Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1899-07-13

pie in China, and more than millions
OF heather than can be guessed outside
or those countries, sometimes stagger
and confound and defeat our faith.
But here in these islands of present
controversy we can farm out the work
among the churches, and in five years,
under the blessing of God, not only fit
the people for the right of suffrage,
but prepare them for usefulness and
| Heaven. The difference between the
general idea of the worlds evangelical
tion and some partieularized field of
svangelization is the difference be-
tween the improvement of agriculture
among all nations and the improvement
Of Is acres put under ones especial care
and industry. BY all means let the gen
eral work go on. But here is the spe-
cifc field for religious concentration
and development. This is not chimeri-
that the American Missionary associa-
ton Of the Congregational church has
already begun the work at San Juan,
Utuado and Albonito, and all denomi-
nations of Christians, in six months,
viii be in those islandy fields, and we
will need with our prayers and con
tributions to cheer them on TO take
for God and righteousness those re-
| gions which our American navy has
captured from Spanish pertidy.
1t has been estimated that this Amer
ico-Spauish war cost us s30O,O00,000. II
would not cost half of that 20 proclaim
and carry on and consummate a holy
war that will rescue those archipelagoes
from satanic domination. Who viii vol
unteer? ] beat the drum of a recruit
/ ing station. Who viii enlist under the
4 one starred. blood striped banner Of I'm
I manuel? Cuba and Porto Rico and the
/ Philippines are stepping stones for our
American Christianity 10 cross over and
I take the round world for God. We need
a new evangelical alliance organized for
/ this one purpose. In all denominations
I there are those with large enough
I hearts and who have been thoroughly
/ enough converted to Join in such an
/ advanced movement; men who, putting
/ aside all minor differences Of opinion,
4 utAltNF IN you lHt ulhNA Aim NY
Maker of Heaven and earth, and in
/ Jesus Christ, His only begotten SON."
/ and who would march shoulder TO
4 shoulder In such a Gospel campaign.
/ The result would be that those islands,
after a scene Of gospelization, would
assert themselves into denominations
/ 10 suit themselves, and some would be
sprinkled in holy baptism, and others
4 would be immersed in those warm riv-
+ ers. and some would worship in relig-
ious assemblage silent as the Quaker
meeting house, and others would have
/ as many iubilant calculations as a back
woods camp meeting. and some Of those
who preached would be gowned and
surpliced for the work, and others
would stand in citizens apparel or in
( their shirt sleeves preaching that Cos
/ pei which is to save the world
Mark you wen that craftsmanship,
however grand il is. and wise men of the
world. however noble, cannot do this
work. Mere secular education does not
moralize. Some OF the most thoroughly
educated men in all the world have been
the worst men. Quicken a mans intel
lect, while al the same time you do not
make his morals good. and you only
augment his power for evil. Geography
and mathematics and metaphysics and
philosophy viii never qualify a people
20 govern themselves. corrupt print
ing press is worse than no printing
press at all. but let loose an open Bible
upon those islands and let the apocalyp-
tic angel once fly over them and you
will prepare them to become either col
onies Of the United States government,
OF. as hope viii be the case, independ-
ent republics.
God did not exhaust himself when he
built this nation. Those islands will vet
have their Thomas Jeffersons, qualified
TO write for them declarations of indie
pendence; and George Washingtons,
capable Of achieving their liberties; and
Abraham Lincolns. strong enough TO |
emancipate their serfdoms; and Long |
fellows and Bryants, capable q put |
ting their hills and their rivers and their /
landscapes into poems; and their Ban
crofts and Prescotts 10 make their his
tories; and their Iryings TO write their 1
sketch books; and their Charles 0'Con-
ors and Rufus Choates 10 plead II their
eourtrooms; and their Daniel Websters
and John G. Cnttendens to move their
seuates.
The day cometh-hear II all We who
have no hope for those islands Of be-
dwarfed and diseased illiterates-the
day cometh when those regions win
have a Christian civilization equal 10
that which this country now enjoys,
while hope by that time this country
will be as superior to what il now il
az to-day Washington and New York
are better than Manila and santiago.
Christ has started for the conquest Of
the nations. and nothing on earth or in
he'll can stop it. The continents are
rapidly rolling into His dominion. and
" nv not those islands. which for the
most part are only fragments broken
of from continents, the interval lands
Ia wing been sunk by earthquakes. al