The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-10-17

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some grew more fam1llar Win nature )
laws than the many and used that knowl-
edge to rule over the less fortunate, and
claimed to rule by divine right and 1t
was accorded, through ignorance, to them.
The divine right rule reached its apex in
the days of the Babylonian empire, and
from that period both sacred and profane
history had brought down to Us the gov
ernments of the world, and it is OF these
governments and the future ones that 1
propose to talk today in the light of pro-
phecy-not politics, though it takes poll
tics TO work out prophecy, for man is
the instrument Of God, to all His pur-
poses
The speaker then read from the 31st TO
the 10Th verse of the second chapter OF
Daniel, dealing with NebuchadnezZar'
dream and it's Interpretation, wherein is
described the image with the head of gold,
body of silver, belly and thighs OF brass.
legs of iron and toes of iron and potters
clay and q. stone cut out without hands
that crushed the image and filed the
world like a mountain, which the king
saw.
'Nine-tenths Of that prophecy given by
Daniel in the Interpretation Of that dream
has been fulfilled to the letter" he said,
and we are now seeing the final tenth
rapidly passing to fulfillment, making that
prophecy the most wonderful ever made.
I do not care whether such a person ever
lived as Daniel, as is sometimes doubted
by the skeptic. or that it was written even
in the Maccabeean period, three hundred
years after Daniels supposed existence,
if you please. it foretold events that came
true a thousand years after that period,
for it was a most perfect picture Of
the governments of the world that sue
ceeded the Babylonian era. Let US see:
Daniel plainly showed that this i'm
age typifed monarchy-'the head of gold
oh, king, art thou'-and that he would he
succeeded by kings inferior to the splen-
dor, the pomp and the glory Of his king
dom as the other metals, commercially,
are Inferior to gold.
Tho body CT the image of silver typihe1
the Medo-Persian empire under the rule
of Cyrus tn Great that overthrow Baby
Ion in the days OF Belshazzar. the son of
Nebuchadnezzer, by turning the river Eu-
pirates aside and marching his soldiers
under the walls, surprising the king in
that greatfeast when this same Daniel
was interpreting the handwriting on the
wall.
'"The belly and thighs of brass typifed
the Grecian or Alexandrian worlds en-
pire that overthrow and succeeded Cyrus
when Alexander sighed because there
were no more countries to conquer, and
this in turn was overthrown by the rise
of Rome and the Caesars enlarged the
empire greater than ever and it was truly
as strong as iron, so aptly illustrated in
the legs of from for 1t was then the
proudest boast mortal could say: I am
a Roman citizen Behold how wonder
full all these different worlds empires are
depicted in the parts Of this image. And
now we come to the toes-'part of iron
and part of clay How completely the
toes show the dividing of the one king
dom now into all the hundreds of king
doms that have succeeded the four great
worlds empires, and all the force Of the
great Napoleon could not conquer, as he
evidently tried to make the Fifth Mon
archy.' But prophecy said to Napoleon
Nor 5r
I'm the days of these kings said
Daniel, meaning the whole era Of the
toes, "a stone carved without hands IS
to crush the image of monarchy and fill
the world like mountain What is It?
Manifestly some form of government, for
1T is dealing with governments-and that
can be only opposite to monarchy-that
is a republican form of government-the
rule Of the people.
"And so. my friends, the republican
and spreading in numerous ways and in
various forms, gradually filing the earth.
It would take a day to enumerate all the !
and the actual establishment of !
them, but the work has been slowly and |
surely going on in the days of those |
toes and the record is a rec
ord of blood, Of craft, of apparent in |
justice, of cruelty and conquest, Of in |
and of ignorance, IL you |
pleese. God moves in a mysterious |
way his wonders to perform
THE carving out OF this rock made great |
Roadway in the Thirteenth century in the |
Alps of Switzerland. and what tremend- |
Gus strides were made in the Eighteenth |
and Nineteenth centuries. The work be- |
gan in earnest on the fourth of July, |
l116, when the Declaration of Independ- |
ence was proclaimed, as a result of |
which the republic of the United States |
Of America was born, necessitating in its /
onward march to-the fulfllment of Divine |
destiny even the utter extinction OF the /
race that occupied the soil primarily |
the Indian.
"The radiation Of republican institutions |
founded by our forefathers in the western
world has about withered the last leaves
Of monarchy south Of us. Dom Pedro |
was compelled to abdicate the Brazilian
throne. and Maximillian was shot that
the germ might grow in Mexico OF the !
rule Of the people. One after another OF
the South and Central American govern
nents have come under the influence of
our institutions.
And from the time Of Toussaint le
Overture in Hayti, the isles of the sea
in proximity to our shores have been
70 attain the same end until
now Gods purpose working through the
American people demanding that war for
humanity against Spain has made Cuba,
Porto Rico, and along with them by other
ways Hawaii, free from monarchical rule /
and they are going through the prepara-
tory stage of raising the flag Of republi-
,anism.
And see the growth OF our own imme-
aiate republic part Of this stone. from
the narrow strip OF land on the Atlantic
coast It has grown until the republic
u the United States extends from sea to
sea and from the Arctic zone 20 the
tropics. How did Il expand? Through
war. inconsistencies, ignorance and sell
hshneSs or mantle selfish idea - ex-
tend human slavery caused the expansion
Df the United States God moves in a
mysterious way his wonders 10 perform
The louisiana purchase, the Florida
ANIMATION the Gadsden purchase. the
Mexican war addition all came into the
80 ''-'-4'i'7- a sea 9t ignorance 70 what
ne were really doing. and the Injustice
ignorance inconsistencies blood ard |
treasure that they cost are now looked
upon as OF no consequence today. As We
ook ar those four great acquisitions az |
territory. Louisiana. Florida, California
and Alaska, ali westward, how well the /
words Of Berkeley apply To abbrev5ate
them:
takes ITS way
Westward the star o, Empire takes ..s
way