The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-06-05

I1luuuby GOluIuAuup 4p3iUA. A<Cb hh'
multitudes Of the islands be glad there
Of" says the Psaluist. "All the island
Of the heather shall worship him." writei
Zephaniah. He shall turn his face te
the islands," prophesies Daniel. "The in
habitants of the isles shall be astonished
at thee" foretells Ezekiel. Hear 1t and
declare 1t to the islands afar off, ex
claims Jeremiah. You see from this thu
islands are not to be neglected. Perhaps
they are the Lords favorites, as in house.
holds 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 ma.
tons look out how they tread on the Is.
lands, however small and weak, for they
are omnipotently defended. They may
not be able to marshal large armies or
to send out navies 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 Is
land of the Falklands, of the Canaries, of
the Ladrones, of the Carolines. Of the
Fijis, of tho Barbodoes, of the Cape
Verdes, of the Society islands Us l have
in the salvation of America.
Obey the Divine Law.
The continents themselves are only
larger islands, and the world in which we
live Is only still larger island, and the
solar system is group of islands, and
the universe is an archipelago studded
with islands of worlds surrounded by the
great ocean of infinitude and immensely.
80 you see when God planned the uni
verse he diagrammed 1t into islands, and
he will look after the interest Of each Of
those islands, however small, and Eng
land and Holland and France and Ger
many and America must not trent the
smallest and weakest 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 persistently.a nation practices
injustice against other people 1t is only a
question of time when the offender will
find his doom. The path Of time Is
strewn with the carcasses Of nations
that because Of their maltreatment OF
other nations persisted. The higher such
ouenuhs en'phe' LIDO 'ne ""ioel VIA 'e
'heil ian
oeHe'e .he oniteu SUITES s1 ,a.l =
believe the fires of the Judgment day
will leap on the domes of our state and
national capitols while yet they are in
their full power. / believe the last earth
quake will put in its explosion under our
national foundations while yet they stand
ocrnt;c form 81 n uovernment " will mA no Tho
tions when thew have been evangelical
for then the nations will be capable of
self government and will have demanded
and secured that right. 1t will be either
that or theocracy, which will be the d.
rect government of Christ in his personal
reign on earth, as many Bible students
believe. Yet that jubilant expectation is
founded not on the skill of human states.
manship or human legislation, but upon
the belief that this nation will submit to
divine guidance, and obey the divine law,
and carry out its divinely imposed mis-
sion. But If we defy the God of nations
Dur doom is fixed.
1t required the pen Of an Edward Glib
Non, through four great volumes of more
than 500 pages each, to tell the story/of
'The Decline and Fall Of the Roman En-
oire," concluding his monumental work
with the words: ut was among the ruins
Of the capitol that l first conceived the
idea Of work which has amused and ex-
ercised nearly 20 years of my life, and
which, however inadequate to my own
WIG I finally IoliNop IN fha f.Uripsitv
and candor Of the public" Whit, the
Roman empire dead! Did she lack war;
riors? No. Behold her Pompey and her
julius Caesar. Did she lack lawmakers
md lawgivers? No. Think of the mas
ters of Roman jurisprudence, our Amer
lean attorneys today quoting those laws
in our courtrooms more than L. centuries
after they were enacted. In poetry did
she not have her Virgil and Ovid? In
history did she mt have her Sallust and
bor I;vvp Tn eloo,1ence did she not have
her Scinio md Cicero? In satire did she
not have a Juyenal and a Horace? What
mems werc welded hp her Cato. and her
Ference and her Pliny, All nations
ho.rd rho crv NJ ber war On giles. the voices
of bor oratorv and the chime of her can
tos Rnt the dav If Judgment came for
tho+ nation and H,nnihoI crossed the
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ond n,t,nns camh;nod md Rowe sank
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iutiohs anu ptactiees itJue :;e as'n -
olner people, however lllsishl INFANT, ~
VIII not take anotner Hu"aru uippon ~
years ana through Iour great Voiulnes
TO tel tne story OF tne ueellhe anu Luz
d American ihs,itu''ohs' by so nut
as our opportunities nave peeh sisa,ei
Lnah any hatioh that ever h'eu' anu lns
MISSION 10 winch she mas peeh oiuai
IS more stupenuous man any peSto"su
oy the Alnnen'y upon any p.opie, W.
forget our God ana enact "icHeoness Jul
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lehuous, anu yonuei eup!toAne Iii. ..;,, W." ~
ts arcni'ec'uial mug nin.e' W. ~;
'ome heap Vi sisantic ruins W
tea py the people on otnef 'i-i.s anu
'ther nations' VINO WIN frau M ie..ets -
,rusned ana erumoied marble tnal "n,en
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ipoh parchn'en' Ane way - 'Ae
"a ne turneth upside dowh'
we concluded Few uays aso tnG I'LL