St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-07-01

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Christ. my Lord, the King, suffered ir
torture 33 years to win the love of this
world. As often princesses at their very
birth are pledged in treaty of marriage
to princes or kings of earth, SO this ma
ton at its birth was pledged to Christ
for Divine marriage.
| Before Columbus and his 100 men en-.
barked on the Santa Maria, the Pinta
and the Nina for their wonderful voy-
age, what was the last thing they did
They sat down and took the holy sac
| rament of the Lord Jesus Christ. After
they caught the first sight of this coun-
try and the gun of one ship had an
| had been discovered, what was the song
that went up from all the three decks?
''Gloria in Excelsis." After Columbus
and his 100 meA had stepped from the
ships deck to the solid ground. what
did they do? They all knelt and con-
sccrated the new world to God. What
did the Huguenots do after they landed
in the Carolinas? What did the Hol-
land refugees do after they landed in
New York? What did the pilgrim
fathers do after they landed in New
England? With Bonded knee and up
lifted face and Heaven besieging prayer.
they took possession of this continent
for God. How was the first American
congress opened? BY prayer. in the
name of Jesus Christ. From its birth
this nation was pledged for holy mar
riage with Christ.
And then see how good God has been
to us! Just open the map of the con-
tinent and see how it is shaped for i'm
measurable properties. Navigable
rivers, more in number and greater
than any other land, rolling down on
all sides into the sea. prophesying large
manufactures and easy commerce.
Look at the great ranges of mountains
timbered with wealth on the top and
sides, metaled with wealth underneath.
One hundred and eighty thousand
square miles of coal. One hundred and
eighty thousand square miles of iron.
The land so contoured that extreme
weather hardly ever lasts more than
three days-eXtreme heat or extreme
cold. Climate for the most part brac-
ing and favorable for Drawn and brain.
All fruits, all minerals, all harvests.
Scenery displaying an autunnal pa
geantry that no land on earth pretends
to rival. No South American earth
quakes. No Scotch mists. No London
fogs.. No Egyptian plaques. No Ger
manic divisions. The people of the
United States are happier than any peo-
pie on earth. 1t is the testimony of
every man that has Travelled abroad.
For the poor, more sympathy; for the
industries, more opportunity. Oh. how
good God was to our fathers, and how
good he has been to us and to our chill
dren. To Him-blessed be His mighty
name-to Him of cross and triumph, to
Him who still remembers the prayer of
the Huguenots and Holland refugees
and the pilgrim fathers-to Him shall
this land be married. Oh, you Christian
patriots, by your contributions and
your prayers, hasten on the ful6llment
of the text.
We have been turning an important
leaf in the mighty tome of our national
history. One year at the gates of this I
continent over 100000 emigrants ar
rived. was told by the commissioner
of emigration that the proba bility was
that in that one year GOO, 600 emigrants |
would arrive at the different gates of
commerce. Who were they? The pau
pers of Europe? No. At Kansas City
was told by gentleman, who had OPP
portunity for large investigation that |
4 great multitude had gone through |
there, averaging in worldly estate $500.
! was told by an officer of the govern
ment, who had opportunity for authen-
Tic investigation, that thousands and |
thousands had gone, averaging $1,000 |
IA possession each. was told by the
commissioner of immigration that 90
families that had recently arrived |
brought $4,000 with them. Mark you,
families. not tramps. Additions to the
national wealth, not subtractions
therefrom. / saw some of them reading
their Bibles and their hymnbooks,
thanking God for His kindness in help
them had Christ in the Storage all
across the waves, and they will have
Christ in the rail trains which at five
o'clock every afternoon start for the
great west. They are being taken by
the commission of emigration in New
York, taken from the vessels, protected
from TIT Shylocks and sharpers, and,
passed on to their destination, and
there :hey will turn your wilderness in
to gardens, if you will build for them
churches and establish for them
schools and send to them Christian mis-
sionaries.
at she gates of the city saying: Stay
back" to foreign populations, press
out as fur beyond those gates as can
press out beyond them and beckon to
foreign nations, saying: Come, come,
all We people who are honest and in
dustriors and God loving." But say
you: 81 am so afraid that they will
bring their prejudices for foreign gov
crnments and plant them here" Abb
surd. They are sick of the governments
that have oppressed them, and they
want free America! Give them the
great gospel of welcome. Throw
around them all Christian Inequalities.
They will add their industry and hard
earned wages to this country, and then
we wiz dedicate all to Christ and 'thy
land shall be married" But where
shall the marriage altar be? Let it be
the Rocky mountains, when, through
and mighty irrigation, all
their tops shall be covered, as they will
be, with vineyards and orchards and
grain fields. Then let the Bostons and
the New Works and the Charlestons of
the Pacific coast come to the marriage
altar on one side, and then let the Bos-
tons and the New Yorks and the
Charlestons on the Atlantic coast come
to the marriage altar on the other side,
and there between them let this bride
II nations kneel, and then if the organ
Of the loudest thunders that ever shook
the Sierra Nevadas on the one side or
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