The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-12-08

pidity by the viyacious and laughing
and tubilant wheel. except that we al
ways want II to roll In che right direc-
ton. toward place OF business. toward
god recreation, coward phiiaT0nropy.
toward usefulness. toward places OF
divine worship, and hever toward i'm
morality or Sabbath dissertation. My
friend VIII Carleton. h poet. said
what I like when he wrote:
must Increase.
We claim from inactivity a sensible
-plenSe.
- constant mental. physical AL moral
help We feel.
THAI bids Is turn enthusiasts and cry.
Cod bless the wheel.
Never yet having mounted one OF
those rolling wonders l stand by h
wayside. far enough OF TO avoid being
run over and in amszemcns and con-
graduation cry out. in Ezekiei'e
phraseo.osy OF the text. 20 wheell"
THE PRINTING PRESS.
Fourthly. / look into h literary
world and see what the wheel has ac-
compiished. / am more astounded
with this than anything that has pre-
coded. Behold the almost miraculous
priuting press, Do you not feel the
ground shake with the machinery OF
1nG New E0Tk. bTp1hlNn. bDSNDT. MI
adelphia. Washington and western pa
pers? Some of us remember when the
hand ink. roller was run over the CYL
Under and by great haste 500 copies OF
the village newspaper were issued in
one day and no lives lost. Bus inven-
tion has crowded invention, and wheel
tostled wheel. stereotyping, electrtyp-
ing. taking their places. benjamin
F>ranklin's press giving way TO the
Lord Stanhope press. and the Wash
ington PRESS and the Victory press and
the Hoe p~erfecting press have been set
up. Together with the newspaper
comes che publication Of innumerable
books OF history. OF poetry. OF romance.
OF art, Of travel. OF biography. ~ re-
ligion. dictionaries. encyclopedias and
Bibles. Some Of these presses send
forth the most accursed stun. but the
good predominates. Turn on with
wider sweep and greater velocity. q
wheel-wheel OF light, wheel OF civ
ilizaticn. wheel OF Christianity, wheel
OF divine momentum,
on those four w~heels-that of the
sewing machine. that OF the reaper.
that OF the railroad locomotive. shat Of
the printing press-the world has NOV
ed up to it's present prosperity. | call
on you to thank God for the umn
OF machinery as seen in our home COM
forts and added national grandeur.
Aiu HOW 4 kdNltI On aH lHlaAA tA.hTy
platform. as l literally did when I
preached in Brooklyn, specimens OF cur
American products.
Here is corn from the west. n fore
taste OF the great harvest that is TO
come down to our seaboard. enough for
ourselves and for foreign shipment.
Here is rice from the south. never a
more beautiful product grown on tac
planet, mingling the gold and green.
Ia~A aYn sxtrA che axsn- IN nhanF - -
ern wheat and n sheaf OF southern
rice, bound together. May the band
never break Here is cotton, the
wealthiest product OF America. Here
is uga cane, enough 20 swes-"n the
beverages Of an empire. Who woul
think that Out Of such n humble stalk
there would come such a luscious pro-
duct? Here are palmetto trees tina e.
have in their pulses the warmth ~
southern climes. Here is the ca -tus uf
the south. so beautiful and So ecmpT -
ing il must go armed. Here are theN
products of American mines.
PRODUCTS OF THE MINES.
This is iron. this lis coal. the iron rep
~resenting a vast yield, our country
sending forth one year 500, 600 tons OF
it, the coal representing 160. 900 square
miles of 1t, the iron prying out the
coal, lhe coal smelling the iron. This
is silver, silver from Colorado and Ne
vada, those places able yet 10 yield
silver napkin rings and silver knives
and silver casters and silver p~latters
for all our people Here Is mica from
the quarries OF New Hampshire How
beautiful 1t ook in the sunlight.
Here is copper from Lake Superior. so
heavy / dare not lift It. Here is gold
from Virginia and Georgia. Here are
apples, making you think of the long
winter nights of your boyhood, when
the naiD hnva nv In nd 80. IA
apples and hickory nuts and cider.
Here Is corn from New Jersey. state
OF Theodore Frelinghuysen and wiz
ian l.. Dayton and Samuel l.. South
ard-the state OF New Jersey, some
times caricatured by people who are
mad because they were not fortunate
enough to have been born there. Here
are lemons n oranges. Here are ba-
n from Florida. What q magnid-
cent growth this Is! what a leaf. i'm
plying shadow, comfort and refuge!
I look around me on the imaginary
platform, n II seems az IL the waves
of agricultural. meteorological. pomolo-
gical wealth dash to the platform, an
there are four beautiful beings .hat
walk in, and they are all garlandei.
and n is garlanded with wheat and
blossoms OF snow. and 1 find she is rhek
north And another comes in, and her"
brow Is garlanded with rice and bios
SONS or magnolia and / find she ~
the south. and another comes In, anfI
find she Is garlanded with seaweed
and blossoms OF spray. and I find abe
Is the east, and another comes in, and
L find she Is garlanded with silk Of corn
and radiant with California gold. and
/ find she IL the west, and coming face
20 face. they take of their garlands,
and they twist them together into
something that looks like a wreath,
but ft Is a wheel. the wheel OF national
prosperity, and / say in an outburst OF
Thanksgiving JOY for what o has
done for the north and the south and
the east and the west, 20 wheel!"
AT different times I'm Europe tncy
have tried TO get a ongress OF kings al
Berlin OF at Paris or at st. Petersburg.
but II has always been a failure. Only
a few kings have come. But on this
imaginary platform that I have built
we have a convention OF all the kings
King Corn, King Cotton. King Rice,
King Whea;, King Oats, King Iron.
King Coal, King Silver, King Cold