Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-10-07
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yonder, under the large tree, my father died.
An invader comes, and proposes to drive me
of end take possession Of my property. Hs
crowds me back. he crowds me on. and
a while. cay: ''Stand back, don't crowd
me any more, or I'll strike. What right have
you TO como here and drive me Oh my prem
isesi got this farm. from my father and he
got 1t from his father. What right have you
" say: aoh, / know more than You do.
belong to a higher civilization. I cut my
hair shorter than you do. I could put
this ground to q great deal better uso
than you d." And you keep crowding me
back and crowding me on into the closer
corner and closer corner, until one day ]
fred by their hardships hew you in twain.
Forthwith all the world comes to your fu.
neral to pronounce eulogium. ssmes to my
execution to anAthematize me.-Tou are the
hero. am the culpsff. Behold the United
States Government and the North American
Indian. The red man has stood more
wrongs than I would, or you. We would
have struck sooner, deeper. That which
is right in defence of q Washington home
n right In defence of a home on top
OF the sisr.. Nevada. Before this dwindling
red race dies completely out, wish that
this generation might by common justice
atone for the inhuman,ty Of its predecessors.
In the day OF Gods judgment. I would
rather be q blood-5meared MOdoo than q
swindlinR United States offlcer on an Indian
savage, and never pretended to be anything
but . barbarian and Q savage. The other
pretended to be . representative OF a Chris.
tian Nation. Notwithstanding all this. the
general disgust with war and the substitu-
tion Of diplomatic skill for ths glittering
edge of keen steel fs q 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 rectidcation
with fourteen hundred millions of popula-
ton and NO facial means OF communication:
but now. through teiegraphy 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 insignfant
brevity! Hong Kong is nearer New York
than few years ago New Haven was; Bonn
bay, Moscow, Madras, Melbourne, within
speaking distance. Purchase q telegraphie
chart, and by the blue lines see the tele
graphs OF the land, and by the red lines the
cables under tho ocean. You see what op.
portunity this is going to give for the final
be months or years In building, but after 1t
Is constructed 1t may do all 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 q
lowering cloud should descend upon these
cities. Should not thatfact. be known all the
world over In twenty-four hours? Suppose
Heshould present His Gospel in few words,
saying: II am the Son OF Hod; / came to
pardon all your sins and to heal all your sor-
row; to prove that l am q supernatu ural
being, have Just descended from the clouds.
Do you believe Me, and do you believe Ms
now?" Why. all the telegraph stations OF
the earth would be crowded as none Of them
we're ever crowded just after q shipwreck.
tell you all these things to show you 1t Is not
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,
break; but l mean something great for the
worlds blessing and not for the worlds
damage Is going to happen. l think the
world has had 1t hard enough. Enough, the
famines and plaques. Enough. the Asiatic
choleras. Enough, the wars. Enough, the
SQ1pWE6ckS. EuOuHu, tuo cOuuagfdtlOTS. 1
think our world could stand right we'll
procession of prosperities and triumphs.
Better be on tho lookout. Better have your
Observatories open toward the heavens, and
the lenses or your most powerful telescopes
well polished. Better have all your Leyden
influence. Better have new fonts of type iD
your printing o1ces to set up some astOund-
ing good news. Better have some new ban
ner, that has never been carried, ready fof
sudden processions. 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 gtlded. 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 aud
whitening into the lilies Of morning clouds,
and the lilies reddening into the roses OF
stronger day-ft gsrlands, whether white
or red, for Him on whose head are many
crowns. 1.-THE day is at hand"
One more ray OF the dawn I see in facts
chronological and mathematical. Come,
now. do not let VI do another stroke of work
until We have settled one matter. What Is
going to be tbs final Issue Of this great con-
test between sin and righteousness? Which
is going to prove himself the stronger God
or DiabolusI Is this world going to be all
garden or all desert2 Now let US have iha,
matter settled, II we believe Isaiah, ami
Ezekiel, and Hosea, and Micah, and Malachi,
und John, and Peter, and Paul, and the Lord
Himself, We believe that 1t Is going to be all
garden. But let US have 1t settlod. Let US
know whether We are working on toward a
success or toward a deaf failure. II there
ts a child in your house sick, and you are
sure he II going to get well. you sympathizs
III
gone.
Now, want to know whether we are COM
ing on toward dismay, darkness and defeat,
or on toward light and blessedness. You and
believe the latter and II so every year we
spend 10 one year subtracted from the
whether bright or dark, brings US one event
nearer a happy consummstion, and by all
that is inexorable In chronology and mathe-
matics, I commend you to good cheer and
courage. II there Is anything 1t arith-
metic. II you subtract two from five and
coming on toward Q magnificent terminus.
Then every winter passed Is one severity
less for our poor world. Then every SUM-
mer gone by brings Us nearer unfading ar.
borescence. Pat your algebra down on the
top OF your Bible and rejoice.
II 1t is nearer morning at three O'Clock
than 1t is at two, 1t Is nearer morning at foui
o'clock than 1t is at three, then we are
nearer the dawn OF the worlds deliverance
Gods clock seems to 60 very slowly. but the
pendulum swings and the hands move, and
1t will yet strike noon. The sun and the
moon stood still once; they will never stand
still again until they stop forever. II you
believe arithmetic as well as your Bible, you
must believe we are nearer the dawn. .'Ths
day is at hand"
There is Q class OF phenomena which
makes me think that the spiritual and
heavenly world may. after q while. make
demonstration in this world which will
bring all mortal and spiritual things to
climax. Now, I am NO spfrituaiist; but
every Intelligent man has noticed that
there are strange and mysterious things