Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-12-03


that map Cuba must be free. Porto Rice
must be free The archipelago of the
Philippines must be free. If cruel Spain
expects by procrnslnation and intrigue
to get back what SIZE has surrendered,
then the warships Iowa and Indiana
and Brooklyn and Texas and Vesuvius
aud Oregon must he sent back to south.
ern waters or across to the coast Of
Spain to silence the insolence as decid.
eddy as last summer they silenced the
Cristobal Colon and Oqnendo and Maria
Teresa and ViZcaya When we get those
islands thoroughly under our protecto.
rate for the first time our missionaries
in China will be safe. The atrocities
imposed Oil those good men and women
in the SO called Flowery Kingdom will
never be resumed, for our guns will be
too near Hongkong to allow the mas
sacro of missionary settlements.
On that map must BIZ put the isthmiar
canal, begun if not completed. No long
voyages around Cape Horn for the
worlds merchandise, but short and
cheap Communication by water instead
of expensive communication by rail
train, and more millions will be added
to our national wealth and the worlds
betterment than have capacity to cal.
oulate
Connecting Links.
On the map it must be made evident
that America is to be the worlds civ
ilizer and evangelizer. Free from the
national religions Of Europe on the one
side and from the superstitions of Asia
on the other side, it will have facilities
for the work that no other continent car
possibly possess As near as | can tel
by the laying on of the hands OF the
Lord Almighty, this continent has beer
ordained for that work This is the only
country in the world where all religions
are on the same platform, and the peo
pie have free selection for themselves
without any detrimeut When we pre-.
sent to the other continents this assort-
ment of religions and give them uDhin-
dered choice, we have no doubt Of theil
selecting this religion of mercy and
kindness. and good will and temporal
and eternal rescue. Hear it! America
is to take this world for God
On the map which we will put on the
cradle of the new century we must have
very soon railroad bridge across Be-
ring strait, those SO miles of water, moi
deep, and they are spotted with island:
capable of holding the piers of a great
bridge. And what with America anc
Asia thus connected and Siberian rail.
way, and railroad now projected fol
tho length of Africa, and Palestine and
Persia and India and China and Burma
intersected with railroad tracks all Of
which will be done before the new cen
fury is grown up, the way will he oper
to the quick civilization and evangelical
ton of the whole world. The old maj
we used to study in our boyhood days il
dusty, and on the top shelf or amid the
rubbish of the garnet, and so will the
present nap CT tie world, however gild
ed and beautifully bound, be treated
and an entirely new map will be pu
into the infantile hard of the coming
century.
The work of this century has been te
get ready All the earth is now free tc
the gospel except two little spots, one
in Asia and enc in Africa, while at the
beginning Of the century there stood
the Chinese wall and there famed the
fires and there gIittcrcd the swords that
forbade entrance to many islands and
large reaches of continent. Bornesiau
crrel!ies and Fiji Island cannibalism
have given way, and all the gates Of
all the continents are swung open with
clang that has been positive and
glorious invitation for Christianity to
! enter. Telegraph. telephone and phono-
graph are to be consecrated to gospel
dissemination, and instead of the voice
that gains the attention of few hun
dred or a few thousand people within
the church walls the telegraph will
thrill the glad tidings and the telephone
will utter them to many millions Oh,
the infinite advantage that the twentieth
century las over what the nineteenth
century bad ct the startiugl
The Evils of the World.
In preparation for this coming GEN.
tury we have time i'll the intervening
years to give some decisive strokes at
the seven or eight great evils that curse
the world. 1t would be al assault and
battery upon the coming century by
this century if we allowed the full blow
of present evils to fall upon the future.
We ought SOIL chow to cripple or minify
some Of these abomirations. Alcohol
ism is today triumphant, and are we to
let the all devouring monster that has
throttled this century seize upon the
next without first having filled his ac-
cursed hide With singing arrows enough
to weaken aud staeger him: We have
wasted about % years. How so? While
we have been waiting for the law OF the
land to prohibit intoxicants we have
done little to quench the thirst of appe-
tite in the palate and tongue CT whole
generation Where are the public and
! enthusiastic meetings that used to be
held 30 years ago for the one purpose Of
persuading the young and middle aged
and old that strong drink is poisonous
and dannipg? When will we learn that
we must educate public opinion up tc
prohihitory law, or such a law will
not be passed or if passed will not be
executed: God grant that all state and
national Legislatures may build W
against this evil a wall which will be an
impossible wall, shutting out the alco-
holic abomination But while we wait
for that, let us, in our homes, in our
schools and our churches and on our
platforms and in our newspapers, per
suade the people to stop taking alcoholic
stimulant unless prescribed By physi-
clans and then persuade physicians not
to prescribe it if in all the dominions
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