The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-10-23


war bstWcen Christian Nations D. ended.
Aaflhflan8 may mix their war punt, and
tlunco and japanese go into wholesale
maaaheres, aud Afghan aud Zulu hurI noie-
oned arrows, bul J think Christian Nations
have gradually learned that war b disaster
60 victor o. Well as yanqalshod, and THAI nl.
most anything bought bY blood 81 bought nt
TOO dear price. 4 wish 90 God this Nation
might De model on willingness Tor nrhItrn.
ton. No iced OF killing another Indian. No
need OF sacrificing any more bravo General
clusters. STOP exaaporalng the red men. and
tnero VIII % no more arrows anot Out from
the adjustments. A General Of the United
States Army IA high reputo throughout this
land and who, perhaps, had been IN more
indian wara than any other oilleer, and who
had been wounded a9ain and again in behalf
Of our Government IA battle against the In-
dians, told me that an the wars that had
ever occurred between Indians aud white
men had been provoked By white men, and
that there was no exception 70 the rule.
While we are arbltratng with Christian Ma
tons let us toward bafbarlans carry our
selves 10 o manner uuprovoca tive pr eon-
Lot me put myself IN their place. In
merit y large estate, aud the waters are rich
with fish, and the woods ara songful with
birds, and my eornnelds are silker and
I
yonder, under the large tree, my father died.
An invader comes, and proposes TO drive me
on ana take possession OF my property. He
crowds me back. he crowds me on, and
crowds me into a closer corner, until, after
while, / say; "Stand back, don't crowd
me any more. or I'll strike What right have
| you 70 como here and drive me of my prem
| isest got this farm from my father and he
/ got Il from his father What right have you
40 ~ a 4
| " say; "Oh, ! know more than you do.
belong to higher civilization. 1 cut my
hair shorter than you do. / could put
| this ground to a great deal better use
! than you do" And you keep orowding me
back and crowdlng mo on into the closer
l corner and closer corner, until one day j
look around upon my suffering family. aud
/ fired by their hardships hew you In twain.
Forthwith all the world comes to your fu-
neral 10 pronounce euloglum, comes to my
execution TO mathematics me. You are the
hero, l am the culprlt. Behold the United
| states Government and the North American
Indian. The red man has stood more
wrongs than | would, or you. We would
| nave struck sooner, deeper. That which
| Is right IN defence Of a Washington home
| Is right in defence Of a home on top
| OF the Sierra Nevada. Before this dwlndling
red race dies completely out, wish that
this generation might by common justice
atone for the inhumanity Of its predecessors.
In the day OF Gods judgment I would
rather be a blood-smeared Modoc than
swindling United States oficer on an Indian
reservation One WAS a barbarian and a
savage, and never pretended TO be anything
but barbarian and a savage. The other
pretended 20 be representative Of Chris
tian Nation. Notwithstanding all this. the
general disgust with war and the substitu-
ton Of diplomatic skill for the glittering
edge Of keen steel Is sign unmlstakable
that "the day Is at hand"
l find another ray OF dawn 10 the com
preston Of the worlds distances. What a
slow, snail-lke, almost impossible thing
would have been the worlds rectincation
with fourteen hundred millions Of popula-
ton and no facial means OF communication;
but now, through telegraphy for the eye and
telephone intimacy for the ear, and through
steamboadng and railroading, the twenty
five thousand miles OF the worlds circum-
ference are shriveling up into insignlfant
brevityl Hong Kong Is nearer New York
than few years ago New Haven wasi Bonn
bay, Moscow, Madras, Melbourne, within
speaking distance. Purchase a telegraphiC
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 op.
portunity this Is going to give for the final
movements OF Christianity. fortress may
be months or years ia building, but after II
Is constructed it may do all its work In TWEEN
ty minutes. Christianity has been planting
its batteries for nineteen. centuries, and may
20 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 en- the
Nations-many expect that Christ will come
among the Nations personally-suppose that
tomorrow morning the Son Of God from a
lowering cloud should descend upon these
cities. Should not thatfact be known all the
world over in twenty-four hours7 Suppose
Heshould present His Gospel In few words
saying; II am the Son Of God; came "a
} pardon all your sins and to heal all your sor.
} row; to prove that / am a supernatural
: being, / have Just descended from the clouds
} Do you believe Me, and do you believe NJ
} noW?" Why, all the telegraph stations o.
: the earth would be crowded as none of then
were ever crowded just after a shipwreck.
tell you all these things to show you II is no
1 among the impossibllities or even the i'm
} probabilities that Christ will conquer thu
, whole earth, and do it instanter, when tn
time comes.
} There are foretokenings In the air. Some
1 thing great is going to happen. do no
] think that Jupiter Is going to run us down
8 or that the axle OF the world Is going Il
8 break; but mean something great for tn
= worlds blessing and not for the world
. damage is going to happen. l think tn
world has had It hard enough. Enough, tn
: famines and plaques, Enough, the Asiati
! choleras. Enough, the wars. Enough, tn
|. shipwrecks. Enough, the conhagratiops.
Q think our world could stand right we'll
Q procession of properties and triumphs
t Better be on the lookout. Better have you
J.. observatories open toward the heavens, an
b the lenses or your most powerful telescope
q we'll polished. Better have all your Leydel
t jars ready for some new pulsation OF might
t influence. Better have new fonts OF type
t your printing offices to set up some astound
: ing good news Better have some new bar
9 ner, that has never been carried, ready 70
Q sudden professions. Better have the bel
L in your church tower well hung, and rop
b within reach, that you may ring out th
marriage Of the Kings Son. Cleanse a
: your court houses, for the Judge Of oil ii
n earth may appear Let all your legislatiV
l. halls be gilded, for the great Lawgiver ma