Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-03-14

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that is to take America for God. Hosan-
nal Hosanna! Wave all the palm
branches AT his feet put down your sill
yer and your gold, as in heaven you
will cast before him your coronets.
The Leader Assures Victory.
With such leader, do you not think
we can do it? Say, do you think we can?
Why, many ramparts have already been
taken. Where is American slavery?
Gone, and the south, as heartily as the
north, prays, "Peace to its ashes. "
Where is bestial polygamy? Gone by the
fat of the United States government,
urged on by Christian sentiment, and
Mormonism, having retreated i'll 1880
from Fayette, N. Y, to Kirkland, O.,
and in 1888 retreated to Missouri, and
in 1916 retreated to Salt Lake City, now
divorced from its superfluity of wives,
will soon retreat into the Pacific, and
no basin smaller than an ocean could
wash out it's pollutions. Illiteracy 60
ing down under the work of Slater and
Peabody funds and Sabbath schools of
all the churches of all denominations
Pugilism, now made unlawful by con-
gressional enactment, the brutal custom
knocked out in the first round Corrup-
ton at the ballot box, by law of regis
tration and other safeguards, made al
most impossible! Churches twice as
large as the old ones, the enlarged sup
ply to meet the enlarged demand Nj
hilism, getting stunning stroke by the
summary execution Of its opponents after
they had murdered the policemen in
Chicago, received its deathblow from
the recent treaty which sends back to
Russia the blatant criminals who had
been regurgitated OIL our American
shore The very things that have been
quoted as perils to this nation are going
to help its salvation. Great cities, so
often mentioned as great obstacles-the
center of crime and the reservoirs of all
iniquities-are to lead in the work of
gospelization Who give most to home
missions, to asylums, to religious edu-
cation, to all styles of humanitarian
and Christian institutions? che cities.
From what places did the most relief
20 at the time of Johnstown food, and
Michigan fires, and Charleston earth
quake, and Ohio freshets? From the
cities From what place did Christ send
ont his IL apostles to gospelize the world!
From a city. What place will do more
than any other place, by its contribution
of Christian men and women and means,
in this work of taking America for God?
New York city. The way Paris goes,
goes Trance The way Berlin goes. goes
Germany. The way Edinburgh goes,
goes Scotland. The way London goes,
goes England. The way New York aud
a couple other cities go, goes America.
May the Eternal God wake US up to the
stupendous issue
JOY of Giving.
Another thing quoted pessimistically
is the vast and overlapping fortunes il
this country, and they say it means
concentrating wealth and luxuriousness
and display and moral ruin. 1t is my
observation that it is people who have
but limited resources who make the
most splurge and ask you, Who are en-
downing colleges and theological semi
naries? Did you ever hear of Peter Coop
or and James Lenox, and sainted Will
liam E. Dodge, and the Lawrences,
Amos and Abbott, while I refrain from
mentioning living benefactors who,
quite as generous and Christian, are III
this ass emily at this moment planning
what they can do in these days, and in
their last will and testament in this
campaign that proposes taking America
for God? The widows mite, honored of
the Lord, is to have its part in this con-
tinental capture, but we must have
more than that, and more right away.
Many of the men that expect to get the
blessing for bestowing the widows mite
will not get the blessing. In the first
place, they are not widows, and in the
next place, they have no might. "
The time is coming-hasten it, Lord
and I think you and will see it,
when, as Joseph, the wealthy Arima-
thaan, gave for the dead Christ costly
mausoleum, the affiuent men and wom-
en- of this country will rise in their
strength and build for our King, one
Jesus, the throne of this American con-
tinent.
Another thing quoted for discourage
ment, but which quote for encourage
ment, is foreign immigration. Now that
from Castle Garden we turn back by
the first poor ship the foreign yagabond-
ism, we are getting people, the vast
majority of whom come TO make an
honest living, among them some Of the
bravest and the best If you should turn
back from this land to Europe the for
eign ministers of the gospel, and the
foreign attorneys, and the foreign mer-
chants, and the foreign philanthropists,
what robbery of our pulpits, cur court
rooms, our storehouses and our beneti-
cent institutions, and what putting
back of every monetary, mereiful, moral
and religious interest Of the land !! This
commipsling here of all nationalities
under the blessing Of God will produce
in IS or 100 years the most magnificent
style of man and woman the world ever
Jaw. 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 SO of us
Ol,;o,nc or 80 of ne GeOrQians or SO of