Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1896-10-09

while, / say; "Stand back. don't crowd
me- any more, or I'll strike. What right have
T you TO come here and drive ne OF nv prem
iseat GOT THIS farm from my father and he
f got Il from his father. What right have YOU
+ 10 come here aud molest me-" You blaud-
IN say: "Oh, know more than YOU do. 1
. belong to higher civilization. L cut nv
hair shorter than YOU do. [ could nut
this ground 20 a great deal better uss
than YOU d. And YOU keep crowiing me
back and cr0wning me on into the closer
. corner and closer corner, until one day
. look around upon my suffering family. and
flre3 by their huriships l hew YOU In twain.
Forthwith all the world comes to your fu-
neral to pronounce eulogium. comes 10 nv
execution 20 auathematizs me. You are ths
hero, / am the culprit. Behold the United
States Government aud the North American
Indian. The red man has stood more
wrongs than | would, o. You. We would
have struck sooner, deeper. That which
IS right In defence Of a Washington home
is right in defence Of home on ton
of the Sierra Nevada. Before this dwindlip,
red race dies completely cut, wish that
this generation might by common iustiee
atone for the inhumanity Of its predecessors.
In the day Of Gods judgment. l would
rather be a hlood-smeared MOdoc than a
swindling United States Officer on an Indian
reservation One was a barbarian and a
but barbarian and savage The other
pretended to be a representative OF Chris
tian Nation. Notwithstanding all this, the
general disgust with war and the substitu-
ton OF diplomatic skill for the glitterinp
edge Of keen steel is a sign unmistakable
that "the day is ut hand"
find another ray of dawn in the conn
preston Of the worlds distances. What a
slow, snail-like, almost impossible thing
would have been the worlds rectifcation
with fourteen hundred millions of populR-
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.
terence are shrveling up into insignifant
breyttyl Hong Kong is nearer New York
than few years ago New Haven was; Bonn
pay, Moscow, Madras, Melbourne, within
speaking distance. Purchase a Geographic
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 on
portunlty this Is going to give for the final
movements OF Christianity. A fortress NAV
be months or years in building. hut after il
Is constructed II may do all its work in TWEEN
~ minutes. Christianity has been planting
Its batteries for nineteen centuries. and NAV
80 on IN the work through other centuries,
nut when those batteries are thoroupblv
planted, those fortresses are fully built thay
may all do their work in twenty-four hours,
suppose Christ should descend on the
Nauohs-many expect that Christ will come
among the Nations personally-suppose that
tomorrow morning the Son Of GOD from n
hoverlnS cloud should descend upon these
cities. Should not thatfact,be known all the
world over IL twenty-fOur hours1 Sunnosn
lie should present His Gospel in a few words
saying; Il am the Son of God; l came to
pardon all your sins and TO heal all your sor-
row; to prove that l am supernatural
nelhg, nave Just descended from the clouds.
DO you believe Ne, and do you believe Mo
now?' Why, all the telegraph stations Of
the earth would be crowded as none OF them
We're ever crowded just after shipwreck, |
tell you all these things to show YOU It is nor
among the impossibilities or even the inn
probabilities that Christ will conquer the
whole earth, and do it instanter, when the
time comes.
There are foretokenings in the air. Some
thihg 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 10
break but mean something great for the
worlds blessing and not for the WORLDS
damage Is going to happen. / think the
world has had II hard enough. Enough, the
famines and plaques. Enough, the Asiatio
choieras. Enough, the wars. Enough, the
shlpwrecks. Enough. the con1agrations. I
think our world could stand right well a
procession of properties and triumphs,
Better be on the lookout Better have your
obserYatortes open toward the heavens, and !
the lenses or your most powerful telescopes
Wen polished. Better have all your Leyden /
Jars ready for some new pulsation OF mighty /
influence better have new fonte of typo in I
your printing offices to set up some astound- I
ing good news. Better have some new ban
npF that hna
sudden professions. Better have the bells !
IN your church tower we'll hung, and rome :
within reach, that you may ring out the .
marriage OF the Kings Son. Cleanse ali .
your court houses, for the Judge OF all the |
earth may appear. Let all your legislative f.
nails be gilded, for the great LaWgiyer NAV /
De 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--ht garands, whether white
or red, for Him on whose head are many
crowns. 1.-THE day Is at hand"
one more ray of the dawn | see In facts
chronological and mathematical. Come.
now, do not let us do another stroke of work
until we have settled one matter. What IA
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 Diabolust Is this world going to be all
garden or all desert? Now let us have that
matter settled, If We believe Isaiah. and
Ezeklei, and Hosea, and Micah, and Malachi.
ana John, and Peter, and Paul, and the Lord
Himself, We believe that 1t Is going to he ali
garden. But let us have 1t settled. Let US
know whether we are working on toward
success or toward dead failure. If there
Is ENID IN your house sick, and you are
sure he is going to get well, you sympathize
with present pains, but all the forebodingis
gone.
Now, want to know whether we are COM
ing on toward dismay, darkness and defeat
or on toward light and blessedness You and
l be!leve the latter. and II 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 happy contamination, and by all
that is memorable in chronology and mathe-
mates, commend YOU to good cheer and
courage. If there is anything it arith.
metic, If you subtract two from five and
leave three, then by every rolling sun we are
coming on toward a magnificent terminus,
lhen every winter passed is one severity
less for our poor world. Then every sum.
ner gone by brings us nearer unfading ar
Oorescence. Put your algebra down on the
OF, OF your Bible and rejoice.
LII 1t is nearer morning at three oclock
han 1t is at two, 1t is nearer morning at four
CLOCK than it Is at three, then we are
nearer the dawn of the worlds deljyerance,
Gods clock seems to go very slowly but the
pendulum swings and the hands move. and
t will yet strike noon. The sun and the
noon stood still once; they will never stand
still again until they stop forever. II Won
believe arithmetic as well as your Bible. Won
must believe we are nearer the dawn. .tThe
lay is at hand" -'
There is class of phenomena which
makes me think that the spiritual ana
heavenly world may, after while, make a
demonstration in this world which will
bring all mortal and spiritual things to a