The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1898-05-18
The Handwriting Of God il the
Government Of Men.
VII-THE UNITED STATES.

pressed here, [ have deslsted from
writing on these articles.
The best and wisest of men fire.
quently make mistakes, but Provl-
dence commits no blunders and its
prearrangements always terminate
wisely and to the best ends.
The flag under which We live as a
nation and the government of which
it is the immortal emblem from the
day of its birth till now has had
many vissitudes of ''fate and for
tune" and all through its struggles
and triumphs the handwriting OF
God has been most clearly and most
indelibly imprinted in her historic
pages.
Her birth and childhood, ber
growth and maturity, her agonies and
exhaltations so clearly mark the care
and guidance of the King OF Kings
and Lord of Lords than there is no
excuse nor paliation for tie Christian
citizen to misunderstood. When the
lovers of freedom watched DER her
infant cradle, the world knew little
of political rights or religious indie
pendence, and the task Of giving the
human family political and religious
freedom and giving to the world an
example that man was capable OF self
government without the Intervention
of kings or forces, has been most SOL
emply bequeathed by heaven to the
American people.
Questions of grave importance and
struggles of. vast dimensions have
been encountered at every advance
forward, but hitherto our dangers
have all been averted and today we
stand the graniest government ever
witnessed by any century,
So shortly after our revolutionary
ancestors, by long weary years OF
conflict and bloodshed, had estab-
lished our young. republic did the
crown heads of Europe conspire to
destroy the union of States. But
how easy for man to plan ard how
easy for God to disappoint and to
transform mans selfish aims and pur-
poses to better aims and ends.
Just at that iuncture the great Ma
poleon, s'the child Of destiny" ap,
pears in the French revolution and
by his wonderful achievements and
triumphs until 1915 he kept the
kingdoms of Europe so busy trying
the art of self preservation that they
had no time, men nor money to en-
plov on American conquests. When
all dangers have been passed and the
revolution has accomplished its
work, Europe has protected US in
America from what was expected
and intended should be annihiliation.
the battle of Waterloo has been
fought and Napoleon Boneparte has
become helpless exile on the lonely
island of St. Helena.
Boueparse was an ambitious, self
ish spirit. His aimsswere sadly de-
feated but the purposes of God were
SUBSCRIBED. The loss of these colo
MES to our mother Eoglaud, and the
horrors of the French revolution
awoke England aid Earope from
their sleep of centuries and but for
the awakening of those two revolu-
tions no one could dare tell what
were now the conditions of national
life.
This article is too short to tell OF
the constitution of the United
States in its origin, and difficulties 1t
encountered. Butin Gods providence
it was made and became the supreme
law of our nation, and with it's
amendments and additions, has been
we'll called the grandest production
OF the human mind. It's heights and
depths, its magnitude to Americans
should be supremely grand, aud its
Importance to the world cannot be
estimated. 1t will be the worlds po-
litical Bible and the measure of its
faith and practice, and whatever
preiudices or dislikes may in the
past have filed our hearts. We should
expell them as vile intruders, when
we see and view the situation it oc
cupies. 1t becomes US as patriots and
philanthropists to remove such emo
tions far from US as unworthy Of our
consideration and hold in contempt
the public man or newspaper who
encourages such sentiment.
After its adoption more than a
century and quarter ago our ship
of State has foated under its ban
ners with various trials and strug-
giles with the Sirocco winds, the
storms and the coral strands.
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