysburg. OH
says some infidel, "the northern people
prayed on one side and the Southern
people prayed on the other side, and so
it did not amount to anything" And
| have heard good Christian people con-
! founded with the infidel statement,
when it Is as plain to me as my right
hand. Yes; the Northern people prayed
in one way, and the Southern people
prayed in another way, and God an
swered in his own way, giving to the
| North the re-establishment of the gov
eminent, and giving to the South larger
opportunities, larger than she had ever
anticipated, the Harvesting of her
rivers in great manufacturing interests,
until the Mobile and the Tallapoosa
and the Chattahoochee are Southern
Merrimacs, and the unrolling of great
Southern mines Of coal and iron, Of
which the world knew nothing, and
opening before her opportunities Of
wealth which will give ninety-nine per
cent more of affluence 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 of the South which
are achieving for her fabulous and UNI
| imagined wealth.
And there are domes of white blossoms where
spread the white tents
And there are plouChs in the track where the
war wagons went,
And there are songs where they lifted u2
Racheps lament.
l take step further, and say that
! before the gavels of our senate and
house of representatives and our politi-
cal conventions pound adjourn nent,
there ought to be passed law or
adopted plank of intelligent helpful
ness 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 Narrows. They are this moment
taking the first full inhalation of the
free air of America. And they will con-
tinue to come as long as this country is
the lest place TO live in. You might as
we'll pass law prohibiting summer
! bees from alighting on field of bios
soming buckwheat; you might as well
prohibit the stays of the mountain from
coming down TO the derrick, as to pro-
hibit the hunger-bitten nations Of
Europe from coming to this land of
Sread-as to prohibit the people of Eng
land, Ireland, Scotland, Italy, Norway,
Sweden and Germany, working them
selves to death on small wages OH the
other side the sea, from coming to this
! land where there are the largest COM
pensations under the sun. Why did God
spread out the prairies of the Dakotas
and roll the precious ore into Colorado?
1t was that all the earth might come,
and plough, and come, and dig. Just as
long as the centrifugal force of foreign
despotism 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