Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-03-09
style of man and woman the world ever

style or man and woman the world ever
saw. They will have the wit of one race
the eloquence of another race the kind
ness of another, the generosity of anoth-
er, the aesthetic taste of another, the high
moral character of another, and when
that man and woman step forth, their
brain and nerve and muscle an inter
twining of the fibers of all nationalities
nothing but the new electric photograph
ic apparatus, that can see clear through
body, mind and soul, can take of them
an adequate picture. But the foreign
population of America is less than one
eleventh of all our population, and WHY
all this fuss about foreign immigration?
Eighty -nine born Americans to II for
eigners! If 80 of us New Jerseymen or
SO of us New Workers or 80 of us
Ohioans or 80 of us Georgians or 80 of
us Yankees are not equal to IL foreign
ers, then we are starveling, lilliputian
group of humunculi that ought to be
wiped out Of existence.
Weapons of the Lord.
But now what are the weapons by
which, under our Omnipotent leader,
the real obstacles in the way of our
country's evangelization, the 10000
mile Sevastopols, are to be leveled? The
first columbiad with range enough to
sweep from eternity to eternity, is the
Bible, millions of it's copies going out,
millions or millions-this, the monarch
of books, that has made all the differ
ence between China and the United
States. between Africa and America;
hook declaring in every style of phrase
ology that all nations are to be convert
ed, and does not that include our ma
ton? If the Apocalyptic angel is to fly
across the continents, will he not fly
across this continent? The worst insult
[ could offer you would be to doubt your
veracity, and shall we doubt Gods
promise? Then there are all the gospel
batteries, manned by 20, 0G0 pastors and
home missionaries, over the head of
each one of whona;A the shield of di-
vine protection, and in the right hand
of each the cleaning, two edged sword
of the Infinite Spirit Hundreds of
thousands of private soldiers for Christ,
marching under the one starred, blood
striped flag Of Emanuel! They are
marching on! Episcopacy, with the su-
blime roll of its liturgies; Methodism,
with its battlecry of 1.-The sword of the
Lord and John Wesley the Baptist
church, with its glorious navy sailing
up our Oregons and Sacramentos and
Mississippi, and Presbyterianism, NOV
ing on with the battlecry of 1.-The
sword of the Lord and John Knox. "
And then, after awhile will come the
great tides of revival, sweeping over
the land, the 500, 600 conversions in
1857 eelipsed by the salvation of mil
lions i'll day, and the four American
armies of the Lords host marching
toward each other, the eastern army
marching west, the western army march.
ing east the northern army marching
south, the southern army marching
north. Shoulder to shoulder Tramp,
tramp, tramp! Until they meet mid
continent, having taken America fo1
God!
The thunder of the bombardment is
already i'll the air, and when the last
bridge of opposition is taken, and the
last portcullis of satan is lifted, and the
last gun spiked, and the last tower dis
mantled, and the last charger of iniquity
shall have been hurled back upon its
launches, what time of rejoicing We
will see it, not with these eyes, which
before that will be closed in blessed
sleep, but with strong and better vision,
when the Lord once in awhile gives us
a vacation among the doxologies to come
down and see the dear old land which
I pray may always be the lamb of the
text, mild and peaceful, inoffensive, but,
in case foreign nations assail it, having
two horns of army and navy strong
enough to hook them back and hook
them down and a voice louder than
dragon, yea, louder than ten thousand
thunders, saying to the pillows of Ash
attic superstition and European AFRO.
gance, "Thus far shalt thou go, and nc
farther, and here shall thy proud waves
be staid!''