Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-03-13
MILFORD DEL, FRIDAY, MARCH IS, 1896

I contribution Of Christian men and women
and means, In this work of taking Amer
/ ica for God2 New York city. The way
4 Paris goes, goes France. The way Berlin
goes, goes Germany. The way Edinburgh
goes, goes Scotland. The way London
I goes, COOS England. The way New York
and q couple other cities 60, goes America.
May the eternal God wake us up to the
I stupendous issuol
Another thing quoted pessimistioally is
the vast and overlapping fortunes in this
country, and they say it means concen-
tratod wealth, and luxuriousness, and dis
play and moral ruin. IL is my observation
that it is people who have but limited re-
sources who make the most splurge, and
ask you, Who are end0wing colleges and
theological seminariess Did you ever hear
Of Peter Cooper, and james Lenox, and
sainted William Il. Dodge, and the Law
rences Amos and Abbott, while l refrain
from mentioning living benefaotors who,
quite as generous and Christian, are in
this assembly at this moment planning
what they can do in these days, and in
their last will and testament in this cam
paign that proposes taking America for
Gods The widows mite honOred of the
Lord, is to have its part in this continent
that, and more right away. Many Of the
men that expect to got the blessing for
bestowing tho Widows mite Will not get
= the blessing. In the first place, they are
not widows and in the next place, they
have no might.
A Grand Assimilation.
The time is coming hasten il Lord
and think you and / Will see it, when,
for the dead Christ a costly mausOleum,
the anlueni men and women Of this coun-
try will rise in their strength and build
for our King, ono Jesus, the throne of this
American continent
Another thing quoted for discourage
ment but which l quote for encourage
ment, is foreign immigration-now that
from Castle Garden we turn back by the
first poor lip the foreign vagabondisn-
we are getting people the vast majority
of whom come to make an honest living,
among them some of the bravost and tho
best. If you should turn back from this
land to Europe the foreign ministers of
the gospel, and the foreign attorneys, and /
the foreign merchants, and the foreign
philanthrOpists, what a robbery of our
pulpits, our courtrOoms our stOrehouses /
and our beneloent Institutions, and what |
a putting back of every monetary, merci- |
full moral and religious interest Of the |
land This commingling here Of all ma
under the blessing of God will /
produce in 20 or 100 years the most mag |
nificent style of man and woman the world |
ever saw. They will have the wit of one |
race, the eloquenee of another race, the /
of another, the generosity of an
other, 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 intertwin- Z
ing of the fibers of all nationalities, moth
ing but tho new electric Photographic APP
paratus, that can see clear through body,
mind and soul, can take Of them an ade-
luate picture. But the foreign population
Of America is less than one-eleventh Of all
lur population, and why all this fuss about
'oreign immigration9 Eighty-hine Amer
cans to Il forcigDeFs If SO Of us New
Jerseymen, or 80 of us New Workers, or SO
If us Ohioans, or 80 Of us Georgians, or 80
If us Yankees, are not equal to II foreign
rs, then we are a starving lilliputian
yroup of humunculi that ought to be
wiped out of existence.