Connecticut western news., 1899-06-08

1mplore all rolltlcal expanslonlsts to
 augment us in this work of moral and religious expansion, for unless those islands are moraliZed and elevated in intelligence and habits we do not want them, and their annexation would be
 political damnation. On the other hand, I implore all antiexpansionists to take
 hand in the gospelization of Cuba.
 Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands
 The only way to prepare them to take care of themselves is to give them the
 Ten Commandments that were pub
 lished on Mount Sinai and let them
 hear the groan of sacrifice that was
 breathed out on the heights of Golgotha
 What they most want is the gospel, the
 pure gospel. the omnipotent gospel, the
 gospel that helps heal the wounds of the
 body and irradiates the darkness of the
 mind and achieves the ransom of the soul
 One Platform For All.
 But on this platform the so called ex- pansionists and so called antiexpan- sionists will yet stand side by side
 Though I am not prophet or the son of a prophet, within five years, if this
 religio- educational work is properly at tended to, there will be a Cuban re- public, a Porto Rican republic and Philippine republic, none of them on a large scale, but they will all have their
 schools and printing presses and evan gelical churches, their presidents, their senates and house of representatives. their mayors and their constabularies and as good order will be observed in their cities as now reigns on Pennsyl- vania avenue, Washington, or Broad
 way, New York.
 Christ has started for the conquest of the nations, and nothing on earth or in hell can stop it. The continents are
 rapidly rolling into his dominion, and
 why not these islands, which for the
 most part are only fragments broken off from continents, the interval lands having been sunk by earthquakes, al lowing the ocean to take mastery over them3 Each mother continent has around it a whole family of little con- tinents. If the continents are being so
 rapidly evangelized, why not the is- landsH If America, why not Cuba and the Bahamasf If Asia, why not the Philippines and the Moluccasf If Flu
 rope, why not the Azores and the Ork- neysf If Africa, why not Madagascar and St. HelenaH The same power that
 broke them off the mainland can lift
 them into evangelization.
 In the old book, which has become
 a new book by reason of modern discov-
 cries, especial attention is called to the
 islands. Declare the Lords praise in the islands" commands Isaiah. "Let
 the multitudes of the islands be glad thereof" says the psalmist. "All the
 islands of the heather shall worship
 him." writes Zephaniah. "He shall
 turn his face to the islands, :" prophecies Daniel. ''The inhabitants of the isles
 shall be astonished at thee, !" foretells
 Ezekiel ''Hear it and declare it to the
 islands afar off, ;" exclaims Jeremiah. You see from this the islands are not to be neglected Perhaps they are the
 Lords favorites, as in households, If
 there is any favoritism at all, it is for
 the weakest. The islands, too small to take care of themselves, have the eter-
 nal God to take care of them. Let na-
 tions look out how they tread on the islands, however small and weak, for they are omnipotently defended. They may not be able to marshal large ar mics or to send out natives to sweep the sea, but, better than that, they have the chariots of heaven on their side and the drawn swords of the Almighty. have as much faith in the salvation of the smallest island of the Falklands, of the Canaries, of the Ladrones, of the Carolines, of the Fijis, of the Barba- does, of the Cape Verdes, of the Society islands, as have in the salvation of America.
 The continents themselves are only larger islands, and the world in which
 we live is only a still larger island, and the solar system is a group of islands.
 and the universe is an archipelago stud ded with islands of worlds, surrounded by the great ocean of infnitude and immensity. So you see when God plan ned the universe he diagrammed it into islands, and he will look after the in-
 terest of each of those islands, however
 small, and England and Holland and
 France and Germany and America
 must not treat the smallest and weak | est island that comes under their sway any different from the way they treat | the strongest nation of all the earth. | God may chiefly deal with individuals | in the next world, but he deals with
 nations only in this world, and when | consistently nation practices injustice ! against other people it is only ques- tion of time when the offender will find
 his doom. The path of time is strewn | with the carcasses of nations that be-
 cause of their maltreatment of other
 nations perished. The higher such
 offending empires rise. the harder will | be their fall.
 | Perpetuity of Our Government. l believe the United States govern
 ment will last as long as the world lasts
 believe the fires of the judgment day
 will leap on the domes of our state and
 national capitals while yet they are in their full power. I believe the last
 earthquake will put its explosion under our national foundations while yet they | stand firm. I believe that Repu blican
 and Democratic form of government | will be the universal form of govern
 ment for all nations when they have
 been evangelized, for then the nations
 will be capable of self government and I will have demanded and secured that
 right. It will be either that or the
 ocracy. which will be the direct govern
 ment of Christ in his personal reign on
 earth, as many Bible students believe.
 Yet that jubilant expectation is found
 ed not on the skill of human statesman
 ship or human legislation, but upon
 the belief that this nation will submit
 to divine guidance and obey the divine
 law and carry out it's divinely imposed
 mission. But if we defy the God of na-
 tions our doom is fixed.
 It required the pen of an Edward
 Gibbon, through four great volumes of
 more than 500 pages each, to tell the
 story of 'The Decline and Fall of the
 Roman Empire, concluding his monu- | mental work with the words, "It was