Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-06-05

this WORK. Mere secular education does
not Eaoralize. Some of the most thor
| oughly educated men in all the world
have been the worst men. Quicken
| mans intellect, while at the same time
| you do not make his morals good and
you only augment his power for evil.
/ Geography and mathematics and meta
| phsyics and philosophy will never quail
| fly people to govern themselves. A
corrupt printing press is worse than no
printing press at all, but let loose an
open Bible upon those islands and let
the apocalyptic angel cnce fly over
them, and you will prepare them to
become either colonies of the United
States government, or, as I hope will
be the case, Independent republics.
God did not exhaust himself when he
built this nation. Those islands will yet
have their Thomas Jeffersons, qualified
to write for them declarations of indie
pendence; and George Washingtons,
capable of achieving their liberties; and
Abraham Linco1ns, strong enough TIC
emancipate their serfdoms, and Long
fellows and Bryants, capable of putting
their hills and their rivers and their land
scapes into poems; and their Bancrofts
and Prescotts, to make their histories;
and their Irvings, to write their Sketch
Books; and their Charles O'Conors
and Rufus Choates, to plead in their
courtrooms: and their Daniel Websters
and John j. Crittendens, to move their
senates.
The day cometh-hear it all We who
have no hope for those islands Of be-
dwarfed and diseased illiterates-the
day cometh when those regions will
have Christian civilization equal to
that which this country now enjoys,
while I hope by that time this country
will be as superior to what it now is
as today Washington and New York
are better than Manila and Santiago.
Do you see by this process of gospelized
intelligence those archipelagoes will as
a nation be protected from the two
woes prophesied in regard to this coun-
try-the one woe prophesied by the ex-
pansionists and the other woe proph
esied by the antiexpansionists2 1t is
said by those who would have us take
all we can lay our hands on as a nation
that unless we enter the door now
open for the enlargement of our ma
tional domain, we will decline the mis-
sion which God in his providence has
ASST gned u.s. But surely no woe will
come upon US or upon them if we
Christianize them as we now have the
opportunity Of doing. The political
technicalities are nothing as compared
with the Importance of this movement.
implore all political expansionists 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,
l implore all antiexpansionistS to take
a 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
cf 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 a
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 consta buIaries,
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
them? Each mother continent has
around it whole family of little con-
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rapidly evangelical, why not the is
lands? If America, why not Cuba and
the Bahamas7 IF Asia, why not the
Philippines and the Moluccas2 If Eu-
rope, why not the Azores and the Ork-
neys9 If Africa, why not Madagascar
and st. Helena? 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