The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-04-28
Some Rambling Thoughts.
BY MEMO"

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The surging waves, with might suf-
ficient to crush leviathan ships, are
turned into harmless ripples by the
sands; they have to break before the
force of little grains clinging together.
The proud spirit of man Wanting
itself to be something great,i is brought
to the dust by invisible creatures that
permeate the system and gradually
weaken the forces preparatory to the
one great universal humbling.
The unrighteous. nation whose
guide is passion, and whose god is
gold, whose spirit setteth itself like
flint against mercy and tenderness,
has it's day. Its own wilfullness pre-
pares the way for it's destruction.
The small within it are used to CON
found the mighty.
*x*
To the sea, to the man, to the ma
ton goes forth the fiat THUS far
shalt thou go and no farther"
*x*
Thunder is not the voice of God,
neither is clamor the voice Of the peo-
pie. His is the still small yoice-in-
audible to the world-that holds the
planets in their silent orbits, and the
seasons to their recurrence, that gives
the dry-land its bounds, and to lives
their sphere. The marshaled hosts of
the night skies, and the dumb ache
of the trial-perfected soul both unite
to give tone to his svoice.-The voice
of the nation is heard in the majestic
quiet, which, after much trial from
evil, speaks in acts that break down
resistance, or it may even be heard in
the silent suffering that seems to pass
unnoticed, save for the attentive ear
of the one to whom the fall of spar
row is known. But, sooner or later,
the silence of effort or suffering be-
comes a noise of victory-the oppres-
sion ceases, and the voice Of the peo-
pie mingles with the voice of God.
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Let us apply the thought. Naughty
Spain is tottering to national doom.
1t has ever oppressed without wisdom,
and slain without reason. Its hands
have been embrued in the blood of its
finest children, from the persecution
of the saints to the expelling of the
Moors; from the confiscation Of Jewish
property to the gathering of wretched
Cubans to starve. The dumb tong
ues have been gathering volume all
these ages; they have cried out for
vengeance, and they have been heard.
The brutality to the. helpless and
harmless is the last drop in the brim-
ming cup of wrath. The small and
the oppressed are the chosen instru-
ments of punishment; for it is these
non -combatants who have aroused
the thinking world, and a mighty
neighbor 1t is their feeble riplings,
and the stern voice of those who
would die for them that shots at last
to proud CASTLE: "Thus far and no
fartherln
The great deeds of the past in which
we profess to trace Gods hand and
interference in the affairs of men,
have ever been wrought by mems
hands. Miracles and men work to-
gether. Divine influence comes
through human mediums, and thus
now as we-a nation that hath itself
been brought up through great trib-
ulation-are spending our best, our
blood, if need be ourselves for those
too sunken to know scarcely what is
being wrought for them-we, | say,
are where the great unselfish ones
have stood before us. Our deeds and
our affections go out to the needy and
the oppressed, and we are nationally
raised thereby. Every deed done to
bless the unblessed, or to save the
lost, is an uplift to a nation that has
been too material, and that now sees
clea rly that there be something more
! precious than gold, and that one of