Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1899-12-06

LEies, encyclopedias and Bibles Some OF
t'A.se presses send forth the most accursed
stuff, but the good predominates. Turn
on with wider sweep and greater velocity,
o whee!-wheel OF light, wheel Of civiliza-
ton. wheel Of Christianity, wheel Of divine
momentum!
On those four whees-that OF the sewing
machine, that Of the reaper, that Of the
| railroad locomotive, that of the printing
press-the world has moved up to fts pres.
ent prosperity.
And now gather on an imaginary plat
form, as 1 literally did when preached in
Brooklyn, specimens of our American
products.
Here is corn from the West, u foretaste
,f the great harvest that is to come down
10 our seaboard, enough for ourselves and
for foreign shipment. Here is rice from
| the South, never a more beautiful product
grown on the planet, mingling the gold
and green.
Here are two sheaves, a sheaf OF North.
srn wheat and a sheaf of Southern rice,
| bound together. May the band never
break! Here is cotton, the wealthiest
product OF America. Here is sugar cane,
enough to sweeten the beverages of an en-
pire. Who would think that out of such a
humble stalk there would come such a
| luscious product?
Here are palmetto trees that have in
their pulses the warmth of southern climes.
Here is the cactus OF the South, so beuuti.
Here are the products Of American mines.
| This is iron, this is coal, the iron repre-
senting a vast yield, our country sending
| forth one year 800. 900 tons OF Ii, the coal
representing 160. 900 square miles of it. the
Iron prying out the coal, the coal smelling
1 the iron.
This is silver, silver from Colorado and
Nevada, those places able yet to yield
silver napkin rings and silver knives and
silver casters and silver platters for all our
people.
Here is mica from the quarries Of New
Hampshire. How beautiful it looks In the
sunlight! Here is copper from Lake Su-
perior, so heavy dare not lift it. Here Is
gold from Virginia and Georgia.
look around me on this imaginary plat
form, and 1t seems rs II the waves OF agri-
cultural meteorological, illogical wealth
dash to the platform, and there are four
/ beautiful beings that walk In, and they are
| all garlanded.
One Is garlanded with wheat and blos-
SONS OF snow, and find she is the North.
Another comes in, and her brow is gar.
landed with rice and bloss oms OF mag Eolia,
and Ind she is the South.
Another comes in, and find she is gar.
landed with seaweed and blossoms OF
| spray, and l find she Is the East.
Another comes in, and find she is gar
landed with silk OF corn and radiant with
California gold, and find she is the West
Coming face to face, they take of their
garlands, and they twist them together
into something that looks like a wreath,
but 1t is Wheel the wheel of Lationai
prosperity, and l say in an outburst OF
Thanksgiving Joy for what God has done
for the North and the South and the East
and the West, "Oh wheeIl'
At different times in Europe they have
tried to get u congress of kings mt Berlin
or at Paris or at st. Petersburg, but it has
always been failure. Only n few kings
have come on.
But on this imaginary platform that
have built we have n convention of all the
kings-King Corn, King Cotton, King Rice,
King Wheat, King Oats, King Iron, King
Coal, King Silver, King Gold-and they
all bow before the King of kings, to whom
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